Stevens Launches Green Engineering Minor
A new Green Engineering minor has been approved in Stevens Institute of Technology’s Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science, and is open to engineering undergraduates from all majors. The new minor’s first core course, EN 301 Sustainable Engineering, will be offered in the spring 2008 semester. This course can also be taken for general elective credit by students not planning to complete the Green Engineering minor.
Issues of environmental sustainability are of increasing concern for both developed and developing nations of the world. In the design, implementation and use of products, processes and systems that impact all facets of our lives, fundamental decisions are made by engineers. The application of the principles by which engineers can have a positive impact on sustainability is known as sustainable engineering, or more colloquially as green engineering. While elements of sustainable engineering are permeating the broad-based Stevens undergraduate engineering programs, the new minor helps students explore sustainable approaches to engineering more in-depth.
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