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The doctorate program in sustainability is the first program in the world to focus on sustainable production. The program seeks to advance research and education in alternative-energy development, sustainable design, green product development, industrial ecology, and pollution prevention.

The program’s curriculum emphasizes sustainable production systems, which create goods and services using processes that are non-polluting; conserving of energy and natural resources; economically viable; and safe for workers, communities, and consumers. Coursework and research take a systems level and interdisciplinary approach to solving seemingly intractable sustainability problems.

Students in the program will have the opportunity to work with multidisciplinary faculty and researchers in numerous research centers, including the institute’s National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery, the Center for Sustainable Production, the Center for Sustainable Mobility, the Systems Modernization and Sustainment Center, the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, and the NanoPower Research Labs..

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http://www.sustainability.rit.edu/degree_info.html

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