Description
Textile, leather and footwear researchers combine knowledge of material sciences, chemistry, physics, process technologies, management, and engineering to contribute to future innovations within the fields of textile, wearing apparel, leather, and footwear. They collaborate in multidisciplinary projects in order to combine findings from a diverse array of science fields for product development.
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Theoretical Knowledge
health and safety in the textile industryphysicschemistryresearch and development in textileschallenging issues in the textile industryproperties of textile materialstextile technologiestextile chemistrytextile finishing technologytextile marketing techniquesnonwoven machine technologydyeing technologyportfolio management in textile manufacturing
Practical Skills
evaluate textile characteristicsmaintain work standardsmanage scale-up experiments for manufacturing of productsdistinguish fabricsconduct research on trends in designreduce environmental impact of footwear manufacturingseek innovation in current practicestest physical properties of textilesperform chemical experimentsdistinguish accessoriesmonitor textile manufacturing developmentsuse textile finishing machine technologiesmeasure yarn countanalyse experimental laboratory datamanufacture nonwoven staple productsconduct textile testing operationscontrol textile process