The Industrial Environmental Management graduate academic program trains environmental and business leaders to understand the relationship between economic development and environmental quality and then to apply this knowledge to optimize resources use in products, processes and services. The intellectual core of the IEM program is industrial ecology, an emerging field that allows us to study and implement the twin goals of economic development and environmental quality.

The Master's Program

Industrial Environmental Management is offered as part of the Master of Environmental Studies degree in a track within the advanced study area called "Environmental Policy and Management." The curriculum includes core courses in natural and social sciences and quantitative methods including a general exposure to industrial processes and pollution. These are followed by courses on industrial ecology, environmental and public health, a course on business concepts for environmental managers, and an individual project on topics chosen by students within industrial environmental management. Individual programs of study are based on an incoming student's education and work experience. Normally a two-year program, it is available also as a one-year program to selected applicants with extensive professional experience. Joint degree programs are offered with Yale's Law School, School of Management, and School of Epidemiology and Public Health.

The Doctoral Program

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree is conferred through the Graduate School of Yale University and the Doctor of Forestry and Environmental Studies (D.F.E.S.) through the School of Forestry and Environmental studies. Doctoral work is concentrated in areas of faculty research which, within the IEM program, is centered on enhancing and applying the concepts of industrial ecology. The program of study culminates with a dissertation that demonstrates the student's technical mastery of the field as well as the ability to do independent scholarly work and to formulate conclusions that may modify or enlarge previous

Executive Program

The Corporate Environmental Leadership Seminar (CELS) at Yale is a two-week executive course held each June at the School. It offers high-level, solution-oriented training in environmental management and policy. The curriculum includes a review of the basic disciplines important for environmental management-economics, law, environmental science, and policy-as well as an opportunity to link ideas offered in the Seminar with strategic issues raised by each participant‘s “leadership project.” The Seminar participants include industry experts; executives from a broad range of private businesses; government managers from state, federal, and international agencies; and members of nongovernmental organizations.

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