Sustainability: Life Cycle

Catalog description

This course focuses on engineering concepts and environmental concerns in environmental and resource life cycle assessment (LCA) as per ISO 14040/14044. It overviews the framework, methods and some tools for LCA on products, processes or infrastructure. Topics include the principles of LCA, investigation of various environmental impacts and indicators and resources for life cycle inventory. the course aims to encourage systems thinking and to facilitate life cycle techniques to students' individual research topics.