Green Chemistry & Green Engineering Courses at Yale

Greening Business Operations

ENAS 443 / ENVE 443 / F&ES 380 / F&ES 911 / F&ES 96019 / MGT 564

Thomas Graedel, Julie Zimmerman

Engineering, environmental, and financial perspectives applied to selected industries. Methods from operations management, industrial ecology, green chemistry and engineering, and accounting and finance are used to investigate sustainability approaches and the relationship between environmental and economic considerations. Tools include discounted cash-flow analysis, life-cycle assessment, and environmental cost accounting. Field trips to companies.

Introduction to Green Chemistry

CHEM 102

Paul Anastas

Overview of green chemistry. Introduction to the basic concepts and methods needed to design processes and synthesize materials in an environmentally benign way. Related issues of global sustainability. Case studies that suggest possible solutions for the serious environmental and toxicological issues currently facing industry and society.  Intended for non-science majors with a basic high school background in chemistry and physics, as well as high school algebra. Does not satisfy premedical chemistry requirements or requirements for the Chemistry major. Enrollment limited to students who have not taken any previous chemistry courses approved for the Chemistry major.

Green Engineering and Sustainable Design

ENAS 360 / ENVE 360 / F&ES 910 / F&ES 96018

Julie Zimmerman

Study of green engineering, focusing on key approaches to advancing sustainability through engineering design. Topics include current design, manufacturing, and disposal processes; toxicity and benign alternatives; policy implications; pollution prevention and source reduction; separations and disassembly; material and energy efficiencies and flows; systems analysis; biomimicry; and life cycle design, management, and analysis.

Prerequisite: CHEM 112a and 113b or 114a and 115b or permission of instructor.

Industrial Ecology

ENAS 645 / F&ES 906 / F&ES 96007

Thomas Graedel

Industrial ecology is an organizing concept that is increasingly applied to define various interactions of today’s technological society with both natural and altered environments. Technology and its potential for modification and change are central to this topic, as are implications for government policy and corporate response. The course discusses how industrial ecology is being applied in corporations to minimize the environmental impacts of products, processes, and services, and shows how industrial ecology serves as a technological framework for science, policy, and management in government and society.