Material Selection

Course contents

- Material efficiency & resource conservation
- Production, recycling and ecology of metals
- Materials from renewable resources, composite materials, inorganic and non-metallic materials.
- Ecological material properties (CO2-equivalence), raw material and energy consumption during production and processing, recyclability.
- Decision process for the right material selection
- Saving of raw materials during processing of workpieces
- Recycling of waste
- Combination of processing steps, resource conservation
- Durability of products

Department

Master's Program Industrial Engineering & Management