Available opportunities for theses and traineeships

Topic suggestions for theses

The following topics are available for B.S. and M.S. theses:

• Life cycle assessment of a thermonuclear plant.
• Structural assessment and evaluation of a biomedical device.
• Proposal for a sustainable model to be applied to a low income country.
• Life cycle assessment of human activities in Italy.
• LCA methodology applied to urban traffic: environmental and economic assessment of the current situation and proposal for improvement.
• Life cycle assessment of a hazardous waste.
• LCA methodology applied to the environmental and economic assessment of a product (agri-food, industrial, electronic, chemical, etc.) with the aim of obtaining an environmental certification.
• LCA methodology applied to a service: environmental and economic assessment of a service (school, hospital, canteen, transport vehicle, etc.) also aimed at obtaining an environmental certification.
• LCA methodology applied to the production of an agri-food product (cereal, milk, cheese, wine, sugar, oil, meat, etc.). Environmental and economic assessment of conventional and organic production.
• Environmental and economic assessment of a Local Plan for Waste Management using the life cycle assessment methodology.
• Life cycle assessment of a waste to be incinerated.
• Life cycle assessment of a waste to be buried in a landfill.
• Design of a low environmental impact building: An energy and environmental analysis.
• Low environmental impact building renovation: An energy and environmental analysis.
• Determining the characteristics of pollutants with the aim of defining a method for life cycle assessment in Italy.
• Determining the characteristics of damages to the local area caused by human activities, so as to define a method for life cycle assessment in Italy.
• Minerals and fossil fuel consumption evaluation in Italy: Assessment of the damages caused by their exhaustion and application to life cycle assessment of a resource.
• Evaluation of energy and environmental benefits of a biomass by using the life cycle assessment methodology.