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- Johansson, Björn, 1975-, et al.
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SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION RESEARCH: AWARENESS, MEASURES AND DEVELOPMENT
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sustainable Development. - 1923-6662. ; 4:11, s. 95
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes its standpoint in the hypothesis that awareness of sustainability is the key to create sustainable products, and that this awareness begins already at research level. It describes the development and follow-up of a method for increasing sustainability awareness in sustainable production research. Several activities were carried out to increase the awareness. Firstly) workshops with researchers and industry on sustainability. Secondly) development of measures based on literature and interviews with researchers. Thirdly) monitoring of awareness through concept maps. Progress was evaluated by comparing the awareness of the population when the project started in 2010, and then again in 2011. The results show that the participants had shifted their view from primary emphasizing technology towards a more balanced view of sustainability where social aspects were more often taken into consideration. According to the concept maps methodology, sustainability awareness in the population increased with 25%.
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- Andersson, Mattias, 1982-, et al.
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Microwave assisted pyrolysis of residual fractions of waste electrical and electronics equipment
- 2012
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Ingår i: Minerals Engineering. - 0892-6875. ; 29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The generation of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is large and rapidly increasing, and even though WEEE is recycled today there are still valuable residues left after recycling, ending up in landfills. This paper shows how microwave pyrolysis can be a plausible way to recycle the residues. Six different fractions (from light dust to particles sized 7–12 mm) of landfill waste were analysed and pyrolysed. The process was successful producing oil, gas and a solid residue, and the mass reduction was determined as a function of process time. Mass reduction seemed to be rather stable, independent of the temperature scatter during pyrolysis and a substantial reduction was observed for all of the materials. The major part of mass reduction was observed in the heating phase already above 100 °C, and the heating rate was slower for the particulate materials
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- Dagman, Andreas, 1976-, et al.
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Sustainable Production Research- a proposal of measuring research in sustainable production and monitoring of sustainability awareness
- 2011
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Ingår i: The Adlerbert Research Foundation Jubilee Conference, 22 november 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The research aims at investigating the possibilities to design measures suitable for evaluating research related to product development, production systems, and manufacturing processes. These measures should aim at both tracking and improving sustainability impact of research projects as well as in industry including the long term effects. The research questions are: How can measures for sustainable production be designed to: • measure the impact of a research project within the applied area e.g. the industry? • estimate increased sustainability awareness? • inspire novel ideas and development promoting sustainable production? Specifically we have: A) Conducted workshops with researchers and industry on sustainability measures and monitored sustainability awareness of the participants through concept maps. B) Developed a proposal for measures based on literature reviews, results from workshops and interviews with researchers regarding how sustainability measures can be incorporated and utilized in research. C) Developed a generic method for evaluating sustainability measures related to production research over time. D) 15 sustainability measures have been defined and fine tuned in two rounds by 40 senior researchers, where after monitoring and updates of the measures are performed continuously. Concept map showed that participants, at the start of the research effort in 2010, had an uneven view on sustainability with emphasis on technology. Second round of concept maps are carried out during June-September 2011 and results will be included
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- Edström, Kristina, et al.
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Teaching and Learning
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Ingår i: Rethinking Engineering Education, the CDIO approach. Authors E. Crawley, J. Malmqvist, D. Brodeur, S. Östlund (Springer New York) ISBN 978-0-387-38287-6. ; s. 130-151
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- Enelund, Mikael, 1965-, et al.
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Integration of education for sustainable development in a mechanical engineering programme
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 8th International CDIO Conference, Brisbane, Austraila.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents and analyzes the integration with progression of education for sustainable development in Chalmers University of Technology’s MScEng programme in Mechanical Engineering. The programme has an idea and structure that emphasizes employability, integration of general engineering skills, authentic engineering experiences and focus on holistic view of the complete lifecycle of products and systems. The realization of these aims stress the need of an integrated and adapted sustainable development education for mechanical engineering. To reach this goal, we applied a combined top-down and bottom-up education development process that started with the formulation of programme vision and programme level learning outcomes. Faculty meetings and workshop to formulate the course learning outcomes and to map the programme level outcomes to courses in which the outcomes are satisfied followed this. The strategy became to integrate specific sustainability topics in courses where it is appropriate and to have a separate course in sustainable development to ensure that general aspects of sustainable development are included and that a team of faculty takes full responsibility for this. Design-build-test project courses are shown to be suitable arenas for integrating teaching and learning of sustainable development. Results from a student survey on perceptions of the relevance and quality of sustainability education are accounted for and discussed. Outstanding challenges in the area are identified.
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- Knutson Wedel, Maria, 1963-, et al.
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A New Introduction to a Master Programme in Materials Science, Turning Student Diversity into an Advantage
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper describes how diversity problems were identified and addressed in a Master’s programme in Advanced Engineering Materials, and how organisation of a programme according to CDIO has been found to facilitate the process of organising teaching and learning to take advantage of cultural diversity. By comparing with experiences from literature, we find that our international students need to blend into an already existing group. We aim for them to be met by clear expectations and information, in an atmosphere within which students, no matter of their background, feel they have something significant to contribute. Important is pre-entry information, e.g. on course choice and on subjects and skills covered previously and to introduce our different perceptions of learning. Some international students have deep knowledge in subjects we do not teach; design of a new learning activity aimed for all students to benefit from that knowledge and to train the role of materials specialist. The paper describes in detail how needs were identified by a survey answered by students already participating in the programme (pre-project survey). It also describes a new introduction that has been designed to meet the challenge of diversity. Pre-entry information, a welcome letter, an interactive homepage and activities were designed to allow for multicultural discussions and nurture a feeling of having something significant to contribute. A new experimental learning experience was developed centred on a product and managed by peer learning. Finally the evaluation of the project is described including a survey answered by the students who participated in the introduction (post-project survey).
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- Knutson Wedel, Maria, 1963-
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Activating deep approach to learning in large classes through quizzes
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 7th International CDIO Confrence, Technical University of Denmark, 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large classes are challenging when designing learning activities suitable from a perspective of constructive alignment and at the same time being restricted to large class lectures due to external factors. In the present study a learning activity was desired to increase reflection and active repetition in a large class (75-100 students) of engineering students in a basic course in Materials Science and Engineering. Current repetition by lecturing was not satisfying from a learning perspective. Well known techniques such as mud cards and concept questions were not feasible, mainly for reasons of time to manage feedback or design proper concept questions. The aim of this paper is to describe a newly designed learning activity called Reflection quizzes, the process of design and also to analyse how student learning was affected. The result of the Reflection quizzes was overwhelming. The students were all actively engaged but took on different approaches; some discussed together (peer learning), some competed against each other (increasing motivation), some wanted to sit on their own using their notes (reflecting). The student survey showed that students appreciated to test themselves without it being assessed, many stated that the best was to find out why wrong was wrong and it was clear that they took on a more deep approach towards learning.
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