Exchange Students. Discover another way to learn engineering

Exchange Students. Discover another way to learn engineering

Foreign students in Green Manufacturing Engineering

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This Engineering degree provides knowledge of the range of industrial technologies and the materials involved on them, whilst observing social and environmental requirements. It also includes other aspects such as project planning and management.

The academic offer for incoming exchange students includes these topics:

• Industrial technologies and materials are studied in subjects such as Environmental Process Optimisation: Casting and Environmental Process Optimisation: Plastics and Composites;
• Environmental aspects are considered in Treatment Technology: Water and Air, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Material Efficient Use and Recycling subjects;
• Project planning and management topics are treated in subjects such as Industrial Organization and Project Management and Workshop.

After a 10-week school term, the students are involved in an 8-week project. During this period the students must design, simulate, manufacture, and validate a product, working in groups. Some examples of projects developed by students in previous years include:

A light and strength skateboard with a plastic composite board using glass, carbon and/or natural fibres by hand-lay-up and vacuum bag, and a light aluminium truck by lost foam casting.

 

 

 

 

A new skateboard with removable trucks that can serve as snowboard as well. So, the board must be capable of ridding pavement and snow. The boards were manufactured using polymer composites materials (carbon and/or glass fibres) by hand-lay-up and vacuum bag, and the truck and/or the removable system by lost foam casting.

 

 

A new surfboard with carboard as a nucleus instead of polystyrene or polyurethane foams, and a bike rack to transport the surfboard. Moreover, the environmental impact of the new designs had evaluated and compared with the existing models. All surfboards had a honeycomb structure nucleus and a glass fibre skin in order to be durable, tough and sustainable; and the bike racks were manufactured in aluminium for fulfilling the durable and light characteristics.

 

In addition to studying with us for a semester, there is also the possibility to develop a Final Degree Project (upon request). For example, the student Wies Kimpe from the Hogeschool VIVES carried out the project entitled “Design and manufacturing of a mould form compression moulding using renewable energy”. The project was based on providing a solution to the problem of what to do with the plastic waste that the ocean "spits" onto the beaches of the island of Dionewar in Senegal. The project was carried out in collaboration with the NGO Ndank Ndank from Bergara. In the following video from the EITB programme Teknopolis (at minute 21:08), Wies talks about his project.

 

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