Sustainable Engineering Design
offered by TU Delft

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397 acre campus
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Sustainable Engineering Design
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TU Delft
Overview

Develop the proficiency and expertise that employers are looking for with specialized training and professional education

Duration	12 weeks
Total fee	₹17,383
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Sustainable Engineering Design
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TU Delft
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Delft University of Technology

Sustainable Engineering Design
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TU Delft
Course details

Skills you will learn

Sustainability R Engineering Design

What are the course deliverables?

Master the concept and vision of the circular economy
Understand how businesses can create value by applying the CE principles
Learn "Design for R" strategies: reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling
Integrate life-cycle design into your skillset and your organization?s vision
Understand the strategic importance of raw material supply and conservation
Effectively balance value creation with industrial sustainability
Improve your strategic design skills to make better decisions

More about this course

In the first course, you will explore the basic concepts of the circular economy and their implementation from various perspectives: how businesses can create value by reusing and recycling products; how designers can come up with amazingly clever solutions; and how to apply systems thinking to the transition to the circular economy
You will learn more about strategies in circular product design (including reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling) and how to integrate lifecycle design both into your daily work and your organization?s vision
You will also receive tips and tricks to design accordingly and learn how to make better decision for current and future products designs

Sustainable Engineering Design
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TU Delft
Curriculum

Circular Economy: An Introduction

Engineering Design for a Circular Economy

Sustainable Engineering Design
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TU Delft
Faculty details

Ken Webster

Ken Webster is Head of Innovation at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in the UK. He is the author of The Circular Economy A Wealth of Flows (EMF May 2015) and Sense and Sustainability (Terra Preta 2009). His background is in economics and business education and education for sustainability.

David Peck

David Peck researches and teaches in the field of critical materials and circular design. He is a manager of the tri-partite university partnership Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability (CfS). The CfS has a focus on resources, circular and cities.

Ester van der Voet

Ester van der Voet is an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Department Industrial Ecology of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML). Within the field of Industrial Ecology, she specialises in methodology development: life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis, substance flow analysis, natural resource accounting, and indicator development.

Conny Bakker

Dr. Conny Bakker is a professor at the TU Delft, faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. She coordinates and teaches several courses in Sustainable Design and Circular Product Design. Her research field is Design for the Circular Economy, in particular the design and development of products that are used more than once (i.e. that have multiple lifecycles).