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)
12775 Life cycle impact assessment modelling in the context of planetary boundaries 5 point June
41636 Design for Circular Economy 5 point January
42014 Environmental and Resource Economics 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)

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.