Environmental Sustainability Assessment - Specialization
Environmental Sustainability Assessment
Environmental engineers specialising in environmental sustainability assessment have a holistic understanding of sustainable development in society and businesses. Students will acquire generic and specialised skills and knowledge to put numbers on sustainability from climate change to human and ecological health, to effectively support decision- and policy-making processes across technology domains.
Environmental Engineering students wishing to obtain a specialization in Environmental Sustainability Assessment must complete at least 30 ECTS from within the following group of courses:
| 12132 | LCA Modelling of Waste Management Systems | 5 | point | January |
| 12145 | Terrestrial Ecology for Engineers | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 12237 | Chemicals in the environment | 10 | point | Spring F1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12238 | Priority Organic Pollutants - Transport, Distribution and Transformation | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12773 | Advanced life cycle assessment methods | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 12774 | Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts | 5 | point | June |
| 42014 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
The following discontinued courses also fulfill the requirements for the specialization:
| 12142 | Industrial Ecology | 5 | point | Autumn E2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 42274 | Sustainable Development Indicators and Sustainable Urban Development | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42275 | Sustainable Urban Development: a project oriented approach | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 42349 | Sustainability challenges I, Systems thinking | 7.5 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 42350 | Sustainability challenges II, Specific systems and capstone project | 7.5 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 42375 | Advanced life-cycle assessment | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 42377 | Life Cycle Management in industry | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
Specializations are merely recommended ways of choosing the courses in the curriculum. Applicants are not admitted to a specialization but to the programme and it is possible to choose among all the courses in the curriculum following the directions given. However, if a specialization has been fulfilled the title of the specialization may be added to the diploma.