Life Cycle Analyses (5cr)
Code: IE10038-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.10.2025 - 31.10.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 07.01.2026 - 24.04.2026
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Insinöörikoulutus / Energia- ja ympäristötekniikka (IE)
- Campus
- Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 30 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Engineering
- Teachers
- Lasse Okkonen
- Teacher in charge
- Lasse Okkonen
- Groups
-
IENS23Engineer, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Full-Time Studies, Fall, 2023
- Course
- IE10038
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
You will learn alternative approaches to sustainability and sustainable development. You will know key concepts of the industrial ecology and regional and product-based approaches in solving the sustainability challenges. You are able to define system boundaries, actors, and material and energy flows. You will know key concepts and ISO 14040 and 14044 standards guiding the life cycle analyses. You can conduct life cycle analyses for the evaluation of the environmental impacts of a product or a service.
Content
The main contents of the course include:
- Product-based approaches to sustainable development
- Key concepts and principles of industrial ecology
- Key concepts and standards guiding the life cycle analyses
- LCA tutorial practices
- Conducting life cycle analyses in collaboration with working-life partners / RDI -projects