Proceedings of the 6th Global Conference on Education and Teaching
Year: 2024
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Composites and Lattice Structured Materials as Innovations of Courses And Study Programs in General Mechanical Engineering
Zuzana Murčinkováand Tibor Krenický
ABSTRACT:
The paper provides and describes the base points for the new or innovative curriculum of course/s focusing on advanced materials such as composites and lattice structured materials. Modern materials need the next generation of design as composites and lattice structured materials can replace the conventional monolithic materials in the appropriate parts of machines, machine tools and devices. Perspective and applications of modern materials involving composite and lattice structured materials are beneficial for any industry, for many structural, biomedical, electrochemical energy storage, electronics, and robotics applications as they create high-performance products with multi-scale optimized structure and function. On the other hand, the faculties of mechanical engineering need to face the trends of simplification of the mechanics curriculum courses due to their difficulty for students. However, a student without knowledge and skills in composite and lattice structured materials is an “old-fashioned” student. The faculties and universities have to provide a curriculum in this field to be modern, moreover, mechanics has to regain its dignified and irreplaceable place among other bachelor and engineering courses, as mechanical engineers are not strong without mechanics.
keywords: curriculum, modern, advanced material, perspective, base knowledge