ME52045: Building sustainable value
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWOG 25%, CWRI 75% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Strategic analysis report (CWRI 75%)
- Team Presentation (CWOG 25%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Define sustainable value in holistic terms.
- Employ and critique appropriate techniques that can be used to assess sustainable value, including but not limited to those based on economic models, lifecycle thinking and systems analysis.
- Evaluate organisations, products, services and activities in terms of sustainable value.
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| Synopsis: | Explore the concepts of sustainability and value, and how they relate to forces that require a strategic response (like the climate emergency or the biodiversity crisis). You will learn to identify effective strategies for building sustainable value in a holistic sense, and how to create and apply recommendations in contemporary organisations.
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| Content: | Sustainable Value as a strategic driver
Systems and Lifecycle Thinking
Science based decision making
Sustainable business Models
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| Course availability: |
ME52045 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Management
- TMMN-AFM68 : MSc Innovation and Technology Management
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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