The Mathematics Core Module teaches you the mathematical fundamentals that you absolutely must master for engineering applications.
What to Expect
You’ll learn how to work with vectors, matrices, and systems of linear equations; explore functions, limits, continuity, and differential calculus; and practice mathematical modeling for engineering applications.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Why is this important?
Mathematical proficiency is the foundation for all other engineering disciplines and is essential for precisely analyzing technical problems, creating models, and developing solutions.
The “The Fascination of Mechatronics” seminar provides you with an inspiring overview of the diversity of technical systems, career fields, and engineering methods in the field of mechatronics.
What to Expect
You’ll explore key topics such as robotics, automation, embedded systems, sensor technology, control engineering, and sustainable production. You’ll gain insight into typical career paths for mechatronics engineers, learn the basics of legal and ethical frameworks, and practice engineering methods through small group projects. Guest lectures and discussions with industry experts will give you a better understanding of real-world applications.
Your Skills After the Module
Awareness of ethical, sustainability, and regulatory issues
Why is this important?
This seminar will help you get started in your degree program, provide guidance on possible specializations, and show you how you can apply your technical interests to responsible and exciting roles in modern industry or research.
This module introduces you to modern manufacturing processes—from metalworking to 3D printing to plastics processing.
What to Expect
You’ll gain an overview of shaping, forming, cutting, joining, coating, and modern generative processes. Material properties, economic considerations, and the fundamentals of manufacturing planning are also covered—supplemented by hands-on lab exercises.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Discuss and present manufacturing processes as part of a team
Why is this important?
Manufacturing is central to every technical product—without knowledge of manufacturing, materials, and cost-effectiveness, you cannot develop practical designs.
You'll learn how forces act in technical systems—from simple reactions to complex static equilibrium.
What to Expect
You’ll analyze forces, moments, and equilibrium conditions. You’ll work with internal forces, support reactions, friction, center-of-gravity calculations, and trusses. Numerous exercises will help you understand the material and demonstrate practical applications—for example, in medical devices.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Determine friction, center of gravity, and internal forces
Why is this important?
Statics is a fundamental discipline of mechanics—without it, you cannot design reliable structures that can withstand mechanical loads.
This module will give you a basic understanding of electrical engineering as it applies to direct current circuits—from Ohm’s law to practical measurements in the lab.
What to Expect
You’ll learn basic concepts such as voltage, current, resistance, energy, and power. You’ll analyze simple electrical networks, apply Ohm’s Law, perform node and loop analyses, and work with components such as capacitors, LEDs, and operational amplifiers. Lab exercises will deepen your understanding through hands-on practice.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Integrate components such as LEDs and operational amplifiers into simple circuits
Why is this important?
This knowledge is essential for any future work in electronics and medical technology—you’ll understand how devices function electrically and can actively contribute to their development.
You'll learn how computer programs work—from algorithms to practical implementation in a programming language.
What to Expect
You’ll work with variables, loops, conditionals, functions, and algorithms in a language like Python or C. You’ll develop simple console applications and learn how to use development environments and version control.
Your Skills After the Module
Systematically structure and document code
Why is this important?
Understanding software is essential today, even for non-computer scientists—this module lays the foundation for everything else in development and automation.
Analysis provides you with key tools for describing continuous processes in engineering and nature.
What to Expect
You’ll work with complex numbers, series, Taylor expansions, multidimensional functions, and integrals—including applications in physics, engineering, and numerical methods.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
This module teaches you the physical fundamentals of mechanics, thermodynamics, and vibrations—in a practical and application-oriented way.
What to Expect
You’ll work with quantities such as momentum, energy, and force, and learn fundamental principles such as Newton’s second law, conservation of momentum, work, temperature, and heat transfer. This is supplemented by hands-on experiments and sample calculations from the field of engineering.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
In the “Robotics” module, you’ll learn how mechanics, electronics, and IT work together in modern robotic systems—from grasping motions to the simulation of complex processes.
What to Expect
You’ll explore the mechanical fundamentals of robotic arms and mobile robots, such as various gripping techniques and locomotion concepts. In the IT section, you’ll learn to simulate motion sequences and test program modules—without using actual hardware just yet. In the electronics section, you’ll discover how motors, sensors, power supplies, and their interfaces work together in real robot systems. Theory and practice are directly linked through lab exercises.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Gain hands-on experience in the lab and further develop systems in a targeted manner
Why is this important?
Robotics is a central field of mechatronics and automation. This module provides you with hands-on insight into how modern robotic systems are structured and function—a key competency for the future of industry.
This module will enable you to design technical components professionally and create them using modern CAD tools.
What to Expect
You’ll learn the basics of technical drawing, dimensioning, tolerances, fits, and design principles. You’ll model components using CAD software, perform motion analyses, and create production-ready drawings, including 3D visualization and collision checks.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Selecting and applying design elements
Why is this important?
Technical product development is based on precise drawings and digital design—with this knowledge, you can develop components in a constructive and practical manner.
This module introduces you to the world of alternating current technology, complex impedances, and electrical power transmission.
What to Expect
You’ll analyze AC circuits, calculate reactive power, and learn about transformers, complex numbers in power grids, equivalent circuit diagrams, and the frequency-dependent behavior of components—all supplemented by hands-on exercises.
Your skills after completing the module
Evaluate the frequency response of technical systems
Why is this important?
AC technology is the foundation for power supplies, motors, and medical devices—with this knowledge, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of electrical systems.
In this module, you will develop software for real-world technical applications—in a structured, object-oriented, and goal-oriented manner.
What to Expect
You’ll deepen your programming skills in a language such as Java or C#, develop GUI applications, work with classes, objects, events, and libraries, and create your own small tools or prototypes for technical tasks.
Your Skills After the Module
Documenting, testing, and further developing software
Why is this important?
In today’s world of technology and development, almost nothing works without software—with this module, you can turn your ideas into functional, user-friendly programs.
This module provides you with the mathematical tools needed to describe, analyze, and solve dynamic systems—essential for many engineering applications.
What to Expect
You will learn how to model continuous and discrete processes using differential and difference equations. To do this, you will use, among other things, eigenvalue analysis, integral transforms such as the Laplace and Z-transforms, and methods for frequency analysis. In practical applications, you’ll use numerical methods such as the Euler or Runge-Kutta methods to analyze complex systems with the aid of computers.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Analyze periodic signals using Fourier methods
Why is this important?
Whether in control engineering, signal processing, or image analysis—the ability to mathematically model technical systems and predict their behavior is one of the core competencies of modern engineers. This module provides the theoretical and practical foundation for this while simultaneously strengthening your analytical thinking skills.
Physics 2 expands your knowledge of electrical, magnetic, and optical phenomena that play a role in many technical applications.
What to Expect
You’ll explore electric fields, electric currents, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, and optical systems. The course content is tailored to technical applications, such as sensor technology, energy engineering, and imaging.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Confidently apply physical models
Why is this important?
Many technical systems—from MRI machines to solar panels—are based on electromagnetic principles, which you will be able to understand and apply effectively with this module.
This module will teach you about the different types of materials, their structure, and their capabilities in technical applications.
What to Expect
You’ll examine metals, ceramics, plastics, and composites in terms of their microstructure, properties, heat treatment, corrosion, and processing. Material selection, sustainability, and testing methods play an important role in this process.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Explain material behavior under stress or environmental influences
Why is this important?
Choosing the right material determines a product’s function, safety, and service life—with this knowledge, you can develop well-thought-out technical solutions.
Strength of Materials shows you how components react under loads—whether they hold up, deform, or fail.
What to Expect
You’ll analyze stress and strain, examine bending, torsion, buckling, and shear, and learn how to calculate and evaluate stress states. Real-world material properties and safety analyses are taken into account.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Calculate the strength and stability of structural elements
Why is this important?
Only by understanding how materials and structures behave under load can one develop safe and functional products.
This module teaches you the theoretical and practical fundamentals of developing analog and digital electronic circuits.
What to Expect
You’ll learn about the structure and function of key semiconductor components, analyze amplifier circuits, work with operational amplifiers and power supplies, and implement simple logic and counter circuits. Topics such as thermal management, digital logic, flip-flops, and deterministic automata are covered, as are the simulation, measurement, and sizing of electronic circuits.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Use measuring instruments safely and interpret technical data sheets
Why is this important?
Electronic circuits are the backbone of modern technology—from sensor technology to signal processing. This module prepares you to understand, develop, and apply such systems specifically for technical applications.
You'll learn how complex technical systems can be analyzed and simulated using mathematical models.
What to Expect
You’ll model dynamic systems in the time and frequency domains, work with state-space representations, analyze frequency responses, and use software such as MATLAB/Simulink for simulations. You’ll learn to apply the Fourier transform, Bode plots, and Nyquist plots in a practical context.
Your skills after completing the module
Validate and present simulation results
Why is this important?
Simulation saves time, money, and reduces risk—with this knowledge, you can analyze and optimize complex systems in a targeted manner even before they are actually built.
In the development project, you'll work as part of a team on a realistic technical product—from concept to prototype.
What to Expect
In small groups, you’ll plan, develop, and document a technical product. You’ll apply project management methods, design circuit boards, program microcontrollers, and use 3D printing or sensor technology—depending on the topic. Workshops on Arduino, FMEA, and presentation techniques will support you.
Your Skills After the Module
Collaborating in a team, presenting, and reflecting
Why is this important?
The project gives you a hands-on look at how technical development works in the industry—you’ll learn to work independently and apply the knowledge you’ve gained so far.
In this module, you'll use a microcontroller system to develop simple embedded applications—from sensor reading to control.
What to Expect
You’ll work with microcontroller platforms (e.g., Arduino), write C programs, access digital and analog inputs and outputs, and develop real-time applications. Circuits, protocols, and embedded concepts are taught in a practical, hands-on manner.
Your Skills After the Module
Implementing simple control systems
Why is this important?
From medical technology to automation—embedded systems are everywhere. This module lays the foundation for your skills in hardware-oriented development.
This module will give you a technical understanding of analog and digital measurement systems—from sensors to digital signal processing.
What to Expect
You’ll learn how to measure physical and chemical quantities such as temperature, force, and radiation. You’ll develop your own analog and digital filters, work with AD/DA converters, analyze measurement errors, and use tools like LTSpice or MATLAB for simulation.
Your Skills After Completing the Module
Apply FFT, the sampling theorem, and digital filters in practice
Why is this important?
Precise measurements are essential in mechatronics and medical technology—this module will help you understand how analog signals are converted into reliable digital information.
Control engineering helps you influence systems so that they automatically adapt to a desired behavior—such as in cruise control systems or ventilators.
What to Expect
You’ll learn to analyze and design control loops: simulate and design n-point and PID controllers, analyze them in the state-space domain, and develop state controllers with observers. Theory and lab exercises complement each other closely—including MATLAB/Simulink.
Your Skills After the Module
Implement controllers and control systems
Why is this important?
Whether it’s ventilators, robotics, or machine control—precise control is essential everywhere. This module provides a key skill for many technical applications.
You can choose from a wide range of subject-specific modules. Here are a few popular examples:
In addition, you can take all major-specific modules from the other specializations as elective modules.
You can choose from a wide range of subject-specific modules. Here are a few popular examples:
In addition, you can take all major-specific modules from the other specializations as elective modules.