Course - Sustainable Systems Engineering - TPK4185
Sustainable Systems Engineering
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About the course
Course content
The course presents a framework based on the systems engineering process to be used for planning, analyzing, and design of more sustainable industrial systems, such as products, factories and processing plants, operation processes, information systems, and supply chains. Major topics in the course are: sustainable development and the UN SDGs, stakeholder identification, requirement analysis and specification, functional analysis, conceptual design, detailed design, planning for production, system testing, operation, system safety, maintainability, and circular economy. Labs will encourage the students to develop soft systems skills while applying their knowledge to self-defined problems.
Learning outcome
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
By the end of this course, the student will be able to explain the contributions of systems engineering to complex system development; explain the connections between sustainable development, systems thinking and systems engineering; recognize relevant system requirements; and explain how systems development lifecycle models provide a roadmap for engineering practices.
Skills:
By the end of this course, the student will be able to identify and practice the habits of systems thinkers; identify and document design elements and interfaces; implement practices for more sustainable design of products or production processes; and critically assess the engineering quality of a system.
General competence:
By the end of this course, the student will be able to apply the knowledge of systems engineering and sustainable development to an industrial engineering project requiring multidisciplinary and multicultural teamwork; will be able to translate stakeholder needs to system requirements specifications, track their project progress, and identify and follow up risks and risk mitigations activities underway.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, exercises, and project work applying relevant theory, methods and review of industrial cases are the basis for this course. Lectures are given in English.
Further on evaluation
Mandatory exercises and group project are the basis for the grade in the course. The course assessment is assigned a letter grade according to the university grading scale
Recommended previous knowledge
None.
Course materials
Will be given at the beginning of the semester.
Subject areas
- Computer and Information Science
- Manufacturing Systems
- Design Methodology
- Industrial Ecology
- Production and Quality Engineering
- Information Systems
- Industrial Economics
- Building Science
- Technological subjects