ENV 982b/ENVE 360b/ENAS 660b/360b () / 2024-2025
Bio-inspired Design and Engineering
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Credits: 3
Spring 2025: Time and location TBA |
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Study of green engineering, focusing on key approaches to advancing sustainability through engineering design. Topics include current design, manufacturing, and disposal processes; toxicity and benign alternatives; policy implications; pollution prevention and source reduction; separations and disassembly; material and energy efficiencies and flows; systems analysis; biomimicry; and life cycle design, management, and analysis.