Life Cycle Analysis and Cost for Sustainability G

Course aim

To provide postgraduate engineering students with fundamental concepts of sustainability and sustainable development issues in engineering practices, to introduce students techniques for modelling resource flows in the life cycle of a product/system and cost-benefit analysis, and to prepare them with knowledge and skills to identify, assess, manage and improve the whole-of-life economic and environmental performance of products and services.

Course content

The content of this course covers the topics of sustainability in product and service development, eco-efficiency, resource efficiency, life-cycle processes and modelling, input-output analysis, life-cycle environmental assessment, value chains, life-cycle costs, activity-based costing, risks and uncertainties, decision making tools, and product life-cycle management strategies and cases.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Group Major Assignment ¿ Case studies on life-cycle assessment and costing (in the last third of the study period)., Group Small Assignment - Computer practice on Life-cycle modelling (in the second third of the study period), Individual Assignment - Literature Review on selected topics of engineering sustainability and life-cycle strategies., Tutorial and practical exercises

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.