CEE Professors Horvath and Nazaroff Awarded Henry Luce Grant to Start Sustainable Engineering Program

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded $550,000 to a UC Berkeley team of faculty headed by CEE professor Arpad Horvath for a project to launch a certificate program on Sustainable Engineering, linked with the campus' Management of Technology Program. The Berkeley team also includes CEE Professor William Nazaroff, ME Professors Alice Agogino and David Dornfeld, Haas School of Business Senior Lecturer Sara Beckman and Professor Christine Rosen, Energy and Resources Professor Daniel Kammen, and Goldman School of Public Policy Professor Margaret Taylor.

In their proposal, Sustainable Engineering through Green Design, Manufacturing, and Social Infrastructures, the team outlines the development of new courses, course modules, and educational case studies that will be used to help engineers understand the complexity and urgency of their role in environmental management, and to teach them how to work across boundaries to achieve solutions. The result? A force of influential problem-solvers who can have a lasting beneficial impact on the global environment.

Berkeley is home to one of the oldest and most active green engineering and management research groups, the Consortium of Green Design and Manufacturing, and it will soon start offering an educational initiative in Sustainable Engineering that may become a model for other institutions.