MIT OpenCourseWare
Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability
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- Instructor
- Prof. Dennis McLaughlin
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 6 problem sets · 2 exams · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 15 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 1.020 Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability, Spring 2008, Prof. Dennis McLaughlin — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
14 files
- Introduction, Mass Balance, Everglades Download
- Chemical Kinetics, Dechlorination Download
- Population Modeling, Pesticide Impact Download
- Closed Cycles, Nutrient Enrichment Download
- Networks, Traffic Modeling Download
- Basic Thermodynamic Concepts, Building Energy Download
- Radiative Energy Transfer, Building Energy Download
- Open System Thermodynamics, Heat Discharge Download
- Mass Transport, Diffusion, Air Quality Download
- Discounting, Building Energy Revisited Download
- Economic Optimization, Derived Demand, Irrigation Download
- Derived Supply, Equilibrium, Groundwater Pumping Download
- Multiple Objectives, Pareto Optimality Download
- Life Cycle Assessment -- Concrete Production Download
Assignments
7 files
- Problem Set 1 – Salination in Irrigated Agriculture Download
- Problem Set 2 – Species Competition Download
- Problem Set 3 – Thermal analysis for a small house Download
- Problem Set 4 – MATLAB Practice Download
- Problem Set 5 – Particulate transport Download
- Problem Set 6 – Resource Allocation Download
- Meterological data Download
Exams
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Dennis McLaughlin, 1.020 Ecology II: Engineering for Sustainability, Spring 2008.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2008 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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