Regarding sustainability, engineers must adopt a Life Cycle thinking approach, combining their technical and economic evaluations with environmental impact evaluation, including waste and product end-of-life management.

Dr. Nicolas Perry will discuss his research on electrical and electronic equipment waste materials, innovative recycle-based design, and evaluation of waste or by-product management. The combination of different approaches, linking industrial ecology and Life Cycle Thinking can address these major environmental challenges.

Nicolas Perry is Professor at the Arts et Métiers in Bordeaux and at the Mechanical and Engineering Institute of Bordeaux. He is invited by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies as laureate of an award in the program French Scholars Lecture Series.

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