Sustainable Design Engineering
Module Leader
Dr Marco Aurisicchio
m.aurisicchio@imperial.ac.uk
More than ever, designing for sustainability is fundamental to design engineering practice. This module reinforces the foundations of knowledge and skills with methodologies and methods developed in year 1, and through analysis of a key challenge for sustainability, introduces specific principles and methods for sustainable design. Validated design engineering concepts for improving the envionmental impact of the analysed situation are developed and presented.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be better able to:
Sustainable development
Linear and circular economies
Sustainable design:
Sustainable product design
Strategies and principles to reduce impact
Service design process models
Product-service systems
Sustainable design standards
Sustainable materials and manufacturing:
Case studies of sustainable materials applied to design
Design for X methods:
Systems thinking
Design for manufacture
Design for assembly and disassembly
Design for lifecycle
Design for reuse, remanufacture, recycling
Design for energy minimisation
Life cycle assessment
Aesthetics and form:
Aesthetic of sustainable products
Aesthetic of imperfection
- Explain important sustainability issues in the design process
- Analyse a product and related system in the context of sustainability principles
- Select and apply appropriate methods to design for sustainability
- Develop a novel and sustainable solution in response to environmental analysis
- Prototype a concept of a sustainable system using models and videos
- Communicate sustainable design engineering concepts and detail designs using models, freehand sketches, CAD solid model, and prototypes
Description of Content
Sustainable development:Sustainable development
Linear and circular economies
Sustainable design:
Sustainable product design
Strategies and principles to reduce impact
Service design process models
Product-service systems
Sustainable design standards
Sustainable materials and manufacturing:
Case studies of sustainable materials applied to design
Design for X methods:
Systems thinking
Design for manufacture
Design for assembly and disassembly
Design for lifecycle
Design for reuse, remanufacture, recycling
Design for energy minimisation
Life cycle assessment
Aesthetics and form:
Aesthetic of sustainable products
Aesthetic of imperfection