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Spring 2015 | PA 4790 Section 001: Topics in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy -- Sustainable Infrastructure & Cities (69655)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
PA 5790 Section 005
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics in the field of science, technology, and environmental policy. Topics vary.
- Class Notes:
- Topic prereq - sr or instr consent. This course is cross-listed, and grad-level students may wish to register for PA 5790, section 5 (class number 70476).
- Class Description:
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Cities Instructor: Professor Anu Ramaswami Email: anu@umn.edu Course Learning Objectives: ? Systems based understanding of a city with built infrastructure, people and the natural environment as key interacting elements ? Understanding how seven interconnected infrastructure sectors affect the environmental sustainability, resilience, and health of cities. The sectors are ? water, energy, buildings, transportation-communication, sanitation/waste management, food supply and public spaces. ? Learn about the various metrics and the skills needed to report of various measures of environmental sustainability, health and resilience. ? Learn and apply principles of systems design and innovation within individual infrastructure sectors, connecting people, policy and technology, using interdisciplinary systems approaches. ? Learn about and apply principles of systems design at the district scale using inter-disciplinary systems approaches The course will be broadly divided into four modules 1. Definitions & Systems Thinking: Definitions of urban infrastructure, environmental sustainability, health and resilience, and a systems model that connect s people, built infrastructures and the natural system with these outcomes. 2. Metrics and Analytic Skills: Understanding how cities measure and report of the performance of urban infrastructure. Learning analysis skills and methods to compute these metrics. 3. Coupled design of public policies and infrastructures for successful innovations in individual sectors (e.g., water supply, transportation, sanitation). 4. Coupled design of public policies and infrastructures for successful innovations of districts or regions individual sectors (e.g., eco-industrial parks). Evaluation: In each module students will be assessed for their learning of core concepts, application of specific skills, and integration/synthesis in systems based mental models and interdisciplinary group projects. Grading: The assessments will include weekly short individual homework assignments (20%), three quizzes (12% each at 36% of the total) and three group projects (12% each at 36% total). 8% of the grade is set aside for active participation in class.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69655/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 November 2014
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