CEE 181 Sustainable Engineering: Technological, Social, and Sustainable Systems

3 college credits.

Understand the impact of technology on sustainability and society, using relevant historical examples and current issues in the news, and gain insight on the cultural frameworks within which ideas such as sustainability and different technologies are understood and evolve. You’ll also explore emerging technologies from the Industrial Revolution through present day, leading to a future that will be complex and challenging, and in many ways look like science fiction.

Learn about the economic, environmental, social, cultural, philosophic, and religious issues and impacts associated with technology systems and emerging technologies at a broad cultural and geographic level, extending across urban, regional, national, and global scales.

Past course syllabus for reference only.

Gold designation: SUST