Sustainability and Design for Environment

ME415, ENVIR 415, and CEE 495

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Winter 2008 Syllabus

 

Lecture and Discussion Topics (links to pdf lectures)

Required and Supplemental Reading

Week 1: Course introduction and personal choices

• Motivations and examples of environmental impact

• Product life cycles

• Eco-footprints

• Decision making

(lecture in pdf)

Required:

1. Wackernagel, M., et al. “Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(14) (2002) p. 9266 – 9271

2. USEPA Unit Conversions, Emission Factors, and Other Reference Data (2004)

3. Kurk F, McNamara C, “Better by design: An innovation guide” Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. St. Paul, MN (2006)

4. Saaty, T. “How to make a decision: The Analytic Hierarchy Process” European Journal of Operational Research 48 (1) (1990) p. 9 - 26

5. Costanza, R., et al. “The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital.” Nature. 387 15 May (1997)

Supplemental:

a.       U.S. Dept. of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

b.       International Energy Agency

c.       Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

d.     Recycling calculator

Week 2: Industrial facilities and the environment

• Regulations

• Pollution Prevention and Environmental Management Systems

(lecture in pdf)

• Jan 16: P2, EMS, and DFE activities at Boeing (guest lecture by Brenda Fukai-Allison)

Required:

1. U.S. EPA “An Organizational Guide to Pollution Prevention”

2. U.S. EPA “The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Factors to consider when using TRI Data”

3. U.S. EPA “Integrated Environmental Management Systems: Implementation Guide”

Supplemental:

a. U.S. EPA's Pollution Prevention Program

b. U.S. EPA's Environmental Management System information

c. U.S. EPA's Toxic Release Inventory 

Week 3: more on industrial facilities

• Jan 21: MLK day- no class

(lecture in pdf, updated Jan 27)

• Modeling manufacturing processes

• Design for Energy Efficiency

• Mass Flow and Exergy Analysis

Required:

1. Williams, K. et al. “The 1.7 Kilogram Microchip: Energy and Material Use in the Production of Semiconductor Devices” U.S. EPA

2. Gutowski, T. et al. “A Thermodynamic Characterization of Manufacturing Processes” IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Environment, Orlando, FL, USA May 7, 2007

3. U.S. EPA's Nonroad User Guide. U.S. EPA (specifically, read the introduction through page 1-8 and skim Appendices C, D, and E)

4. Overcash M. et al, “Methodology for Developing Gate-to-Gate Life Cycle Inventory Information.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 5 (3)(2000) p. 153 - 159

Week 4: Products and the environment

• Design for X

• Indicators and metrics

(lecture in pdf updated Feb 4)

• Recycling issues

(lecture in pdf added Feb 4)

Required:

1. Kuo, T. et al, “Design for manufacture and design for ‘X’: concepts, applications, and perspectives.” Computer & Industrial Engineering 41 (2001) p. 241 - 260

2. U.S. EPA (2006) Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2006.

3. NEW (added 1/28): Bare, et al. (2003) TRACI The Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6, 49-78  

Supplemental:

a. Environmental Defense (1999) Design for Recyclability Criteria.

b. U.S. EPA (1997) Converting to the standard recycling rate.

Week 5: more on products and the environment

• Case Study: Waste Electronics

• Feb 6: The Take-it-Back Network and the WA Electronic Product Recycling Law  (guest lecture by Lisa Sepanski)

Required:

1. Cui, J. Forssberg, E. “Mechanical recycling of waste electronic and electronic equipment: a review” Journal of Hazardous Materials (2003) p. 243-263

2. European Computer Manufacturers Association: ECMA (2004) Product-related Environmental Declaration, Technical Report TR/370.

 Week 6: more on products and the environment

• Design for Dissassembly

• Remanufacturing

(lecture in pdf)

• Feb 11: Product disassembly lab to be held on the bottom floor of the Engineering Anex

 

Required:

1. Kroll, E., Hanft, T. “Quantitative Evaluation of Product Disassembly for Recycling” Research in Engineering Design 10 (1998) p. 1 – 14

2. Bras B, Hammond R. “Towards Design for Remanufacturing – Metrics for Assessing Remanufacturability” Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reuse, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 5 – 22, Nov. 11 – 13, 1996

Week 7: more on products and the environment

• Feb 18 President's day- no class

• Life Cycle Management

(lecture in pdf updated Feb 24)

• Reverse Engineering

 

Required:

1. Otto, K. Wood, K. “Product evolution: A reverse engineering and resdesign methodology.” Research in Engineering Design 10 (1998) p. 226 - 243  

2. Allen D., Rosselot K, “Chapter 13: Life-Cycle Concepts, Product Stewardship and Green Engineering.”

3. Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute (2007) EIO-LCA: More detailed information about the method.

4. UWME EcoScores (2008) Life Cycle Design Metrics

Supplemental:

a. Pré Consultants (1999) "The Eco-indicator99: A damage oriented method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Manual for Designers"

Week 8: more on products and the environment

 • Case Studies: Buildings

(lecture in pdf)

 

and Automobiles

(lecture in pdf)

Required:

1. Sullivan, J., et al. (1998) “Life Cycle Inventory of a Generic US Family Sedan Overview of Results USCAR AMP Project,” Society of Automotive Engineers, 982160

2. US Green Building Council (2002a) LEED Green Building Rating System For New Construction & Major Renovations, Version 2.1. 

3. Scheuer, C.W., G. A. Keoleian (2002) Evaluation of LEED Using Life Cycle Assessment Methods. (there is a lot here, skim the document and we will discuss in class)

Supplemental (added Feb 27, thought you would be interested)

a. Spitzley, D.V., D.E. Grande, T. Gruhl, G.A. Keoleian and J.C. Bean (2004) Automotive Life Cycle Economics and Replacement Intervals

Week 9: Corporate and government choices

 • Sustainability indicators

• Corporate Responsibility

• Industrial Ecology

(lecture in pdf)

Required:

1. Knoepfel, I. “Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index: A Global Benchmark for Corporate Sustainability” Corporate Environmental Strategy 6 (2001) 6 – 15

2. Porter M, Kramer M. “Strategy & Society: The link between competitive advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility” Harvard Business Review December 2006

3. Lifset, R., Graedal T. “Industrial ecology: goals and definitions”

NOW Supplemental (updated 3/5)

a. Burnett, J. “City buildings – Eco-labels and shades of green!” Landscape and Urban Planning 83 (2007) p. 29 -38

Week 10: Project presentations

 

 

 

For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu