ENGS-44 "Sustainable Design"
Spring 2013
Syllabus
Design
for pollution prevention should be a key feature of the education of the next
generation of engineers.
(Sheldon K. Friedlander, National Academy of Engineering, 1994)
The next industrial revolution is the design revolution.
(...) Let’s design buildings, products,
cities--literally everything--so no harm is done. (William McDonough, 2000)
The
only way to make change is to make that which you hope to change obsolete. (Buckminster
Fuller)
An interdisciplinary introduction to the principles of design for
sustainability, with emphasis on the built environment. Through lectures, readings,
discussions, and a major design project, students will learn to design
buildings and other infrastructure with low to no impact on the
environment. Emphasis is on creative
thinking, strategies for managing the complexity of the product life-cycle of
the infrastructure, and the thorough integration of human and economic aspects
in the design. Homework and project activities
provide practice in relevant engineering analyses.
Prerequisites: ENGS 21 (Introduction to Engineering),
and
ENGS
22 (Systems) or SART 65 (Architecture 1)
Distributive type: TAS (Technology & Applied Science).
Instructor:
Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Teaching assistants:
Emil Cashin,
Kevin Dahms, Natasha Herring and Robbie Moss
Suggested textbook – not required:
Green
Building Fundamentals,
by Mike Montoya
Pearson
© 2010, 2nd edition, paperback ($44.29 retail)
192
pages, paperback
Other
resources:
Sustainable
Construction – Green Building Design and Delivery, by Charles J. Kibert, 2nd
edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
The
HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design,
2nd edition, by Sandra Mendler, William Odell and Mary Lazarus, John
Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Okala Ecological Design, course guide by P. White, L. St.Pierre and S. Belletire, 2004.
Sustainable
Construction and Design,
by Regina Leffers, Prentice Hall, 2009.
Student activities:
Term-long design project (see separate
description)
Critical readings (semi-weekly)
Homeworks (semi-weekly, problem sets based on main
lectures)
Field trips (occasional, see separate
schedule)
Grading:
20% Problem
sets
20% Reading
critiques
60% Main
project
25% mid-term progress
presentation
35% final project presentation
and written report
_____
100%