After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• review social and ethical questions with their technical background
• express their crictical view of special topics of natural science and technic
• get a better understanding of bionic, energy, climate, radioactivity, (ionising) radiation, ...
• look deeper into a special subject and present their findings

1. genesis of technic
2. calculation of technological consequences
3. ethic of science
4. diversitymanagement
5. gender mainstreaming
6. application of ionising radiation in technic and medicine
7. energy
8. problems of nuclear facilities
9. ressources
10. bionic - to be tought by nature for further technologies
11. climate
12. technic, ethic and society

lecture (online with comments)

Skripten / Unterlagen: LV Strahlenphysik, Gesellschaftliche Aspekte ionisierender Strahlung, Strahlenphysiklaische Methoden in Technik und Medizin, Radioökologie

Krieger, Strahlenphysik, Dosimetrie und Strahlenschutz, B.G. Teubner, ISBN 3-519-13078-5

Holmes-Siedle, Adams: Handbook of radiation effects, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-850733-X

Sorenson, Phelps, Physics in Nuclear Medicine, W.B. Saunders Company, ISBN 0-8089-1804-4

Hinterberger, Physik der Teilchenbeschleuniger, Springer, ISBN 3-540-61238-6

Hendee, Biomedical Unse of Radiation, Wiley-VCH, ISBN 3-527-29668-9

Gebeshuber I.C. (2016) "Wo die Maschinen wachsen: Wie Lösungen aus dem Dschungel unser Leben verändern werden", Ecowin Verlag, by Benevento Publishing - Eine Marke der Red Bull Media House GmbH, Wals bei Salzburg, Austria. 236 pages, ISBN 978-3-7110-0090-3

presentation of one special topic + oral exam (eg. both online)

please contact lecturer via email