Resumen de Teaching life cycle assessment to interdisciplinary graduate students
A course in Life Cycle Assessment has engaged graduate students in engineering, forestry, business administration, and public policy atthe University of Washington since 2003. The course pedagogy is project-based and supported by discussion-rich lectures that provide`just-in-time' knowledge for student projects. Project feedback is provided through three interim reports, the first describing the goaland scope of their project, the second describing and presenting their inventory analysis and the third describing their impactcharacterization. The final report combines these three interim reports (with responses to instructor comments), and adds the student'sinterpretation of the results.Students are encouraged to select projects related to their graduate research, which has contributed notonly to the student experience but also to an understanding of LCA in research labs throughout the university. Although studentprojects are limited in scope and by simplifying assumptions, computational nuances and all steps in the LCA process are implemented.
