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85131 Engineering and Technology Analysis (Environment)
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Danish title: Ingeniørarbejde og Teknologiforståelse (Miljø)
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Language: Danish
Credit points: 5 |
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Recommended semester: 1st - 4th semester
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Examination: Evaluation of report. (13-scale)
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Remarks: The course is part of "Miljøfagpakken" (The introductory programme within Environment).
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Department: Department of Technology and Social Sciences
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Aim: - To give the students knowledge about theories and methods within the relations between societal development, technological development, the changes in environmental problems and the development in the environmental infrastructure.
- To give the students knowledge about the relations between environmental problems and problems connected to working environment (occupational health and safety).
- To give the students knowledge about the qualification demands to engineers within the environmental field and the relations between these demands and the development of the environmental problems and the environmental strategies.
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Contents: The course covers the following topics:
- Theories about technology, where technology is seen as a combination of technique, organisation, knowledge, and product.
- Driving forces behind technological development.
- Technology assassment as a tool for assessing the conditions for and the consequences of technological changes.
- Different types of environmental strategies and their ethics about nature and man. The influence of uncertainty and lack of knowledge and the interests of different actor groups in the assessment of environmental problems.
- Descriptions of product chains as a method for analysing flows of materials, energy, information and capital within the life cycles of products and services.
- Qualification demands for engineers within different types of engineering work. Different types of engineering work are characterized by their time structure, the ways of co-operation, the degree of specialisation and the use of knowledge.
The topics of the courses are discussed with a number of environmental case studies as basis.
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