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 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