MSE481 : Designing Sustainable Products and Processes
Projects based on environmental sustainability. Project based teamwork. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA). Engineering economics. Environmental impact with emphasis on CO2 utilization. Identification of key technology drivers to reduce cost and environmental impact. Written and oral presentations of solutions.
Textbook: Production & Processing of Inorganic Materials: Evans/ De Jonghe
Course Topics:
- Materials in engineering design.
- Engineering economics, time value of money
- Depreciation, profitability, return on investment.
- Cost estimation
- Library/Technical and Economic Information Searching
- Patents and intellectual property
- Report writing
- Case histories in design
- Alternative processing
- Oral presentations
- Ethical, societal and legal aspects of design
Course Objectives:
- To teach students approaches to engineering design and the role of materials and their selection.
- To provide an overview of engineering economic principles and their consideration in design projects.
- To introduce technical and economic information searching procedures and their role in design.
- To provide an introduction to modern design procedures.
- To provide students with a methodology for preparing a project design, and then to present this result in a written and an oral report
- To include discussion of ethical, societal and legal issues which may arise in the design context.
Course Outcomes:
- Be able to problems on engineering economics involving time value of money and depreciation
- Be able to search and analyze patent information
- Demonstrate the ability to justify materials choices for engineering designs
- Be able to analyze and discuss cases in engineering ethics
- Working on a team with mentor, define, plan, an execute an engineering design project in MSE
- Be able to prepare a written report on the design project
- Be able to make an oral presentation on the design project.
Assessment Tools:
- Problem sets to test objectives #1-4
- Evaluation of design project
- Evaluation of written report for written communication
- Evaluation of oral presentation for oral communication