Course Content
- Introduction to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
- Energy consumption from Computing
- Critical Raw Materials
- Computing and Critical Raw Materials
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management
- The relation of computing to WEEE generation
- Τhe positive contributions of Computing on Sustainability (process optimisation, dematerialisation, advanced simulation of environmental phenomena)
- Introduction to the Green Economy Principles
-Entrepreneurship, smart technologies, and sustainability
-ESG and computing
-Sustainable consumption and ΙοT
-Global environmental problems and artificial intelligence
Learning Outcomes
Following the completion of the course, the students are expected to:
- Identify the correlation of Computing with the production and use of electrical energy
- Identify the correlation of Computing with Critical Raw Materials
- Identify the correlation of Computing with the generation of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Identify the positive contributions of Computing on Sustainability (process optimisation, dematerialisation, advanced simulation of environmental phenomena)
