Sustainable Materials: Recycling, Upcycling, And Circular Economy Approaches
This online engineering CPD course provides a comprehensive understanding of environmentally responsible material selection, use, and reuse.
The engineering profession is increasingly shaped by the urgent need to mitigate environmental degradation, resource depletion, and climate instability. Traditional material choices in civil, structural, and mechanical engineering have long prioritized mechanical performance and economic cost over environmental consequences.
Recycling, upcycling, and circular economy approaches keep materials in use for longer, lower embodied energy and carbon, and reduce waste, while emerging material systems such as thermoelectric converters, phase-change systems, biopolymers, and carbon-capturing concretes support sustainable infrastructure.
This course covers sustainable engineering materials, material life cycle and environmental metrics, recycling science, upcycling techniques, and circular economy frameworks. It also emphasizes sustainable materials for civil and structural applications, energy materials, batteries and electronic materials, sustainable chemical processes, and codes, certification systems, and lifecycle assessment (LCA) tools.
This 3 CPD online course is applicable to civil and mechanical engineers, as well as other technical professionals who are interested in learning more about the lifecycle of engineering materials and how to address their environmental challenges.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the lifecycle environmental impacts of construction and engineering materials using embodied energy and carbon accounting
- Familiarizing with the mechanical and durability performance of recycled and upcycled materials
- Applying circular economy principles, including modular design, disassembly, and reverse logistics, to material selection and systems design
- Understanding the role of advanced materials in energy conversion, thermal management, and smart infrastructure
- Learning how to integrate sustainable material certifications, environmental product declarations (EPDs), and lifecycle assessment tools into engineering workflows
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Sustainable Materials: Recycling, Upcycling, And Circular Economy Approaches”, prepared by Dr Jeelan Moghraby, PhD., MBA.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 3 CPD credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.