TEK790 Individual project in industrial ecology (7.5 hp)
The course is offered in the MSc Industrial Ecology program.

Course purpose

The course has 2 aims:
- an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and skills on a topic related to Industrial Ecology, e.g., learn more about particular methodologies, fields of practice, and/or a particular product / material / technical systems
- an occasion to train project work. This could be, for example, learning by participating in development projects, or your own planning and executing your own course content.

A project plan is needed for enrolling in the course. The guide for writing a planning report for a MSc thesis can here be used as a guide. However, complementing that with stating what is it you want to have learned by the completion of the project course (learning outcomes) would be a specific item to add in the planning report in this case.

Learning objectives

The learning objectives are:

- identify and formulate a project task
- clarify project goals, deliverables, scope and time planning
- identify knowledge gaps and search for information
- develop and evaluate solution paths, as well as implement and/or evaluate at least one
- discuss the role of the chosen Industrial ecology topic for and the results' contribution to the handling of sustainability challenges in society
- carry out oral and written presentations
- document the project work so that others can build further on the results
- identify further work
- evaluate whether the project has reached each of the goals and, if needed, analyze the necessary measures to achieve all goals
- present and document project work both in writing and orally

Contacts

• Examiner: Prof. Henrikke Baumann, Director of MSc Industrial Ecology.
• Supervisors: These are suggested based by the examiner based on the chosen topic when so needed.

Schedule

Students doing an individual project course will be invited to seminars for sharing, discussing and sharing the project learnings with each other. Time and place for such seminars will be announced by the examiner regularly.

Course literature

In addition to the specific literature related to your chosen topic, the following reference literature is useful to consult:

• Several guides on how to plan a (research) project and to conduct a literature review are available at the Chalmers Library.
• The book Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology, Roland Clift & Angela Druckman (eds.), 2016, is freely available online: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-20571-7
• To support and develop your writing, you can consult the Chalmers Writing Centre: https://writing.chalmers.se/chalmers-writing-centre/ and the Chalmers Writing Guide: https://writing.chalmers.se/chalmers-writing-guide/

Examination

Examination takes the form of an oral presentation and the assessment of a written final report on your project and its findings that conforms with conventional scientific reporting practices.

Grades are Pass / Fail (or not yet Pass).