COURSE NUMBER: MBA 290T.5* Cross-listed with COE, SIMS

COURSE TITLE: Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3

INSTRUCTOR: David Dornfeld (in charge); Nikhil Krishnan, Edward Quevido

E-MAIL ADDRESS: dornfeld@berkeley.edu

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL): to be determined

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Wednesday 2:00-4:00 PM

PREREQUISITE(S): Graduate standing in Engineering, MBA program or consent of instructor

CLASS FORMAT (Will there be lectures, cases, or a mixture?):

Lectures and discussion and presentations by guest lectures

REQUIRED READINGS (Not a list of specific readings but a statement of

whether you will use a textbook, cases, course reader, readings on reserve,

or a mixture.): Course Reader

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE (midterm, final, paper(s), project(s), class

participation, or a mixture): Class participation/discussion based on reader, review and short oral presentation of summary of an appropriate paper/article from literature, team project and final report.

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES: Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management as exercised by the enterprise is a poorly understood idea and one that is not intuitively connected to business value or engineering practice. This course will provide the basis for understanding (1) what comprises sustainable practices in for-profit enterprises, (2) how to practice and measure continuous improvement using sustainability thinking, techniques and tools for product and manufacturing process design, and (3) the techniques for and value of effective communication of sustainability performance to internal and external audiences.

Material in the course will be supplemented by speakers with diverse backgrounds in corporate sustainability, environmental consulting, and academia.

Discussions of papers in the reader including case studies will be used to illustrate topics. A final class project will be required with students working individually or in small groups. Cross functional groups including both engineering and MBA students are encouraged. Class projects will apply the analysis techniques covered in this course to design and develop sustainable environmentally mindful products or processes or analyze policies that lead to environmental improvements. Interaction with industry and collection of real-world data will be encouraged. In lieu of a formal discussion section, students will work on the team project outside of the regular class meeting.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

David Dornfeld: David Dornfeld received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 in the area of Production Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the study of the fundamentals of the mechanical pulping process (abrasive machining). He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1977 and is presently Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. Since July 1, 1999 he holds the first Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering. He is presently Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Engineering. He is past-Director of the Engineering Systems Research Center in the College of Engineering. In 1982 and 1992 he was Directeur de Recherche Associe, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, Paris and Invited Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers- ENSAM, Paris, respectively.

Dr. Dornfeld's research activities are in several fields of manufacturing engineering and flexible automation; monitoring and analysis of manufacturing processes (e,g, cleanability and burr formation and edge finishing where he leads an industry consortium supporting work in this area); precision manufacturing with specialization on chemical mechanical planarization for semiconductor manufacturing; green and sustainable manufacturing; and intelligent sensors and signal processing for process monitoring and optimization. He has published over 280 papers in these fields, authored one research monograph, contributed chapters to several books and has five patents based on his research work. He is a consultant on sensors, mechanical design, manufacturing productivity and automation and process modeling and the associated intellectual property issues.

Professor Dornfeld is a Fellow and an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), contributing to the technical programs and journals of the society. He is the past Technical Editor, Trans. ASME, Journal of Engineering for Industry. He was the recipient of the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 1986. He is a Fellow and past-Director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a recipient of the 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal, member of Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of the 2005 Takagi Award, American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE), Materials Research Society (MRS) and the U.S. Acoustic Emission Working Group (AEWG). He is past-President of the Board of Directors and a member of the Scientific Committee, North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI/SME). He is an Active Member of the CIRP (International Institution for Production Engineering Research) and member of the board of directors and has served as co-chair of the Working Group on Tool Condition Monitoring, Working Group on High Performance Cutting and is past-Chair of the Scientific Technical Committee on Cutting.

Nikhil Krishnan, is Systems Engineering Project Manager at Applied Materials in Santa Clara.

Edward Quevedo is a director of Environmental Management and Sustainability Programs for WSP Environmental, part of WSP Group, a global business consulting organization.