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SUMMARY:The Martian Mindset - A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm - Pro
 f. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi
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CONTACT:Prof. Gabor Csanyi
DESCRIPTION:For millennia\, the advancement of technologies for the transf
 ormation of raw primary resources into value-added materials has been driv
 en by the massive burning of fossil fuels. This has set us on a path towar
 d a rapidly deteriorating environment\, calling for a fundamental paradigm
  shift in materials and production engineering. At the University of Breme
 n\, we have conceived a radical approach to tackle this challenge\, which 
 will both power a green transition on Earth and contribute to a sustainabl
 e human exploration of space. We place ourselves on Mars\, a potentially h
 abitable but inhospitable world with scarce resources\, and rethink the pr
 oduction of materials and parts from scratch. We pursue three main goals: 
 (1) developing (bio-)electrochemical methods for the synthesis of raw mate
 rials from low-grade resources\; (2) designing and demonstrating low-energ
 y process chains that use these raw materials as input to produce a variet
 y of parts\; and (3) devising concepts for production facilities jointly o
 perated by human-robot teams and supported by digital representations of t
 he production processes. The development of the “Martian Mindset” as a
  transformative\, scarcity-driven engineering paradigm will involve the wo
 rk of a large consortium of Bremen faculties and institutes over the next 
 seven years\, as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and
  state governments.
LOCATION: LT6\, First floor Baker building\, Dept. of Engineering\, Trumpi
 ngton Street\, CB2 1PZ
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