Dear fellow LCA students, teachers, and course developers,

September 21, 2026 by ILCA

I teach students in a final-year project course on early-stage (conceptual and preliminary) design engineering of industrial processes, where students are exercising design-stage choices (equipment, flowsheet configuration, feedstock selection, e.g., around distillation, reactor, or separation-unit design) under significant data and time constraints. I would like to attend a course that can help me to integrate LCA methodology into this setting, i.e., grounded in a practical, design-stage application (rather than purely retrospective/attributional LCA of existing systems). For my teaching, I plan to introduce openLCA as the modeling platform, linked to an LCA database that is free and accessible for a large student cohort in a resource-constrained setting.

If anyone knows of a course that addresses my needs, please let me know, since I have received a scholarship from the International Life Cycle Academy that allows me to either attend or co-develop such a course.

Likewise, if you are in the same situation as I, looking for a course on this topic, and have sufficient funding to attend, please let me know, so we can estimate how large the demand for such a course is.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Posted by ILCA on behalf of

Dr. Zainab Temitope Yaqub
Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Ilorin, Nigeria