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.
Assess environmental impacts across a product lifecycle.
Evaluate trade-offs between competing design alternatives.
Apply technical strategies that improve sustainability performance.
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
Business Models PSS
The Natural Step Backcasting
Equity & Inclusion
Collaboration and Leadership
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.
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.
- Assess environmental impacts across a product lifecycle.
- Evaluate trade-offs between competing design alternatives.
- Apply technical strategies that improve sustainability performance.
- 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
- Business Models PSS
- The Natural Step Backcasting
- Equity & Inclusion
- Collaboration and Leadership
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.
