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. ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
AR-515: UE C : Habitat et sociétéEn articulant des savoirs théoriques et architecturaux, avec des savoirs socio-politiques, l'UE vise à vérifier la possibilité d'un imaginaire contemporain réaffirmé autour de l'habitat productif. ...
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 ...
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-367: Législation environnementale et droit de la constructionCe cours donne aux étudiant-e-s les connaissances de base nécessaires pour comprendre les dimensions juridiques de leur activité professionnelle concernant l'aménagement du territoire et la protection de l'environnement. Il les sensibilise aux questions ju ...
HUM-349: Régulation et gouvernance dans le secteur publicFaire ou faire faire ? Est-ce que l'Etat doit offrir lui-même les prestations données au public ou doit-il mandater des tiers pour ce faire ? Ce cours vise à présenter et à analyser la manière dont l'État intervient dans la fourniture de services publics ( ...
AR-527: Construction policyConstruction Policy seeks to familiarise architecture and engineering students with instruments of policy analysis, evaluation and, eventually, design. This by introducing elements of policy theory, examining historical and contemporary case studies, and p ...
MATH-504: Integer optimisationThe course aims to introduce the basic concepts and results of integer optimization with special emphasis on algorithmic problems on lattices that have proved to be important in theoretical computer science and cryptography during the past 30 years. ...
ENV-610: Ecological economicsThis course is an introduction to economic theory applied to environmental issues. It presents the methods used to assess environmental impacts and natural resources as well as environmental regulation instruments. It then broadens the analysis to ecologic ...
HUM-387: How technology shapes the workplace of the futureArtificial intelligence, big data, and advances in computing power have triggered a technological revolution that may have enormous bearing on the workplace and the labor market. This course provides you with tools to analyze these developments, and discus ...
CIVIL-447: Modelling of energy systemsLa satisfaction des besoins d'énergie à long terme pour un pays ou une region donnée nécessite de représenter l'ensemble du système énergétique en tenant compte des différentes interactions. Ce cours concerne la modélisation d'un système global en vue d'év ...