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PROGRESSING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY
Course delivery consists of a mixture of remote (or online) and in-person (or face-to-face) activities on campus.
Microcreds overview
The goal of this course is to introduce students to methods of assessing the sustainability of projects implemented by industry. Course content will cover: The three core principals of sustainability, circular economy thinking, Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 GHG emissions and the use of circular economy thinking to enable GHG reductions.
What you'll learn
- The micro-credential offers graduates working in the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical industry as well as students and professionals with basic engineering backgrounds/experience the opportunity to further develop their skill set and employability across a wider range of roles in the industry through enhanced continuing professional development.
Dr Richard O’Shea is a Lecturer in Sustainability in Enterprise with the School of Engineering in University College Cork (UCC). Richard worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Research, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Bioenergy and Biofuels research Group in MaREI with an industrial partner company. His prime area of work was assessing methods to decarbonise a large facility in the food and beverage sector in Ireland. Richard also worked as a design engineer with RPS primarily in the area of HVAC. He obtained his PhD degree in Energy Engineering from UCC in 2018. His research has focused on biomethane production via anaerobic digestion, resource assessments, technoeconomic analysis, optimisation, GIS, and multi criteria decision analysis. This has led to over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications in journals including Applied Energy, Bioresource Technology, and Renewable Energy.
Requirements
The goal of this course is to introduce students to methods of assessing the sustainability of projects implemented by industry.
- On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Identify and define the three core pillars of sustainability.
- Describe the 9 Rs of circular economy thinking.
- Apply the 9 Rs to identify measures to reduce GHG emissions from industry considering each Scope.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the rationale behind the calculation of the potential Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 GHG emissions savings of measures and interpret results of the same.
- Interpret the results of discounted cashflow analysis of potential measures.
- Use metrics such as Net present value, levelized cost of energy, levelized cost of abatement to compare measures.
- Construct and interpret a marginal abatement cost curve.
- Consider the potential social impact of measures in term of; food vs fuel, traffic movements, visual impact on landscape.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the underlying principles of common MCDA techniques and criteria weighting methods and how these can be applied to identify the "best" measure to reduce GHG emissions from industry.
Continuous Assessment 100 Marks
- Written Assignment (60 Marks)
- Continuous Assessment (40 Marks)
Got more questions?
If you have any questions about this Micro-credential, please contact by email: microcreds@ucc.ie