UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDIES

FORENSIC ENGINEERING

Course:

Contemporary Methods in Technological Engineering

Course Code: 2.42

ECTS: 7

Course Status:

Compulsory

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 2 + 1 + 2

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Special Forms of Training:

2

1

2

Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Introducing students to the development and application of new methods of natural and applied sciences in technological engineering. Modern methods enable reliable identifications, higher precision of tested samples, and a higher level of protection of end products, and thereby instructing students to study and acquire knowledge for their applications. The objective of the course is to direct students to study and acquire basic knowledge for applying these methods in technological engineering.

Projected Outcome: Acquiring basic knowledge about the principles of work of a large number of devices for modern technological production; learning about different methods and students ability to obtain and interpret results.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: Definitions and division of modern technological methods; areas of application; detection method with specific and naked eye invisible materials; electronic and polarization microscopy; thermovision systems; software method; automatic identification

Practical training: Laboratory exercises: electron microscopy, polarization microscopy, use of thermovision devices, application of appropriate software, presentation, analysis and interpretation of the obtained results using modern technological methods.

Teaching Methods: Lectures, presentations, demonstration, simulation, practical exercises.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

5

Oral examination

30

Practical training

30

Term test(s)

20

Research paper/study

15

Textbook/s

1. Mišović, Jelica; Ast, Teodor Instrumentalne metode hemijske analize, Beograd: Tehnološko-metalurški fakultet 1983

2. Goldstein, D. Polarized light, New York: Marcel Dekker 2011