Overordnede kursusmål
This course provides the understanding and quantitative tools
needed by engineers to create engineering solutions for a
sustainable society within their own educational disciplines. The
students learn about terms, definition, and units related to
sustainability, the environmental, social and economic dimensions
of sustainability and the importance of geographical and temporal
scale when considering engineering solutions. Focus will be placed
on understanding sustainability and developing sustainable
solutions from an industrial perspective.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Describe and critically reflect on the environmental, social,
and economic considerations and challenges to creating ‘sustainable
engineering solutions’ in practice across multiple geographical and
temporal scales
- Explain the importance of a systemic perspective when assessing
the sustainability of all technology and practices considering the
current and future technological, environmental, social, and
economic landscape
- Describe the principle of Circular Economy and how that affects
societal flows of resources
- Critically evaluate sustainability in currently practice across
the three Sustainability Pillars; environment, society and
economy
- Critically engage with the principles of life cycle assessment
(LCA) in practice by evaluating the outputs of several life cycle
assessments
- Synthesize the quantification of sustainability from a life
cycle perspective in practice
- Illustrate sustainability in practice, i.e., how companies can
work with sustainability, for instance, through their corporate
social responsibility and through their strategic goals
- Apply current state-of-the-art tools to quantify sustainability
whilst considering the complex interlinkage of sustainability
challenges currently faced within climate change and the sources
impacting climate change, effects on human health and the
environment, effects on biodiversity of ecosystems, and the
scarcity of certain resources
- Analyze and quantify the sustainability of a chosen product or
service within their educational discipline through a group
assignment using the sustainability tools introduced during the
course
Kursusindhold
• Terms, definitions and units describing sustainability, impact
challenges to sustainable engineering solutions (Emission and
climate change, Impacts on human, environment, biodiversity in
ecosystems, scarcity of resources), social and economic dimensions
of sustainable development, circular economy (definitions, reasons,
and drivers), principle of life cycle assessments, quantitative
tools for evaluating sustainability.
Sidst opdateret
21. juni, 2023
