Description
Objectives
By the end of the course students must have a clear notion of which are relevant environmental issues, as well as concepts, tools and instruments for environmental management in industrial processes, from a life-cycle perspective, in economic, environmental and social terms.
Syllabus
- Industry and Environment - relationships, benefits, conflicts. 2) Sustainability and the sustainable development goals. 3) Environmental management systems and ISO standards. 4) Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
- Life Cycle Costing 6) Corporate Social responsibility and social life cycle assessment 7) Environmental management in the industry and linkage to industrial
Prerequisites
Chemistry and operations management.
Cross Competence Component
Innovative Critical Thinking - 10% (students have to identify a problem, propose an innovative solution to solve the problem and define how to implement this solution in practice) Interpersonal Skills - 9% (oral presentation, intra-group teamwork assessment) Global Citizenship - 2% (ability to deal with issues related to sustainable development goals, which are not directly related to their daily living problems) Information and media literacy - 5% (Students write their own statement problem and have to be able to obtain, select and intrude about the information they collect)
Laboratorial Component
Lab classes of SimaPro.
Programming And Computing Component
Modeling of life cycle systems in SimaPro (software for environmental impact assessment).
Ethical Principles
All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.