Below are two
new ENST courses you may want to add to your Fall schedule.
ENST499K
:
Special Topics in Environmental Science and Technology; Ecological Entrepreneurship
(3 credits) -
The course engages students in an interdisciplinary, active learning experience while aiming to produce a tangible, ecologically designed product or service that has commercial scalability. Ecological Design Thinking uses an iterative cycle of understanding customer empathy, learning about ecological technologies, appreciating environmentalism, designing, prototyping, testing and redesign. Ecological Entrepreneurship adapts the Lean Startup process to take innovation to the commercial application. It relies on customer discovery, empathy, storytelling, and the business model canvas. Students will learn in an active environment that requires working creatively, collaboratively, diligently, and precisely to create a business model and tangible prototype for a new commercial product.
ENST 499K would fit nicely into EcoTech Design's Technology Elective category
.
ENST499L
:
Special Topics in Environmental Science and Technology; Ground Water Use in the Developing World
(1 credit) -
Overview of ground water as a water resource, its availability, quality and extraction in various developing countries. The role of a consultant in adapting modern technologies to developing ground water as a viable water resource.
This is a seminar course.
ENST 499L would fit nicely into Natural Resource Management's Resource Management Elective category, EcoTech Design's Ecosystem Elective category,
or
Soil's Breadth Elective category
.