The 4 themes are:
1. Tools and Methods
2. Products, Processes and Services
3. Management, Strategy, Economics and Risk
4. Policy and Systems
 

1) Tools and Methods

Graduate Courses

Civil Systems and the Environment  
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIV ENG) 268E [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: Methods and tools for economic and environmental analysis of civil engineering systems. Focus on construction, transportation, and operation, and maintenance of the built infrastructure. Life-cycle planning, design, costing, financing, and environmental assessment. Industrial ecology, design for environment, pollution prevention, external costs. Models and software tools for life-cycle economic and environmental inventory, impact, and improvement analysis of civil engineering systems.
(SP) Horvath

Sustainable Manufacturing
Engineering (ENG) 290C / INFO 290 [3 units]
Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management as exercised by the enterprise is a poorly understood idea and one that is not intuitively connected to business value or engineering practice. This course will provide the basis for understanding (1) what comprises sustainable practices in for-profit enterprises, (2) how to practice and measure continuous improvement using sustainability thinking, techniques and tools for product and manufacturing process design, and (3) the techniques for and value of effective communication of sustainability performance to internal and external audiences. Material in the course will be supplemented by speakers with diverse backgrounds in corporate sustainability, environmental consulting, and academia. Discussions of papers in the reader including case studies will be used to illustrate topics. A final class project will be required (for those registered for 3 units), with students working individually or in small groups. Cross functional groups including both engineering and MBA students are encouraged. C lass projects will apply the analysis techniques covered in this course to design and develop environmentally mindful products or processes or analyze policies that lead to environmental improvements. Interaction with industry and collection of real-world data will be encouraged.
(SP) Dornfeld

Modeling Energy, Environmental and Resource Systems
CANCELLED for 2007-08
Energy and Resources Group (ENE,RES) 220 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Description: A first course in modeling with an emphasis on optimization and on applications in energy, environment, and resource management. Readings, lectures, homework, and small projects will be used to help understand the role of modeling in exploring a variety of questions associated with energy and resources. Course is based in Excel, both the native Solver module and the more powerful add-in OptQuest that is included with the textbook, so each student will be able to apply the learned skills in a wide variety of potential research and work environments. Goals: the student will be able to describe a problem from an optimization perspective, formulate the appropriate mathematical programming model to examine the problem, solve the model, and interpret the results. Course provides the fundamental basis for more sophisticated modeling, but does not cover algorithm implementations.
(F) Farrell

2) Products, Processes and Services

Graduate Courses

Managing the New Product Development Process
MBA290N, Mechanical Engineering (MEC ENG) 290P, School of Information (INFO) 290P [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours lectures and interactive activities per week.
Description: This course is an operationally focused course, as it aims to develop the interdisciplinary skills required for successful product development in today's competitive marketplace. Engineering, SIMS and Business students from Berkeley and students from the California College of the Arts join forces on small product development teams to step through the new product development process in detail, learning about the available tools and techniques to execute each process step along the way. Each student brings his or her own disciplinary perspective to the team effort, and must learn to synthesize that perspective with those of the other students in the group to develop a sound, marketable product. Students can expect to depart the semester understanding new product development processes as well as useful tools, techniques and organizational structures that support new product development practice. Although the course focuses on the application of these principles to new product development, they are more broadly applicable to innovation in general, as well as environmental sustainability of products, services, organizations, business strategies and governmental policies.
(F) Agogino, Beckman

Green Product Development: Design for Sustainability  
Mechanical Engineering (MEC ENG) 290H [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lectures and interactive activities, plus an optional discussion period per week.
Description: The focus of the course is management of innovation processes for sustainable products, from product definition to sustainable manufacturing and financial models. Using a project in which students will be asked to design and develop a product or service focused on sustainability, we will teach processes for collecting customer and user needs data, prioritizing that data, developing a product specification, sketching and building product prototypes, and interacting with the customer/community during product development. The course is intended as a very hands-on experience in the "green" product development process. We aim to have half MBA students and half Engineering students (with a few other students, such as from the I-School) in the class. The instructors will facilitate students to form mixed disciplinary teams for the development of their "green" products. Students from the California College of the Arts (CCA) will also participate on the teams through a course taught separately at CCA.
(F) Agogino, Beckman

Technology and Sustainability   
CANCELLED for 2007-08
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIV ENG) 293A [2 units]
Course Format: Two hours of lecture per week.
Description: Exploration of selected important technologies that serve major societal needs, such as shelter, water, food, energy, and transportation, and waste management. How specific technologies or technological systems do or do not contribute to a move toward sustainability. Specific topics vary from year to year according to student and faculty interests.
(F) Horvath, Nazaroff

Energy and Society
Energy and Resources Group (ENE,RES) 100 (undergraduate) or 200 (graduate) [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week, plus optional field trips.
Description: Energy sources, uses, and impacts: an introduction to the technology, politics, economics, and environmental effects of energy in contemporary society. Energy and well-being; energy in international perspective, origins, and character of energy crisis. Key gateway course for energy internships at several state agencies (PUC, CEC, CARB), meets DEEST course requirements. ER100 undergraduate version meets L&S technical breadth requirement.
(F) Kammen

Design for Sustainable Communities
Energy and Resources Group (ENE,RES) 291-003 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: This course provides concepts and hands-on design experience with innovative products or processes for improving sustainability of communities. The focus will be resource-constrained communities (mostly poor ones in the developing countries). Five teams of four students each will take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts, to help mature technical/scientific innovations into useful products or processes. Lectures will introduce relevant concepts and analytical tools on a parallel track as projects are developed by the five teams. Lectures will address topics such as sustainability, relevant aspects of economics, sociology of innovation diffusion, product design principles, and walk through a few selected examples. We will also discuss readings during the lecture hours.
(SP) Gadgil

Photovoltaic Materials
CANCELLED for 2007-08
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) / Energy and Resources Group (ENE,RES) C226 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: This technical course focuses on the fundamentals of photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion with respect to the physical principles of operation and design of efficient semiconductor solar cell devices. Incorporating ideas from a variety of disciplines, the course aims to equip students with the concepts and analytical skills necessary to assess the utility and viability of various modern PV technologies in the context of a growing global renewable energy market. Traditional materials science and device physics are integrated with the practical issues of connectivity, cost and market analysis, and policy considerations to provide a complete picture of the engineering and development of modern PV systems. Background in solid state physics or semiconductor electronics is strongly recommended.
(SP) Haller, Kammen

Undergraduate Courses

Climate Change Mitigation
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIV ENG) 107 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: Assessment of technological options for responding to the threat of climate change. Overview of climate-change science: sources, sinks, and atmospheric dynamics of greenhouse gases. Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel combustion. Societal context for implementing engineered responses.
(SP) Nazaroff

3) Management, Strategy, Economics, and Risk

Graduate Courses

Energy, Sustainability and Business Innovation
Engineering (ENG) 298A / School of Information (INFO) 290 [2 Units]
Course Format: Two hours of lecture per week.
Description: This course is for students who are interested in developing and commercializing innovative energy technologies that can help move society toward greater sustainability with respect to environmental impact and energy independence. Currently, a wide range of technological, environmental, geopolitical, geological, regulatory, economic, and consumer demand factors are creating new opportunities for alternative energy technologies. The course will prepare students to assess commercial viability of new technologies, obtain venture capital and other funding for projects, position and market new energy solutions, identify business strategies, and develop productive relationships with partners in industry, the environmental movement, and state, local, federal, and international agencies.
(SP) Rosen, Isaacs

Health Risk Assessment, Regulation, and Policy
Public Health (PB HLTH) 220C [4 units]
Course Format: Four hours of lecture per week.
Description: This course introduces the basic scientific components of environmental and occupational health risk assessment and describes the policy context in which decisions to manage environmental health risks are made. The course presents the quantitative methods used to assess the human health risks associated with exposure to toxic chemicals, focusing on the four major components of risk assessment: hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Students use these tools to develop their own risk assessment for an environmental health problem. The course also provides a broad overview of occupational and environmental health regulations with consideration of how hazard, risk, cost, and benefits are considered. Current political controversies about environmental policy will be examined.
(F) Hammond, McKone

Energy and Environmental Markets
MBA 212 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: Business strategy and public policy issues in energy and environmental markets. Topics include development and effect of organized spot, futures, and derivative energy markets; political economy of regulation and deregulation; climate change and environmental policies related to energy production and use; cartels, market power and competition policy; pricing of exhaustible resources; competitiveness of alternative energy sources; and transportation and storage of energy commodities.
(SP) Borenstein, Wolfram, Bushnell

Undergraduate Courses

Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics and Policy (ENVECON) 101 or (ECON) C125 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Math 16A-16B, Environmental Economics and Policy 100, or Economics 100A or 101A.
Credit option: Students will receive no credit for 101 after taking Economics 125.
Description: Theories of externalities and public goods applied to pollution and environmental policy. Trade-off between production and environmental amenities. Assessing nonmarket value of environmental amenities. Remediation and clean-up policies. Environment and development. Biodiversity management.
(SP) Zilberman

4) Policy and Systems

Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspectives
Public Policy (PUB POL) 290P 008 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: This class introduces students to the relationship between technology and the natural environment over time. It explores past environmental policy issues, such as acid rain and ozone depletion and climate change through the lens of specific technologies that were important to both policy and business interests. It introduces some of the environmental strategies that are being used by both policy makers and business to affect technology development and adoption today.
(F) Taylor

Environmental Law & Policy
Law 271 sec. 1 [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Description: This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. By focusing on constitutional issues and a limited number of federal statutes - principally the Administrative Procedure Act, the Clean Air Act; the Clean Water Act; CERCLA (the Superfund law; the National Environmental Policy Act; and the Endangered Species Act - the course exposes students to the principal approaches to environmental law (litigation, command and control regulation, market incentives, and providing information), as well as to the challenges of setting environmental policy goals and choosing policy targets. The course is designed both for students who intend to pursue environmental studies further and for those who simply want to gain a basic understanding of this key area of public policy.
(SP) Farber