Pittsburgh To Host Engineering Sustainability Conference.

WDUQ-FM Pittsburgh (4/11, Nootbaar) reported on its website, "More than 300 academicians, engineers, architects and designers will gather in Pittsburgh over the next two days to showcase innovations in sustainable design at the 2011 Engineering Sustainability conference." The event will focus on how sustainable design incorporates a wide array of disciplines, organizers said. "When you talk about sustainability and you are an architect or an urban planner you are looking at large link scale things; communities, cities and regions, and then we have folks that are looking at sustainability from a molecular design perspective or from a device perspective," said Eric Beckman, co-director at the University of Pittsburgh's Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. "Beckman says the event also looks at sustainable engineering at all stages of development."