The Climate & Sustainability Systems thread provides the training needed for innovating the materials, devices, processes, and networked systems to support the urgent and necessary transition towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and a more sustainable planet. The thread will emphasize decarbonization across our energy and industrial systems, while maintaining awareness of the potential for unintended consequences in shifting the burden to other social, economic, and environmental metrics of sustainability.
3.0061/22.03[J] fall 2021
Requirements
In order to receive the NEET Climate & Sustainability Systems certificate from the School of Engineering, students need to complete the following requirements:
Introductory project subject (recommended Sophomore year)
3.0061/22.03: Introduction to Design Thinking and Rapid Prototyping (6 units)
Intermediate HASS subject (recommended Junior Year)
21A.S01: Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale (12 units)
NEET Capstone project subject (can be taken Junior and/or Senior Year)
22.S094: NEET Mongolia Project Capstone (12 units)or UROP/SuperUROP related to climate or energy
Elective Capstone-level project subjects (can be taken Junior and/or Senior Year)
2.S981: Special Subject in Mechanical Engineering, 3.042: Materials Project Laboratory, 2.013: Engineering Systems Design, 10.467: Polymer Science Laboratory, 10.492 (A+B): Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I (6 + 6 units), 10.493 : Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics II (6 units), 10.494 (A+B): Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics III (6 + 6 units), or other advanced projects class.
Seminar (enroll for at least 3 semesters over the course of 3 years)
3.006/22.003: Speaker series featuring conversations with guest speakers from academia and industry who are experts in energy, materials, or manufacturing, career input, special hands-on engagements, and technically focused independent study options thereafter.
These are a series of 12-unit unrestricted elective classes that MM scholars take throughout the three-year program. All the classes are accompanied by weekly seminar hosting guest speakers from industry, academia and government addressing a variety of issues under the thread theme.
3.0061/22.03[J]: Introduction to Design
This subject provides hands-on experiences in creativity, problem scoping, prototyping, system design and integration, problem solving and debugging, and portfolio design and communication.
NEET CSS Seminar
The CSS Seminar is brings scholars together around a series of colloquia with professional engineers and industry experts, and into various labs and fabrication facilities on campus to gain hands-on experience with a wide range of materials and processes.
22.S094, NEET Ulaanbaatar Project
This subject offers a collaborative opportunity to study the particularities of the local culture, environment, political climate, and economy in Ulaanbaatar in order to design a sustainable, flameless thermal heat source made from molten nitrate salts.
Thread Leadership
Prof. Mike Short
Founding Faculty LeadAssociate Director, NEET
Nuclear Science & Engineering
Nathan Melenbrink
Lecturer and Founding Lead Instructor, NEET
School of Engineering
Scholars Leadership Team
Shubhanga Ballal
CSS Student Council
Materials Science and EngineeringClass of 2022
Jess Cohen
CSS Student Council
PhysicsClass of 2022
Arina Khotimsky
CSS Student Council
Materials Science
and Engineering
Class of 2023
Emma Suh
CSS Student Council
Mechanical EngineeringClass of 2023
Kelly Wu
CSS Student Council
Chemical EngineeringClass of 2023
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