The Future: Engineering for Sustainability
(2016, original release: 2015)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1198590
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In Process Record

Look beyond recycling to the higher goal of sustainability. Then close the course by considering the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Caused by inadequately pruned trees and a software bug, this cascading sequence of infrastructure failures holds important lessons for the world of everyday engineering

Title from title frames

Film

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2015

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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