Curriculum

Register for ENG 491 and become involved in a pivotal event.

• ENG 491 - CUR, CRN: 47381
• Designing the Engineering Curriculum of the Future
• Starts Monday, January 28, 2008, 106B6 Engineering Hall, 12:00-12:50 PM, 2 credit hours

Students will read source materials, study curriculum reform efforts at Illinois and elsewhere, and make presentations and write reports proposing the engineering curriculum of the future. Each team of students will:

• read and summarize one book (see below)
• visit, benchmark, and report on one innovative engineering program
• study and report on one facet of engineering curriculum reform

For the final examination, the class will prepare and present recommendations for undergraduate curriculum reform at Illinois (Thursday, May 8, 7-10 PM). Instructors include Professors David Goldberg, Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, and others.

MatSE for Sustainability - MSE498 JA
Topic: Materials Performance in Energy & Sustainability. The role of materials performance in the energy and sustainability characteristics of engineering systems, including cost, lifetime, energy consumed or produced, recycling or disposal possibilities, and environmental load. Quantitative methods are used to evaluate the relationship between materials properties, the performance of engineering systems, and the resulting impacts on the environment. Class exercises and homework sets involve analytic and numeric models that are designed to capture the main features of the system. Prerequisites: student in engineering, chemistry, or chemical engineering

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Green Engineering - GE 498EGE

Here's a little compilation of some of the most commonly asked questions about sustainability at UIUC. It includes an updated list of courses related to sustainability and development, as well as a listing of current campus initiatives. Enjoy. P.S. If you have any commentary or additions, please contact Jen at (gaddis [at] uiuc [dot] edu). This document needs to be kept up to date... So if you're browsing through it and recognize you organization, please feel free to edit it and post a new version. Thanks!

Sustainability is the buzzword these days, but what exactly is it? In Engineers Without Borders, we view sustainability as the quality of a society and its technologies to be financially viable and environmentally friendly.

Some of the better places to learn about how Engineers Without Borders and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign view sustainability here are:

Want to take great courses relating to the EWB goals of renewable energy, international development, or the environement?

Not sure what is available?

Well, eat your hearts out, you earth-loving academics!

Jennifer Gaddis did all the searching for you! Attached is a list of all of the courses that you could ever want to take. With all these, why would you ever want to graduate!?