Sustainable Infrastructure
2022-12-19
Introduction
This book consists of course notes and assignment for CEEn 201: Sustainable Infrastructure at Brigham Young University. The course introduces students to the triple bottom line of sustainability — economic prosperity, environmental preservation, and social equity — as it applies to the topic of infrastructure in the United States and around the world. The students explore these topics through investigating and discussing case studies.
The course also serves as a point of instruction for the engineering finance problems the students will encounter on the Fundamentals of Engineering and Professional Engineer examinations. Additionally, this course helps the BYU Civil Engineering program meet ABET student outcome 4:
an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
Acknowledgements
Several homework problems and examples are adapted from Martland (2012); this book is out of print and the questions have been modified. Other problems taken from other sources are identified in-context and used with permission. Other acknowledgments include:
- Cover photo: The World Inside, Singapore by Paula Prekopova on Unsplash
- Teaching assistants who contributed to this work include Ben Meek and Tristan Parker.