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What Is Green Design?: Paulina Jaramillo Aurora Sharrard Graduate Students, CEE

The document discusses the work of green design engineers. It explains that they work to prevent pollution and waste, analyze multi-faceted environmental problems that involve engineering, science, economics and public policy. They also build computer models to help solve problems and assist decision makers. The document then provides some examples of green design research topics and outlines a 5 day program to help students identify their environmental impacts, think about life cycles of products, and understand the complexity of environmental decision making.

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What Is Green Design?: Paulina Jaramillo Aurora Sharrard Graduate Students, CEE

The document discusses the work of green design engineers. It explains that they work to prevent pollution and waste, analyze multi-faceted environmental problems that involve engineering, science, economics and public policy. They also build computer models to help solve problems and assist decision makers. The document then provides some examples of green design research topics and outlines a 5 day program to help students identify their environmental impacts, think about life cycles of products, and understand the complexity of environmental decision making.

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What is Green Design?

Paulina Jaramillo
Aurora 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 doesnt 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 were doing


Framework for the Program
Increased pollution and
related health effects

Population Increased
Uncertainty resource
increase: demand for
Decreased biodiversity availability, climate
material
1.6 billion to and natural habitat variability, other
and energy
6 billion environmental impacts
resources

Change in ecosystems,
atmospheric systems

Population x Wealth/Person x Environmental Impact/Wealth = Environmental Impact

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