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Session # 2557

Integration of Industrial Ecology Concepts into Industrial Engineering Curriculum

Julie Ann Stuart

The Ohio State University

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In this paper, the author describes how industrial engineering faculty can integrate industrial ecology concepts into industrial engineering curriculum. This paper begins with the motivation for industrial ecology and its life cycle perspective. Next, the integration of industrial ecology concepts into engineering curricula is discussed. References to integration efforts for industrial ecology and industrial engineering are summarized. Two integration approaches that the author has used at her university are described: an elective course in industrial ecology for industrial engineers and integration with existing core industrial engineering courses. The core course integration example focuses on facilities planning. The description of the elective course in industrial ecology for industrial engineers includes course topics as well as an active learning module to demonstrate important course concepts.

1. Motivation for Industrial Ecology Integration with Industrial Engineering Curriculum

Industrial engineers analyze industrial metabolism, the linkages between suppliers, manufacturers, consumers, refurbishers, and recyclers. Because industrial engineers are actively involved in the design of industrial systems, their design decisions effect the environmental impacts of those systems.

1 Environmental impacts are resource depletion, pollutants and waste, and energy consumption . Resource depletion includes materials extraction, loss of soil productivity, landfill exhaustion, and loss of species diversity. Pollutants and wastes include contamination of groundwater and air quality. Due to the increasing level of environmental impacts caused by industrial systems, 234 environmental legislation has increased in many countries .

While industrial engineers focus on industrial metabolism, environmental engineers, on the other hand, study environmental metabolism which includes analysis of biota, land, freshwater, seawater, and atmosphere. Industrial ecology requires the study of the interactions between

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Stuart, J. A. (2000, June), Integration Of Industrial Ecology Concepts Into Industrial Engineering Curriculum Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8480