Learning Outcomes
The certificate provides technologists, scientists, and engineers (and those who manage them) with a new set of skills crucial to addressing the economic, social, and environmental imperatives of an increasingly competitive global economy. They will learn about designing, manufacturing, and managing technology systems under such circumstances, with a focus on the requirements and imperatives of sustainability.
This skill set includes providing professionals with an understanding of how rapidly changing sustainability challenges will impact their professions. The program will present these challenges through case studies, text readings, invited international speakers, and group projects that encourage team solutions to complex economic, environmental, social, legal, and ethical issues.
Students pursuing the Sustainable Engineering Track will:
- Understand and appreciate the diverse nature of governance in a global environment and the increasing importance of sustainability concepts.
- Learn how to design, engineer, manufacture, operate, and manage technology systems in a world characterized by rapidly accelerating economic, social, and environmental change.
- Apply the technological knowledge, skills, attitudes, and flexibility needed to succeed in a rapidly urbanizing economy.
- Develop the ability to think critically, analyze engineering and technology problems in their social and environmental context, and make economically, environmentally, and socially sound decisions.
- Acquire a broader understanding of the context within which modern engineering occurs so that they are better able to exercise their technical engineering skills and enhance their professional performance.
- Gather and utilize information to enhance knowledge, and use communication skills to convey meaning effectively.
Students pursuing the Organizational Strategies Track will:
- Understand and appreciate the diverse nature of governance in a global environment and the increasing importance of sustainability concepts.
- Manage the business model in a world of diminishing natural resources.
- Apply the technological knowledge, skills, attitudes, and flexibility needed to succeed in a rapidly urbanizing economy.
- Develop the cognitive processes and dispositions necessary to think critically, analyze problems in context, and make sound decisions.
- Acquire and utilize the body of knowledge, and develop the constellation of skills associated with their discipline, interdisciplinary area of interest, or professional field.
- Gather and utilize information to enhance knowledge, and use communication skills to convey meaning effectively.
- Develop basic skills in mathematics, use mathematics in their chosen fields, and understand how technology can be used in analysis.
