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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Challenges students to engage in engineering management for a wide range of social, environmental and economic aspects of a sustainable future. Decision-making strategies for shaping sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology and new Innovations are explored. A case study enables students to apply strategies for a sustainable future across the engineering system life cycle, from concept to implementation and operation.
Unit content
- Social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainable engineering projects
- Life-cycle approaches and sustainability metrics
- Sustainable technologies and innovations
- Planning and decision making
- Case studies
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | critically evaluate and reflect on social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainable engineering projects |
| 2 | apply evaluation tools for sustainable engineering practice decisions |
| 3 | identify and critically evaluate a range of emerging sustainable technologies |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically evaluate and reflect on social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainable engineering projects
- apply evaluation tools for sustainable engineering practice decisions
- identify and critically evaluate a range of emerging sustainable technologies
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.