units
CHE6885
Faculty of Engineering
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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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 life cycle assessment, risk assessments and cost analysis. These themes will be developed in lectures, problem based sessions and supported by an individual student project work related to selected industrial processes or products.
On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
Continuous assessment: 70%
Examination (3 hours): 30 %
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit.
3 hours lectures, 2 hours of tutorials and 7 hours of private study per week.
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