Education
With our courses, we want to strengthen the abilities and skills of our students in solving problems independently for the career profiles they want to pursue. The students should recognize the importance of the topics and questions covered for their future work in business, science and administration. They identify challenges and are able to develop solutions on their own. Thereby, the courses convey essential technical and methodical basics. In addition, we also want to encourage interdisciplinary and creative (lateral) thinking beyond one’s own discipline, as required to solve complex and difficult practical problems. In this way, we want to enable students to acquire specialist and methodological skills to solve problems in an independent way.
We offer modules and theses with a special focus on environmental and resource management, circular economy and bioeconomy as well as related areas of production and logistics, supply chain management and quantitative methods of business administration.
The Professorship Circular Economy regularly offers the following courses at Bachelor and Master level.
Bachelor Studies
Environmental Management
Language: English. Term: Winter. Credits*: 5 ECTS
Content:
- Environmental impacts of economic activities
- Social, economic and legal framework conditions for environmental protection
- Motivation for companies to protect the environment
- Environmental management systems (e.g. ISO 14000 series, EMAS)
- Methods and tools for environmental management (e.g. indicators, reporting, life cycle assessment)
- Current topics in environmental management.
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
MFA & LCA
Language: English. Term: Summer. Credits*: 6 ECTS
Content:
- Introduction to systems and life cycle thinking
- The four phases of life cycle assessment
- Goal and scope definition
- Life cycle inventory analysis
- Life cycle impact assessment
- Interpretation
- Software systems and databases for material flow analysis and life cycle assessment
- Material flow analysis
- Method of material flow analysis
- Material flow networks
- Determination of mass flows and stocks
- Material flow modelling
- Uncertainties and their handling
- Current trends and developments in material flow analysis and life cycle assessment
- Case studies
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
Resource & Energy Management
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Circular Economy
Language: English. Term: Summer. Credits*: 6 ECTS
Content:
- Circular Economy as a concept to approach sustainability needs
- History and policies related to the development of a circular economy
- CE Schools of thought
- Natural / biogeochemical material cycles as role models for the CE
- Assessing environmental impacts in a CE
- Assessing CE from a material perspective
- CE from a macroeconomic perspective
- Value Creation and emerging business models in a circular economy
- Design for Sustainability
- Special topics and use cases
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
Master Studies
Sustainable Production
Language: English. Term: Winter. Credits*: 6 ECTS
Content:
- Sustainability aspects of industrial production and consumption
- Reasons for considering sustainability aspects in production management
- Measuring sustainability of production and operations
- Sustainable product and service design
- Sustainable sourcing
- Sustainable production management
- Sustainability of logistics
- Managing wastes, waste water, air emissions and product returns
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
Advanced Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment
Language: English. Term: Summer. Credits*: 6 ECTS
Content:
- Systems and life cycle thinking
- LCA following the ISO 14040/14044 and ILCD standards
- Extension of Life Cycle Assessment to Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments
- Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods such as for
- Land use and land use change
- Water use
- Resource use
- Attributional and consequential assessments
- Regionalisation of inventories and impact assessments
- Hybrid approaches
- Uncertainty handling
- Interface with Multi Criteria Decision Analysis
- Presentation and visualisation of results
- Handling of data uncertainty
- Current trends and developments
- Software systems and data bases for material flow analysis and life cycle assessment
- Case studies
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
Plant and Technology Management
Language: English. Term: Summer. Credits*: 6 ECTS
Content:
- Introduction to Plant and Technology Management
- Life cycle of industrial plants
- Analysis and modelling of industrial production systems
- Project management in engineering
- Network and facility location planning
- Investment estimation
- Cost estimation
- Plant and process optimisation
- Maintenance and repair
- Quality Management
- Re-location, dismantling and recycling
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
Advanced Seminar in Circular Economy and Sustainability Management
Language: English. Term: Summer and Winter. Credits*: 7 ECTS
Content:
The module deals with actual topics from Circular Economy and Sustainability Management. These differ from semester to semester. Topics will be announced at the end of the preceeding semester.
* The number of credits may vary from course to course in individual cases. The value shown in the transcript of records applies.
In addition, we continuously supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. Please see our advertised topics or contact us with your own topic suggestion.