Translating Sustainability Metrics Into Engineering Decisions: Exploring Strategies for Sustainable Material Use in Design and Manufacturing
- Participants: Dr. Hannah Budinoff, Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE); Hongyue Jin, Assistant Professor (SIE); David Manford, PhD student
Key goals of this SMMR-funded research effort are to explore how environmental impact affects engineers’ decision-making during mine design, and to pilot an engineering decision-making study for additive manufacturing.
Progress to date includes start-up of a life cycle assessment database to calculate sustainability metrics for fused filament fabrication (FFF), development of predictive models to predict material usage and energy usage during FFF processing, and development of a Cura tool to integrate sustainability metrics into manufacturing preparation.