EC.719 | Spring 2019 | Undergraduate

D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health

Additional Resources

New England

In the News

Saxe, Rebecca. “Beyond the Classroom: Learning from Students.MIT Faculty Newsletter 25, no. 5 (2013).  

Readings

Wotzak, Rob. “Best Energy-Smart Home 2017: Net-Positive in New England.Houses 267 (2017).

Murcott, Susan. “D-Lab and MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Lessons in Mentoring, Transdisciplinarity and Real World Engineering for Sustainable Development.” In New Developments in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development. Leal Filho W., Nesbit S. (eds). World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham, 2016.

Greenovate Boston: 2014 Climate Action Plan Update.” City of Boston. 

Student Projects

Example Dream Project Summary: Protecting Rapid Transit Infrastructure from Extreme Precipitation Events (PDF)

Websites

Fossil Free MIT

MIT Climate CoLab

Massachusetts Climate Action

Cambridge Climate Change Planning

MIT Office of Sustainability

MIT Global Change

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