Semester Courses

CME 514. Sustainable Engineering. 4 hours.

Principles of sustainability; sustainability frameworks, indicators, metrics and tools; apply the tools to assess and/or design various engineering applications; case studies; challenges and opportunities. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): Graduate student in the College of Engineering or consent of instructor. Class Schedule Information: To be properly registered, students must enroll in one Lecture and one Lecture-Discussion. Contact Professor Reddy at kreddy@uic.edu for any additional information.

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HON 201 Engineering for Sustainable Communities

This seminar course aims to introduce the concept of sustainability, then present different methods to assess sustainability and finally provide examples of how sustainable engineering played a role in improving the quality of infrastructure and the environment, resulting in better quality of life.

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Short Course on “Sustainable Engineering: Drivers, Metrics, Tools, and Applications”, EGRWSE-2019, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, June 16, 2019. Handouts and Video.

GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) Short Course on Polluted Sites: Characterization and Remediation, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneshwar, India, July 25- August 5, 2016.

GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) Short Course on Landfills and Geoenvironmental Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India, May 30 – June 3, 2016.

Short course on “Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Sites” Faculdade de Engenharia e Arquitetura (FEAR), University of Passo Fundo (UPF), RS, Brazil, May 8-13, 2016.

One-week short course on “Advances in Geoenvironmental Engineering”, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, December 5-11, 2015.

One-day short course on “Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Geoengineering”, ASCE Illinois Section Geo-Institute Chapter, Chicago, September 9, 2013.