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 list of currently available 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.

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by M.F. Ashby, (Pergamon 1992), Butterwoth 1999; Cambridge Material & Process Selector (CD-ROM), 2002

Basic knowledge in material science and testing