Course "Environmental Life Cycle Assessment - Life Cycle Engineering - Design for Environment"

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 “Application of the Life Cycle Engineering”) in room V9.02 between 9:45 and 11:15 a.m. The first course takes place on the 21st of October 2009.

Course documents

Before the start of the course you can download the course documents here.

Download: Course Documents “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment – Life Cycle Engineering – Design for Environment”

[The documents are password protected, which you receive during the course]

Course Objectives and Contents

When materials and methods in the industry are compared, there appear problems regarding the optimization and assessment under technical, economical and ecological aspects. The objective of the course is to show the Life Cycling Engineering as method to solve these problems.

• Overview of the most important environmental policy tools and their application in the industry as well as outlining of these instruments and the Life Cycling Engineering

• Introduction into the methodology of Life Cycling Engineering according to the standard norms DIN ISO 14040 and 14044 (Live Cycle Inventory Analysis and Life Cycle Impact Assessment etc.)

• Extension of the purely ecological aspect and the technical, economical and social dimension up to the Life Cycling Engineering

• The further development of this method to a Design for Environment (DfE) – Concept will be shown by means of a chosen case study.

Practical Training

• Realization of the Life Cycling Engineering methods by means of a case study

• Implementation in the software GaBi 4

The practical training takes place in a block (2 days) at the end of the semester.