Course group - TB2-EENV
Increasing awareness of the pressure of human activities exerted on the environment today is undeniable, both from a point of view of the depletion of resources related to raw material exploitation and consumption and that of emissions. Methods and tools are available in order to assess the effects of anthropogenic activities on the environment. But … what are their foundations, how do they work, how to interpret the results obtained, how to use them for decision taking ? The engineering students will discover elements of reflection, the tools, knowledge and the necessary skills for the environmental assessment of organisations (processes, enterprises, services, etc) and the integration of these elements into decision taking processes (strategic choices, ecodesign, etc).
Students will acquire basic concepts of environmental assessment and the knowledge and skills for their implementation. After presentation of the major current environmental stakes, the principles of assessing environmental impact will be dealt with. Several methods and tools are studied, in particular those related to levels of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints and especially the life cycles analysis(LCA). Applications are planned to illustrate the methods in real-time case studies.
The Toolbox on Environmental Assessment consists of just one unit, which is divided into two parts, dealing with the assessment of levels of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints and then the tools of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) process.
The Toolbox on Environmental Assessment becomes a basic technical foundation for understanding environmental issues and a support for other teaching activities proposed to students.
It will thus provide the necessary basics for the “Industrial and Territorial Environments” major (notably for the units on Environmental and energy performances of companies, and Industrial Ecology) and then for the specialisations “Energy Transition” (based on environmental assessment of scenarios and sectors) and “Ecodesign” (for which details are available in the unit on Eco-responsible design”).
This Toolbox is complementary to other activities including the following multi-disciplinary projects :
“Ecological transition and territorial resiliency”
“Renewable energy”
“Crisis Management and Territorial Risks”
“Environment professions”