Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.87 / 10.00 David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
27

The total number of courses offered :
3,095.50

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

FALL 2011

Course Sustainability focused
12301 Civil Environmental Engineering Projects
12401 Civil & Environmental Engineering Design
12712/19712 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering
12747 Special Topics: Sustainable Buildings
19423 Special Topics: Environmental Science Technology & Policy
19424 Energy and the Environment
19688 Innovation for Energy and the Environment
19696 Special Topics Sustainability and Innovation
48454 Futures of the City/Cities of the Future
48708 Sustainable Urbanism Studio
48731 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep
67353 IT & Sustainability
79359 Sustainable Innovations: Ideas, Policies & Technologies to Make a Better Planet
90821 Special Topics: Innovation for Energy and the Environment

SPRING 2012

Course Sustainability focused
12351 Environmental Engineering
12714 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
18618 Smart Grids and Future Electric Energy Systems
45960 Sustainable Operations
45978 The Sustainable Business: Energy and Environmental Policies
48596 LEED Buildings and Green Design
48731 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep
48769 Sustainable Design Synthesis
48795 LEED Buildings and Green Design Concepts
79359 Sustainable Innovations: Ideas, Policies & Technologies to Make a Better Planet
90789 Sustainable Community Development
90893 Policy Topics: Environment Policy
93836 Managing Cultural Heritage: Identity and Sustainability


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Carnegie Mellon University does not deliberately distinguish between courses that focus or concentrate on the concept of sustainability throughout the course and courses that relate to an aspect of sustainability or include sustainability as part of the course in its definition of sustainability in the curriculum. However, the University does offer courses that could be defined as either sustainability-focused or related courses. Each of listed courses reflect such implied sustainability-focused content and curriculum.

The sustainability course inventory can be found at the Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Education website, however that website is updated at the beginning of each semester to inform students during registration. Therefore, the course inventory for Fall 2011 and Spring 2013 had been separately created in a Microsoft Excel document and attached.

*An additional note about the total number of courses: We arrived at the total number of courses by taking the approximate number of courses offered during Fall 2011 (3,075) and Spring 2012 (3,116).


Carnegie Mellon University does not deliberately distinguish between courses that focus or concentrate on the concept of sustainability throughout the course and courses that relate to an aspect of sustainability or include sustainability as part of the course in its definition of sustainability in the curriculum. However, the University does offer courses that could be defined as either sustainability-focused or related courses. Each of listed courses reflect such implied sustainability-focused content and curriculum.

The sustainability course inventory can be found at the Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Education website, however that website is updated at the beginning of each semester to inform students during registration. Therefore, the course inventory for Fall 2011 and Spring 2013 had been separately created in a Microsoft Excel document and attached.

*An additional note about the total number of courses: We arrived at the total number of courses by taking the approximate number of courses offered during Fall 2011 (3,075) and Spring 2012 (3,116).

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