ENGR440-21SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2021 start

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 29 November 2021
End Date: Sunday, 13 February 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 12 December 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 21 January 2022

Description

Special Topic

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the life cycle perspective from the ISO14040 framework including the process of LCA, system boundaries, impact categories, and inventory model (LCI).
400 level: Understand the principles and analysis process. 600 level: Critically evaluate the journal literature for the methods and findings that others have published.
2. Develop competency in using software for LCA (OpenLCA) 400 level: carbon calculations
600 level: other environmental impacts
3. Understand emissions to land, air, and water generally, and more specifically the Maori worldview of waste.
4. Apply LCA software to a product or process.
400 level: a well defined product with a non-complex lifecycle
600: more complex product or process, with reference to the literature
5. Evaluate findings from LCA. Critique the model. Recommend implications for practitioners/industry.
6. Document method and results, Communicate findings in a professional manner for a technically literate audience.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

Dirk Pons

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $986.00

International fee $5,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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