KE543: Green Technology

DISCONTINUED – Offered last time autumn 2019. New course KE548  first offered spring 2021. Transitional arrangement entered.

In the course tools within the SDU e-learning system will be utilized. Hence, participation in the course requires the student to be able to use these.

• Give knowledge and understanding of future technological and societal challenges where chemistry can be put to use as well as an understanding of potential chemical solutions. 
• Give the competence to put innovation into a technical context as well as illustrate coherences between innovation, chemistry and society.
• Provide an understanding of the processes and methods within innovation, research and development within the industry and the relation to academic research. 
• Give skills within innovation and applied use of the professional competences within chemistry obtained during the study
• Give competencies for assessing the value and potential problems related to specific technological solutions within chemistry
• Provide skills in oral, visual and written communication of chemical concepts 

• Account for societal and technological challenges based on specific cases as well as the fundamental principles behind potential chemical solutions
• Account for the importance of innovation in relation to the solution of technological challenges
• Describe the general concepts in innovation and development processes and their relevance for scientific innovation
• Assess the societal- and business-related potential as well as drawbacks of a technological solutions. 
• Illustrate possibilities for applied use of theoretical knowledge

• Green technology and sustainability hereunder resource management in chemical synthesis and resource sequestration, energy technology, catalysis, nanotechnology, food technology, food safety, clean drinking water, waste management etc.
• Innovation processes and methods, types/degrees of innovation
• Strategies and methods in chemical research and development
• Patents, novelty evaluation and patent application
• Circular economy, business plans and strategies, corporate social responsibility and scientific social responsibility

The teaching method is based on three phase model.

• Intro phase: 15 hours
• Skills training phase: 30 hours, hereof: tutorials: 20 hours. eExcursion: 10 hours

The intro phase consists of lectures, wherein dialog is created through short discussions. The lectures deal ith innovation concepts and processes, global challenges, patents and novelty evaluation etc. The skill training phase strengthens knowledge and competences within the central parts, e.g. through group work on selected global challenges, novelty evaluation and discussion of selected cases. Communication skills are strengthened through presentations both in smaller groups and in plenum. The training phase also include visits to 1-2 companies/institutions. 

Educational activities 

• Self-study of the course material e.g. articles and videos
• Preparation for the tutorial sessions hereunder analysis of selected technologies for the solution of global challenges and novelty evaluation
•  Independent repletion of the intro- and training phase