ME599 Life Cycle Assessment Winter Quarter 2008 Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30-11:50 (contact instructor for location) Syllabus & Lectures       Project Description  Data Sources and Impact Equivalency Factors UWME Design for Environment Homepage Description: The computational structure and data sources for environmental Life Cycle Assessment are presented and discussed.  Life Cycle Assessment is used to analyze materials, products, and services.  The analysis either identifies opportunities for improvements or selects a superior alternative on the basis of pollution prevention and resource conservation. Instructor: Joyce Smith Cooper, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (MEB 304) cooperjs@u.washington.edu Grading: To be based on your interim and final reports.  Credit will be given on the final report for improvements of interim sections.  0.1 points will be lost from the final grade for each day past any reporting deadline.  Reporting deadlines are listed on the syllabus. Resources: Textbook: Heijungs, R., S. Suh (2002) The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment, Kluwar Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, The Netherlands Standards: ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 Articles listed on the syllabus For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu