TKMJ29 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Energi- och miljöteknik, Produktutveckling, Maskinteknik
Resource Efficient Products
Active · next start VT 2027
76%
passed the latest ordinary exam
DIT1 · 4 Jun 2026 · 46 students
89%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
DIT1 · 140 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
76% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (46 students), against 96% on average in earlier years (94 students).
Part of 4 programmes
Exam
DIT1 Digital examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
89% passed · 140 students
- 76%46
- 96%48
- 96%46
Re-exams
50% passed · 10 students
- 50%10
- Pass the re-exam: 50% (10 students), compared with 89% (140 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 45% (150 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 50%2
- 100%2
- 50%2
- 100%2
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
71% passed · 97 students
- 78%41
- 66%56
Re-exams
68% passed · 31 students
- 60%5
- 33%9
- 83%6
- 83%6
- 100%5
- Pass the re-exam: 68% (31 students), compared with 71% (97 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 13% (128 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
- 100%1
- 67%3
- 100%1
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
- U
Main rounds
98% passed · 246 students
- 100%46
- 100%51
- 100%50
- 100%38
- 93%61
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Show small sittings (1)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%1
About the course
Aim
The course will give students an understanding of how to realize the potential for more resource-efficient and thereby less environmentally-demanding products. This is achieved by taking the lifecycle perspective as a starting point and utilizing relevant design, material and production choices. Upon successful completion of the course, a student should be able to do the followings in English:
- Understand and describe the connection between our society’s use of products and resources and environmental related problems.
- Understand and describe basic concepts such as lifecycle perspective, environmental effect, sub-optimization, functional unit, sustainable development, eco-design, greenhouse effect and precautionary principle.
- Use and understand methodological tools such as Disassembly Analysis, checklists (e.g. Eco Strategy Wheel), and Quality Function Deployment for Environment.
- Understand the concepts of Life Cycle Assessment and interpret results from a Life Cycle Assessment.
- Understand and use some general strategies for improving resource efficiency of products.
- Apply the course’s content in the analysis of an existing product (on the market) from resource efficiency and environmental perspectives. This will produce general resource efficiency and environmentally-related improvement suggestions. Furthermore, it will require the identification and analysis of basic energy-, material- and environmentally-related product requirements.
Content
Review of overall concepts such as lifecycle perspective, environmental effect, sub-optimization, functional unit, system boundaries, sustainable development, eco-design, greenhouse effect and precautionary principle. Basic introduction to Life Cycle Assessment methodology. Some methods and tools for resource efficient product development, theory and practice of e.g. Disassembly Analysis, checklist, QFD for Environment. Mandatory group project work where the students, given an existing product (on the market), apply theory and methodology from the course to analyze and provide general resource- and environmentally-related improvement suggestions. This will include the identification and analysis of basic energy-, material- and environmentally-related product requirements.
- Examiner
- Tomohiko Sakao
- Scheduled hours
- 36 h
- Main field of study
- Energi- och miljöteknik, Produktutveckling, Maskinteknik