APSC 498T is a student directed seminar for engineers looking for a dynamic classroom. This course was created to fill the faculty’s gap in climate change and decarbonization education. If you are interested in registering for this course, please send a short statement of interest to apsc498t@gmail.com
Anthropogenic climate change is an urgent social and environmental threat with impacts already being felt around the globe. This seminar course will explore the role of the engineering profession in the challenge of mitigating climate change by decarbonizing (removing greenhouse gases from) human systems in the near term future. Upper-year engineering students from various engineering disciplines will be brought together for an integrated, technically focused learning environment.
Various technologies and decarbonization strategies will be critically analyzed. This course will go beyond the technical realm and explore the social, political, and economic frameworks relevant to engineering climate change mitigation. Students will become comfortable discussing and critiquing frameworks of climate justice, technology, policy, neoliberal economics, and ecomodernism.