Engineering for Sustainability (Summer School)

• 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 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).

• choose appropriate environmental system analysis tools for addressing given societal sustainability challenges;
• assess framework conditions for a specific 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.

• 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.

Please note that registration for this course is binding

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 and SDU-NAT provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes
  
• Other students from SDU-TEK
• Other students from SDU-NAT
• Other students from SDU

Du vil få besked om, hvorvidt du har fået en plads på kurset, når tilmeldingsperioden er slut. Alle pladser vil være fordelt i første halvdel af juni måned. Du vil få nærmere besked om, hvordan du vælger et andet valgfag, hvis du ikke får en plads på kurset.