After successful completion of the course, students are able to discuss technical questions and problems, to review the state-of-the-art in a given particular technical segment using international libraries, to extract and relate to each other technical scientific items, to apply correctly citation rules, and to present their seminar work to an interested audience.
Material properties: metals, ceramics, liquid insulators, gas sensing materials, ferroelectric materials, superconductors, ferromagnetic materials, ferrites, diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials. Substrate materials. The participant will be involved in one of these topics.
Learning to use local libraries and web-based information services for performing a technical scientific literature research to a given particular subject, write a seminar work, prepare a presentation, and to present their work.