Course:BEST402 Industrial Ecology/Learning Activities
2025
Industrial Symbiosis
Design thinking
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- Predict health considerations using data generated from wearable electronics
- Wiki games for sustainability
Prototyping using Claude AI Artifact
- Immersive Virtual Reality Education for Young Learners
- Contact Sync System: Transfer contacts from iOS to Android seamlessly
- Banff Neighbourhood Connect: Connecting our mountain community
- Search Flights & Discover Places: Your complete travel planning companion
- Community Connect: Building stronger neighborhoods together
System dynamics modeling
- Consequences of climate change (an illustration from system dynamics perspective)
- Policy simulation using En-ROADS
- MIT Beer Game Winning Team: Beer for You Co.
Material flow analysis
Infographic literature review
- Using LCAs to Study Food and Land System Sustainability
- How Can Large Language Models Improve Data Quality and Reduce Uncertainty in Life Cycle Analysis?
- Brewery Grain to Animal Feed
- Sustainability in Sports Goods and Consumer Purchase Intention
- Carbon Footprint of Generative AI
- Recycling PET Fibres for Sustainable Textile Production
- Breaking Down Polyethylene Terephthalate: A Review of Ideonella sakaiensis and Its Biodegradation Potential
2024
Design thinking
- Prototyping using Claude AI Artifact
- Jam Board
- Meeting Assistant
- Website Analyzer AI
- [Prompt]: "can you create a tool that would analyze a website and provide optimization ideas using AI?"
- Bus Route Planner
- [Prompt]: "generate a route planning app that provides information on traffic and occupancy load, and allows users to use a chat feature to send updates which will earn them points to free bus rides."
- Environmental Sensitivity Zone Mapper
- Emergency Response Map
System dynamics modeling
- Policy simulation using En-ROADS
- Feedback loop illustrations
- MIT Beer Game Winning Team: Beer Gang
Material flow analysis
Infographic literature review
- Life cycle of beers
- New strategies to recycle single-use nitrile gloves
- Beef patty vs vegan patty
- Cotton & Polyester Fabrics
- Sustainable transportation
- Life Cycle Assessment of Wooden Buildings
- The impact of green roofs walls on reducing carbon emissions
- Current Trends & Challenges in Waste Management in Low-Income and Developing Countries
- Low carbon concrete
- Sustainable concrete
- Carbonation curing
- Wind turbine blades: End-of-life challenges, pathways to solutions
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2023
Debate
- The Effectiveness and Fairness of Forest Carbon Offsets: A Balanced Approach or a Detriment to Climate Change Mitigation?
Infographic literature review
- Microbial pigments
- Assessing the carbon footprint of various generation of biodiesel feedstock
- The Role of Heat Pumps in Producing Low-Carbon Heating/Cooling for Meeting Climate Goals
- Synthetic textile dyes: Challenges and solutions
- An Investigation into the Environmental Impacts of Various Cooking Methods through Life Cycle Assessment
Policy simulation using En-ROADS
MIT Beer Game
Design Thinking: Sustainable Autonomous Transportation Systems
- AI car
- Zoning regulation for autonomous vehicles
- Subscription-based autonomous mobility services
- An app for safe autonomous mobility services
2022
Debate
- Should we end the logging of old growth forest in BC?
- Is planting trees going to save us from climate disasters?
Design Thinking: Circular food systems
- An app to reduce perishable food waste generation by improving inventory management
- A policy framework to regulate food waste during production and to incentive the improvement of food production efficiency
- Addressing imbalance in food waste generation between low- and high-income families
