Mechanical Engineering supports the development of new and improved technologies that ultimately dictate energy use and environmental impacts on global, regional, and local scales. Courses in Energy and Environment support the integration of energy and environmentally-conscious engineering assessment and solutions into each student’s coursework. Ultimately, the recommended series of core and supplemental courses link mechanical engineering design and manufacturing to the conservation of resources, pollution prevention, and the development of materials recovery and treatment capacity.
Core courses are intended to expose the student to energy and environmental issues and related engineering assessment methods. Supplemental courses compliment the core sequence with courses throughout the UW covering business, public policy, and environmental science that are specific to each student’s interests. Additional information about each course, including availability, can be found through the UW Course Description Website
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ME424 Combustion Systems and Pollutant Formation ME426 Sustainable Energy Design ME468 Air-Pollution Control Equipment Design ME481 Combustion Engines and Alternatives ME524 Combustion CEE 544 Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes CEE 550 Environmental Chemical Modeling CEE 560 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards CHEME462 Application of Chemical Engineering Principles to Environmental Problems CHEME562 Hazardous Air Pollution ENVIR 460 Institutionalizing Sustainable Ecological Practices ENVIR 470 Communications and the Environment ENVIR 501 Business Strategy and the Natural Environment ENVIR 550 Global Commercialization of Environmental Technologies ESC 417 Recycling: Ethics, Opportunities, and Realities IND E 564 Recognition of Health and Safety Problems in Industry IND E 567 Applied Industrial Hygiene, Safety, and Ergonomics PBAF 590 Environmental Policy Processes PBAF 594 Environmental Policy Analysis: Risks and Values |
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The mechanical engineering graduate student interested in energy and the environment can become involved in advanced technology research, development, and assessment, engineering consulting, and business and product management. Career opportunities exist in business and engineering consulting firms, manufacturing companies throughout the industrial sector (from those producing alternative power and other environmental technologies to those producing products that consume large amounts of energy, emit large amounts of pollution during use, or cause environmental problems when retired), government agencies and national laboratories, and university research and education.
For more information, please contact:
Professor Phil Malte (malte@u.washington.edu) or Associate Professor Joyce Cooper (cooperjs@u.washington.edu)