MinTU Workshop on Characterization
As part of TU Dortmund’s MinTU program, a support program to increase the proportion of female students in STEM subjects, over 30 schoolgirls aged 12 to 14 had the opportunity to get to know mechanical [...] was on forming technology and material characterization. Once they had clearly understood and internalized the concepts of stress, strain, elasticity and plasticity, the pupils were able to create their [...] their own sample geometries, which were then laser-cut from a sheet of metal. In tensile tests, the students then determined the properties of their individual samples and were able to test their hypotheses …
