ENCE215

Engineering for Sustainability

Prerequisite: CHEM135; and permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department. Engineers have a key role to play in planning, designing, building, and ensuring a sustainable future. In this class, a problem-based approach is used to examine fundamentally-based analyses and approaches for engineering as sustainable society, with a focus on sustainable use of energy and materials, sustainable infrastructure solutions, atmospheric sustainability and sustainable water supply, and human population growth and resource consumption and its implications for sustainability.

Spring 2026

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Fall 2025

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Spring 2025

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Past Semesters

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.64 between 1,615 students*

ENCE215 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 10.15%
A: 8.17%
A+: 1.61%
B-: 14.55%
B: 16.41%
B+: 11.95%
C-: 6.63%
C: 9.85%
C+: 9.91%
D-: 1.24%
D: 2.04%
D+: 1.55%
F: 2.54%
W: 3.1%
other: 0.31%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.