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Making our World

Making our World is also new for 2008. This seminar will be built around a sequence of team and individual projects tied to major challenges facing engineering in the 21^st century: energy, transportation, housing, food distribution, recycling, and health care. In all cases, material science and sustainability will be a unifying theme.  Specific questions that will guide your work include:  

•  How do different types of manufacturing contribute to green house gas (GHG) emissions?    What new material processing technologies can capture and sequester GHG emissions?
•  How do you measure the environmental impact of engineering decisions? (Which causes more damage to the environment: a Toyota Prius or a Hummer H3?)
•  Are recycling technologies energy efficient and how much energy is really saved?

 

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