Nabil Nasr, director of the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery at Rochester Institute of Technology will give one of the keynote addresses at the 13 th International Conference ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

As concerns about population growth, global warming, resource scarcity, globalization, and environmental degradation have increased, it has become apparent that engineering design must be engaged more ...

Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial “afterlife". Embedded entropy and complexity must be viewed as an investment when making design choices on recycle, ...