Syllabus: An Introduction to Industrial Sustainability

Please note that some topics change as a result of time limitations or student or institute requirements and requests.

Course Title: An Introduction to Industrial Sustainability
Tutor/Lecturer: Jonathan T. Scott
Course Text: Managing the New Frontiers by Jonathan T. Scott, MES Publications, 2008.
Hours: 20 or 30 (as required)
Course Evaluation Method: Each student's grade is based on an examination, a final project, and attendance.

Guidelines: The textbook for the course is mandatory. Students are reminded to read all assigned chapters after each corresponding lecture.

Missing more than two lectures will result in dismissal from the course.

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LECTURE SUBJECTS

- Sustainability: What is it, why is it ignored (or opposed) by so many people, and why do humans seem wired to avoid long-term thinking? (note: this lecture also includes a description of how the course will be laid out)

- Business and the Environment: A symbiotic relationship

- Making a Case for Efficiency: Case studies, history, and terms

- Building Better Buildings: Maximizing productivity in the places where work is performed

- The Hidden History of Products: The levels of waste that products leave behind with proven solutions to reduce it

- Mapping the Efficiency Process -and- Record-Keeping and Measurement

- Service Economics and Leasing: Increasing profits and closing resource leaks

- Product Reuse, Recycling, and Remanufacturing: A look at 'stealth' business models

- Production: Cost Effective Production Locations, Clean Production Techniques, and an Introduction to Motors and Pumps(the single greatest energy wasters in industry)

- Taxes, Legislation, and Sustainability - and - Packaging Minimization: Laws and case studies

---------------This marks the end of the 20-hour course. The 30-hour course continues with:

- The Macro Advantages of MicroPower

- Water Use in Industries -and- Greenwashing

- The Lean Thinking Revolution

- Change Management: the basis of human psychology

- Conflict Management: How conflict makes a business better

...........both the 20-hour course and the 30-hour course end with an examination and a final project. Go back to the previous page and click on 'Course Information....' for details.