SEMINARS

Summer semester

The seminar clarifies how LCA should be implemented by modelling a product example with the GaBi software.

Lecturer: Dr. -Ing. Roland Meyer

Course language: German
Creditpoints (CP): 2
Semesterwochenstunden (SWS): 2

Link to the event at RWTHonline: Life Cycle Assessment (B.Sc.)

    • Learning basic concepts and methods for sustainability
    • Introduction on sustainability assessment for community and companies • Understanding differences between sustainability at Corporate and community levels
    • Understanding which portfolio of methods and tools are available for assessing sustainability performance at different levels
    • Methods and tools: Ecological Footprint, Global compact, Corporate Social Responsibility, Global Reporting Initiative

Lecturer: Dr. -Ing. Rose Nangah Mankaa

Course language: English
ECTS credits: 2
Semester week hours: 2

Link to the event at RWTHonline: Sustainablity Assessment (M.Sc.)

    • • Learning basic concepts on sustainability
    • Introduction on sustainability assessment of products 
    • Understanding differences between sustainability performance for the three dimensions of sustainability
    • Understanding which portfolio of methods and tools are available for assessing sustainability performance of products and their differences. • Methods and tools: Life cycle assessment, Social life cycle assessment and Life cycle costing

Lecturer: Univ. Prof. Dr. -Ing. Marzia Traverso

Course language: English
ECTS credits: 2
Semester week hours: 2

Link to the event at RWTHonline: Sustainablity Assessment (M.Sc.)

Winter semester

    • Introduction on sustainability (definition, concepts)
    • International and European initiatives / standards and strategies on sustainability (political efforts towards sustainable development)
    • Circular economy concept
    • Sustainability indicators
    • Stakeholder analysis
    • Sustainability in industry: strategy, targets, indicators, implementation, measurement, reporting
    • Sustainability in production
    • Sustainable consumption

Lecturers: Univ. Prof. Dr. -Ing. Marzia Traverso, Dr. -Ing. Rose Nangah Mankaa

Course language: English
ECTS credits: 2
Semester week hours: 2

Link to the event at RWTHonline: Seminar – Sustainability Strategies in Politics and Companies (M.Sc.)

For general issues and questions, please contact info@inab.rwth-aachen.de