Engineering design for circular economy
Owner: Dr Melusine Pigeon
Number of students: 1
Formative Deadline: Friday W7
Learning Outcomes
Understand how to design a product that could be either reused, recycled, or repaired. And how its CO2 footprint has been reduced. Understand how value creation (product design) and value recovery (recycling) are interconnected. Recognise how different recycling, repairing or reusing technologies work and what their implications are for product design. Optimise the reusability, recyclability, repairability of electrical and electronic products. Understand the implications of future developments in design for the 4Rs.
Knowledge Requirements
For Knowledge, you should complete the “Engineering for Circular Economy” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.
Application Requirements
For Application, the page should include a section titled ‘Engineering design for the circular economy’ that links the following elements to a work or a project. Each element should be a sub-section with related title: 1) Which of the 4Rs has been investigated within the design process? And what technologies have been used to design the product? (50-100 words or 1 min audio/video) 2) What is the impact on the life cycle assessment of the work or project such as the CO2 footprint? (50-100 words or 1 min audio/video) 3) What is the monetary value created through this process? 4) Completion of the Moodle quiz (50-100 words or 1 min audio/video)
Synthesis Requirements
For Synthesis, the page should include a section titled ‘Engineering design for the circular economy” which includes: 1) The requirements for Application level but with: 2) The CO2 footprint of the devices thoroughly calculated for its full life cycle. 3) The quantified monetary impact of using the chosen Rs through the life cycle of the product.
Knowledge Opportunities
After the lecture W3
Application Opportunities
Project Week 1 W6