Engineering and Health Impact Methods in Green Design

Learn how principles of environmental health can be used to make materials, products and manufacturing processes safer for workers, consumers and the environment.

Developed and taught in Spring 2012 by Mark Nicas, David Dornfeld, Meg Schwarzman, Tom McKone, and Akos Kokai.

Learning Objectives

Learn how principles of environmental health can be used to make materials, products and manufacturing processes safer for workers, consumers and the environment, including:

Basics of assessing hazard and exposure;
Techniques for sustainable design;
Tools for evaluating alternatives.

Course Details

Engineering and Health Impact Methods in Green Design was taught as a graduate course in Spring 2012, offered by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. The Berkeley Center For Green Chemistry gratefully acknowledges the California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxics Substances Control for supporting the development of this curriculum and the and teaching of this course. The majority of course work consisted of completion of the group project.