SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRACK

The unsustainability of modern infrastructure necessitates a paradigm shift in both principle and practice for engineers, planners and other practitioners. This track will equip students with the mindset and evaluative tools to analyze and design a new generation of sustainable infrastructure.

In three modules, students will study the existing system, explore the principles and ideas needed to catalyze a long-term, sustainable solution and develop proficiency in the evaluative tools needed to measure progress. Students learn to view infrastructure as a complex, dynamic service system with multiple sectors, development stages and impact potentials on the natural world and society.  

For the final group project, students integrate their knowledge to design and evaluate a real-world infrastructure challenge.

Key knowledge, skills and capabilities include:

  • Design principles
  • Urban planning
  • Mass transfer/transport/FEMA
  • Process management
  • Complex interaction including social/economic/environment

Top research areas:

  • Sustainable buildings
  • Sustainable transportation systems
  • Sustainable material systems
  • Sustainable supply chain systems

Key courses include:

 

 

Bill Lorenz
Sustainable Engineering Program Director and Professor of Practice

610-519-6195 | william.lorenz@villanova.edu