Sustainable Engineering and End-of-Life Management Lab

Investigates sustainability and engineering applications, including environmental impacts from engineered products. Research themes include:

Evaluating end-of-life opportunities for recovered materials, including the automotive industry
Assessing the functionality, resiliency, and sustainability for infrastructure systems
Classifying brownfield site redevelopment opportunities
Assessing and benchmarking engineered products and systems
Undertaking and developing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and environmental metrics for applications, including:
- LCA of bio-based ethanol production alternatives
- Passenger vehicle LCA methodologies
- End-of-life vehicle life cycle inventory assessment
- LCA of Bio-based materials use in the automotive industry
- LCA of automotive paint solvent recycling alternatives
Provides solutions for waste management and materials recycling and recoverability for the emerging circular economy. Examples include:
- ICI (industrial, commercial, institutional) and municipal waste audits and waste minimization studies
- Comminution and liberation of plastics from commercial plastic products with and without cryogenic pre-treatment
- Assessment of organic waste management in cold weather climates using black soldier fly

Contact: Dr. Edwin Tam
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
519-253-3000, Ext. 2561
edwintam@uwindsor.ca