Teaching life cycle assessment to interdisciplinary graduate students

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1090-1095

  Cooper, Joyce Smith ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

LCA; Life cycle assessment; Project based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249007225     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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