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Pedagogical activities

In the frame of a laboratory, we provide education for students, covering the areas of colours, colourimetry, material dyeing, textile finishing technologies, biochemical processes, technological waters, and wastewater ecology. These areas are covered by courses at all three degrees of different study programs.


STUDY PROGRAMS

STUDY PROGRAMS

1st cycle Professional study programme TEXTILE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES:

  • Colour science
  • Finishing technologies
  • Dyeing of materials
  • Ecology of finishing processes
  • Interdisciplinary of colour (elective course)

1st cycle Academic study programme DESIGN AND TEXTILE MATERIALS:

  • Textile-chemical processes
  • Colour and colour communication
  • Dyeing

1st cycle Academic study programme ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING:

  • Technological and waste waters (elective course)

2nd cycle Master study programme DESIGN AND TEXTILE MATERIALS:

  • Application of colorimetry
  • Advances dyeing processes and colour
  • Dyes and decolouration of wastewater (elective course)

2nd cycle Master study programme PRODUCT DESIGN:

  • Interdisciplinarity of materials colour (elective course)

3rd cycle Doctoral study programme DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF THE FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – DESIGN AND TEXTILE MATERIALS:

  • Colour and functional materials (elective course - Prof. Dr. Darinka Fakin)
  • Polysaccharides and functionalization of materials (elective course - Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Functional dyes/pigments and applications (elective course - Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Advanced treatments of polymeric materials (elective course - Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva)
  • Biopolymers (elective course - Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva / Assist. Prof. Dr. Rupert Kargl)
  • Renewable nanomaterials (elective course - Asoc. Prof. Dr. Vanja Kokol)

LECTURES AND LAB WORK

LECTURES AND LAB WORK

Lectures
Lectures are not obligatory.
Students have the opportunity to take theory tests during lectures. More than 50% attendance at lectures is required for admission.

Lab work and seminar
Lab work is obligatory with 100% attendance.
In the case of illness or other excusable reasons, the student should prove this with a medical certificate. 
If the student is not present at the lab work and cannot make up for it, he completes the missing part of the lab work in the next academic year when he joins the next generation of students in the organized form of exercises.

Grading
A uniform scale is used for the course evaluation, which is published on the website of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, whereby a positive grade on the test is scored with a minimum of 50%. The final grade represents the arithmetic average of all tests.
The theoretical part of the exam can be completely replaced by successfully passed theory tests.

Exam
A student can take the exam when he has completed the lab work (obtain a grade) and a possible seminar for this course.
 

 

PROPOSED TOPIC OF DIPLOMA WORK

PROPOSED TOPIC OF DIPLOMA WORK

The proposed topic for the diploma work – detailed title and the content would be defined together with a potential mentor:

  • Chromic dyes (thermochromic, electrochromic, chemochromic, etc.) and their application on the material (Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Natural dyeing of textiles with, e.g., red cabbage, tree bark, leaves, agricultural waste products, etc. and characterisation of wastewater (Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Treatment of coloured wastewaters with natural adsorbents, e.g., zeolites, peat, sand, etc. (Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Advanced functionalisation of textiles to obtain, e.g., electrical conductivity, hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity, UV protection, flame retardancy, etc. (Assist. Prof. Dr. Alenka Ojstršek)
  • Bacterial nanocellulose modification for enhanced adsorption of functional molecules (Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva)
  • Preparation of nanofibrils and nanocrystals from bacterial nanocellulose and stabilisation of resulting dispersions (Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva)
  • Modification of bacterial nanocellulose for eliciting antimicrobial action (Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva)
  • Development of functional bacterial cellulose-based yarns (Assist. Prof. Dr. Selestina Gorgieva)