Solving for Carbon Neutrality
Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, led by instructors Julie Newman and Tim Gutowski, engaged students in project-based learning with the campus as a test bed for ideas.
Offered in Spring 2018 - Spring 2023
With a focus on designing solution scenarios for MIT for the short and long term, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, led by instructors Julie Newman (Director of Sustainability and DUSP lecturer) and Tim Gutowski (Professor of Mechanical Engineering), engages students in project-based learning with the campus as a test bed for ideas. Each semester the course is offered, a cohort of students collaboratively develop and present crafted solutions which include a range of how to reduce MIT's emissions including through carbon capture for Scope 1 and 2 emissions and better tracking and reducing both commuting and business travel emissions, classified as Scope 3.
![Julie Newman, director of sustainability at MIT, says the final project for course 2.S999 “uses the campus as a test bed for engaging and exposing students to the complexity of solving [for] global issues in their own backyard.”Photo: Ken Richardson](/sites/default/files/styles/large_700x493/public/article/image/mit-campus-reuter-A1.png?h=59271ac8&itok=8mmxbMX6)