Course

ME-517: Product decarbonization and life cycle analysis

Summary

This course will address the need to decarbonize engineered products and to reduce their environmental and societal impacts. Life cycle analysis (LCA) will be used as a tool to quantify the impacts of engineered products and to aid design of lower impact alternatives.

Lectures

Instructor

Martyn Douglas Wakeman

Dr. Martyn Wakeman is a seasoned professional in advanced composites with a proven record of 20 yrs, spanning academia and global corporations. He has worked in M&A deep dive projects in the Advanced Composites Space and has a proven publication (80 ) and patent (30) history in the development of continuous fibre thermoplastic composites from formulation, processing, to applications. He is currently attached at 50% to the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites at the EPFL focused on 3D printing and advanced composites and also available as an independent consultant. Prior to this role he worked at DuPont from 2007-2016 in Geneva, Switzerland where he worked to drive the development strategy and led research of the DuPont Vizilon thermoplastic composites offer including continuous carbon and glass reinforced composites. From 1997 to 2007 he was a Scientific Collaborator at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, in which he was Head of the Composite and Polymer Laboratory's "Industrial implementation group", located in the EPFL science park, focused on the automotive industry both in Europe and North America. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering focused on composites.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/product-decarbonization-and-life-cycle-analysis-ME-517

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ME-517

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Martyn Douglas Wakeman

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/product-decarbonization-and-life-cycle-analysis-ME-517

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ME-517

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