Goals: the course is given at an early stage for students to understand the major areas and issues of the Metallurgical Technology study programme. Through practicals, students become aware of the correlation between theoretical explanations and understanding of the phenomena observed in a laboratory and their applications as well as industrial processes of making melts ... Read more
General description: Acquiring knowledge on physical aspects of metallurgy and physical-metallurgical factors to understand the structure and microstructure of metals and alloys; understanding the nature of solidification processes in metal-based materials in real conditions; transitions from liquid to solid and changes in the solid state; ability to use basic methods for performing metallographic analyses and ... Read more
Goals: Acquisition of fundamental knowledge necessary for the study of reasons and conditions of motion of solid bodies and fluids. The course is divided into three chapters: Statics of rigid bodies, statics of deformable bodies and fluid mechanics. The first chapter provides the fundamentals on rigid body statics: composition and decomposition of forces, reaction forces ... Read more
Goals: acquiring basic concepts about heat and temperature, fuels, combustion and mechanisms of heat transfer in nature and engineering. Students acquire skills for analysing heat engineering phenomena and heat transfer as well as skills for teamwork and use of professional literature and electronic information sources.
Goals: ability to use computers as a support in solving professional problems, writing programs using more sophisticated programming languages; developing algorithms and data structures for data evaluation, using computers in a work process and presenting complex problems in a format that can be processed by a computer programmer; using commercially available and open-code software for ... Read more
Goals: Students acquire fundamental knowledge necessary for communication with other engineering professions. The course provides basic knowledge about technical documentation, graphic presentation of engineering concepts and objects, basic machine elements, assemblies and machines that are commonly applied in the field of materials technology. Topics of the course cover: methods of dimensioning basic machine elements with ... Read more
Goals: deepening and upgrading previous knowledge of chemistry: understanding basic chemical concepts and stoichiometry. Contents: methods, definitions and basic concepts in chemistry, atoms and elements, molecules and compounds, chemical reactions, interactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, structure of atoms, periodicity, chemical bonds and molecular structure, orbitals, metal bonds, gases, intermolecular forces, liquids and solids, solutions, chemical ... Read more
Goals: deepening and upgrading previous knowledge in physics and its application in other professional courses; developing critical and analytical thinking for experimental work and solving technical problems. Topics of the course cover: mass point mechanics, rigid body mechanics, oscillation, fluid mechanics, heat, second law of thermodynamics, electrostatics, magnetic field, oscillations in matter, wave optics, photometry, ... Read more