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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Prof. 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)

Prarthana Majumdar

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 Course Duration : Jul-Oct 2019
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 Syllabus
 Enrollment : 15-May-2019 to 05-Aug-2019
 Exam registration : 01-Jun-2019 to 30-Sep-2019
 Exam Date : 16-Nov-2019, 16-Nov-2019

Enrolled

581

Registered

16

Certificate Eligible

8

Certified Category Count

Gold

1

Silver

4

Elite

2

Successfully completed

1

Participation

4

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold




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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

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

SRINATH R 90%

SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 581

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 16

Assignment Statistics



Assignment

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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.