3rd year | Semester 5
Processes and Sustainable Materials

Materials and environment

Tags: energy processing, housing materials, mineral resources
Evaluation method:
three oral presentations (brainstorming, mid-term, final)
Course outline:

The module covers new technologies applied to environmental materials and especially those for housing. The major problems of the sustainable world are linked to energy, the disappearance of many mineral resources and environmental pollution. The course will include a part of theoretical courses (12h), company visits and a part of tutored projects (20h) presented by the students themselves and covering the following aspects:
– Environment and energy: materials for energy storage and transformation (photovoltaics, batteries, thermoelectricity…) materials for housings
– Strategic resources: save, substitute, recycle

Learning objectives:

The student should be familiar with the latest developments in materials for the environment and environmentally friendly processes. He knows how to manage a documentation project throughout the semester and present it to his classmates during several brainstorming sessions.

Prerequisites: mineral and solid state chemistry, general chemistry at least bachelor level

Teaching language: FR