Course Name: System Design for Sustainability

Course abstract

Design for Sustainability is a design thinking process for widening the boundaries of the objective of design so as to contribute positively to sustainable development. It encompasses four approaches: 1. Selection of resources with low environmental impact; 2. Design of products with low environmental impact; 3. Product-Service System Design for eco-efficiency; 4. Design for social equity and cohesion. This course will discuss these Design approaches, methods and tools alongwith case examples.


Course Instructor

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Sharmistha Banerjee

Sharmistha Banerjee is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Design at IIT Guwahati. She did her bachelor in Industrial Design from IIT Guwahati and a master in Integrated Product Design from Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. Her PhD is under progress at IIT Guwahati in the domain of Design for Sustainability applied to agricultural machinery design. She is focused in the area of sustainable product & system development in a collaborative work environment. She has established the Sustainability and Social Innovation Lab alongwith her colleagues at Department of Design which is also part of the International Learning Network on Sustainability, a consortium of more that 150 global universities working in this domain
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Teaching Assistant(s)

SUDIPTA GHOSH

B.tech in Mechanical Engineering

IITG

 Course Duration : Jul-Oct 2018
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 Syllabus
 Enrollment : 18-Apr-2018 to 30-Jul-2018
 Exam registration : 25-Jun-2018 to 18-Sep-2018
 Exam Date : 28-Oct-2018

Enrolled

715

Registered

30

Certificate Eligible

18

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Elite

7

Successfully completed

11

Participation

7

Success

Elite

Gold




Legend

>=90 - Elite + Gold
60-89 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed
<40 - No Certificate

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score.
System Design for Sustainability - Toppers list

RAHUL N 74%

SELF EMPLOYED

ANNESHA DASGUPTA 71%

REDWOOD CONSTRUCTION AND PLANNING

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 715

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 30

Assignment Statistics



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Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.