Sustainable Design Seminar

CE591 – Environmental Engineering Seminar

Organizer – Professor Frederick L. Hart
January 22, 2009 to April 30, 2009
Thursday evening from 6:30 pm –to- 9:30 pm

Focus of Seminar:

How Engineers Are Addressing The World’s Sustainability Needs – The Future Begins Now

If this planet is to successfully support our ever-increasing populations and expanding industrialized nations, engineering professionals must adopt the necessity of sustainable design. This challenge will touch all aspects of engineering activities, including material and energy resource selection and conservation, building design and construction methods, environmental control technologies, transportation system design and operation and the design and operation of our manufacturing processes. Also, because engineers do not work in a vacuum and are intrinsically linked with both social and economic aspects of their designs, these considerations are just as paramount to the engineering community as the technical challenges of sustainable design.

What are engineering companies doing now to meet these challenges? Where is the future of engineering design, construction and operation heading? What does sustainability mean? To help answer these question, engineering professionals with close links to WPI have been gathered together for this 14-week seminar course to help address some of these questions and to provide case studies of their sustainable design activities.

Who Should Attend:

Graduate students registered for CE591 (All Disciplines), outside professionals seeking information and PDH (Professional Development Hours) credit, and others with interest in how engineers are meeting the challenges of sustainable design.

Format:

Each week a new speaker is invited to the seminar. Following a one-hour presentation, the speaker will deliver a class (and later take-home) assignment. Work will be done as groups or individual depending on the type of assignment. In most cases, the speaker will be able to stay for all or part of the second hour to answer questions regarding the presentation and the assignment.

6:30 p.m. – 7: 30 p.m. Presentation
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Class Project
8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Review previous week

Presentations:

Topic	Speaker	Company	Date (Thursday Evenings)
Sustainability: Market Drivers Shaping the Future of Engineering	Tom A. Pedersen Senior Vice President, Director of Sustainability	CDM	January 22, 2009
Carbon Credits	Richard Allen, PE Senior Vice President	Stantec	January 29, 2009
Sustainable Design Case Study – Harvard University	Jacquelynn Henke, LEED AP Manager for Sustainability	Alston Development Group	February 5, 2009
Influence of Project Delivery Method on Achieving Sustainable, High Performance Buildings	Rod Shaffert, LEED AP Vice President, Scholastic Division	Cutler Associates	February 12, 2009
Sustainable Site Designs	Chelsea Christenson, PE, LEED AP – Senior Project Engineer and Amy LeBlanc, EIT, LEED AP – Project Engineer	Nitsch Engineering	February 19, 2009
Exploring The Potential For Hydropower	Frederick A. Mueller, P.E.	Tighe & Bond	February 26, 2009
KPI, GRI, Green labeling and Certifications (LEED) - Unscrambling the Green Gobbldygook!	Lina Azuero	CDM	March 5, 2009
Geothermal: A Resource for Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint Reduction	Paul F. Ormond, PE Senior Engineer	Haley & Aldrich	March 12, 2009
Sustainable Water Reclamation	Peter Tunnicliffe, P.E., BCEE, DBIA, CIRM Senior Vice President Lisa Sorgini Global Director of Strategic Marketing	CDM Siemens Water Technologies	March 19, 2009
Green Buildings Require an Integrated Design Approach	William J. Schlageter, Jr, PE Principal	Stantec	March 26, 2009
Plant Energy Usage: A Detailed Analysis	David Bouffard CEM, LEED AP	Woodward & Curran	April 2, 2009
How to Make Your Office Sustainable	Kenneth Page, P.E., BCEE Senior Vice President	CDM	April 9, 2009
Energy Efficiency In Buildings	Christopher Schaffner, PE, LEEDR AP, USGBC LEED FacultyTM Consultant	The Green Engineer, LLP	April 16, 2009
Energy (topic one) and Energy & Resources - Integrated Sustainable Solutions for WWTPs in the 21st Century (topic two)	Pat Clifford and Joerg Blischke	AECOM	April 23, 2009
Nuclear Power – Enabling a Sustainable Future	Robert N. Katz, Ph.D. Research Professor	WPI/ME Department	April 30, 2009

Registration:

To register as a Graduate Course:
http://grad.wpi.edu/Admitted/coursereg.html
or call 508-831-5301
To register for PDH certification or presentation only:
cpe.wpi.edu/Individual/Workshops/regform.html or call 508-831-5517
- $50 Single Presentation Only
- $150 SinglePresentation & Project- 2 PDH

For More Information:

Regarding Course Content – Professor F. Hart
Regarding Individual Presentation Registration – Corporate and Professional Education, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280 | Phone: +1-508-831-5517 | Fax: +1-508-831-5694 | cpe@wpi.edu

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