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<![CDATA[Industrial Ecology: Moving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders]]>
The Spring 2010 issue of Society
of Women Engineers magazine featured an article titled “Industrial Ecology:
Moving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders.”
In the article, Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor
of Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
discusses how a bag of potato chips illustrates the far-reaching implications
of industrial ecology.
Factors like cost and consumer appeal affect most decisions
about making and buying products. Industrial ecology introduces another
perspective. A bag of potato chips, according to Thomas, involves decisions
about growing potatoes, the materials to make the bag, and where the waste from
the potatoes and bag goes. She clarified, "Consumption and
production affect not just the immediate use of products but have a past and a
future. Products do not appear out of nothing and they do not disappear
when we throw them away."
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The Spring 2010 issue of Society
of Women Engineers magazine featured an article titled "Industrial
Ecology:
Moving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders."
In the article, Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor
of Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering,
discusses how a bag of potato chips illustrates the far-reaching
implications
of industrial ecology.]]>
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