CHE5885 Principles and practices for sustainable development
Faculty of Engineering
CHE5885 Principles and practices for sustainable development is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Engineering, offered in 2020 in Semester 1 at Malaysia. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 1
- Malaysia
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2021 entry.
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Overview
This unit introduces the concept of sustainable development in engineering, involving environmental, economic and social considerations in the planning, development of a new product and implementation of a new or existing process.
This unit also ventures into systematic approaches to design sustainable processes and products by conducting lifecycle assessment, risk assessments and cost analysis. These themes will be developed in lectures, problem-based sessions and supported by an individual project work related to selected industrial processes or products.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Malaysia | On campus |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Apply ethical standards and sustainability principles in solving engineering problems
- 2
Apply principles of sustainable development to develop sustainable designs of products or processes
- 3
Analyse local legislations and schemes related to sustainable development and implementation of these schemes in sustainable design of products and processes
- 4
Predict the environmental impacts involved in the lifecycle of a product or process using lifecycle assessment
- 5
Conduct risk assessments and cost analysis to evaluate the sustainability of a process
Workload and teaching
3 hours lectures, 2 hours of practicals and 7 hours of private study per week.
Where it fits
CHE5885 is part of 2 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Associate Professor Chong Meng Nan
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Mark Banaszak Holl
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for CHE5885?
CHE5885 has no prerequisites.
When is CHE5885 offered?
In 2020, CHE5885 runs in Semester 1 at Malaysia.
Which majors and minors include CHE5885?
CHE5885 is part of Chemical engineering; and Energy and sustainability engineering.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Organisational unit
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 20202021