| CODE | ENR5104 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Sustainable Product Development | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit covers topics in environmental engineering that are relevant to product development, including the following: - Sustainable product development, life cycle thinking, new product design concepts, design for the environment procedures, tasks for the engineer/designer versus those of the environmentalist - green products. - Life cycle assessment (LCA) - a methodology for sustainable product development,environmental impact,simplifying LCA - case studies. - Waste minimisation and prevention - five business reasons for waste minimisation, profiting from waste, workshop approach to waste minimisation. - Drivers for sustainable development - laws and regulations - the environment protection act, the solid waste management plan - eco-labels - producer responsibility, packaging and packaging waste, electrical and electronic waste directive, integrated product policy - standards. - Materials and the environment, choice of materials based on environmental concerns include cleaner manufacture. - Pollution and manufacture, energy efficiency in production, air emissions and water pollution issues in manufacture. - EU initiatives to promote green products and cleaner production, ETAP – case studies. - The disassembly factory – recycling as a means of waste disposal. Study-unit Aims: To provide students with a deeper understanding of the environmental issues in product development and manufacture in order that they learn to develop commercially viable greener products and processes through sustainable engineering practices. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the relationship between sustainable development and product development; - Explain the process of Life Cycle Assessment; - List the relevant EU directives and regulations which are relevant to product development; - Explain the relationship between industrial production and the environment, and between materials and the environment. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Carry out a Life Cycle Assessment of a given product or products; - Improve the design of a product to reduce the impact of the product on the environment during its manufacture and use; - Select the best material for a given product in order to reduce the impact on the environment; - Improve the design of a given product in order to minimise the use of material and energy in its production; - Design the product for ease of disassembly to facilitate recycling. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Design for Environment – A guide to Sustainable Product Development, Joseph Fiksel, McGraw Hill, ISBN-13: 978-0071776226. - Green Manufacturing – Fundamentals and Applications, David Dornfeld, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-6016-0. - Guinee' Jeroen B. (ed.), Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment, Eco-Efficiency in In dustry and Science vol.7, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN1-4020-0557-1. - Kiely Gerard, Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill International Editions, ISBN 0 -07-116424-3. - Relevant EU Directives and Regulations, such as WEEE, ROHS, REACH. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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