ABSTRACT
Life cycle thinking (LCT) can potentially assist in the development of a circular economy and triple bottom line thinking. It assists engineers, planners, environmental managers and scientists to innovate and use products and processes (e.g. resource recovery, remanufacturing, multifunctional devices, energy storage system, digitization) during the product/service life cycle to help achieve closed-loop material flow and to decouple emissions and resource use from economic growth. This chapter reviews how the concept of LCT has been incorporated in a multidisciplinary engineering unit to enhance the value and importance of sustainability education in an undergraduate engineering degree.
