First online course on bitumen and its innovative applications launched on April 4th

Total and the prestigious French engineering school Ecole des Ponts worked together with the online training platform Coursera to offer to a broad-based audience the possibility of acquiring a basic understanding of the scientific, technical and economic fundamentals of bitumen and its applications. The title of this first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on bitumen is: “Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications”.

As the result of over eight months of active collaboration between Total – Europe’s leading supplier of bitumen – the Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech – France’s oldest engineering school – and the online training specialist Coursera, this MOOC will give to a broad-based audience the possibility of acquiring and mastering essential knowledge about bitumen.

The course covers the entire bitumen chain from crude oil to its final applications in road construction and industry. It deals with all questions concerning this construction material, from its production, its composition and its chemico-physical properties right up to its applications, its behavior in asphalt road surfaces and its recycling. It also provides details about standards and the market as well as R&D perspectives for new, innovative applications for optimized performance, cost-effectiveness and environmental compatibility, in keeping with Total’s slogan: “Committed to better energy.”

Leading experts
“During four weeks, leading experts in bitumen will bring you their knowledge and experience to build a strong understanding of today’s realities and new perspectives on the future of bitumen,” explains Jean-François Corté, General Secretary of the World Road Association (PIARC), who teaches at the Ecole des Ponts, in his online presentation of the MOOC.

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