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Goal

Collaborative work to support designers develop sustainable products, services and mfg systems. Designers will need these:

• Guidelines, methods and tools to generate and evaluate sustainable systems
• Indicators/measures to assess sustainability and select appropriate systems
• Training on these to be competent at developing sustainable systems.

Task list

• Compile guidelines, methods and tools for generating sustainable systems
• Compile indicators and measures with which to assess sustainability of systems and select
• Indian Insitute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (A Gupta)
• Compile methods for training designers on using the aforementioned compilations
• Identify and compile case studies that demonstrate the above in the context of real problems
• Identify and compile design problems and solve them using this knowledge: these act as further case studies for training.
• Develop a template for design for sustainability and a template for training future engineers