EDUCATION
The use of tools supplied from Thermo-Calc Software in the academic world goes back to times before the first full version was first released in 1981.
The number of applications are numerous and range from undergraduate theaching of basic thermodynamics within the area of material science up to modelling and assessment of the advanced scientific level.
The great freedom in combination with the long list of modules and features gives the student and the teacher, as well as the research scientist, a high number of different opportunities, either independant or in combinations with each other.
Thermo-Calc is frequently used in assessment of thermodynamic data in the development of thermodynamic data-sets and databases.
There are special license packages for Universities who uses the tools in teaching and als has the right to examine undergraduate students.
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DICTRA is more often used in advanced research, but DICTRA is also used frequently as a tool in teaching and explaition of diffusion related problems.
The use of Thermo-Calc and a Programming Interface such as for example the TQ interface, TC-API or the TC MATLAB Toolbox gives the researcher or scientist numerous of possibilities to use the software with their own program.