TUM Asia students experienced plastics testing firsthand
Students of Technical University Munich in Asia (TUM Asia) had a fun hands-on workshop at ZwickRoell Xperience Center in Singapore as a part of a program gaining practical experience strengthening the theories learned.
Theory backed up by practice
Thanks to the industry-centric curriculum, the 3rd year students of Chemical Engineering participated in a 2-week program consisting of industrial visits to various manufacturers and key industry players, adding practical experience to the theoretical background taught in their modules. A major topic of the 2-weeks program was polymer processing techniques and corresponding analysis methods, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Petra Mela and research assistant Mr. Kilian Mueller, who both traveled from TUM School of Engineering and Design in Germany, where Prof. Mela is the Chair of Medical Materials and Implants.
Plastics testing 1 on 1
TUM as a research institution in Germany, has been working with materials testing systems from ZwickRoell since many years, so the decision to involve ZwickRoell Singapore in the industrial visits for the Singaporean TUM students was an easy one. We explained the students how to read and understand correctly the International Standards and then put the theory into practice with a live workshop on the testing machines.
Strengthen your application know-how
The objective of the workshop was to strengthen application know-how in plastic testing. The students were introduced to the key components of testing machines and the important knowledge of using the right methodology for different applications in tensile test, impact test and melt flow test. In the workshop the students were able to work with the different materials testing systems and learned best practices as well as key challenges that may occur during testing.
We are excited about this collaboration with TUM Asia giving us the opportunity to share the relevant and right application know-how. We hope this knowledge will benefit the industries once the graduates join them and we wish them the best of luck.
"The detailed agenda provided by ZwickRoell exceeded our expectations. Especially the hands-on sessions at the machines following the presentations were amazingly coordinated by the ZwickRoell team. They were well received and got great feedback from the students. In fact, ZwickRoell has been voted the most favorite industry visit of the program."
Kilian Mueller, M.Sc., Research Associate at Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, TUM School of Engineering and Design
TUM – a global marketplace of knowledge
Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe's most outstanding universities in research and innovation. Ever since its founding in 1868, TUM has played a vital role in Europe’s technological advancement and has the prestige of having produced 18 of Nobel Prize winners by year 2023. TUM is one of the most successful start-up universities in Europe with around 78 Start-ups a year. With headquarters in the innovation metropolis of Munich in Bavaria and Germany, TUM also has branch facilities on several continents – and a campus of its own in Singapore, TUM Asia.
TUM Asia & SIT
The TUM Asia campus in Singapore is the first branch of any German university in a foreign country. For over 20 years, it is a true success story, not only in terms of student education, with over 2,300 graduates to date, but also in terms of research and innovation. Since 2013, TUM runs three Bachelor degrees in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), incl. the program of Chemical Engineering, which trains students to integrate digital systems with smart or additive manufacturing seamlessly and effectively.