New Study Programme Design and Textile Materials and Information/Computer Sciences Related Subjects

摘要

The modern textile industries are no longer traditional, labour intensive industrial branches. Today, they produce and process advanced new materials with a high added value. Modern, attractive design of textile products and use of environment friendly new technologies is a must. Therefore, the modern textile and clothing companies need professionals with broad, 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. Use of advanced information technologies and systems can assure the textile and garment manufacturing companies competitive advantages, such as high and constant quality of products, productivity, flexibility, and quick response to the requirements of fashion and market. Therefore, the inclusion of new computer based technologies into university-level and professional studies curricula and courses should be considered as very important task of universities and other institutions of higher education. In this paper, the contribution of the Department of Textiles at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor to reforming the education system and strengthening the textile information society with its new undergraduate and graduate study programmes, prepared according to the Bologna process directives, is presented. The study programmes were entitled Design and Textile Materials. Special attention is given to the subjects that relate to the information science and computer based information systems for design and textile applications.