Overordnede kursusmål
This course provides the understanding and quantitative tools
needed by engineers and scientists 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
- Critically evaluate sustainability in current practice across
the three Sustainability Pillars; environment, society and
economy
- Analyze and quantify, from a life cycle perspective, the
sustainability of a chosen product or service within their
educational discipline through a group assignment using the
sustainability tools introduced during the course
- 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, and the scarcity of certain resources
- Explain the uncertainties associated with sustainability
assessments
- 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 main components of an absolute environmental
sustainability assessment
- Critically engage with the principles of life cycle assessment
(LCA) in practice by evaluating the outputs of several life cycle
assessments
- Describe the principle of Circular Economy and how that affects
societal flows of resources
Kursusindhold
• Terms, definitions and units describing sustainability, impact
challenges to sustainable engineering solutions (Emission and
climate change, Impacts on human, environment, scarcity of
resources), social and economic dimensions of sustainable
development, absolute environmental sustainability assessment,
circular economy (definitions, reasons, and drivers), principle of
life cycle assessments, quantitative tools for evaluating
sustainability.
Sidst opdateret
09. oktober, 2024
