Andrzej Zieliński, Faculty Coordinator in Materials Engineering CurriculumSylwia Sobieszczyk, Vice-Dean for

EducationWojciech Kiełczyński, Vice-Dean for

Organisation of Studies

• 2,240 students at Eng. Level• 270 students at M.Sc. Level• 30 Ph.D. students• 120 teachers• 70 administrative staff• lecture rooms for 2,000 students• computer labs for 200 students• laboratory space for 500 students

• Mechanical Engineering and Machines Building

• Mechatronics• Mechanical and Medical Engineering• Materials Engineering • Management and Production

Engineering• Energetics• Transport• Technologies of Internal Security

• Teaching performed jointly by 3 faculties: FME, Chemistry & Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics Facs

• FME specialisations:– 1st level „Engineering of Specialty and

Biomedical Materials”– 2nd level „Material Technologies”– 3rd level „Materials Engineering

(Construction Materials or Biomaterials)

1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning

1.1 Knowledge of underlying: mathematics and physics

Mathematics (240)Physics (150)Chemistry (165)

1.2 Core engineering fundamental knowledge

Informatics (90)Electrotechnics and electronics (60)Mechanical engineering of solids and fluids (90)Thermodynamics (60)Strength of materials (60)

1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning

1.3 Advanced engineering fundamental knowledge, methods and tools

Fundamentals of materials engineering (90)Crystallography (30)Light and electron microscopy (30)Electrochemistry (30)Nanotechnology (30)Fundamentals of surface engineering (30)Monographic lecture (15)Physical testing of materials (90)Mechanical testing of materials (15)Corrosion testing (30)Metrology (30)

2. Personal and professional skills and attributes

2.1 Analytical reasoning and problems solving

2.2 Experimentation, investigations and knowledge discovery

2.3 System thinking

2.4 Attitudes, thought and learning

2.5 Ethics, equity and other responsibilities

3 Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication

3.1 Teamwork

3.2 Communications Physical exercises (90) Diploma seminar (30)

3.3 Communications in foreign languages

Foreign language (120)English terminology in materials engineering (30)

4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal and environmental context – the innovation processs

4.1 External, societal, and environmental context

Materials and civilisation progress (45)Environment protection (15)

4.2 Enterprise and business context

4.3 Conceiving, systems engineering and management

Functional materials (45)Specialty constructional materials (30)Biomaterials (60)Composite materials (15)Engineering of materials (45)Physics of materials (45)Management systems (30)Metals and alloys (45)Computer modelling of materials (45)

4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal and environmental context – the innovation processs

4.4 Designing Engineering graphics (90)Biomechanics (45)Choice of materials (15)Engineering project (30)

4.5 Implementing Materials technologies (90)Manufacturing and modification of polymers (30)

4.6 Operating Mechanims of materials failures (45)Diagnostic of materials (30)Student practices (160)

Problem of syllabus incompatibility to CDIO: Complete lack of Personal and Professional

Skills and Attributes; Entreprise and Business Context; Leadership and Entrepreneurship; Teamwork

Shortage of Implementing; External, societal, and Environmental Context

Excess of Disciplinary Knowledge and Reasoning

Syllabus segment Present number of hrs

Proposed number of hrs

1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning

1335 900

2. Personal and professional skills and attributes

0 300

3 Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication

270 300

4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating

795 900

Students can create problemsStudents can create teams and leadersStudents can look for its possible solutions

and look for industrial sponsorsStudents design, manufacture, and evaluateMain weak points: shortage of financial

support and too short time (solution: enlargement to 12-18 months of project execution)

Main strong points: obligatory team projects, strong self-motivation of students

A product is developed or improved, from need to physical prototype as a vehicle for learning engineering

Integrated learning: Teamwork and communication (team

projects from 2010) Design and manufacturing Analysis and simulation (already)

Industrial projects (too small part)One team project at Eng. Level

None at this momentPrototype laboratories: 400 m2

workspace (to be developed from present Welding Lab)

Study Hall: special room at new Nanotechnology Center

Hermetic national standards : disappear after 30-09-2011

Weak preparation of scholars in mathematics and physics: gradually inccreasing thanks to increasing demands (obligatory math)

Shortages in technical base preparation for team projects: improvement thanks to European projects

Modification of Curricula into CDIO Syllabus direction for Materials Engineering

Implementation of Team Projects for all engineering projects (so far at 80% for Mat Eng at FME)

Early starts of engineering projects and implementation of all CDIO phases

Creation of CDIO workspaces Implementation of CDIO Engineers`

Development System at the FME

CDIO System is very valuable for education of engineers at the GUT and especially FME

CDIO System has a great chance to be implemented at a number of education directions at the GUT thanks to positive changes in Polish educational law, demands from industrials and students, and a substantial number of teachers, and increasing educational capacities

The greatest challenges include creation of new curricula, cooperation with industry in order to find new valuable projects and means for their financing, building the prototype labs and study halls