Course detail
Advanced Materials in Design
FSI-YAM Acad. year: 2021/2022 Summer semester
The course focuses on the use of modern, nontraditional materials in the field of industrial design and on their properties. Students will be able to apply advanced materials because of their advantageous physical properties, which will create original inventive designs with new aesthetic and functional properties.
The aim of the subject is to master work with materials in industrial design, to use progressive properties and to deepen the perception of language of materials such as structure, surface, color and sensory properties. Material analysis of products, especially the material composition of individual components, will increase student awareness of the product lifecycle.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
– The knowledge of current and advanced materials.
- The ability of environmental impact analysis.
- The ability to identify the ecological aspects of design work.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of material properties, logical thinking and knowledge of work with PC is assumed.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course takes the form of lectures and seminars. The lectures provide students with the necessary information about the subject, which is then used practically in the following seminars.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The classified credit is conditioned by: compulsory attendance at the seminars at scheduled hours, consultation with the supervisor according to individual terms. The correctness and the procedure for calculating the environmental impacts of the product, the appropriate choice and application of the design materials, the quality of the individual work stages (sketches, variants, working models, visualizations, variants of the final presentation poster, etc.), the submission of assigned outputs within specified deadlines are evaluated. The final evaluation consists of evaluation of individual projects. A total of up to 100 points can be earned.
The resulting classification is determined by the ECTS scale.
ECTS / POINT EVALUATION / NUMBERING CLASSIFICATION
A / 100-90 / 1 / excellent
B / 89-80 / 1.5 / very good
C / 79-70 / 2 / good
D / 69-60 / 2.5 / satisfactory
E / 59-50 / 3 / sufficient
F / 49-0 / 4 / fail.
Aims
Students will be acquainted with the overview and technologies of production of advanced materials, but especially with the potential benefit of their applications in industrial design. Students will be able to analyze material composition of products and work with tools for environmental impact assessment.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Compulsory attendance at seminars. Education runs according to the week schedule. The way of compensation of missed seminars is specified by the tutor.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-PDS-P: Industrial Design, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
13 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
– Introduction to problems, familiarization with the environmental significance of advanced materials, standards and regulations.
- Production options (injection molding, 3D printing, bending, ...).
- Material analysis of selected products with subsequent product lifecycle processing.
- Polymers (meaning, properties, use).
- Composites (meaning, properties, use).
- Metals (meaning, properties, use).
- Glass (meaning, properties, use).
- Textile materials (meaning, properties, use).
- Concrete and ceramics (meaning, properties, use).
- Recycled and multi-circular materials (meaning, properties, uses).
- Interactive materials (meaning, properties, use).
- Bonding of semi-finished products (meaning, properties, use).
- Potential of products using non-traditional materials.
Studio work
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
– Introduction to the workshops.
- Get familiar with eco-design tools.
- Assessment of material composition of current products, subsequent product life cycle analysis.
- Design concept from advanced materials.
- Product Design of Advanced Materials.
- Design concept from advanced materials, credit test.
- Design of advanced materials products.
- Product Design of Advanced Materials.
- Design of advanced materials products.
- Oral presentation of assigned tasks students.
- Credit test, product life cycle analysis of the product.