Description
This course is a first-year elective module for the joint degree MSc Programme on Industrial Ecology and compulsory for the first-year Erasmus Mundus CIRCLE students. The course teaches basic concepts, methods, tools, and indicators related to the circular economy.
Learning goals
Explain and compare various concepts and definitions of Circular Economy (CE)
Explain and compare various types of business models and governance options for CE
Get insight into an analytical framework for CE and execute this framework to a case study
Summarize sense and nonsense of and use metrics for CE
Criticize and judge various technological options for circularity
Test main learnings of the course on a practical case study to generate recommendations and new insights on the transition to a circular economy
Teaching methods/mode of instruction
Interactive lectures with discussions, flipped classrooms using MOOC material, case study based learning.
Type of assessment
Individual assignment on a case study.
Course materials/reading list
BrightSpace TU Delft will be used for communications and distributing study material.
Remarks
More information and the description of the course is published in the e-studyguide of TU Delft.