standpoint. Membership is open to any cadet at the
Academy and club officers are elected by the member-
ship. One of the first actions addressed by this club
was improving recycling during the busy Graduation
Week when cadets are moving out of the barracks.
By thinking through the types of waste streams gen-
erated, appropriate options for recycling electronics,
clothing and furniture were put into place and publi-
cized to cadets. These actions resulted in less material
being thrown in the trash and showcase the impact
this club can have on future activities at West Point.
Environmental Engineering Sequence cadets
The actions and steps described so far document
how at the broadest level West Point is seeking to pro-
mote an environmental stewardship ethic in each of
its 1000 plus annual graduates. These procedures de-
scribe the minimum exposure to environmental issues
a cadet will have during his or her time at West Point.
Some cadets, however, will have deeper exposures
depending on their academic choices.
For example, all non-engineering majors are re-
quired to choose a three course engineering sequence
in order to learn the engineering design process. The
Academy offers seven different three course engineer-
ing sequences, and each sequence is geared towards
fulfilling the Academy’s Engineering and Technol-
ogy goal for its graduates. These goals include sub-
statements like: graduates can in an environment of
uncertainty and change, identify needs that can be ful-
filled via engineered solutions; graduates can define
a complex technological problem accounting for its
social, economic and political dimensions; graduates
can apply mathematics, basic science and engineer-
ing science to model and analyze a physical system.