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Valid for year : 2011
 
TKMJ29 Resource Efficient Products, 6 ECTS credits.
/Resurseffektiva produkter/

For:   DPU   ENV   I   Ii   INN   M   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Mechanical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course will give the student an understanding of how to realize the potential for more resource-effective and thereby less environmentally-demanding products. This by taking the lifecycle perspective as a starting point and utilizing relevant design, material and production choices. Upon successful completion of the course, student should be able to:
  • Understand and describe the connection between our societyâ?Ts use of products and resources and environmental related problems.
  • Understand and describe basic concepts such as lifecycle perspective, environmental effect, sub-optimization, functional unit, sustainable development, eco-design, greenhouse effect and precautionary principle.
  • Use and understand methodological tools such as Disassembly Analysis, Environmental Effect Analysis, Eco Strategy Wheel, and checklists and guidelines for eco-design.
  • Understand the concepts of Life Cycle Analysis and interpret results from a Life Cycle Analysis.
  • Use and understand some general strategies for improving resource recycling from products.
  • Apply the courseâ?Ts content in the analysis of an existing or prospective product from resource efficiency and environmental perspectives. This will be motivated by general resource efficiency and environmentally-relative improvement suggestions. Further it will require the identification and analysis of basic energy-, material- and environmentally-related product requirements.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Admisision to master level studies in Environmental Engineering or similar

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
Instruction is given in the form of lectures and project work. Course grades are determined based on a written exam and a written report by each project group.
Course contents:
Review of overall concepts such as lifecycle perspective, environmental effect, sub-optimization, functional unit, system boundaries, sustainable development, eco-design, greenhouse effect and precautionary principle. Basic introduction to lifecycle analysis methodology. Choice of methods and tools for resource efficient product development, theory and practice of e.g. Disassembly Analysis, Environmental Effect Analysis, Eco Strategy Wheel, and checklists and guidelines for resource efficient products. Mandatory group project work where the students, given an existing or prospective product, apply theory and methodology from the course to analyze and provide motivation for general resource- and environmentally-relative improvement suggestions. This will include the identification and analysis of basic energy-, material- and environmentally-related product requirements
Course literature:
Compendium â?oResource Efficient Products 2008", IEI / Environmental Technology and Management
Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory wor
 3 ECTS
3 ECTS
 


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: niclas.svensson@liu.se
Examiner: Tomohiko Sakao

Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 11/05/2010