A written examination examines the lecture stuff. A project task is distributed, to be carried out in groups of 4-6 persons. The moments of this task consist of literature search, problem solving, report writing and oral presentation. The subject for the task consists of themes which can be varied each year (e.g.materials in everyday products such as means of payment).
Lectures in MATLAB and choice of materials are followed by laboratory work (3 and 2 experiments respectively per part).
Compulsory educational visit.
Lectures in information searching, reference systems, plagiarism and source critique are followed by laboratory exercises.
After finished course the student should be able to:
- Describe the structure of metals, ceramics, polymers and fiber based materials
- Describe the properties (strength, shear, compression, corrosion resistance and degradation) characterizing metals, ceramics, polymers and fiber based materials.
- Be able to do simple reflexions concerning material choice for certain applications/final products
- Be able to schematically describe recovery processes for the most common materials
- Be able to schematically describe the most common testing methods for materials
- Carry out a project in a group and present it in writing and orally
- Search for and collect information from libraries and the Internet Perform proper referencing of scientific information
- Critically evaluate and judge information from internet sources, books and journals etc.
- Solve simple numerical and analytical problems with the aid of computer programs.
