Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF)

Achieving sustainable development with chemical engineering.
Chartered: 
2003
Dues: 
$20

The SEF seeks collaborative work in programming and education objectives with other professional societies, both national and foreign.

The SEF seeks collaborative work in programming and education objectives with other professional societies, both domestic and international. Specific focus areas of the forum include: using appropriate metrics for sustainability, developing approaches for designing products and processes that can be optimized to desired metrics criteria and that incorporate environmental and societal benefit factors, and assessing impacts of resource use (energy, material, and cost) on environmental and social benefits (or otherwise) of products, processes, and services.

Leadership

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Chair
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Programming Chair
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Treasurer
Newsletter Editor
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Officer
Education Committee Chair
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International Committee Chair
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Awards Committee Chair
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Technical Advisory Committee Chair
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Industrial Liaison
Staff Liaison

Education Modules

Incorporating Sustainability Principles into the Fluid Mechanics Course

This module is intended to provide guidance to incorporating sustainable design principles into a sophomore level Engineering Fluid Mechanics Course.  Fluid Mechanics concepts such as Friction Loss, Drag Coefficient, Pump Hydraulics and Gravity Flow concepts are covered in this module and accompanying practice problems. Download.

Incorporating Sustainable Design Principles into the Process Separations Course

This module is intended to provide guidance to incorporating sustainable design principles into a junior level Process Separations Course.  Separation unit operations such as Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Absorption, Binary Distillation, Multicomponent Distillation, Membrane separation and Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium concepts are covered in this module and accompanying practice problems. Download.

Incorporating Sustainability Principles into the Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Course

This module is intended to provide guidance to incorporating sustainable design principles into a sophomore level Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Course.  Thermodynamic concepts such as 1st and 2nd Law Analysis, Heat Engines, Efficiency and Work, Refrigeration and Liquefaction, and Renewable Energy concepts are covered in this module and accompanying practice problems. Download.

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