Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor
Description: Introduces the prin- ciples of sustainable product design. Topics include life cycle design; design for reliability, maintainability, and recycling/reuse/remanufacture; materials selec- tion; and manufacturing processes. Includes project in which students analyze the environmental impact of a product and redesign it to reduce the impact. May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with con- sent of instructor and graduate advisor. Course is repeatable as content changes.