University of Minnesota Duluth

ME 4365 Global Sustainability Experience in Design and Manufacturing at Ghana

Semester: Summer 2011

Course Objectives:

• When you finish this course, it is hoped that you will:
  • Acquire unique study abroad experience at Ghana with exposure to both cultural, economic and
  • Explain environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainability in design and manufacturing context
  • Describe resource consumption and its drivers
  • Analyze a materials life cycle with emphasis on bamboo and ceramic
  • Select Eco-informed material for design of a product
  • Select Eco-informed processes for manufacture of a product
  • Conduct Eco-audits using CES eco-audit tool
  • Analyze eco-data: values, sources, precision
  • Relate legislation with sustainability with application to Ghana and USA
  • Write report on a sustainability design and manufacture project
  • Make oral presentation on Ghana trip experience and project

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