Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.11
Liaison Justin Mog
Submission Date Jan. 21, 2011
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STARS v1.0

University of Louisville
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.02 / 10.00 Thomas Starr
Associate Dean
J.B. Speed School of Engineering
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The number of graduates covered by the sustainability learning outcomes:
253

Total number of graduates :
2,475

A list of degree programs that have sustainability learning outcomes:

All seven B.S. degree-granting programs in the J.B. Speed School of Engineering have a learning outcome that encompasses sustainability. Each engineering department has its learning outcomes posted on its website. The degree programs include:
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
For the 2008-2009 academic year, engineering graduates were 10.2% of all UofL baccalaureate degrees.


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of degree programs that have specified sustainability learning outcomes is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory :
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A list or sample of the sustainability learning outcomes associated with the degree programs:

Bioengineering
https://louisville.edu/speed/bioengineering/mission-peo.html
- An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
- The broad education necessary to understand the impact of bioengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.

Chemical Engineering
https://louisville.edu/speed/chemical/abet-inc/program-outcomes
- The broad education, and knowledge of contemporary issues, necessary to understand the professional and ethical responsibilities of chemical engineers in a global and societal context.

Civil and Environmental Engineering
https://louisville.edu/speed/civil/
- Instill in students an understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities, both in education and in practice.
- Provide a breadth of course work and perspectives that create an understanding of the impact of engineering in society, both local and global

Computer Engineering & Computer Science
http://louisville.edu/speed/computer/about/bs-program-outcomes.html
- The broad education necessary to understand the impact of computer engineering and computer science in a global and societal context.

Electrical and Computer Engineering
https://louisville.edu/speed/electrical/information/about
- An understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities.
- Attainment of the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.

Industrial Engineering
http://louisville.edu/speed/industrial/accreditation
- An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
- The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.

Mechanical Engineering
https://louisville.edu/speed/mechanical/academics/programs-of-study/deg_bsc.htm
- A solid understanding of professional and ethical responsibility in the field of Mechanical Engineering, as well as a record of adherence to those standards during academic coursework and cooperative education internships.
- An understanding of the impact of Mechanical Engineering solutions in a global and societal context.


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