After successful completion of the course, students are able to work out topics that have been brought to them in technically and scientifically adequat manner. They are capable of extracting information from scientific literature, text books as well as online sources and assemble this information into a global picture.

Choice of an example of material application in mechanical engineering, elaboration of requirements, comparison with materials performance, selction of shaping methods, cheking of specific characterisation methods.

A (generic) list of topics can be downloaded as pdf-File.

Literature survey to an agreed topic and final presentation of the results in the framework of an adequate institute event (e.g., materialsTUday).

The topic will be sorted out with the student, who shall deal with it by studies of literature and experiments.

Final presentation.

Nach Vereinbarung mit den Vortragenden (Email)

Basic knowledge in material science and technology.