Sustainable Urban Engineering @ UC

Grow Our Research Excellence

Read about awardees of the 2008/9 SUE Seed Grant competition

Read about awardees of the 2007/8 SUE Seed Grant competition

The Center for Sustainable Urban Engineering (SUE) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) was founded as a grass roots research thrust from within the College of Engineering (CoE) reaching out across disciplinary boundaries into the College of Arts and Sciences (CA&S), Design Architecture Art and Planning (DAAP), College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH), and the College of Medicine (CoM).

The requirements for faculty participating in SUE include a desire to excel in the scholarship of solving the challenges of modern urban centers and a willingness to recognize and leverage the best of strong disciplinary-based scholarship utilizing an interdisciplinary format.

SUE recognizes the Brundtland definition of sustainability as “… development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

SUE also recognizes the importance of triple bottom line accountability addressing financial as well as environmental and social implications of decision making. As a research thrust which has been led initially by engineering, SUE focuses upon the development of quantitative frameworks applied to a variety of temporal and spatial scales. A sustainable urban environment is not viewed as a static condition; rather SUE approaches the challenge of making metropolitan regions sustainable through time and space by quantifying trajectory and evaluating how decisions impact the trajectory of a metropolitan center in the future (Mayer et al., 2006). Thus, simulation and forecasting are critical quantitative components of SUE.

Questions? Contact Center for Sustainable Urban Engineering.
Room 765 Baldwin Hall; P.O. Box 210071
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0071, USA
(513) 556-3685; (513) 556-2599 (fax)

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