From ESWStanford
Design for a Sustainable World, Winter 2010
Information is available for our winter 2010 course: Solar-Thermal Refrigeration in Rural Tanzania
Click here to learn more: Winter 2010: Solar-Thermal Refrigeration
CEE 177S/277S: Design for a Sustainable World is a project-based course in which students work on technology-based problems faced by resource-constrained communities worldwide. This course seeks to help developing communities ensure individuals’ human rights via sustainable, technology-based solutions and to increase Stanford University’s stewardship of global sustainability.
Teams of four to five students will take on practical projects with guidance from project advisors to help mature technical/scientific innovations into useful products or processes. Students will partner with organizations abroad to work on the concept, feasibility, design, implementation, and evaluation phases of these projects (depending on the project).
This course emphasizes self-directed learning and self- and peer-evaluation. The quality and success of each project will depend on goals set by project teams and the incorporation of constructive comments, advice, and observations made during the iterative design process. Additionally, this is a discussion-based course that will require thoughtful and honest contributions for mutually beneficial results.
Guest lectures will introduce relevant concepts and analytical tools as student teams develop projects. Lectures will address topics such as sustainability, project management and engineering design principles, stakeholder involvement and considerations, relevant aspects of economics, and selected case studies with emphasis on cultural sensitivities.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Woods Institute for the Environment, the Haas Center for Public Service, GeoHazards International, and Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) support this course. Members of ESW sponsor and facilitate the course.
Courses
Spring 2009 Course: Tsunami-Safe Design and Ecological Sanitation
Spring 2008: Water Testing Methods
Winter 2008: Bahati Education
Fall 2007: Design of a Green Library For Centro Nueva Segovia in Ocotal, Nicaragua
Spring 2007: Indigenous Technology of Earthquake Resistant Construction of Historic Buildings
Spring 2006: Ecological Sanitation at Stanford and in Haiti
