Material conversion from source to useful products often has tremendous detrimental environmental implications in terms of energy demands, greenhouse gas emissions, and other toxic waste releases. This workshop will highlight and discuss how the transition to a cleaner, greener, and sustainable future requires understanding the relationship between materials selection, processing and manufacturing options, product design and its use, and various end-of-life strategies while improving economic, social, and environmental capitals.
Speakers and Topics:
Toni Marechaux, Lead Analyst, Booz Allen Hamilton
Implications for the electrification of metals processing
Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability
Industrial decarbonization through a sociotechnical lens
Tatiana Vakhitova, Sustainability Lead, Ansys Academic Program
Ansys Granta software for material selection and sustainable product design
Facilitated by Uday Pal and Joerg Werner (BU College of Engineering).