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Design for Sustainability Learning Path

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Build practical sustainability skills through three stackable microcredentials focused on goals and metrics, technical strategies, and business impact.

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This Self Study course is designed to be taken at your convenience and on your own schedule. You have 365 days from the time of purchase to finish the course.  Purchases of free member courses on behalf of non-members are subject to cancellation.  You must be a member to take advantage of this benefit.


Included in this Learning Path:
Design for Sustainability Part 1: Goals and Metrics (Self Study)

Turn sustainability into actionable design decisions. Learn lifecycle thinking, key frameworks, and fast LCA to set measurable goals, evaluate trade-offs, and make evidence-based decisions.

$95
Design for Sustainability Part 2: Technical Strategies (Self Study)

Improve product sustainability and circularity across the entire life cycle with practical engineering strategies spanning materials, manufacturing, transport, use, product longevity, and end-of-life.

$95
Design for Sustainability Part 3 – Business & Social Strategies (Self Study)

This course equips you with the tools to build support for your sustainability work and aligning your design decisions with organizational goals and constraints.

$95

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$285

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$90
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Organizations and engineering professionals are increasingly tasked with balancing environmental, economic, social, and business considerations while delivering innovative products and solutions. The Design for Sustainability Learning Path provides a structured framework to help professionals develop the systems mindset, analytical tools, and business fluency needed to transform sustainability goals into actionable engineering decisions.

By participating in this learning path, you will learn how to successfully:

  • Establish meaningful sustainability goals and metrics.
  • Quantify environmental impacts across a product lifecycle.
  • Evaluate trade-offs between competing design alternatives.
  • Apply technical strategies, methods, and tools to improve sustainability.
  • Build stakeholder alignment and business support for sustainable initiatives.
  • Communicate sustainability decisions using credible, evidence-based approaches.

Who should attend?

This learning path is designed for:

  • Engineers
  • Industrial Designers
  • Product Managers
  • Sustainability Professionals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Technical Leaders
  • Innovation and Strategy Professionals

It is ideal for professionals who need to align design decisions with environmental, economic, social, organizational, and regulatory considerations while maintaining business value and engineering rigor.

Course Materials (included in purchase of course)

Digital course notes via ASME s Learning Hub

  • Part 1 - Exercises and resources
    • Sustainable Development Goals Exercise 
    • Ecodesign Exercise
    • Doing Fast Track LCA Exercise
    • LCA Priorities files
    • LCA Comparison files
  • Idemat calculator
  • Part 2 - Exercises and resources 
    • Whole System Mapping Exercise 
    • Material Choice Exercise
    • Energy Priorities Exercise
    • Lifetime Extension Exercise
    • Design for Recycling Exercise
  • Part 3 - Exercises and resources
    • Behavior change Exercise
    • Business Models PSS Exercise
    • The Natural Step Backcasting Exercise
    • Equity & Inclusion Exercise
    • Collaboration and Leadership Exercise

Supplemental Course Materials (not included with course, purchase separately)

Sustainable Design from Vision to Action, 1st Edition - by Jeremy Faludi

A Certificate of Completion and Digital Badge will be issued to registrants who successfully complete the course by achieving a passing score of 75% or higher on the final exam for each course in the Learning Path.

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Instructor

Jeremy Faludi, PhD

Professor, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft

Dr. Jeremy Faludi is a sustainable design strategist and researcher.  He teaches at TU Delft, and is a member of the faculty of industrial design engineering, and consults.

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