Handbook

Basic mechanisms of heat, mass and fluid flow; fluid statics and fluid dynamics in metallurgy; macroscopic balance for isothermal systems; dimensional analysis and reactor design; heat and mass transfer through motionless media; heat and mass transfer in convective flow systems.

• Iron making: Basic principle of produce metallic iron from iron ore and general overview of existing processes. Recent advancement in this area.
• Steel making: what is steel making and basic understanding of this process
• Major development in steelmaking: what are the recent developments which change the face of steelmaking industry? In which areas there is the potential for improvement.
• Steel casting and heat treatment of as-cast parts: after producing the steel what will happen to that. Advanced techniques in steel casting and what is the most common heat treatment after producing as-cast steel. 
• Microstructure-property relationships of steels, equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transformations in steels and resulting mechanical properties
• Processing of low-alloyed steels (e.g. HSLA steels), thermo-mechanical processing, microstructural design towards structural applications
• Processing of high-alloyed steels (e.g. tool steels), re-melting techniques, introduction to powder-metallurgy, processing of powder-metallurgical steels
• Process metallurgy of selected non-ferrous metals (aluminium, nickel, titanium, copper)