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[ 220HKFSINPK23 ] KV Interdisciplinary project
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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
5,5 ECTS B3 - Bachelor's programme 3. year (*)Kunststofftechnik Gerald Berger-Weber 4 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Sustainable Polymer Engineering & Circular Economy 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
1. Students are able to recall, integrate, and apply the knowledge acquired during their bachelor studies in a targeted and solution-oriented manner within a team. (k6)

2. Students are able to apply their knowledge of societal challenges, such as energy, mobility, food security, or prosperity for a growing global population, to the systematic development of sustainable services and relevant products for a concrete, practical task. (k5)

3. Students are able to independently analyze a specific task related to the design of a new product (made of plastic or hybrid materials) based on a comprehensive requirements profile (specifications document), derive a functional requirements document, and translate the requirements into an appropriate product design. (k6)

4. Students are able to recognize and critically evaluate the interactions between sustainability, recyclability, circularity, component design, material selection, manufacturing technology, multifunctional quality characteristics, and cost structure. (k6)

5. Students are able to convincingly present and defend their results before an expert jury. (k5)

Skills Knowledge
1. Recall and integrate knowledge from the entire bachelor program in interdisciplinary team projects. (k6)

2. Apply knowledge about societal challenges, such as energy, mobility, and sustainability, to practical tasks. (k5)

3. Analyze a specific task related to product design and derive a comprehensive specifications and functional requirements document. (k6)

4. Translate requirements into an appropriate and technically feasible product design. (k6)

5. Recognize and critically evaluate the interactions between sustainability, recyclability, circularity, material selection, and manufacturing technology. (k6)

6. Develop a multifunctional product design considering quality characteristics and cost structure. (k5)

7. Present and defend project results convincingly before an expert jury. (k5)

8. Collaborate in interdisciplinary teams and communicate complex content to targeted audiences. (k5)

1. Advanced knowledge of sustainable product development, including circularity, recyclability, and component design. (k4)

2. Fundamentals of creating and using specifications and functional requirements documents. (k4)

3. Understanding the interactions between material selection, manufacturing technology, multifunctional quality characteristics, and cost structure. (k5)

4. Knowledge of societal challenges in areas such as energy, mobility, food security, and sustainable prosperity. (k3)

5. Methods and principles of interdisciplinary collaboration and communication in complex projects. (k4)

6. Presentation and defense techniques for technical and sustainable projects before an expert jury. (k4)

Criteria for evaluation Compilation of a comprehensive project report, a set of slides and presentation with defense of the results.
Methods Collaborative work in a team of 4 to 6 students, with clearly divided roles: Role assignment depending on the skills of the participants, e.g. project manager, materials expert, simulation expert, product designer, production engineering expert, logistics expert, expert for holistic technical-ecological-economic or sustainability assessment, etc. ) Support through a learning management system. Acquisition of necessary knowledge and skills through self-study or through bilateral supervision by professors and research assistants. 1 kick-off meeting and 2 further presentations to all students as well as feedback from lecturers, including 1 final presentation. Regular support from tutors.
Language German
Study material Gunter Erhard, Konstruieren mit Kunststoffen. 4.Auflage, Hanser Verlag 2008
Changing subject? No
Further information Students are able to: 1. retrieve the specialist knowledge they have acquired in their Bachelor's degree, bring it together and apply it in a team in a targeted and solution-oriented manner. 2. apply their knowledge of the social challenges in areas such as energy, mobility, nutrition or prosperity of a still growing world population in a systematic development of sustainable services and relevant products to a concrete, practice-relevant task. 3. independently analyze a specific task for the design of a new product (made of synthetic or hybrid materials) with regard to a comprehensive requirements profile (specification sheet), derive a specification sheet from it and transfer the requirements into a suitable product design. 4. recognize and critically question the interactions between sustainability, recyclability and recyclability as well as component design, material, manufacturing technology, multi-functional quality features and cost structure. 5. to be able to present and defend their results convincingly to a jury of experts.

This project should be completed towards the end of the Bachelor's degree program, building on the specialist knowledge acquired up to that point. The positive completion of all plastics-related courses from the first 5 semesters is recommended, at least the attendance of these courses is expected before the interdisciplinary project.

On-site course
Maximum number of participants 35
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority