FIN-429: Sustainable & entrepreneurial financeThis course deals with the role of finance in the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Students learn how to apply asset allocation techniques to build sustainable portfolios, understand the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and discover the emerging ...
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
HUM-120(a): Sustainable Food: production, health & societyLe cours présente divers enjeux liés à l'alimentation durable: production, sécurité alimentaire, nutrition et santé, enjeux
sociaux et culturels.
L'approche interdisciplinaire intègre les SHS et les sciences de l'ingénieur et initie au travail de
groupe et ...
ENV-461: Sustainability assessment of urban systemsThis course enables students to think critically about sustainability and to carry out a sustainability assessment based on problems of urban areas. At the end of the course, students are able to develop their own sustainability assessment using the Sustai ...
ENV-470: Development engineeringThis course teaches the fundamentals of technologies for development (Development Engineering) to design, pilot, and deploy appropriate, affordable and robust technologies to address sustainable development challenges and especially those related to extrem ...
HUM-120(b): Sustainable Food: production, health & societyLe cours présente les enjeux liés à l'alimentation: production durable, sécurité alimentaire, sécurité sanitaire et liens entre alimentation et santé. L'approche interdisciplinaire intègre les SHS et les sciences de l'ingénieur et initie au travail de grou ...
HUM-397: Design for sustainability IThis course explores and practices some of the fundamental tools of designing for sustainability with a focus on the sustainability, desirability, and economic viability of solutions. ...
HUM-226: Wellbeing and Planetary BoundariesCe cours approfondit les acquis d'ENV-101 pour mieux comprendre et mettre en œuvre la durabilité : comment transformer la société vers le bien-être pour tous dans les limites écologiques, avec des approches et solutions sectorielles (énergie, bâtiments, mo ...
HUM-225: Industrial Design - Initiation projectLe cours propose d'expérimenter les spécificités du design industriel en confrontant les étudiant.e.s à la création d'un objet. Il s'agit d'un enseignement pratique qui repose sur le développement d'un projet de semestre. ...
ENV-501: Material flow analysis and resource managementThis course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resour ...
ENV-549: Irrigation and drainage engineeringThe course aims at teaching the fundamentals of both irrigation and drainage techniques with particular attention to the soil water balance and related management, the materials, the construction methods as well as the environmental impacts and sustainabi ...
PENS-219: Hidden riversHidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riverscapes. ...
HUM-390: Perspectives critiques de la durabilitéCe cours propose de partir des paradigmes de la durabilité et d'en décliner les conséquences sociales et politiques contemporaines. Nous allons adopter une approche critique des diverses théorisations, nous saisirons les acteurs qui en font la promotion et ...
PENS-322: Urban voids: mind the gap!This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively ...
ENV-411: Ecohydrological modelingThis course provides the theoretical basis for understanding and modeling the interactions between the hydrologic cycle, vegetation, soil, climate, and human society. ...
MGT-462: New space economyThis course will teach students the major trends and characteristics of the space economy. We will examine key business models that use space technologies, including those that benefit from use cases right here on Earth. As a final project, students will e ...
ENG-436: Food biotechnologyThe course will deliver basic knowledge on the principles of food fermentation and enzyme technology. The course will also present benefits that food biotechnology can bring in terms of Nutrition & Health and Sustainability. ...
HUM-327: Design industriel - projet expérimentalLe cours propose d'expérimenter les spécificités du design industriel en confrontant les étudiant.e.s à la création d'un objet. Il s'agit d'un enseignement pratique qui repose sur le développement d'un projet de semestre. ...
PENS-304: Living in MarsCe cours propose aux étudiants des trois sections ENAC (AR,GC,SIE) d'élaborer ensemble un projet de construction sur la planète Mars. Dans cette démarche interdisciplinaire ils aborderont des problématiques qu'ils devront analyser, interpréter, intégrer et ...
