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Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry Specialization

Students gain an understanding of systems analysis applied to environmental problems in production-consumption systems, acquire methods to quantify the use of energy, materials, water, and land for industrial production, and the comparative evaluation of different pollution types. They learn about how organizations use these approaches in environmental management.

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    The Specialization will prepare students for employment in corporate sustainability and environment, health and safety positions, in environmental consultancies and think-tanks, nongovernmental organizations, and governmental and multi-lateral agencies.

    Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.

    Program Courses

    Core

    Two required courses.
    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 771
    Fundamentals of Green Engineering and Green Chemistry         		  Anastas
    Tentative
    ENV 884
    Industrial Ecology         		Faculty  

    Electives

    Choose four elective courses.
    Course Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Fall Spring
    ENV 594
    Global Carbon Cycle         		Denning  
    ENV 603
    Environmental Data Visualization for Communication         		Queenborough  
    ENV 639
    Food Systems and Climate Services         		Hernandez-Aguilera  
    ENV 705
    Global Climate Change: Simple, Serious, and Solvable         		Denning  
    ENV 706
    Toxic Organic Chemicals in the Environment         		  Anisfeld
    ENV 708
    Aquatic Chemistry         		Faculty  
    ENV 725
    Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate         		  Saiers
    ENV 730
    Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning         		Malone  
    ENV 758
    Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences         		  Reuning-Scherer
    ENV 800
    Energy Economics and Policy Analysis         		  Gillingham
    ENV 807
    Corporate Sustainability: Strategy and Management         		Esty  
    ENV 811
    ESG Controller         		Cort  
    ENV 814
    Energy Systems Analysis         		Rao  
    ENV 824
    Environmental Law and Policy         		  Klee
    ENV 828
    Risk Assessment & Management: Climate Change         		  Wargo
    ENV 834
    Environmental Economics and Policy         		  Faculty
    ENV 893
    Principles of Risk Assessment         		  Vasiliou
    Tentative
    ENV 894
    Green Building: Issues and Perspectives         		Kops  
    ENV 896
    Public Health Toxicology         		  Vasiliou
    Tentative
    ENV 982
    Bio-inspired Design and Engineering         		  Zimmerman
    MGT 872
    Managing Sustainable Operations    		        
    MGT 873
    Supply Chain Management    		        
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    Faculty Coordinator

    Y. Yao

    Yuan Yao

    Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems

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