AVS 51st International Symposium
    Technology for Sustainability Thursday Sessions
       Session TS-ThM

Invited Paper TS-ThM3
Engineering, Business, and the Next Environmental Frontier: Will Sustainability Solutions Self-Assemble?

Thursday, November 18, 2004, 9:00 am, Room 303D

Session: Sustainable Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, and Environmental Policy
Presenter: S.J. Skerlos, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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This presentation highlights the central role of business and engineering in the Next Environmentalism. Characteristics of sustainable design and principles of green engineering are discussed in the context of numerous manufacturing examples in the automotive and consumer electronics industries. Such examples are also utilized to demonstrate incentives and inhibitors to accelerated corporate adoption of sustainability practices.