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Sustainable Design Engineering 

Sustainable Design & Engineering goes beyond being just efficient, attractive, on time and on budget. It cares about how such goals are achieved, about its effect on people and on the environment.

This minor focuses on sustainability in design and engineering. It is a collaborative minor of the faculties of Industrial Design Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, hosted by the Institute for Applied Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET). Well-known projects of the ASSET institute are the Nuna solar cars, the Superbus and the Laddermill.

What's in it for you?

• This minor will help you improve your career opportunities:international companies see the move towards a sustainable world as a complex, multidisciplinary challenge. This minor will help you understand this thinking and the part you can play in responding to these challenges. Our unique business practicum was developed especially for this purpose.
• You’ll learn how to enact successful strategies for dealing with sustainable design and engineering, such as Cradle-to-Cradle, Biomimicry and Factor 10 Engineering. Certified experts will give guest workshops and you will be given the opportunity to apply the strategies in a practical case.
• You will gain unique experience working with some leading organisations. The minor collaborates with Nokia, Philips, IDEO, and others, on exploratory projects.
• Everyone, from political leaders to business leaders to members of society, recognizes the threat of climate change to societies, economies and our individual well-being. An understanding and appreciation of the science and economics of climate change underline the necessity of action, now. The ASSET course will give you the basic knowledge that you’ll need to make informed decisions.
• You’ll be stimulated to develop your own vision on sustainability (one of the so called wicked problems) that fits with your own views and values.

More information

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