Teaching

This is a truly interdisciplinary course of study involving the departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology and Microsystems Technology. This is the ONLY realistic way Mechatronics can be taught at undergraduate level. Interdisciplinary also means interdepartmental.

Details on the Mechatronics Studiengang and the Dual Studiengang Mechatronics can be found on the University of Applied Sciences Webspages (Hochschule Webseiten). Further details about the research activities of the Mechatronics Research Unit are available on the domains mechatronics.org and mechatronik.org.

The old Diploma courses are now being phased out and will gradually be replaced by the new Bachelors degree. There are a wide variety of Masters Degree courses to choose from (to which Mechatronics graduates may be admitted. They include: Electrical & Microsystems, Automotive Electronics, Information Technology and Industrial Engineering. In some cases additional courses from the respective Bachelors/AW-Fächer catalogs must also be obtained.

For those who have transferred from other Departments (or from other institutes) and who wish to have previous courses recognised please fill out an Annerkennungsblatt and give it to me (along with Verlaufsdaten/Copies of Certificates). Those handed in within the first 4 weeks of the semester will be dealt with quickly;
those handed in later may have to wait until the semester end before being considered!

Courses I presently teach are:

Sensorik/Aktorik 2

This follows Sensorik/Aktorik 1 held by Prof. Beständig who covers all aspects of inductive/electromagnetic actuators and sensors (including motors). Sensorik/Aktorik 2 is an 8th Semester (6th Semester in Bachelors) course which covers all capacitive/electrostatic sensors and actuators and a few others too. Relevant course literature, including book lists, is available on Laufwerk-K.

Automation and Robotices

This is a fifth semester Diploma course dealing with all aspects of robotics and automation including PLC (Siemens S5/S7 SPS and Nais System). In the Mechatronics Bachelors it will be in the 6th semester together with a laboratory practical. Relevant course literature, including book lists, is available on Laufwerk-K.

Mikrosystemtechnik Faculty (Winter semester only!)

Informationsverarbeitung (Semester 1)

This course is in four parts:

1. Fundamental digital and computer technology from the basic transistor and logic gate level through to microprocessors and computer systems.

2. Binary mathematics, Flowcharts, Strukturgram, Algorithms and compiler theory. Assembly language programming and an introduction to programming in C, including syntax.

3. Basic C-Programming and program development.

4. A C-Programming laboratory practical.

Relevant course literature, including book lists, is available from Laufwerk-K. A number of digital simulators are available as freeware. The simplest is available on Laufwerk-K under Mog/Mikrosystemtechnik/IV: DigitalSimulatorV4_03.exe. The other Digital Simulator can be downloaded from the Internet. It is a bit more complicated but contains many more options.