Course contents
The course covers:
- LCA methodology
- LCA tools and - databases
- Specialisation of life cycle impact in a specific field that the students choose independently
- Lecture from industry with examples of use of LCA for decision making
Course memo Autumn 2022-51183...
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Autumn 2022-1 (Start date 31/10/2022, English)
Autumn 2022-2 (Start date 31/10/2022, Swedish)
English/Swedish
ABE/Sustainability and Environmental Engineering
Headings denoted with an asterisk ( * ) is retrieved from the course syllabus version Autumn 2021
The course covers:
The general aim of the course is to develop the student's ability to assess environmental impact of complex systems in technology and urban planning based on a life-cycle perspective by giving theoretical and practical skills in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
After passing the course, the students should be able to:
A 7.5 credit course corresponds to 5 weeks of full time studies.
Scheduled learning activities in the course include (total ~50 hrs):
Make sure to make room also for individual studies, including:
NOTE: Week 47 will be especially intense, with pre-seminar and home exam! Take this into account when you plan your work.
A large part of this course consists of a group project. Project groups are formed based on the interest of students, and projects are shaped based on your own ideas and research questions. Therefore, you should prepare by thinking of topics that you would like to work with in your projects. Read more in the introduction page to the course in Canvas.
The schedule with lectures, seminars, and computer labs is available in TimeEdit.
All course related deadlines (assignments, exam and signing up for seminars, supervisions and computer labs) are listed in Canvas Calendar. Instructions for signing up in Calendar can be found here.
NOTE: You need to add the course AL2608 to your Canvas Calendar in order to see calendar events and sign up for appintments.
Curran, M. A. (ed) (2015) Life Cycle Assessment Student Handbook. Wiley.
You can order this book from for instance AdLibris (www.adlibris.se) or Bokus (www.bokus.se).
It is also available online at the KTH Library. Requires lgin with KID-id.
As listed under each lecture in this document.
Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
The section below is not retrieved from the course syllabus:
The final grade (A-F) is a weighted average of the home exam and the project. The project is weighted slightly less than its corresponding credits (Exam weight = 2.5; Project weight = 4).
In order to receive a final grade, the requirements for an “E” for the home exam and all compulsory elements of the project work must be fulfilled.
Fx represents a failing grade but which can be complemented to reach the grade E.
Assessment criteria for the project report are available in Canvas.
"Upping" of grades is not possible in this course. It is therefore of key importance that you are active and contribute responsibly to your group project from the start, but also that you inform your project supervisor at an early stage if you experience problems in group project collaboration.
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Student office, for general course administrative issues: kursexp@abe.kth.se, https://www.kth.se/en/seed/utbildning/studentexpedition-1.63744
31 Oct 2022
English/Swedish
Student office, for general course administrative issues: kursexp@abe.kth.se, https://www.kth.se/en/seed/utbildning/studentexpedition-1.63744