1. Paulina Jaramillo Aurora Sharrard Graduate Students, CEE
What is Green Design?
Paulina Jaramillo
Aurora Sharrard
Graduate Students, CEE

2. What Does a Civil Engineer Do?
Design, analyze, and construct
Structures
Dams, buildings, pipelines, and bridges
Geotechnical
Soils, foundations, slope stability
Transportation
Roads and traffic

3. What Does an Environmental Engineer Do?
Monitor, model, and improve
Water Quality
Wastewater, drinking water, groundwater
Air Quality
Outdoor, indoor, atmospheric
Waste
Solid, hazardous, recycling
Usually “after the fact” – cleaning up pollution

4. What Does a Green Design Engineer Do?
Prevent pollution, waste
Analyze multi-faceted problems
Engineering and science
Economics
Public policy
Deal with uncertainty
Build tools (computer models) to solve problems and assist decision makers
Technological capabilities
Costs and benefits
“people” side – how people can/will behave, legislation

5. Green Design Research Life cycle analysis or assessment
Energy and electricity in the economy
Green construction
Harvesting methane from landfills
Tracking metals through the environment
Feasibility of cellulose ethanol (fuel from plants) for transportation
“Life style” indicators for CMU

6. Your Five Days With Us Our goals for you:
Identify your environmental impacts from typical, every-day decisions.
Develop systematic thinking in terms of life cycles
Realize that decision making is difficult and often doesn’t have one right answer.

7. Your Five Days With Us How will we do that…
Today –life cycles: simple (?) products
Oct – life cycles: complex products
Nov – energy
Jan – water
Feb – buildings
Activities, Exercises, Discussion
Today – simple products, but might find that they are really complex
Oct – complex products, but we have a way of examining them that is pretty simple
Nov, jan, feb – supply, consumption, and future

8. Your Five Days With Us How you can help Ask us tough questions
Think broadly, outside the box
Be honest – let us know how we’re doing
Ask us tough questions – we won’t always know the answer, but we want to try to find it out
Think broadly, outside the box – there isn’t one right answer for any of what we’re going to discuss
Be honest – let us know how we’re doing – we’re college academics, trying to bring our PhD research to you in high school. We might not always succeed.

9. Framework for the Program
Increased pollution and related health effects
Decreased biodiversity and natural habitat
Change in ecosystems, atmospheric systems
Increased demand for material and energy resources
Population increase:
1.6 billion to 6 billion
Uncertainty resource availability, climate variability, other environmental impacts
In the past 100 years….
An attempt to place this in mathematical terms…
Others are trying to manage the population number (medicine, policy)
Others are trying to manage the wealth / person (economics)
We focus on the last two – impact per wealth, or per activity
Because the population isn’t going to drastically decrease (barring wars, major disease), the wealth isn’t going to decrease. But we *can* do something about the damage each of our actions does.
To start off, we’ll examine a simple every day decision and the related materials and energy resources consumed and the environmental impact generated from it.
Population x Wealth/Person x Environmental Impact/Wealth = Environmental Impact