"When aluminium technologies become cre@tive"
Inter@ctive aluMATTER Symposium
24 & 25 November 2005
VUB - Brussels
The European Aluminium Association, in collaboration with the VUB (Dept Metallurgy, electrochemistry and Materials Science) & the Aluminium Center Belgium, illustrated the achievements of the European project, aluMATTER, through a 2-days symposium on 24 & 25 November 2005.
This European project, the last 3 years of which were co-funded by the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci programme, has developed interactive modular resources on aluminium science and technology, freely accessible on internet. Twenty alumatter partners from the aluminium industry, technical centres or universities have contributed to the nine e-learning modules that respectively deal with: Strengthening Mechanisms, Softening Mechanisms, Anisotropy, Surface & Physical Properties, Mechanical Properties, Machining, Joining Technology, Forming Technology, Corrosion & Surface Engineering.
On the 24 November, the aluMATTER contributors highlighted the achievements of the project, demonstrating the high quality, the interactivity and the pedagogic soundness of this innovative e-learning tool. The session included participation from the audience through individual voting boxes in order to respond to multiple-choice questions raised by speakers. In addition, some external speakers stressed the importance of e-learning in material science education and in industrial training programs.
On the morning of 25 November, a practical session on PC was organised using an automotive case study. Participants were invited to 'solve' the case study in about 3 hours, by looking at material selection criteria and by selecting the most adapted enabling technologies for producing the aluminium components under study.
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