Sustainability in Engineering Design

Table of Contents

1.0 Engineering Design and Sustainability Integration: An Overview
2.0 The Requirements of the Client
3.0 Managing Design, the Process and Teamwork
4.0 Design Approach
5.0 Sustainability Integrated into the Normal Design Process
6.0 Factors to Consider at the Beginning of a Design
7.0 Tools of the Design Process
8.0 Design of the Concept
9.0 Performance Prediction
10.0  Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
11.0  The Need for Sustainability
12.0  Life Cost
13.0 Strategic Sustainability
14.0  Embedding Sustainable Design
15.0 Predicting the Future

Authors

Anthony Johnson Design Engineer and Educator responsible for Engineering Design in the Department of Engineering and Technology at the University of Huddersfield. Anthony Johnson is an experienced Design Engineer and Educator responsible for Engineering Design in the Department of Engineering and Technology at the University of Huddersfield. He is also a U.K. Chartered Engineer (C. Eng) with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Johnson is a prolific design consultant (with over 400 projects to date), educational consultant, and recent committee member with the British Standards Institute. Andy Gibson Managing Director of Segelocum Ltd, a customer-focused designed education consultancy firm. Andy Gibson is the Managing Director of Segelocum Ltd, a customer-focused designed education consultancy firm. Andrew has worked in product development and customer liaison, moving on onto export sales and marketing and thence into the management of international subsidiaries of UK-based engineering companies. In recent years, Mr. Gibson has developed a consultancy-based business working with clients to penetrate new markets, focusing on sustainability relating to international trade training.