This course will provide senior undergraduate and graduate students the conceptual, methodological, and scientific bases to quantify and reduce the impact of engineering decisions on the environment, with a focus on applying life cycle analysis (LCA) to support the material choice, product/process design, and manufacturing/engineering decisions. Main topics covered include concept of life cycle thinking, computational structure of LCA, process and economic input-output based LCA, LCA software demonstration, LCA case studies, environmental product declaration, and recent development and advanced topics in LCA.
Course Units
3
Instructor(s)
- Hongyue Jin