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[ WKMPMSEERQM ] SE Environmental, Ressource and Quality Management for Engineers

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Business Administration Heinz Prammer 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Management in Polymer Technologies (MPT) 2013W
Objectives
  • To understand the need for environmental and resource management from a business perspective
  • To distinguish two fundamental perspectives in environmental and resource management: the corporate and the life cycle perspective
  • To explore important tools and concepts in the field of quantitative environmental and resource management, life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, material flow cost accounting and sustainability reporting as well as its linkage to quality management and lean production
  • To explore major environmental challenges in polymer industries
  • To broaden the perspective on corporate environmental and resource efficiency by understanding the principles of industrial ecology
  • To understand basic terms and concepts of environmental management, quality management and resource efficiency and their importance for companies, particularly in polymer industries
Subject
  • Basics of industrial ecology
o Environmental problems and their relevance for polymer industries
o Material and energy flows as fundamental elements of industrial ecology
  • Basics of environmental management and resource efficiency
o The importance of environmental issues for business
o Stakeholder Management and Shareholder Value Thinking
o Short history of environmental management
o Life Cycle Thinking
  • Important topics of environmental management and resource efficiency (these are elaborated in seminar thesis)
o Environmental Management Accounting
o Material Flow Cost Accounting
o Life Cycle Analysis
o Product Carbon Footprint
o Corporate Carbon Footprint
o Quality Management and its linkage to environmental management
o Lean Production and its linkage to environmental management
o Environmental Management Systems and Control
o Energy Management
o Environmental and Sustainability Reporting
Criteria for evaluation The course will be assessed on basis of

  • Quality of seminar thesis
  • Quality of presentation
  • Contribution to discussions, and
  • Quality of peer review / feedback to other presentations
Methods The course mixes several teaching methods including:

  • Initial lectures to provide essentials
  • Coached elaboration of seminar theses including obligatory web-based meeting with the lecturer
  • Presentation of seminar theses (individual or group work)
  • Peer review and feedback on presentations
Language  English
Study material The course will be conducted in English language.
Changing subject? No
Further information Relevant literature is provided in the seminar’s power point slides and during coaching of seminar theses. Recommended books:

  • Schaltegger, S., Burritt, R., & Petersen, H. (2003). An introduction to corporate environmental management: Striving for sustainability. Greenleaf Publishing.
  • Schaltegger, S., & Burritt, R. (2005). 5. Corporate sustainability. The international yearbook of environmental and resource economics 2005/2006: A Survey of current issues, 185.
  • European Commission. (2011). Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe (http://ec.europa.eu/resource-efficient-europe/index_en.htm)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 25
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority