Información del curso

Digital Teaching
The lecture is held in presence. Only for some lectures, supplementary video recordings from previous years are available.

Course Contents
This lecture series is given by various lecturers from science and industry.

The following topics are planned:

- Introduction (Prof. Dörsam, IDD)

- Overview Technologies (Prof. Dörsam, IDD)

- Workflow (Prof. Schleich, PLCM)

- Design Rules (Prof. Kirchner, PMD)

- Materials (Prof. Oechsner, IfW-MPA)

- Component strength (Wagner, Fraunhofer LBF)

- Lightweight structures (Prof. Mittelstedt, KLUB)

- Selective Laser Sintering/Melting SLS/SLM (Prof. Weigold, PTW)

- Extrusion process FDM/FLM (Dietz, Prof. Dörsam)

- Multi Color Printing (Prof. Urban, Fraunhofer IGD)

- Photopolymerization (Feldmann, Prof. Dörsam)

- 3D Printing in Medicine (Dr. med. Gielisch, Universitätsmedizin Mainz)

- Bioprinting (Prof. Blaeser, BMT)

- Guest lecture from industry

Documents accompanying the lectures are provided on moodle. The purchase of a book is not necessary. For further information on the organisation of the lecture, the examination procedure or the excursion, please contact Prof. Dörsam.

[b]Examination[/b]
The examination takes place in writing, duration 60 min. The examination is offered every semester. Timely registration in TUCaN is required. The examination dates are (subject to availability of examination rooms) expected to be mid-March and mid-August. The exact examination dates will be announced in the first lecture by Prof. Dörsam. Exam contents include general questions on the topics covered in the lectures, multiple choice questions, cost accounting and sketches of 3D technologies. No documents or electronic devices (smartphone, calculator,...) may be used. The questions are based on the documents provided by moodle. Questions come to the guest lecture from industry and to the lecture from medicine even if there are no documents on moodle.

[b]Target audience[/b]
The lecture is aimed at students in the Bachelor's programme of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Students from other faculties can participate, provided that the examination regulations provide for this possibility.

Preconditions
None. The lecture is also suitable for students from other engineering and materials science courses.

Expected Number of Participants
120

Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
The resource-saving advantages of additive manufacturing are elaborated.

Online Offerings
Moodle