Green Engineering minor approved in Stevens’ Schaefer School of Engineering & Science

HOBOKEN, N.J. — A new Green Engineering minor has been approved in Stevens Institute of Technology’s Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering & Science, and is open to engineering undergraduates from all majors. The new minor’s first core course, EN 301 Sustainable Engineering, will be offered in the spring 2008 semester. This course can also be taken for general elective credit by students not planning to complete the Green Engineering minor.

Issues of environmental sustainability are of increasing concern for both developed and developing nations of the world. In the design, implementation and use of products, processes and systems that impact all facets of our lives, fundamental decisions are made by engineers. The application of the principles by which engineers can have a positive impact on sustainability is known as sustainable engineering, or more colloquially as green engineering. While elements of sustainable engineering are permeating the broad-based Stevens undergraduate engineering programs, the new minor helps students explore sustainable approaches to engineering more in-depth.

The Green Engineering minor consists of six courses and provides a two-course technical core–sustainable engineering and sustainable energy. These courses are followed by two technical electives which can also provide a sustainable engineering focus area. Two additional courses are intended to allow students to explore ethical, social, economic and political contextual issues associated with sustainability. For more information on requirements for the minor as well as course descriptions, visit http://www.stevens.edu/catalog/2007_2008_Catalog/soe_ugrad_pgms.html, or contact Keith Sheppard, Associate Dean of the Schaefer School of Engineering & Science, at ksheppar@stevens.edu.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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