Duties of engineers and technologists often entail designing and implementing solutions to problems. It is their responsibility to be cognizant of the impacts of their designs on and thus, their accountability to society in general. They must also be aware of subsequent effects upon the environment. They need to be able to concurrently satisfy these often competing priorities as well as constraints specific to the technical challenges at hand. Responding to these contending forces are the growing fields of green engineering and sustainable engineering. Both of these areas encompass many concepts, ideas and tools all of which are essential for graduates to know and understand. Unfortunately, many degree programs do not offer this type of information to their students. It is true that modifying curricula can be challenging, especially as pressure mounts to teach the students more information but not extend their time at the university. Toward that end, the goal of this study is to discuss three key topics that can be readily infused into existing coursework with minimal disruption: raw materials, process efficiencies and wastes by products. The researchers have determined that these three themes are essential to any engineering field or application, whether discussing design, manufacturing, management and even service operations to name but a few. These concepts apply to the application of traditional engineering materials as well as organic and biological systems and they extend fully across the engineering spectrum from product conception to end-of-life. Indeed, these three topics are multidisciplinary in nature and have multiple dimensions to consider. In this study, we will discuss each of these topics in turn and how to infuse each of them into engineering and technology coursework (there are a variety of ways to successfully incorporate them into existing curricula). We will also provide several resources that educators can use when pursuing such an endeavor. Augmenting undergraduate and graduate instruction is a strategy that can reap profound rewards, not only because trained graduates will enter the workforce equipped with a greater knowledge base and skill set but bolstering curricula can raise awareness of these topics on many levels, ranging from the students themselves to the public at large.