The course addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address global challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a technological perspective. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The course aims to provide a tool box for supporting sustainable manufacturing practices to assist manufacturing companies reduce inputs, waste and costs, improve efficiencies, increase productive performance, achieve greater competitiveness. The course encourages an holistic system perspective integrating social, environmental, economical, and technological factors.
Course slides presented during classes
Assignments on industrial cases
Articles reading
Topic 1 – Cultural awareness Topic 2 – Business Models for Industrial Sustainability Topic 3 – Eco-design and Life Cycle Assessment Topic 4 – Industrial Symbiosis Topic 5 – Industrial Sustainability and Sustainable Manufacturing toolbox Topic 6 – Simulation and sustainability Topic 7 – Industry 4.0 for sustainability Topic 8 – Global Manufacturing evolution and Factories of the Future
J. Randers, 2052, Edizioni Ambiente, 2012 Pauli G., Blue Economy, Report to Club of Rome, 2010 (ITA or ENG version)
Graedel, T.E., Allenby, B.R., Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering, PEARSON, 2010
McDonough, Braungart M, Cradle to cradle, Northpoint press, 2002
Hawken, P., Lovins, A.B,., Lovins, L.H., Natural capitalism: the next industrial revolution. 2nd Ed., Routledge, 2005
Ricevimento: Da concordare settimanalmente col docente via mail.
CHIARA MANDOLFINO (Presidente)
FLAVIO TONELLI (Presidente)
PIETRO GIRIBONE
ENRICO LERTORA
http://www.politecnica.unige.it/index.php/orario-e-calendario-delle-lezioni
Assignment + oral examination
Evalution criteria:
Assignment given to a workgroup. Discussion of the assignment for each single student. The assignment weights for 40% of the course mark. Class attendance and participation 20%. Oral discussion 40%.