Life Cycle Assessment (5 cr)
Code: LC00BS48-3003
General information
- Enrollment
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01.12.2022 - 20.02.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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27.02.2023 - 30.04.2023
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Mitja Hokkanen
- Marketta Virta
- Piia Nurmi
- Sonja Lankiniemi
- Annika Holmbom
- Scheduling groups
- Vain avoimen AMK:n opiskelijoille (Tutkinto-opiskelija ilmoittaudu joka tapauksessa, toteutus ei ole vain avoimen opiskelijoille) (Size: 15 . Open UAS : 15.)
- Small groups
- For Open UAS students only
- Course
- LC00BS48
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
The English version of the course has online materials for theory. After that, excercise sessions can be joined in any language.
The course period is on 27.2.-30.4.2023
Weeks 9-10: online teaching materials + starting the independent task
13.3. Help session for independent task
Week 12: Group work starts
3.4. Help session for group assignment #1
13.4. Help session for group assignment #2
17.4. Help session for group assignment #3
24.4. Group assignment seminar
Objective
Student learning objectives:
1. Understand the principles of the LCA process.
2. Are able to clearly communicate the fundamental concepts of LCA
3. Understand the results of a LCA analysis.
4. Practice work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
5. Practice think in a customer-oriented way
6.Practice to act independently using external networks and resources to manage a work successfully
Content
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is used to assess environmental impacts of different subjects, such as products, services, processes and economic activities. They can also be used as a basis for reducing the environmental impacts, for example by highlighting the problem areas and finding alternatives for the causes.
The core idea of a LCA is to look at the complete life cycle of a subject and both identify and quantify the different sources of environmental loads. There exists many different types of LCAs, some compare different products to each other and can be more simplified while others investigate the life cycle of one product in high detail and accuracy, some describe the current situation while others focus on capturing consequences of decisions. LCAs can be constructed based on processes when there is detailed data available but they can also be based on input-output data.
Materials
Online materials in ItsLearning.
Possibility to join help sessions and ask more.
Teaching methods
Materials and activating tasks on Itslearning platform
Exam schedules
No exam.
The course grade is based on tasks so you don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.
International connections
Online lectures, tasks and materials on Itslearning platform
Completion alternatives
The only way to do the course is to do the tasks, no alternative ways to complete the course.
Student workload
The course is 5 ects so the workload is 135 hours all together.
The course grading is based on two tasks:
- Independent work, 30 % of the grade. The task is given 6.3. and deadline is 17.3.
- Group work, 70 % of the grade. The task is given 20.3. and deadline is 28.4.
Further information
Itslearning and e-mail