Course "Application of the Life Cycle Engineering"
Winter semester WS 09/10
1 hour per week course
1 hour per week PC-practical training (optional)
The course will be held each 2nd Wednesday (rotating with the lecture „Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Life Cycle Engineering – Design for Environment”) in room V9.02 between 9:45 and 11:15 a.m. The first course takes place on the 4th of November 2009.
Course documents
Subsequently to each course the course documents will be available under the following link.
Also the current course manuscript (will be updated with each course) can be downloaded here:
Download: Course Documents “Application of the Life Cycle Engineering”
[The documents are password protected, which you receive during the course]
Course Objectives and Contents
During this course the enrolled students learn the basics of the Life Cycle Engineering method and its application. They should be able to assess and classify the environmental impacts of the material and process choice in the product development. One should be also competent in integrating these impacts in the product development. The Life Cycle Engineering method is applied in the context of corresponding case studies. In this way the appliance and practical use of the method are shown, like quantification of environmental impacts in order to identify and to assess weak points and improvement potentials in the whole life cycle of products, processes and services. In practice these analyses are used to support decisions when choosing materials and processes. Thus the basics of the method are transferred and by means of practical case studies applied and enlarged upon.
This course addresses to engineering students. By means of this course they are enabled to evaluate environmental impacts of the material choice in the product development.
