Sustainable Design and Manufacturing
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The official GTU curriculum for Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (subject code 2745002) as prescribed for AMS · Semester 4 divides the course into 3 units, covering 5 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2745002)Unit 1 Environmental Valuation
- Introduction to the environmental issues pertaining to the manufacturing sector - pressure to reduce costs - processes that minimize negative environmental impacts - environmental legislation and energy costs - acceptable practice in society - adoption of low carbon technologies - need to reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing operations. Techniques for non-market valuation: cost and income based approaches
- demand estimation methods- expressed and revealed preference
- choice modeling- Environmental accounting at sector and national levels
Unit 2 Evaluating Sustainability
- Sustainability performance evaluators- Frameworks and techniques - environmental management systems - life cycle assessment - strategic and environmental impact assessments - carbon and water foot-printing
Unit 3 Manufacturing Strategy For Sustainability
- Concepts of Competitive Strategy and Manufacturing Strategies and development of a strategic improvement programme - Manufacturing strategy in business success - Sustainable manufacturing system design options -Approaches to strategy formulation - Realization of new strategies/system designs