Developing Green Design Course for Engineering Students
In the current century, among many challenges facing the humanity, the environmental degradation can be pointed out as a salient one. On the one hand the environmental hazards such as the increase in of the greenhouse gases, global warming, ozone depletion, temperature inversion, energy crisis and t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Iran Academy of Science
2016-08-01
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| Series: | آموزش مهندسی ایران |
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| Online Access: | https://ijee.ias.ac.ir/article_16244.html?lang=en |
| Summary: | In the current century, among many challenges facing the humanity, the environmental degradation can be pointed out as a salient one. On the one hand the environmental hazards such as the increase in of the greenhouse gases, global warming, ozone depletion, temperature inversion, energy crisis and the serious damage to the global ecosystem, and on the other hand the rapid technological development and diversity of products all over the world, necessitates a remedy to control and reduce the disastrous effects on the environment, rising from the growing production and consumption. A survey of scientific and industrial developments in the last few decades reveals that the environment can be remedied by the engineers’ effective solutions. That is why it is necessary for all engineers to be aware of their potential impacts on the environment; therefore the training courses seem to be quite necessary for young engineers. In this article the necessity of training the engineering students to achieve the sustainable design is firstly taken into consideration. Afterwards the curriculum of the world’s reputable universities regarding the environmental protection were studied. Summing up various training courses and applying the experiences of the writers out of similar courses, a proper approach, depending on the type of the matter is defined and a course called green design is developed for the engineering students of Sharif University of Technology. In this course, students will get familiar with the product design process and their maximum environmental effects throughout its life cycle. |
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| ISSN: | 1607-2316 2676-4881 |