Sustainable materials management
Owner: Dr Philip Shields
Number of students: 1
Formative Deadline: Friday W19
Learning Outcomes
Understanding the materials within your engineering design, how they are sourced, and the environmental impact they may have, is key to working out how you can address these issues to ensure the design is as sustainable as possible with a transparent and ethical supply chain.
Knowledge Requirements
For Knowledge, you should complete the “Sustainable Materials Management” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.
Application Requirements
Achieving the skill at application requires completion of the skill at Knowledge and additionally… The page should include a section entitled ‘Sustainable Materials Management’ in which you identify either a critical raw material or a hazardous material (one material only per skill claim) within your project or year 2 studies (200-500 words), and include: 1) A description of where the material exists within your project. 2) An explanation of why it has been used. 3) An explanation, including a citation from a reliable source, for why it is considered a hazardous or critical raw material. 4) A proposal for at least one engineering solution by which the use of this material can be made more sustainable. Alternatively, an explanation for why the properties of the material are unique and cannot be replaced. 5) You should ensure that your section is fully referenced using the IEEE style. 6) Each entry in the reference list should include a clickable link to the cited document.
Synthesis Requirements
Achieving the skill at Synthesis requires: 1) Completion of the requirements detailed at the Application level, and 2) The skill must be embedded in a wider independent project and the chosen material must be clearly relevant to the overall project and have significant potential impact to its sustainability.
Knowledge Opportunities
After the lecture W10
Application Opportunities
Project Week 2 W17