Electronics and Computer Engineering

Programming language C:
• structures
• type definitions
• file I/O
• modular programming
• dynamically allocated data structures

Algorithms and data structures:
• resource usage (memory, runtime)
• basic data structures
• sorting algorithms
• search algorithms
• tree structures
• programming methods

• Numeric systems and Boolean algebra and their mathematical laws
• Basic combinatorial and sequential circuits at gate level
• Introduction to a hardware description language
• Simple application circuits
• Finite state machines

• stationary flow field
• electrostatic field
• magnetostatic field
• law of induction
• parameters for variable currents and voltages
• sinusoidal currents and voltages
• alternating current networks
• three phase networks

• Resistance
• Capacitor
• Coil
• Semiconductor
• pn junction
• Semiconductor diode

• Statistics, calibration, error propagation, Gaussian and Student's
  distribution
• Measurement of direct quantities, principles of moving-coil meters and moving-
  iron meter
• Measurement circuits (bridge circuit)
• Resistance measurement, principle of voltage correct vs. current correct
  measurements
• Digital data acquisition (errors), differences between digital and analog
  measurement instruments
• Temperature measurement

• Integration
• Ordinary first and second order differential equations
• Probability and statistics

• Principles of law / stages of the legal system
• Fundamentals of European law
• Fundamentals of commercial law
• Fundamentals of partnership law
• Fundamentals of captial company law
• Fundamentals of competition law
• Fundamentals of contract law
• Fundamentals of intellectual property law

• Cost effectiveness analysis
• Production and cost theory
• Cost accounting and costing: cost type, cost centre, cost object
accounting
• Absorption costing vs. direct costing
• Break-even analysis
• Standard costing and variance analysis

• Resonance circuits
• Locus diagrams
• Bode diagrams
• Fourier series and analysis of non-sinusoidal periodic signals
• Fourier transform and signal analysis
• Laplace transform and analysis of switching operations in electrical
  networks

• Measurement of alternating quantities (rms value etc.)
• Power measurement
• Measurement circuits (measurement bridge)
• Capacitance, inductance
• Working principle of analog instruments
• Oscilloscope, analog and digital, Shannon's sampling theorem
• Basic types of analog-to-digital converters
• Statistical noise, quantisation noise of ideal analog-to-digital converter

• DC-DC and DC-AC converters
• Operazion of DC, synchronous and asynchronous motors
• Speed-controlled operation of electric motors
• Fundamentals of control engineering
• Modelling, simulation and control system analysis of an example drive
• Computer-based simulation and controller design

• Fundamentals of microprocessors and microcontrollers
• 16-bit vs. 32-bit controller
• Structure and functional principle of a microcontroller family (ALU, clock
 ; ;generation, debug interface)
• Overview of an instruction set of a microcontroller family
• Peripheral modules of microcontrollers (I/O ports, timer with
 ; ;capture/compare units, real time clock, serial interfaces, ADC12, DAC12,  ; ;DMA, hardware multiplier, LCD etc.)
• Memory busses and memory drivers (multiplexed, demultiplexed bus, bus timing,
 ; ;wait states)
• Memory structure and functional principle (SRAM, SDRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM,
 ; ;EEPROM, flash)
• Serial interfaces (UART, IrDa, SPI, Microwire, One Wire, I2C, SPORT, USB)

• Semiconductor diodes and circuit examples
• Bipolar transistors and basic circuits
• Field-effect transistors and basic circuits
• HF behaviour of basic transistor circuits
• Differential amplifiers
• Push-pull amplifiers

• Fundamentals of human communication
• Communication in different situations
• Gestalt theory, Gestalt therapy, systemic therapy, group dynamics and NLP

• Enhancement of communication skills and oral expression through
 ; ;communication-oriented language training based on situations and texts  ; ;from business and engineering

• Extension of vocabulary (based on general and technical texts),
 ; ;repetition and consolidation of selected grammar content

• Training of reading
 ; ;comprehension using authentic materials (technical
 ; ;texts/manuals/memos/reports)

• Introduction to communication strategies in the workplace: phone
 ; ;conversations, correspondence (e-mails, business letters, fax), mini- ; ;meetings, mastering everyday situations at work in a foreign  ; ;language (answering questions, giving  ; ;explanations/instructions/descriptions)

• Information theory
• Signals and spectra, characteristics and measurement of signals with information content
• Electronic components
• Characteristics of transmission channels
• Transmission media (cable, radio, near-field communication, infrared and optical   communication)
• Modulation techniques (analog, digital)
• Error detection and error correction (ARQ, FEC)
• Transmission techniques (narrow band, multicarrier OFDM, spread spectrum methods)
• Architectures for transmitters and receivers
• Examples of technical systems

• Schematic diagram entry
• Geometry definition
• Component library
• Parts list
• Layout, design rules
• Creation of Gerber files
• Practical introduction to a CAD system through input and layout of a simple   circuit
• placement and operation of PCBs
• Computer-based data acquisition and processing
• Development of measurement applications..

• Fundamentals of operating systems
• Memory, process and device management
• Real time operating systems
• Software development processes
• Source code and configuration management
• Quality assurance
• Fundamentals of object-oriented programming
• Data encapsulation through classes and inheritance
• Objects with their characteristics and methods

• Structure and characteristics of operational amplifiers
• Basic operational amplifier circuits and applications
• Active filters
• Linear voltage regulators
• Analog-digital and digital-analog converters

• Programme and career-specific topics
• Extension of technical vocabulary; training of reading comprehension using
  authentic materials (technical texts/manuals/memos/reports)
• Extension of communication strategies in the workplace: correspondence (letter
  of application, curriculum vitae), structure and process descriptions,
  mini-presentations and mini-meetings

• Project definition, project types, project orientation, project management approach
• Project scoping and project context analysis
• Roles within a project, demands on project manager and team members
• Performance planning using a work breakdown structure
• Time scheduling
• Resource and cost planning
• Project manual

• Introduction to data formats for IoT data acquisition and processing (e.g. CSV, JSON,
  XML)
• Use of SQL databases • Basics of data processing
• Data visualisation

Machine learning:

• introduction and theory
• Machine learning as a sub-discipline of artificial intelligence
• Autonomous learning of patterns and relationships from existing datasets
• Supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning
• Deep learning, a special form of machine learning

• Introduction to automation engineering
• Structure and functioning principles of PLC systems
• IEC61131
• Structure of sequence control systems
• Error analysis
• Programming of PLC systems
• Integration of analog and digital inputs and outputs
• Working with function libraries

• Function and structure of sensors, measurement chain
• Calibration, sensitivity, accuracy, error estimation and propagation, measurement
  uncertainties
• Electrical measurement of non-electric quantities (force, pressure, temperature,
  distance, filling level, flow rate, humidity)
• Imaging sensors
• Noise suppression
• Condition monitoring of technical systems

• Sampling and reconstruction of continuous-time signals
• Characteristics of discrete-time systems
• Impulse response, difference equation and transfer function
• Discrete-time filter design
• Analysis of discrete-time signals in the time and the frequency domain
• Discrete-time stochastic processes

Students have to solve a technical problem relevant to their level of study in a team under supervision

• Object-oriented software design
• Polymorphism and class design
• Exception handling
• Concurrency
• Use of class libraries
• Templates and template

• Introduction to model-based software development
• Numerical simulation
• Modelling
• Development of discrete-time functions
• Test (verification, validation)
• Finite-state machines
• Automatic code generation
• Graphical user interfaces
• Data management in software applications
• Communication between processes
• Distributed applications

• Definition of quality
• Total Quality Management
• Quality management systems
• Statistical methods in quality management
• Ensuring product quality
• Models of development processes
• Quality management in electronics

• Engineering and IT terminology (semantic, orthographic and grammar phenomena  ; ;in documentation)
• Target group oriented writing (comprehensibility, style, vocabulary)
• Readability and comprehensibility (readability formulas, Hamburg  ; ;comprehensibility model)
• Standardising format and language using templates
• Design, typography, layout
• Information graphics, technical illustration

• Technology of integrated circuits
• Packaging of integrated circuits
• CMOS processes and techniques
• Bipolar processes, BiCMOS process
• Design methods for integrated circuits
• Basic design rules for integrated circuits
• Design and layout of digital gates in CMOS

• Concepts and technology of mobile robotics
• Motion control sensors
• Probabilistic localisation
• Scanning of a task at known position
• Path and motion planning
• Simultaneous planning and response to path changes
• High-speed navigation through a maze

• Introduction to 3D printing, materials, processing, design
• Sustainable design of electronic assemblies (in terms of durability and   maintainability)
• Selection of appropriate connectors for communication interfaces
• Fundamentals of power supplies and their dimensioning
• Installation and assembly of components into a device
• Integration of pre-fabricated assemblies

• Applied cryptography (pseudorandom number generators, message digest, message   authentication
  code, symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, digital certificates, transport layer security)
• Reverse engineering
• Secure software development lifecycle

Students have to solve a technical problem relevant to their level of study under supervision.

• Planning of the necessary work steps, time and resources
• Scientific analysis f a subject-specific problem

The board examination is carried out in accordance with the requirements for final examinations at FH Bachelor's degree programmes pursuant to FHStG as amended.

Students have to solve technical tasks in an industrial environment

• ISO/OSI 7 layer model
• Transmission media, cable technologies
• Communication protocols
• Interfaces
• Access methods
• LAN technologies
• Internetworking
• Transport protocols

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

Introduction

• computer architecture
• data representation (coding) and interpretation
• compiler, interpreter
• software build process
• memory management: stack, heap

Programming language C

• variables and standard data types
• operators - control structures, distinction of cases, loops
• functions, prototypes, memory classes of variables, memory organisation on runtime
• pointers
• arrays, strings and pointer arithmetic

Students have to solve programming problems in exercises.

• Assembling and commissioning a modular prefabricated electronic circuit
• Carrying out simple electrical measurements
• Programming embedded systems using prefabricated modules

• Electrical units
• Electrical resistance
• Ideal and real sources
• Power and energy in electrical networks
• Ohm's law
• Kirchhoff's laws
• Direct current networks: network conversion, superposition, Thévenin and Norton equivalents, node and mesh analysis, node-voltage method, mesh-current method

Students have to solve examples in exercises, partly with computer support.

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

Linear algebra:

• vectors
• matrices
• determinants
• linear systems of equations
• eigenvalues and eigenvectors

Complex analysis

• complex numbers
• complex analytic functions

Calculus

• Derivatives
• Taylor series

Students have to solve examples in exercises.

• International System of Units
• Newton's axioms, forces, potential, equations of motion
• Dynamics: energy momentum, angular momentum

• Introduction to business management
• Corporate forms (differences from a business management perspective)
• Financing (excluding export)
• External accounting and operative controlling
• Balance sheet (content and understanding)
• Ratio analysis

• Self-organisation
• Learning and study techniques
• Learning activities
• Dealing with stress
• Team work

Programming language C

• structures
• type definitions
• file I/O
• modular programming
• dynamically allocated data structures

Algorithms and data structures:

• resource usage (memory, runtime)
• basic data structures
• sorting algorithms
• search algorithms
• tree structures
• programming methods

Students have to solve examples in exercises.

• Numeric systems and Boolean algebra and their mathematical laws
• Basic combinatorial and sequential circuits at gate level
• Introduction to a hardware description language
• Simple application circuits
• Finite state machines

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises

• stationary flow field
• electrostatic field
• magnetostatic field
• law of induction
• parameters for variable currents and voltages
• sinusoidal currents and voltages
• alternating current networks
• three phase networks

Students have to solve examples in exercises, partly with computer support.

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Resistance
• Capacitor
• Coil
• Semiconductor
• pn junction
• Semiconductor diode

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises

• Statistics, calibration, error propagation, Gaussian and Student's distribution
• Measurement of direct quantities, principles of moving-coil meters and moving-iron meter
• Measurement circuits (bridge circuit)
• Resistance measurement, principle of voltage correct vs. current correct measurements
• Digital data acquisition (errors), differences between digital and analog measurement instruments
• Temperature measurement

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Integration
• Ordinary first and second order differential equations
• Probability and statistics

Students have to solve examples in exercises.

• Principles of law / stages of the legal system
• Fundamentals of European law
• Fundamentals of commercial law
• Fundamentals of partnership law
• Fundamentals of captial company law
• Fundamentals of competition law
• Fundamentals of contract law
• Fundamentals of intellectual property law

• Cost effectiveness analysis
• Production and cost theory
• Cost accounting and costing: cost type, cost centre, cost object accounting
• Absorption costing vs. direct costing
• Break-even analysis
• Standard costing and variance analysis

• Resonance circuits
• Locus diagrams
• Bode diagrams
• Fourier series and analysis of non-sinusoidal periodic signals
• Fourier transform and signal analysis
• Laplace transform and analysis of switching operations in electrical networks

Students have to solve examples in exercises, partly with computer support

Theoretical contexts are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Measurement of alternating quantities (rms value etc.)
• Power measurement
• Measurement circuits (measurement bridge)
• Capacitance, inductance
• Working principle of analog instruments
• Oscilloscope, analog and digital, Shannon's sampling theorem
• Basic types of analog-to-digital converters
• Statistical noise, quantisation noise of ideal analog-to-digital converter

Theoretical contexts are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• DC-DC and DC-AC converters
• Operazion of DC, synchronous and asynchronous motors
• Speed-controlled operation of electric motors
• Fundamentals of control engineering
• Modelling, simulation and control system analysis of an example drive
• Computer-based simulation and controller design

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Fundamentals of microprocessors and microcontrollers
• 16-bit vs. 32-bit controller
• Structure and functional principle of a microcontroller family (ALU, clock generation, debug interface)
• Overview of an instruction set of a microcontroller family
• Peripheral modules of microcontrollers (I/O ports, timer with capture/compare units, real time clock, serial interfaces, ADC12, DAC12, DMA, hardware multiplier, LCD etc.)
• Memory busses and memory drivers (multiplexed, demultiplexed bus, bus timing, wait states)
• Memory structure and functional principle (SRAM, SDRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash)
• Serial interfaces (UART, IrDa, SPI, Microwire, One Wire, I2C, SPORT, USB)

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Semiconductor diodes and circuit examples
• Bipolar transistors and basic circuits
• Field-effect transistors and basic circuits
• HF behaviour of basic transistor circuits
• Differential amplifiers
• Push-pull amplifiers

Students have to solve examples in exercises, partly with computer support.

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Fundamentals of human communication
• Communication in different situations
• Gestalt theory, Gestalt therapy, systemic therapy, group dynamics and NLP

• Enhancement of communication skills and oral expression through communication-oriented language training based on situations and texts from business and engineering
• Extension of vocabulary (based on general and technical texts), repetition and consolidation of selected grammar content
• Training of reading comprehension using authentic materials (technical texts/manuals/memos/reports)
• Introduction to communication strategies in the workplace: phone conversations, correspondence (e-mails, business letters, fax), mini-meetings, mastering everyday situations at work in a foreign language (answering questions, giving explanations/instructions/descriptions)

• Structure and characteristics of operational amplifiers
• Basic operational amplifier circuits and applications
• Active filters
• Linear voltage regulators
• Analog-digital and digital-analog converters

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Information theory
• Signals and spectra, characteristics and measurement of signals with information content
• Electronic components
• Characteristics of transmission channels
• Transmission media (cable, radio, near-field communication, infrared and optical communication)
• Modulation techniques (analog, digital)
• Error detection and error correction (ARQ, FEC)
• Transmission techniques (narrow band, multicarrier OFDM, spread spectrum methods)
• Architectures for transmitters and receivers
• Examples of technical systems

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Schematic diagram entry
• Geometry definition
• Component library
• Parts list
• Layout, design rules
• Creation of Gerber files
• Practical introduction to a CAD system through input and layout of a simple circuit
• placement and operation of PCBs - Computer-based data acquisition and processing
• Development of measurement applications
  

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Fundamentals of operating systems
• Memory, process and device management
• Real time operating systems
• Software development processes
• Source code and configuration management
• Quality assurance
• Fundamentals of object-oriented programming
• Data encapsulation through classes and inheritance
• Objects with their characteristics and methods

Students have to solve programming problems in exercises.

• Programme and career-specific topics
• Extension of technical vocabulary; training of reading comprehension using authentic materials (technical texts/manuals/memos/reports)
• Extension of communication strategies in the workplace: correspondence (letter of application, curriculum vitae), structure and process descriptions, mini-presentations and mini-meetings

• Project definition, project types, project orientation, project management approach
• Project scoping and project context analysis
• Roles within a project, demands on project manager and team members
• Performance planning using a work breakdown structure
• Time scheduling
• Resource and cost planning
• Project manual

Exercises give students the opportunity to prepare the planning documents for the project.

• Acquisition of measurement data such as acceleration, inclination, angular velocity, distance
• Wireless transmission of measurement data from a mobile application and visualisation on a PC
• Integration of sensor data in an existing algorithm
• Simulation of algorithms
• Testing of source code

• Sensor technology (with a focus on the measurement of non-electrical physical quantities)
• Process control (fundamental methods and standards, examples of industrial systems)

• Sampling and reconstruction of continuous-time signals
• Characteristics of discrete-time systems
• Impulse response, difference equation and transfer function
• Discrete-time filter design
• Analysis of discrete-time signals in the time and the frequency domain
• Discrete-time stochastic processes

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Students have to solve a technical problem relevant to their level of study in a team under supervision

• Object-oriented software design
• Polymorphism and class design
• Exception handling
• Concurrency
• Use of class libraries
• Templates and template classes

The teaching content will be practically implemented in a comprehensive group project.

• Introduction to model-based software development
• Numerical simulation
• Modelling
• Development of discrete-time functions
• Test (verification, validation)
• Finite-state machines
• Automatic code generation
• Graphical user interfaces
• Data management in software applications
• Communication between processes
• Distributed applications

Theoretical relationships are illustrated in practical laboratory exercises.

• Definition of quality
• Total Quality Management
• Quality management systems
• Statistical methods in quality management
• Ensuring product quality
• Models of development processes
• Quality management in electronics

• Engineering and IT terminology (semantic, orthographic and grammar phenomena in documentation)
• Target group oriented writing (comprehensibility, style, vocabulary)
• Readability and comprehensibility (readability formulas, Hamburg comprehensibility model)
• Standardising format and language using templates
• Design, typography, layout
• Information graphics, technical illustration

• Commissioning of sensors
• Transmission of sensor data via radio, radio remote control
• Localisation in a static environment
• Vehicle modelling
• Programming of selected functions in a vehicle
• Setting up a test environment

• System analysis and design of automation systems
• Process monitoring
• Control engineering in industrial facilities

• Students have to solve a technical problem relevant to their level of study under supervision.

• Planning of the necessary work steps, time and resources - Scientific analysis of a subject-specific problem

The board examination is carried out in accordance with the requirements for final examinations at FH Bachelor's degree programmes pursuant to FHStG as amended.

• Students have to solve technical tasks in an industrial environment