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Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan

Education

Two pathways in

Students and researchers come to the Center to work inside its projects. Educators and practitioners come to use what those projects produce.

Pathway 01

Join us

The Center sits within the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, where graduate students work alongside faculty and research staff on systems analysis projects across all five research areas.

  • Graduate study in sustainability science and engineering
  • Research assistantships inside active Center projects
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration across the university
Education at the Center

Pathway 02

Use our resources

Factsheets, publications and educational materials are public. They are written so a classroom, a newsroom or a policy office can use them without a specialist translator.

  • Factsheets summarizing a system in a few pages
  • Peer-reviewed publications and reports
  • Educational materials for teaching systems analysis
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Learning by systems

Start with the matrix, not the syllabus

The fastest way to understand what the Center teaches is to walk one system end to end, then look at where it touches the others.

Members of the Center for Sustainable Systems gathered together