Eco Audit Tool

The new Eco Audit Tool calculates the energy and carbon footprint of a product at different stages in its life cycle, based on the materials and processes used in the product and some simple data about its transportation and use. The tool allows the user to identify the life phase or phases that contribute most to the product's environmental impact, and thus to focus on the best strategies for reducing this impact. The aim of the Eco Audit Tool is to help in introducing students to the concepts of eco-design and to support design for low carbon footprint and energy efficiency.

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Bio Engineering Edition

This new edition augments the standard database of engineering materials with new data covering Bio Materials. This includes categories on the basic building blocks of natural materials, soft tissue, mineralized tissue, woods & wood-like materials, fibers, implant and man-made materials. CES EduPack can now support Bio Engineering and similar courses, allowing students to:

• Explore how nature’s structural building blocks combine to give great diversity
  
  
• Compare the properties of natural & man made materials
  
  
• Explore bio-mimicry – how nature optimizes performance
  
  
• Examine substitution - which materials may be used for implants or organ transplant?

A new paper describing the Bio Materials database is available within our information pack.

Links to Standard Materials Texts

A further reading section has been added to each Science Note. This provides an explicit connection between CES EduPack and a number of standard materials texts with which it is already in use. These include:

• Callister's Materials Science and Engineering, an Introduction
  
  
• Budinski and Budinski's Engineering Materials, Properties, and Selection
  
  
• Askeland and Phulé's The Science and Engineering of Materials

German and French Editions

CES EduPack is used at over 600 universities and colleges worldwide.

Support for German universities is extended through the translation of the Level 1 & 2 database content into German. This means that German students will now find it much easier to use CES EduPack's information resources.

French users will find that the CES EduPack Science Notes have now also been translated, improving the link to the underlying science for students at French universities and lycées.

Miscellaneous improvements

A number of new software features improve the usability and presentation of CES EduPack. These include:

• Improved, clearer datasheet format
  
  
• Ability to change fonts on a datasheet
  
  
• Improved help