Environmental impact of technical products, terms and examples; role of the engineer. Environmental impact of resource use and sustainable development goals.
Product development, roles, tasks and requirements from a company perspective and as the responsible engineer: management and operational perspective.
Environmentally conscious design: product life cycle, life cycle thinking, risk consideration and product safety, LCA, material and energy efficiency, lifetime, upgrade, repair, product and material consistency.
Methods for finding ideas and solutions: Method selection, examples.
Methods for evaluation in environmentally conscious design: method selection, examples.
