Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity

The latest studies show that to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on education, there must be a focus on adequately training higher education students. In this work, we present a study about the Life Cycle Analysis of knowledge of products and processes of engineering students. This aspect i...

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Authors: Navajas León, Alberto, Echarri San Martín, Itsaso Andrea, Gandía Pascual, Luis, Pozuelo, Jorge, Cascarosa, Esther
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Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Pública de Navarra
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Keyword:Education teaching activities
Engineering education
Life cycle assessment teaching
Life cycle inventory
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spelling Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activityNavajas León, AlbertoEcharri San Martín, Itsaso AndreaGandía Pascual, LuisPozuelo, JorgeCascarosa, EstherEducation teaching activitiesEngineering educationLife cycle assessment teachingLife cycle inventoryThe latest studies show that to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on education, there must be a focus on adequately training higher education students. In this work, we present a study about the Life Cycle Analysis of knowledge of products and processes of engineering students. This aspect is very relevant in engineering education since it has direct implications on sustainability. The first step was to identify what the learning problems were, and taking them into account, a specific teaching sequence was designed and implemented over three academic years. Two activities, on an increasing level of complexity, of the application of Life Cycle Assessment are shown in this paper. The first one is the Life Cycle Analysis comparison between two steel and polypropylene pieces. The second one is the Life Cycle Analysis comparison between three different ends of life of a polypropylene piece: mechanical recycling, incineration, and landfill. Data on the evolution of students' marks while solving a ¿one step more difficult project¿ throughout these courses have been collected. The results show a generalized learning by the students about Life Cycle Analysis.MDPICienciasZientziakInstitute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT22024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/ziphttps://hdl.handle.net/2454/51558reponame:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarrainstname:Universidad Pública de NavarraInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/ERASMUS+/612212-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA2-KA© 2024 by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/515582026-06-17T12:41:47Z
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title Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
spellingShingle Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
Navajas León, Alberto
Education teaching activities
Engineering education
Life cycle assessment teaching
Life cycle inventory
title_short Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
title_full Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
title_fullStr Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
title_full_unstemmed Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
title_sort Life cycle assessment in higher education: design and implementation of a teaching sequence activity
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Navajas León, Alberto
Echarri San Martín, Itsaso Andrea
Gandía Pascual, Luis
Pozuelo, Jorge
Cascarosa, Esther
author Navajas León, Alberto
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Echarri San Martín, Itsaso Andrea
Gandía Pascual, Luis
Pozuelo, Jorge
Cascarosa, Esther
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Gandía Pascual, Luis
Pozuelo, Jorge
Cascarosa, Esther
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Zientziak
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Education teaching activities
Engineering education
Life cycle assessment teaching
Life cycle inventory
topic Education teaching activities
Engineering education
Life cycle assessment teaching
Life cycle inventory
description The latest studies show that to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on education, there must be a focus on adequately training higher education students. In this work, we present a study about the Life Cycle Analysis of knowledge of products and processes of engineering students. This aspect is very relevant in engineering education since it has direct implications on sustainability. The first step was to identify what the learning problems were, and taking them into account, a specific teaching sequence was designed and implemented over three academic years. Two activities, on an increasing level of complexity, of the application of Life Cycle Assessment are shown in this paper. The first one is the Life Cycle Analysis comparison between two steel and polypropylene pieces. The second one is the Life Cycle Analysis comparison between three different ends of life of a polypropylene piece: mechanical recycling, incineration, and landfill. Data on the evolution of students' marks while solving a ¿one step more difficult project¿ throughout these courses have been collected. The results show a generalized learning by the students about Life Cycle Analysis.
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