ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS
Environmental impact must be quantified systematically and rigorously in order to inform decision making, process improvement, and policy. Life cycle assessment will be utilized in a project-based framework to evaluate the environmental impacts of products and process across multiple environmental impact categories.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define a question to answer using life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 2. Determine the relevant goal and scope, and boundaries for a life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 3. Determine and quantify the relevant inputs and outputs of a product system or process Audience: Graduate 4. Determine the most relevant functional unit for a life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 5. Conduct a life cycle assessment on a product or process using appropriate software Audience: Graduate 6. Interpret a life cycle assessment on a product or process in order to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the system Audience: Graduate 7. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach. Audience: Graduate 8. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of selected term project topic and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define a question to answer using life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 2. Determine the relevant goal and scope, and boundaries for a life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 3. Determine and quantify the relevant inputs and outputs of a product system or process Audience: Graduate 4. Determine the most relevant functional unit for a life cycle assessment Audience: Graduate 5. Conduct a life cycle assessment on a product or process using appropriate software Audience: Graduate 6. Interpret a life cycle assessment on a product or process in order to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the system Audience: Graduate 7. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach. Audience: Graduate 8. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of selected term project topic and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027