Teaching
Courses
For the summer semester 2020 the following courses are offered by the ECODESIGN department:
Engineering Design and Development of New Products
Aims of the course: Starting with clarifying the tasks, developing the functional structure to concept design and detailed design the different stages of product development are presented in this exercise. The focus is on the early stages of product development.
For the winter semester 2019/2020 the following courses are offered:
Project Work Eco-Design/Sustainable Product Development
Aims of the course: Within this lecture the knowledge conveyed in the prevalent courses is used to apply product development in practise. A product development task will be given here and has to be solved in a team of 3 up to 5 students.
Aims of the course: An introduction to a problem solving concept regarding the integration of "environment"into product development will be given in this lecture. Starting form analysis ("where is the environmental problem of the product?") to synthesis ("how to improve a certain product?") a practical way of doing ECODESIGN will be shown.
Dissertationen, Diplom- und Masterarbeiten
Using the publication database of the TU Vienna you can gather information about completed diploma and doctor's theses. If you are interested in in writing a theses about topics such as sustainability assessment, environmental communication, Circular Econmy, product service systems, etc. contact the ECODESIGN Team.