Courses

The real evidence of student learning is in the projects on which the students work in their classes and outside the class.

Carnegie Mellon teaches numerous environmental courses each semester. Some courses, often with pre-requisites, help build expertise in the field of environmental engineering, science, architecture or policy. Many other courses help build environmental literacy, some incorporating environmental content into courses focusing on topics such as writing, history or art and others focusing on specific facets of environment and sustainability. Courses that count towards any of the environmental majors or minors should be confirmed with the respective advisor. Please note that the following course list is offered as a resource and does not claim to be complete or definitive.

Key for courses:

* Fall 2013 courses
• Spring 2013 courses

ARCHITECTURE  
*   48-100 Architecture Design Studio: Foundation I
•   48-205 Architecture Design Studio: Materials / Ficca, J.
*   48-300 Architecture Design Studio: Environment / Cupkova, D.
*   48-315 Environment I: Climate & Energy / Loftness, V.
*   48-412 Environment II: Mechanical Systems / Mattern, G.
•   48-420 City as Landscape: Geography as Method and Metaphor / Kline, J.
*   48-431 Bio Logic Responsive Building Technology / Clifford, D.
•   48-448 History of Sustainable Architecture
*   48-453 Urban Design Methods / El Samahy, R.
•   48-569 GIS/CAFM / Kurland, K.
     48-596 LEED Buildings and Green Design / Abdul-Aziz, A., Baird, N.
*   48-708 Sustainable Urbanism Studio / Folan, J.
*   48-729 Productivity, Health and the Quality of Buildings / Loftness, V.
*•  48-731 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep
*   48-732 Sustainable Design Synthesis / TBA
*   48-738 Special Topics: Ecological Footprints / Hartkopf, V.
     48-749 Special Topics in CD: Parametric Modeling with BIM / Krishnamurti, R.
•    48-752 Zero Energy Housing
•   48-769 Sustainable Design Synthesis
*   48-795 LEED Buildings and Green Design Concepts / Baird, N.

ART    
•   60-437 Advanced CP/SIS: Environmental Sculpture / Bingham, R.
    60-494 Pop Cabaret: Performance Art at the Andy Warhol Museum / Silver, S.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
*   03-126 Cellular Response to the Environment / Thickman, K.
    03-410 Special Topics: Conservation Biology (Qatar) / Conkey, A.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   
*•  70-332 Business, Society and Ethics / Tungate, D.
   
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY-WIDE STUDIES  
•   99-234 Environment Today: The 3 E's of Water / (weekend course: February 22-24, 2013) / Dzombak, D.
*   99-238 Materials, Energy and Environment / Heard, R.
•   99-335 South Africa Today / (weekend course: March 22-24, 2013) / Burkert A.
•   99-734 Environment Today: The 3 E's of Water / (weekend course: February 22-24, 2013) / Dzombak, D.
   
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   
*   06-322 Junior Chemical Engineering Seminar / Domach, M.
     06-620 Global Atmospheric Chemistry: Fundamentals and Data Analysis Methods / Donahue, N.

CHEMISTRY  
*   09-105 Introduction to Modern Chemistry I / Vuocolo, L.
*   09-106 Modern Chemistry II / Yaron, D.
*   09-107 Honors Chemistry: Fundamentals Concepts and Applications / Washburn, N.
•   09-202 Undergraduate Seminar II: Safety and Environmental Issues for Chemists / Vuocolo, Banister; Banister, M.
*   09-219 Modern Organic Chemistry / Noonan, K.
*   09-331 Modern Analytical Instrumentation / Peteanu, L.
•   09-510 Introduction to Green Chemistry / Collins, T.
•   09-534 Chemical Approaches to Energy Conservation & Storage / Washburn, N.
     09-705 Chemosensors and Biosensors / Armitage, B.
•   09-710 Introduction to Green Chemistry / Collins, T.
•   09-724 Environmental Chemistry / Sullivan, C.
     09-734 Chemical Approaches to Energy Conservation & Storage / Washburn, N.
   
CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING  
     12-080 Special Topics: Environment, Engineering and Society / Karthikeyan
     12-090 Technology and the Environment / Karthikeyan, K.
*• 12-100 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering / *VanBriesen/•Oppenheim
•   12-201 Geology / Kilburg, J.; Jacobs, A.
•   12-271 Introduction to Computer Application in Civil & Environmental Engineering / Berges, M.
*   12-301 Civil Environmental Engineering Projects / Coffelt, D.; Miller, J.; Thompson, J.
*   12-335 Soil Mechanics / Gregory, K.
*   12-336 Soil Mechanics Laboratory / Cartwright, L.
•   12-351 Environmental Engineering / Dzombak, D.
•   12-352 Environmental Engineering Lab / Dzombak, D., Miller, J.
*   12-401 Civil & Environmental Engineering Design / Cartwright, L.; Thompson, J.
•   12-629 Environmental Microbiology for Engineers / Gregory, K.
*   12-648 Civil Engineering Project
*   12-651 Air Quality Engineering / Adams, P.
•   12-657 Water Resources Engineering / Loehlein, W.
     12-658 Hydraulic Structures / Kyper, T.
*   12-702 Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering
*   12-712 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering / Hendrickson, C.
     12-713 Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering Design / Hendrickson, C.
•   12-714 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment / Matthews, H.
•   12-718 Sustainable Engineering Project / Miller, J.; VanBriesen, J.
*   12-720 Water Resources Chemistry / Dzombak, D.
     12-721 Environmental Biotechnology Principles / VanBriesen J.
•   12-724 Biological Wastewater Treatment / VanBriesen, J.
*   12-725 Fate, Transport & Physicochemical Processes of Organic Contaminants in Aqua Systems / Lowry, G.
•   12-726 Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Quality Systems / Small, M.
•   12-728 Special Topics: Remediation Engineering / Wice, R.
•   12-729 Environmental Microbiology for Engineers / Gregory, K.
•   12-730 Special Topics: Environmental Nanotechnology / Lowry, G.
•   12-731 Special Topics: Drinking Water Treatment / Wilson, J.
•   12-733 Special Topics: Databases & Data Systems for Environmental Modeling
*   12-747 Special Topics: Sustainable Buildings / Flynn, K.
*   12-751 Air Quality Engineering / Adams, P.
•   12-781 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Aerosols / Adams. P.
•   12-995 Practicum in Civil and Environmental Engineering

COMPUTER SCIENCE
•   15-895 Artificial Intelligence for Health & Sustainability / Veloso, M.; Brunskill, E.

ECONOMICS
•   73-148 Environmental Economics / Rueter, F.
•   73-433 Environmental Policy and Economics / Kang, K.

ENGINEERING & PUBLIC POLICY   
*   19-423 Special Topics: Environmental Science, Technology & Policy / Matthews, D.
*   19-424 Energy and the Environment / Rubin, E.
•   19-440 Combustion and Air Pollution Control / Presto, A.
•   19-443 Special Topics in EPP: Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation / Grossmann, I.
     19-614 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Green Design / Matthews, Weber
     19-622 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering / Hendrickson, C.
*   19-623 Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering Design / Hendrickson, C.
     19-653 Special Topics Climate Change Mitigation / Robinson, A.
•*  19-655 Special Topics in Engineering and Public Policy: Emerging Shale Gas Policies / Stine, D.
*   19-655 Special Topics in Engineering and Public Policy: Design, Innovation and Strategy / Subrahmanian, E.
•   19-656 Special Topics: Current Issues in EPP: CO2 Capture and Sequestration / Mantripragada, H.
•   19-666 Energy Policy / Whitacre, J.
*   19-688 Innovation for Energy and the Environment
*   19-696 Special Topics: Sustainability and Innovation / Zaidi, M.
*   19-710 Special Topics: Environmental Regulation and Manmade Nanomaterials / Casman, E.
•   19-714 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment / Matthews, H.
*   19-717 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering / Hendrickson, C.
•   19-726 Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Systems / Small, M.
•   19-740 Combustion and Air Pollution Control / Presto, A.
•   19-751 Air Quality Engineering / Adams, P.
•   19-781 Special Topics: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Aerosols / Adams, P.
*   19-881 Seminar in Electricity Market Restructuring / Apt., J.
•   19-882 Seminar in Low-Carbon Electric Power / Apt, J.
*   19-883 Special Topics: Seminar in Climate & Energy Decision Making Under Uncertainty / Lima De Azevedo, I.

ENGLISH
*   76-319 Environmental Rhetoric / Flower, L.
*   76-719 Environmental Rhetoric / Flower, L.

HEINZ COLLEGE: School of Public Policy & Mgmt
     90-707 Seminar in Brownfields and Brownfields Communities / Tarr, J.
•   90-733 Urban Development / Whitmer, G.
•   90-765 Cities, Technology and the Environment / Tarr, J.
*   90-768 Energy and the Environment / Clay, K.
*   90-779 The Shale Gas Revolution: Public Policy Challenges / Branstetter, L.; Stafford, R.
•   90-789 Sustainable Community Development / Mehalik, M.
*   90-798 Environmental Policy & Planning / Mehalik, M.
     90-803 Environmental Economics / Clay, K.
•   90-808 US Energy Policy / Kupfer, J.
*   90-821 Special Topics: Innovation for Energy and the Environment
     90-828/88412 Economics of Global Warming / Branstetter, L.
•   90-893 Policy Topics: Environment Policy / Linn, J.

HISTORY   
•   79-104 Global Histories: Latin America and Global Environmental / Soluri, J.
*   79-104 Global Histories: People Processes and the Environment / Reilly, B.
    79-125 Disastrous Encounters (Qatar) / Reilly, B.
    79-167 Freshman Seminar: Issues in American Environmental History / Tarr, J.
•   79-232 Arabian Peninsula Environmental History (Qatar) / Reilly, B.
     79-288 Bananas, Baseball, and Borders: A History of Latin American - US Relations / Soluri, J.
    79-289 Energy, Environment, Globalization in the Americas / Soluri, J.
*   79-329 Health Environment in US History
    79-336 American Environmental History from the Gilded Age to Depression / Brown, K.
•   79-354 Energy & Climate: History, Science, Technology, and Policy in the United States 1776-2076 / Hounshell, D.
*   79-359 Sustainable Innovations: Ideas, Policies & Technologies to Make a Better Planet / Falck, Z.
•   79-372 Perspectives on the Urban Environment / Tarr, J.
     79-375 China's Environmental Crisis / Sutton, D.
     79-381 Energy, Environment, Globalization in Americas / Soluri, J.
•   79-384 Garbage Gone Global: Managing Surplus, Waste, and Desire / Faulk, K.
   
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   
     27-421 Processing Design / Pistorius, P.
     27-721 Processing Design / Pistorius, P.
•   27-725 Materials for Nuclear Energy Systems / Rollett, A.
•   27-728 Materials for Future Energy Systems / Salvador, P.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   
*   24-424 Energy and the Environment / Rubin, E.
•   24-425 Combustion and Air Pollution Control / Presto, A.
•   24-628 Special Topics in Energy Transport and Conversion at the Nanoscale / Malen, J.
     24-640 Special Topics in Climate Change Mitigation / Robinson, A.
•   24-644 Special Topics in Advanced Power Plant Design / Siefert, N.
*   24-683 Design for Manufacture and the Environment / Degentesh, D.
*   24-722 Energy System Modeling / Siefert, N.
•   24-740 Combustion and Air Pollution Control / Presto, A.

PHILOSOPHY
•   80-109 Philosophy Freshman Seminar: Perspectives on Climate Change / Sterrett, S.
•   80-136 Social Structure, Public Policy & Ethics / Rich, P.
*   80-244 Environmental Ethics / Harrell, M.
     80-344 Management, Environment, and Ethics / Madsen, P.
     80-644 Management, Environment, and Ethics / Madsen, P.

SOCIAL AND DECISION SCIENCES
     88-352 Environmental Economics and Policy
     88-412/90828 Economics of Global Warming / Branstetter, L.
•   88-413 Energy and Climate: History, Science, Technology, and Policy in the US 1776-2076 / Hounshell, D.
*   88-433 The Shale Gas Revolution: Public Policy Challenges / Branstetter, L.

STUCO (Student Led Courses)
    98-183 STUCO: Introduction to Organic Gardening / TBA

TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
•   45-978 The Sustainable Business: Energy and Environmental Policies / Griffin, M.

For more complete course schedule please visit the Carnegie Mellon Schedule of Classes.