Life Cycle Assessment

3 credits · Graduate Programs

Concepts of life cycle assessment. Consideration of environmental and economic impacts from the extraction of resources to the disposal of unwanted residuals. Review and evaluation of tools and frameworks (e.g. process, input-output, hybrid life cycle assessment). Relative merits of various methods for interpreting and valuing the impacts. Examples of applications in environmental engineering and the energy industry. Antirequisite(s): Credit for Environmental Engineering 693 and Environmental Design 683.85 will not be allowed.