Sustainable products and supply chains
Summary
The course is designed to provide a foundational understanding of sustainability principles and equip students with practical skills and tools to develop sustainable products and optimize supply chains.
Content
Content
Module 1: Introduction to sustainable products and supply chains
- Course introduction
- Introduction to sustainability frameworks
- Towards sustainable products & supply chains
Module 2: Sustainable products and supply chains
- Circular economy and decarbonization
- Managing products and supply chains in a changing world
- Addressing hard to abate and critical materials
Module 3: Quantifying the impacts
- Monetary flows and finance
- Product life cycle analysis and impacts
- Supply chain analytics for circular economy
Module 4: Communicating for systemic change
- Global issues on sustainability
- Change management & stakeholder engagement
- Business ethics
Module 5: Advanced Topics
- Modelling sustainability strategies
- Real world case studies
- Best practices
Keywords
Sustainability, Circular economy, Decarbonization, Products, Supply chains
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
None
Recommended courses
None
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Describe key concepts in sustainability
- Analyze the impacts of products and supply chains (P&SC)
- Propose strategies to decarbonize P&SC
- Construct sustainable P&SC initiatives
Transversal skills
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Evaluate one's own performance in the team, receive and respond appropriately to feedback.
- Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.
- Make an oral presentation.
- Take account of the social and human dimensions of the engineering profession.
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Take responsibility for environmental impacts of her/ his actions and decisions.
- Identify the different roles that are involved in well-functioning teams and assume different roles, including leadership roles.
Teaching methods
- Formal lectures
- Group activities
- Class discussions
- Hands-on exercises
- Project-based learning
- Games and simulations
- Guest lectures by leading academic and industry figuers
Expected student activities
Individual: Self-study, class discussions, assignments, simulations
In-group: In-class exercises, team case study project, video presentations, simulations
Dans les plans d'études
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Ecrit (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Sustainable products and supply chains
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Projet: 1 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: obligatoire