Engineering Sustainability
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MMME3105 | Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering | 3 | 20 | Autumn Malaysia |
- Code
- MMME3105
- School
- Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn Malaysia
Summary
An intermediate module covering the key environmental and sustainability issues of relevance to energy supply and use, materials consumption, and product design/manufacture. Topics include:
1) Drivers for sustainability, including patterns of energy use, material consumption, waste generation, and associated environmental impacts in UK and globally.
2) Factors influencing the availability of non-renewable and renewable energy and material resources.
3) Principles for the efficient use of energy resources including energy use in buildings, heat and power generation, and heat recovery systems.
4) Life cycle assessment of engineering activities, with focus on greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, their impacts, and mitigation measures.
5) Economic analysis of investments in energy savings, material substitution, product design, and value recovery from end-of-life products; Cost-benefit analysis incorporating environmental externalities; and the role of government regulations in influencing business decisions.
Target Students
Students on any degree course who have a basic knowledge of maths and physics. NOTE: Erasmus/Socrates/Visiting students MUST take any relevant exams for this module in Nottingham Malaysia at the appropriate time with all other students in the cohort. Available to JYA/Erasmus students.
Classes
- Two 2-hour lectures each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Exam (2-hour)
Educational Aims
This module provides students with an awareness of the world resources and use of energy and material resources, factors affecting their patterns of consumption, and their environmental impacts. The economics and technologies of energy and materials supply, product manufacture, and waste disposal will be examined. It will give students an understanding of key principles to evaluate the potential for emerging opportunities to cost-effectively address environmental concerns of current practices."Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• LO1 – Recognise the importance of energy and materials resources and the need to conserve them. AHEP 4: M1;EAC: PO1
• LO2 – understand the environmental impact of energy supply, materials production and manufacturing, and the current and emerging routes to reduce the environmental impact of these activities. AHEP 4: M2; EAC: PO2
• LO3 – appreciate the importance of design and material selection to the overall environmental burden of a product. AHEP 4: M7; EAC : PO7
• LO4 – critically analyse product and energy systems and be able to identify and evaluate sources of inefficiency and opportunities to recover value from waste streams. AHEP 4: M7; EAC: PO7
Conveners
- Dr Novita Sakundarini