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What is Green Design?
Paulina JaramilloAurora Sharrard
Graduate Students, CEE
What Does a Civil Engineer Do?
Design, analyze, and construct Structures
Dams, buildings, pipelines, and bridges Geotechnical
Soils, foundations, slope stability Transportation
Roads and traffic
What Does an Environmental Engineer Do?
Monitor, model, and improve Water Quality
Wastewater, drinking water, groundwater Air Quality
Outdoor, indoor, atmospheric Waste
Solid, hazardous, recycling
What Does a Green Design Engineer Do?
Prevent pollution, waste Analyze multi-faceted problems
Engineering and science Economics Public policy
Deal with uncertainty Build tools (computer models) to solve
problems and assist decision makers
Green Design Research
Life cycle analysis or assessment Energy and electricity in the economy Green construction Harvesting methane from landfills Tracking metals through the environment Feasibility of cellulose ethanol (fuel from
plants) for transportation “Life style” indicators for CMU
Your Five Days With Us
Our goals for you:
Identify your environmental impacts from typical, every-day decisions.
Develop systematic thinking in terms of life cycles
Realize that decision making is difficult and often doesn’t have one right answer.
Your Five Days With Us
How will we do that…
Today –life cycles: simple (?) products Oct – life cycles: complex products Nov – energy Jan – water Feb – buildings
Activities, Exercises, Discussion
Your Five Days With Us
How you can help
Ask us tough questions
Think broadly, outside the box
Be honest – let us know how we’re doing
Framework for the Program
Population increase:
1.6 billion to 6 billion
Increased demand for material and energy resources
Increased pollution and related health effects
Decreased biodiversity and natural habitat
Change in ecosystems, atmospheric systems
Uncertainty resource availability, climate variability, other environmental impacts
Population x Wealth/Person x Environmental Impact/Wealth = Environmental Impact