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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (12-714 / 19-614)

Instructor: H. Scott Matthews

Office: Porter Hall 118-L
Phone: 268-6218
Email: hsm@cmu.edu
TA: Aurora Sharrard, Office: PH A7A, x8-7567

Links to Course Materials

Course Syllabus
Errata for Course Textbook

Lecture Notes for this course will be posted periodically, depending on attendance.

Following is the most up to date course schedule. Lecture notes are linked in the 'Topic' column. While lecture notes may be available before class, they may be changed before or during class (e.g. if we do not cover all material). So check back between classes to ensure no content was changed.

Updated 2/13/2006

Date	Topic(s)	Assignment / Supplements	Readings / etc.
W 18-Jan	Course Introduction		EPA Intro to LCA
M 23-Jan	LCA Framework Overview	HW 1 Out In-class exercise	ISO 14040 Framework Document ISO 14041 Framework Document
W 25-Jan	LCA Scoping Exercise Process LCA Theory	Project Proposals Due
M 30-Jan	Process LCA Case Studies Streamlined LCA	HW 1 Due	Streamlined LCA (Read pp. 15-20, skim rest)
W 1-Feb	Issues in Process LCA - Intro to Input-Output LCA		Text Chapters 1 and 2
M 6-Feb	Input-Output LCA (IO-LCA) Exercise	Exercise Spreadsheet Exercise Handout	Text Chapters 4, 5, Appendix II
W 8-Feb	Input-Output LCA (IO-LCA) Theory EIO-LCA Software Modeling	Spreadsheet	Do eiolca.net Tutorial (on Home Page)
M 13-Feb	EIO-LCA Case Studies	HW 2 Due Coffee LCI Article	Text Chapters 6, 7, 9, 10
W 15-Feb	Issues in EIO-LCA	HW 3 Out	Text Chapters 3, 15, Appendix V
M 20-Feb	Uncertainty in LCA Intro Hybrid LCA		Text Appendix IV Treloar 2004 paper
W 22-Feb	Impact Assessment EIO spreadsheet	HW 3 Due (Fri 24th) HW 4 Out	ISO 14042 Framework - Impact Assessment
M 27-Feb	Impact Assessment (cont.) Interpretation Ecoindicator excerpt (Handout for Exercise)		Eco-Indicator Methodology (see Annex 1/start p. 112) ISO 14043 Framework - Interpretation
W 1-Mar	Case Studies, Highlights of LCA
M 6-Mar	Project Presentations
Th 9-Mar	Due Date for Final projects	HW 4 Due HW 4 Spreadsheet BEA's description of 1997 IO Model (See Appendix A on p.39 for sector map)

LCA Links

http://www.umich.edu/~indecol/resources.html
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess/index.htm