Sustainable Engineering: Concepts, Design and Case Studies, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (December 20, 2011) © 2012
- David Allen Department of European Studies, University of Loughborough
- David R. Shonnard Michigan Technological University
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- Builds on the well-accepted principles introduced by leading experts Allen and Shonnard in Green Engineering
- Helps engineering educators incorporate sustainability into their curricula without adding separate courses
- Offers a powerful unified approach that integrates case studies, industry perspectives, and essential engineering and quantitative design skills
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Sustainability
- Chapter 2: Risk and Life-Cycle Frameworks for Sustainability
- Chapter 3: Environmental Law and Regulation
- Chapter 4: Green, Sustainable Materials
- Chapter 5: Design for Sustainability: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators
- Chapter 6: Case Studies
- Index
Dr. David R. Shonnard is Robbins Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and director of the Sustainable Futures Institute. He received a B.S. in chemical/metallurgical engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1983; an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1985; a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1991; postdoctoral training in bioengineering at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 to 1993; and he was a visiting instructor at the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. His experiences in life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods and applications include a one-year sabbatical at the Eco-efficiency Analysis Group at BASF AG in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University since 1993. Dr. Shonnard has more than twenty years of academic experience in sustainability issues in the chemical industry and Green Engineering. He is coauthor of the textbook Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, published by Prentice Hall in 2002. His current research interests focus on investigations of new forest-based biorefinery processes for production of transportation fuels, such as cellulosic ethanol and pyrolysis-based biofuels, from woody biomass using recombinant DNA and other approaches. Another active research area is LCA of biofuels and other biorefinery products to determine greenhouse gas emissions and net energy balances. He has contributed to National Academy of Sciences publications on green chemistry/engineering/sustainability in the chemical industry. Dr. Shonnard has coauthored 70 peer-reviewed publications and received numerous honors and awards for teaching and research into environmental issues of the chemical industry, including the Ray W. Fahien Award from ASEE (2003). He is a recipient of the NSF/Lucent Technologies Foundation Industrial Ecology Research Fellowship (1998) for research that integrates environmental impact assessment with process design.
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