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Sustainable Engineering
Principles and Practice

Name: Sustainable Engineering
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Author: Bhavik R. Bakshi, Ohio State University

Date Published: June 2019
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Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives from engineering, economics, business, science, and human behavior, this text presents an unrivalled introduction to how engineering practice can contribute to sustainable development. Varied approaches for assessing the sustainability of engineering and other human activities are presented in detail, and potential solutions to meet key challenges are proposed, with an emphasis on those that require engineering skills. Each concept and approach is supported by mathematical representation, solved problems, real-world examples, and self-study exercises. Topics covered range from introductory material on the nature of sustainability, to more advanced approaches for assessment and design. Prerequisites for each chapter are clearly explained so the text can be adapted to meet the needs of students from a range of backgrounds. Software tutorials, project statements and solutions, lecture slides, and a solutions manual accompany the book online, making this an invaluable resource for courses in sustainable engineering, as well as a useful reference for industry practitioners.
- Has multidisciplinary appeal, with perspectives from engineering, economics and the social sciences
- Adaptable to students from a range of backgrounds, covering both introductory as well as mathematically rigorous advanced topics
- Benefits from nearly 100 worked examples and over 200 end-of-chapter exercises
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'This book addresses such critical topics as life-cycle assessment, energy and material flows, exergy, sustainability assessment, engineering design, industrial symbiosis, and circular economy. The author utilizes various case studies/examples, such as the case of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the lessons from Easter Island. There are flowcharts and solved quantitative examples that make the introduced concepts less abstract. Each chapter is followed by exercises, making it easier to use for academic purpose / course assessment. I believe this text will be useful for advanced undergraduate or graduate-level college students, and that it is successful in its goal to rigorously address the role of engineering with respect to environmental sustainability, and to help engineers understand sustainability.' John W. Sutherland, Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
'In Sustainable Engineering, Bhavik R. Bakshi demonstrates that engineers and conservationists can be important allies. Using a variety of real-world examples and detailed case studies, Bakshi makes the case that engineering practices can lead to a sustainable future.' Mark R. Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
'Sustainable Engineering provides a comprehensive engineering treatment of sustainability. This is the only textbook covering many of the new approaches to sustainable engineering. Clear, succinct chapters, and the range of quantitative problems, make for a welcome textbook that will be widely useful for undergraduate engineering classes. It includes recent concepts such as water footprinting, energy return on investment, material flow analysis, energy analysis, ecosystem services calculations, techno-economic analysis, and industrial symbiosis. The problems are quantitative and thorough, with sufficient worked examples that they can be mastered in an introductory sustainable engineering course. The sustainability framing is broad and thorough, allowing undergraduates to see the big-picture context for sustainable engineering. References are also excellent, encouraging students to become familiar with key data sources, software, and the relevant scientific literature.' Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Date Published: June 2019
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108359429
- contains: 187 b/w illus. 87 tables 110 exercises
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction and Motivation:
1. The basis of human well-being
2. Status of ecosystem goods and services
3. Sustainability: definitions and challenges
Part II. Reasons for Unsustainability:
4. Economics and the environment
5. Business and the environment
6. Science, engineering, and the environment
7. Society and the environment
Part III. Sustainability Assessment:
8. Goal definition and scope
9. Inventory analysis
10. Mathematical framework
11. Footprint assessment
12. Energy and material flow analysis
13. Exergy analysis
14. Cumulative exergy consumption and emergy analysis
15. Life cycle impact assessment
16. Ecosystem services in sustainability impact assessment
Part IV. Solutions for Sustainability:
17. Designing sustainable processes and products
18. Ecosystem ecology
19. Industrial symbiosis and circular economy
20. Ecosystems in engineering
21. Economic policies
22. Societal development.
Author
Bhavik R. Bakshi, Ohio State University
Bhavik R. Bakshi is the Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU). He also holds appointments in Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at OSU and as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India. He has developed and taught a course on Sustainable Engineering for twenty years at OSU, and shorter versions at institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, McGill University, Montreal, and South China University of Technology.