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MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development

global challenges, engineering solutions
 

7th October 

Cradle to Cradle Design

Bill McDonough (William McDonough and Partners Author of “Cradle to Cradle”)

27th January Provisional 

Professor David Mackay, (Chief Scientific Advisor to Dept of Energy and Climate Change

17th February 

You must be joking: cities as a force for good in the Environment?

Professor Bruce Beck (University of Georgia)

24th February 

Cities of the Future 

Paul Brown (Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser & McKee Inc)

10th March Sustainability in building 

Professor David Strong (CEO, Inbuilt Ltd; Board Member of UK Green Building Council)

21st April 

Taming leviathan – dealing with (dis)integrated water management in England 

Professor Richard Ashley (Pennine Water Group, Sheffield University)

5th May 

Sustainability in action at UCSD: the campus as a living laboratory 

Professor Paul Linden (Director, Sustainability Solutions Institute; University of California San Diego)

DL2010

DL2010

 

Course Overview

Context

The need to engage in better problem definition through careful dialogue with all stakeholder groups and a proper recognition of context.

Perspectives

An ability to work with specialists from other disciplines and professional groups acknowledging that technical innovation and business skills also must be understood, nurtured and combined as precursors to the successful implementation of sustainable solutions.

Change

An understanding of mechanisms for managing change in organisations so future engineers are equipped to play a leadership role.

Tools

An awareness of a range of assessment frameworks, sustainability metrics and methodologies such as Life Cycle Analysis, Systems Dynamics, Multi-Criteria Decision making and Impact Assessment.