Introducing New Computers Related Subjects within the Study Programme Design and Textile Materials

摘要

According to the existing textile industry guidelines dealing with design of new materials with a high added value, use of environment friendly new technologies, including various fields of application, the contemporary textile and clothing industry needs experts with special knowledge, not only of textile processes but a broader, interdisciplinary knowledge. Only such experts will assure a link-up of textile and clothing industry with other sciences and widen their applicative use in high demanding technologies. Information science and in-depth knowledge of computer based information systems are crucial for understanding new technologies nowadays supporting a wide diversity of textile applications. The inclusion of such specific courses, subjects and topics into university-level and professional studies' curricula must be considered as very important task of universities and other institutions of higher education. Basics of information technology and computer based systems can be given to students in the frame of a larger general subject already in the first year of the study, while special topics, connected with the use of particular new computer based technologies, should be taught within different subjects later on. In this paper, the necessity to build such study programmes that will enable the young textile specialists to understand and fully exploit the potential of specific computer based information systems for textile applications is presented.