Engineering for Sustainability (Summer School)
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Ciprian Cimpan | cic@igt.sdu.dk | SDU Life Cycle Engineering |
Mette Smølz Skau | mskau@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support |
Teachers
Name | Department | City | |
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Birgitte Lilholt Sørensen | bls@igt.sdu.dk | SDU Life Cycle Engineering | |
Henrik Wenzel | henrik.wenzel@igt.sdu.dk | SDU Life Cycle Engineering | |
Wu Chen | wuc@igt.sdu.dk | SDU Life Cycle Engineering |
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Name | Department | City | |
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Tina Carøe Sørensen | tcs@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support |
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Mandatory prerequisites
Students must have passed no less than 70 ECTS on their bachelor’s or
Bachelor of Engineering degree.
Learning objectives - Knowledge
- the history and development of global sustainability challenges (e.g., climate change, water shortage, food security, and energy supply) and policy frameworks/agendas (e.g., circular economy, green economy, bioeconomy, material and energy efficiency, urban sustainability, and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals);
- basic concepts, tools, and theories used in understanding and assessing the sustainability of growth and development as well as in environmental system analysis and industrial ecology, especially material flow analysis and life cycle assessment;
- environmental impacts related to societal production and consumption activities and sectors (e.g., electronic waste, buildings, and transportation sector);
- the system perspective of sustainable development, especially the linkages of different sustainability challenges (including food-energy-water nexus and material-energy nexus).
Learning objectives - Skills
- choose appropriate environmental system analysis tools for addressing given societal sustainability challenges;
- assess framework conditions for industry or societal production and consumption activities;
- describe/characterize specific material and energy flows for a given system/problem, identify their impacts on the environment, and explore drivers behind and mitigation strategies from a systems and engineering perspective.
Learning objectives - Competences
- become aware of core sustainability challenges of modern societies and the potentials and limitations of engineering knowledge in addressing those challenges;
- start using system thinking and system approaches for solving complex problems and communicate the results with stakeholders.
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The examination is based on an overall assessment of:
- Attendance (80%).
- Group work based report handed in before/on the last day.
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Additional information
Please note that registration for this elective course is binding. However, we recommend you apply for de-registration of Summer School courses if you do not pass your exams in June, leaving you to register for re-exams in August. Apply by filling out the form “Application of Exemption from the Deadline for Registration or De-registration for Courses” here: https://spoc.sdu.dk/form/4153/view.
If you need to pass mandatory subjects from the 5th semester of your bachelor's programme, you cannot register for the summer course as a master's elective, as you can only take master's electives once your bachelor's degree has been completed.
Students who have taken this course as part of their bachelor’s degree are not allowed to register for the course as part of their master’s degree.
Enrollment is limited to 20 students. If more applicants than places, applicants who meet the mandatory requirements are prioritised according to the below selection criteria:
- Students from SDU-TEK who need this specific summer course or 5 ECTS electives in order to graduate
- Students from SDU-TEK and SDU-NAT provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes
- Other students from SDU-TEK with preapproval of credit transfer
- Other students from SDU with preapproval of credit transfer
Note: If further selection criteria are needed this will be based on a first-come-first-served basis.