This course will cover sustainability issues for industry, such as techniques for environmental conscious product design and sustainable product-service development. The syllabus will include life-cycle analysis (LCA) based on ISO14000 standards, end-of-life product management considerations (recycling, remanufacture, and reuse), and carbon emission issues such as global warming potential and ecological/carbon footprint, and cleaner production technologies.

Students will be able to:

1. apply international standards to undertake product life-cycle analysis
2. determine the energy needs and carbon footprint for product development and manufacturing
3. design a manufacturing process using cleaner production technologies
4. develop an end-of-life product strategy and integrate this strategy into the preliminary product development stage

Problem Sets (20%); Group project (30%); Final exam (50%)

Weekly workload comprised od lectures and linked activities (2 hours), tutorial (1 hour), quizzes (1 hour), project work (3 hours), self-directed study (3 hours).

ENGN8100 Introduction to Systems Engineering

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