Sustainability and Design for Environment ME415, ENVIR 415, and CEE 495 Winter Quarter 2009 Syllabus    Environmental Claim Critique Description    Project Description   UWME Design for Environment Homepage Favorite Songs Sustainability describes industrial development and supporting technologies that meet the needs of the present while sustaining the quality of the environment so that future generations may meet their own needs. Related engineering efforts that incorporate the consideration of sustainability into product and process design are called Design for Environment (DFE). DFE promotes pollution prevention, resource conservation, and extended product responsibility by including their consideration within concurrent engineering design. Trends within this emerging area of research and business practice include industrial environmental management standards, life cycle partnerships, product takeback, and environmental declarations (annual environmental reports, ecolabels, etc.). This course will use DFE to introduce students to the concepts and methodologies of sustainability, industrial ecology, pollution prevention, Life Cycle Assessment, and Total Cost Assessment within the context of system design. We will examine the practice of, opportunities for, and the role of the engineer in DFE. Instructor: Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper (cooper@me.washington.edu); office hours Wednesdays 11-12, Thursdays 9:30-10:15 and noon-1 in MEB 304 or MEB G20 Lectures: T Th 10:30-11:50 in MEB 248 and given by Associate Professor Cooper and visiting lecturers  Lecture and reading materials will be posted on the syllabus  as available Grading: environmental claim critique (20%) + project (80%) For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu