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:
- Understand 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
- Critically evaluate the prevailing concepts of sustainability
in currently practice across the three Sustainability Pillars;
environment, society and economy
- Understand 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
- Understand the principle of Circular Economy and how that
affects societal flows of resources
- Critically engage with the principles of life cycle assessment
(LCA) in practice by evaluating the outputs of several life cycle
assessments
- Evaluate the quantification of sustainability from a life cycle
assessment (LCA) in practice
- Engage with sustainability in practice, ie how companies can
work with sustainability for instance through their corporate
social responsibility and through their strategical goals
- Learn how to apply current state-of-the-art tools to quantify
sustainability, whilst considering the complex, interlinkage
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
17. november, 2022
