Sustainability - Certificate

Michigan Technological University developed the Graduate Certificate in Sustainability in 2003 as an outcome of an NSF-funded research project in collaboration with Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.

The Graduate Certificate allows students to select classes that focus on integrating the engineering and technology of industrial ecology; the science of environmental assessment and modeling; and the economic, human behavior, and policy-making aspects of the social sciences to develop professionals knowledgeable in sustainability. We offer a wide range of potential courses that work with many different academic disciplines and have had students from several departments in engineering, science, and humanities complete the certificate program.

This Certificate formally recognizes curricular breadth in the following areas:

1. Policy, societal, and economic systems
2. Environmental systems
3. Industrial systems

The Sustainable Futures Model takes a systems approach: combining information and insight from meta-disciplinary perspective.