- Conference Session
- IE Program Design II
- Collection
- 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Benjamin Redekop
- Tagged Divisions
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Industrial Engineering
energy to produce or manufacture. In thismodule students will be introduced to environmental impact measures, industrialstandards and guidelines, and decision-making strategies that can be used for materialselection.Module 4: Process design and improvement - Another common challenge faced inindustry is to reduce the environmental impact of an existing manufacturing process.Students will be introduced to methods of identifying the most damaging part of theprocess flow through material and energy balances. Common practices for reducingenergy consumption and waste will be discussed. In addition, strategies for productpackaging and delivery will be presented.Module 5: End-of-use strategies - This module begins with a lecture on Green Chemistry.It