UWME DFE Lab Research Initiatives

• The Advancement of Life Cycle Assessment

  • Defining Functional Units and Reference Flows

  • Sustainability Indicators and LCA

  • Challenges for Reducing the Impact of Materials Flows in the US

  • Displaying LCA Results using GIS

  • Life Cycle EcoScores for US design

  • LCA Database Projects Website (updated)

  • Life Cycle Assessment Practitioner Survey (new)

• Life Cycle Assessment Technology Assessments

  • Aircraft Aluminum and Composites

  • BioProducts

    • BioEnergy IGERT

    • California Forest Biomass to Energy

    • Washington State Forest Biomass to BioProducts

  • Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

• Management of Environmental Design Information

  • Developing and using environmental design requirements 

  • Use of LCA for the assessment of emerging technologies in automotive design

  • Material selection in automotive design

  • Uncertainty in Design for Environment

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