Last planned examination: Spring 2024
Decision to discontinue this course:
No information inserted
The course aims to provide basic knowledge in materials and manufacturing technology.
- The connection between properties and applications for the most common construction materials
- New materials - their properties and uses
- The production and use of materials in a historical perspective
- The most common manufacturing processes and material-processing methods in mass production
- Recycling and reuse of materials
After completing the course, students should be able to:
- Describe the common properties of materials and material potentials and limitations on the basis of applications,
- Explain the context in which ordinary manufacturing methods are used and the opportunities and limitations they have,
- Describe how the choice of materials and manufacturing methods can have consequences for the individual, society and the environment,
- with a problem scenario as a starting point propose materials and manufacturing of a product,
- Describe and reflect on how technology content mentioned in the above can serve as subject matter in school technology subjects for grades 7-9 and give suggestions on how it can be taught and assessed.
Further information to come at least three weeks before course start
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
SEM1, seminar 1.5 credits. Grading scale P / F
INL1 - Task 3 credits. Grading scale P / F
PRO1 - Project 3 credits. Grading scale P / F
