Meet Need, Minimize Excess

Anything you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and save energy is a good thing. Green engineering is not just about creating products that reduce emissions and conserve energy. Instead, it is more of a philosophy. Green engineers are putting the environment first when they devise engineering projects.

Design for unnecessary capacity or capability (e.g., "one size fits all") solutions should be considered a design flaw.

Product Design & Processes

Green engineering approaches the design of products and processes by applying financially and technologically feasible principles to achieve one or more of the following goals: (1) decrease in the amount of pollution that is generated by a construction or operation of a facility, (2) minimization of human population exposure to potential hazards (including reducing toxicity, (3) improved uses of matter and energy throughout the life cycle of the product and processes, and (4) maintaining economic efficiency and viability. Green engineering can an overarching framework for all design disciplines.

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