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Mobility/Transportation Systems

Sample courses

  • EAS 557/CEE 586                    Industrial Ecology
  • AEROSP 536                             Electric Propulsion
  • AUTO 566                               Hybrid Electrical Vehicles
  • CEE 501.063                           Traffic Engineering
  • AUTO 533/MECHENG 433       Advanced Energy Solutions 

Relevant websites 

  • Mechanical Engineering Course List (ME, Read course prereqs carefully)
  • Automotive Engineering Course List (ME)
  • Global Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Course List (ME)
  • U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
  • MCity

Energy Systems

Sample courses

  • ESENG 567/CEE 567                 Energy Infrastructure Systems
  • EAS 527/BE 527                       Energy Markets and Energy Politics
  • EAS 615                                   Renewable Electricity and the Grid
  • EAS 574                                  Sustainable Energy Systems
  • AUTO 533/ME 433                  Advanced Energy Solutions
  • FIN 583                                  Energy Project Finance
  • ENGR 521                              Cleantech Entrepreneurship  

Relevant websites

  • SEAS/CoE Engineering Sustainable Systems, Sustainable Energy Systems
  • Michigan Energy Institute

Built Environment

Sample courses

  • ENVIRON 407/CEE 307   Sustainable Cities
  • CEE 555                         Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems
  • ARCH 555                      Building Systems & Energy Conservation
  • ENVIRON 405                 Urban Sprawl (F) UG course
  • EAS 531                         Principles of GIS
  • Arch 575                        Building Ecology
  • URP 553                         Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture
  • URP 592                         Real Estate Essentials
  • URP 540                        Urban Land Use Planning 

Relevant websites

  • Taubman College Real Estate certificate program
  • Taubman College Architecture Course List
  • Taubman College Urban Planning Course List

Food Systems

Sample courses

  • EAS 554                       Urban Agriculture
  • EAS 528                       Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems
  • EAS 540                       GIS and Natural Resource Applications
  • EAS 564                       Localization: Transitional thinking for the new normal
  • NUTR 540                     Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • NUTR 585                    Food Service Management
  • EAS 565                       Principles for Transition

Relevant websites

  • School of Public Health course listing  Environmental Health Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) graduate courses
  • LSA Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
  • University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program        

Water Systems

Sample Courses

  • EAS 508              Wetland Ecology
  • EAS 520              Fluvial Ecosystems
  • CEE 480              Design of Environmental Engineering Systems
  • CEE 549              Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • CEE 580              Physicochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
  • CEE 591              Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • CEE 880              Seminar Environmental & Water Resource Engineering
  • Earth 581            Aquatic Chemistry
  • EHS 570              Water Quality Management 

Relevant Websites

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
  • SEAS/CoE Engineering Sustainable Systems, Sustainable Water Systems
    School of Public Health Environmental Health Sciences
  • University of Michigan Water Center

Climate Change

Sample Courses

  • CLIMATE 473            Climate Physics
  • CLIMATE 474            Ice & Climate
  • CLIMATE 480            Climate Change Move to Action
  • CLIMATE 530            Engineering Climate Change
  • CEE 564                    Greenhouse Gas Control 

Relevant Websites

  • Climate Change Research[GAK3]
  • Climate and Space Sciences
  • Applied Climate Course List (ME)

*SEAS students have access to opportunities across the U-M campus.  This page identifies courses and course search engines spanning several sustainable systems themes. If you find other courses applicable to these themes, please contact SSC at [email protected].

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