CurrMana

Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability

1.020 · Civil and Environmental Engineering · Undergraduate · Spring 2008

Prof. Dennis McLaughlin

MIT · Tier 1

This course provides a review of physical, chemical, ecological, and economic principles used to examine interactions between humans and the natural environment. Mass balance concepts are applied to ecology, chemical kinetics, hydrology, and transportation; energy balance concepts are applied to building design, ecology, and climate change; and economic and life cycle concepts are applied to resource evaluation and engineering design. Numerical models are used to integrate concepts and to asses…

Earth ScienceBiologyCivil EngineeringEngineeringAdaptation and ResilienceClimate Science

The syllabus, on MIT OpenCourseWare

The full course — syllabus, assigned readings, problem sets, exams, and lecture notes — lives on OCW. These open the real thing:

Attribution

Prof. Dennis McLaughlin. 1.020 Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability. Spring 2008. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Course materials are © their authors and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. CurrMana links to the source and does not re-host them.