EC1 - The holder of the degree thinks and acts professionally with an appropriate engineering attitude and continuous focus on personal development, adequately communicates, effectively cooperates, takes into account the sustainable, economical, ethical, social and/or international context and is hereby aware of the impact on the environment.

DC-M8 - The studentcan evaluate knowledge and skills critically to adjust own reasoning and course of action accordingly.

The student can select appropriate materials for arbitrary applications and propose suitable production technologies for given products. He/she can recognize production defects and propose possible solutions. In the lab sessions the student elaboratesappropriate experiments.

DC-M9 - The student can communicate in oral and in written (also graphical) form.

The students write a report on the material selection project and present this in front of an internal jury.

The students write reports about the lab sessions.

DC-M10 - The studentcan function constructively and responsibly as member of a (multidisciplinary) team.

The students work in teams for the material selection project and for the lab sessions.

DC-M11 - The studentacts socially responsible and within an international framework.

DC-M12 - The studentshows a suitable engineering attitude.

EC5 - The holder of the degree has specialist knowledge of and insight in principles and applications within the domains of material science, production and mechanical design or the domain of automation in which he/she can independently identify and critically analyse  unfamiliar, complex design or optimisation problems, and methodologically create solutions with eye for data processing and implementation, with the help of numerical simulation techniques or advanced tools, aware of potential mistakes, practical constraints and with attention to the recent technological developments.

DC-M1 - The studenthas knowledge of the basic concepts, structures and coherence.

The student can explain the methodological approach for material selection according to Ashby's method.

The student can explain the properties and behavior of all material families.

The master can explain the interactions betweenmaterial properties, production process and product properties when using plastic metal forming processes.

The master can explain issues of sustainable materials.

The student acquires advanced knowledge of the material properties ofpolymers. He/she can explain the principles of polymer forming technologies and simulation techniques.

DC-M2 - The studenthas insight in the basic concepts and methods.

The student has advanced insights in the topics listed in DC-M1.

DC-M3 - The studentcan recognize problems, plan activities and perform accordingly.

DC-M4 - The studentcan gather, measure or obtain information and refer to it correctly.

In the material selection project the student collects relevant information about products, materials and production processes.

In the lab sessions the student performs experiments for characterization of the mechanical and the thermal behaviorof polymers.

DC-M5 - The student can analyze problems, logically structure and interpret them.

In the material selection project the student analyses the required product functionalities, formulates the product requirements and translates these into material property requirements.

In the lab sessions the students processes and interpretsexperimental data of mechanical and thermal material tests (see EC4). The results must be reported in scientifically accepted terms.

In a lab session the student analyses material problems and product defects in injection moulding processes.

DC-M6 - The studentcan select methods and make calculated choices to solve problems or design solutions.

In the material selection project the students adopt a systematic and scientifically based approach for choosing a suitable material and production techniques.

DC-M8 - The studentcan evaluate knowledge and skills critically to adjust own reasoning and course of action accordingly.

In the material selection project the students reflect on the material choice, suitable production techniques and the sustainability of the proposed solution.

The student can select appropriate materials for arbitrary applications and proposesuitable production technologies for given products. He/she can recognize production defects and propose possible solutions. In the lab sessions the student elaborates appropriate experiments.