Spring 2027

Environmental Sustainability Engineering

Environmental Sustainability Engineering uses environmental, social, and economic paradigms for strategic initiatives, covering pollution prevention, industrial ecology, and design for the environment.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.76 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.68 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Articulate why sustainability is important and relevant within the practice of engineering

  • Apply sustainability tools such as industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions

  • Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach

  • Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of engineering and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course

  • Identify and critique recent peer reviewed sustainability literature

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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(MATH 217 or 221) and (CHEM 104 or 109), or graduate/professional standing or member of Engineering Guest Students

CIVENGR/GLE 421

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.76 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=33 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.68 GPA, 78.9% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.78 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=30 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Pollution prevention, industrial ecology, and design for the environment.
  • Systems approach to manufacturing, product life cycles, total cost accounting, extended producer responsibility, and design for end-of-life.
  • Life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality.

Skills

  • Applying sustainability tools including industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions.
  • Analyzing sustainability issues and practices using a systems-based approach.
  • Describing social, economic, and engineering dimensions and identifying trade-offs and interrelationships among them.
  • Identifying and critiquing recent peer-reviewed sustainability literature.

Grades

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About this comparison

1330 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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