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LAST MOOC Registrations

17 outubro 2018, 10:59 • Carlos Augusto Santos Silva

Dear all, 


the MOOC registrations will close on October 21st. From then on, it is not possible to register anymore.

You can do all the activities until November 5th. After that, you will be asked to review the last exam.

Best

Carlos

Class on MFA this Friday

11 outubro 2018, 08:37 • Carlos Augusto Santos Silva

Dear all, as last Friday was a holiday and the MFA topic is important and difficult, Prof. Fernanda will repeat the class of Monday this Friday. Next Monday I will introduce energy balance on Monday class and Friday 18th I will merge two classes (energy balance and energy in buildings) and we will get back to the normal schedule.BestCarlos Silva

LCA Exercises

1 outubro 2018, 23:33 • Fernanda Maria Ramos da Cruz Margarido

 Exercise 1 -

Life Cycle Assessment – Definition of objectives and scope
 
Consider a company that produces and sells smartphones. This company is currently assessing the environmental impact of its activity, representing this assessment of the major challenges in this sector. This analysis is crucial, given the increase in smartphone
production as a result of its widespread use and its useful life increasingly reduced. 
In view of the application of Life Cycle Assessment technique define the objectives and scope of the analysis. In particular, you should follow these steps: 

A. Representing the smartphone lifecycle, identifying clearly:
i. The various operations involved (from extraction of raw materials to the final   use  of the product); 
ii. List of components for assembling a smartphone;
 iii. Main flows; 
iv. Boundary entities, geographical and temporal;

B. Based on the presented life cycle, identify the functional unit of the system considering that environmental impacts are being assessed at different levels of the supply chain, in particular, by the following professionals
 i. product design engineer.
ii. Process engineer.

C. propose scenarios that possibly will achieve reductions in environmental impacts


Exercise 2 -
 
Determine the Functional Unit of the following cases:
 
a) Environmental impact assessment of a backpack 
b) Environmental impact assessment of an olive plantation
c)  Comparison of the environmental impact of a pencil and a pen
d)  Comparison of the environmental impact of production energy efficiency through a wind turbine and a solar panel  
 
Exercise 3 -
Put yourself in the position of an LCA analyst at a company that produce paper bags, where you are asked to take a LCA for a new type of bag. Set the objective and scope for your evaluation.
 
Exercise 4 -
Present the generic life cycle of a Washing machine. Set a LCA study, the goal and the boundary that fits the goal you defined, and also the functional unit.
 

REGISTRATION in the MOOC

1 outubro 2018, 22:34 • Carlos Augusto Santos Silva

Dear all,
For some reason yet to be solved by the MOOC platform team, the ourse is not showing up in the catalog.
Please try to go directly to the course link


https://courses.mooc.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/courses/course-v1:IST+esX+2018/about

and register from there.

In any case, the team is working on the issue, it should be solved very quickly.
Best

Carlos Silva

MOOC Energy Services

28 setembro 2018, 19:47 • Carlos Augusto Santos Silva

Dear all

The MOOC Energy Services will start next Monday October 1st. You can register already in the IST MOOC platform courses.mooc.tecnico.ulisboa.pt.


PLEASE USE YOUR IST ID credentials (istXXXXXXX)

Registration will be available until Ocotber 14th.


This MOOC is divided in 4 topics that are covered during the classes of week 2, 5, 6 and 7, namely:

1. Introduction to Energy Systems: 1st - 7th October

2. Energy Services in Buildings: 8th - 14th October

3. Space Heating and Cooling: 15th - 21st October

4. Hot water, Lighting and Electrical Devices: 22nd October -28th October

For each topic/week, a set of videos related to the multiple subtopics will be released, and, for consolidating the presented concepts, there will be a quiz after each video. These successful completion of these quizzes correspond to 10% of the final grade of the MOOC.

At the end of each topic/week, a mid-term assignment needs to be completed. The successful conclusion of the 4 mid-terms corresponds to 50% of the final grade.

 At the end of the 4 weeks/topics, there will be a final evaluation to conclude your participation. This final evaluation is composed by an assignment that needs to be concluded by November 5th. 

Between November 5th and November 11th, you will be requested to review your peers assignments and only then, you will have concluded the final evaluation. The successful conclusion of the final evaluation corresponds to 40% of the final grade.

It is expected that you will follow each topic every week, but if you get behind, you have the chance to  catch up until November 5th.

The MOOC will close on November 5th, at 23H59M. After this date, you will no longer be able to participate in the MOOC and use it for the evaluation.

Remember that the grade of the MOOC may be used to replace one question of the exam, but it is not mandatory and you will always have the chance to improve the grade during the exam.

So, if you want to participate, please register at courses.mooc.tecnico.ulisboa.pt, using your IST ID (to be easy to link it to your grade)

I hope you participate, enjoy and i will look forward to listen to your comments and suggestions to improve it by email or in the course forum.
Best regards

GOOD LUCK!


Carlos Santos Silva