Electronics and Computer Engineering

Applied Computer Science 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420104

Computer Networks

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Applied Computer Science 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420103

Computer Science and Programming 1

7.50

ECTS

5.00

SWS

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

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering | Lab practical (LU) | Coursecode: 220420102

Basic Electronics Lab

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420101

Introduction to Electrical Engineering

6.00

ECTS

5.00

SWS

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

Fundamentals of Science 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420105

Mathematical Methods of Electrical Engineering 1

7.00

ECTS

6.00

SWS

Linear algebra:
• vectors
• matrices
• determinants
• linear systems of equations
• eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Complex analysis
• complex numbers
• complex analytic functions
Calculus
• Derivatives
• Taylor series

Fundamentals of Science 1 | Lecture (VO) | Coursecode: 220420106

Physics

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Technology Management 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420107

Industrial Business Management 1

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420108

Study and Work Techniques

1.00

ECTS

1.00

SWS

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

Applied Computer Science 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420204

Computer Science and Programming 2

7.00

ECTS

5.00

SWS

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

Applied Computer Science 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420205

Digital Systems

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Applied Electrical Engineering 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420201

Electrical Engineering 1

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Applied Electrical Engineering 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420203

Electronic Components

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Applied Electrical Engineering 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420202

Measurement Engineering 1

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Fundamentals of Science 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420206

Mathematical Methods of Electrical Engineering 2

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

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

Technology Management 2 | Lecture (VO) | Coursecode: 220420208

Business Law

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420207

Industrial Business Management 2

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Applied Electrical Engineering 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420301

Electrical Engineering 2

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Applied Electrical Engineering 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420302

Measurement Engineering 2

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Control Engineering and Electric Drives | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420304

Control Engineering and Electric Drives

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Embedded Systems | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420305

Embedded Systems

8.00

ECTS

6.00

SWS

• 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 Technology | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420303

Semiconductor Technology

6.00

ECTS

5.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 3 | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420306

Communication and Team Training

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Technology Management 3 | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420307

General English

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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)

Communication Technology | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420403

Communication Technology

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Design and Test of Electronic Devices | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420402

Design and Test of Electronic Devices

7.00

ECTS

6.00

SWS

• 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

Embedded Computing 1 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420404

Embedded Computing 1

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Modultitel Englisch | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420401

Analog Signal Processing

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

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

Technology Management 4 | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420406

Professional English

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 4 | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420405

Project Management

1.00

ECTS

1.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420407

Data Engineering for IoT

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420408

Introduction to Machine Learning

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420410

Programmable Logic Controllers

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420409

Sensors

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Applied Signal Processing | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420502

Applied Signal Processing

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Electronics and Computer Engineering Project | Project Thesis (PA) | Coursecode: 220420504

Electronics and Computer Engineering Project

7.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

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

Embedded Computing 2 | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420503

Embedded Computing 2

4.00

ECTS

3.00

SWS

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

Model-Based Design | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420501

Model-Based Design

5.00

ECTS

4.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 5 | Lecture (VO) | Coursecode: 220420505

Quality Management

2.00

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Technology Management 5 | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420506

Technical Writing

2.00

ECTS

1.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420507

Introduction to Microelectronics

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420508

Mobile Robots

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420509

Prototyping and Device Assembling

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Elective Subjects | Lecture/Practical (IL) | Coursecode: 220420510

Security and Hacking

2.50

ECTS

2.00

SWS

• 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

Bachelor Thesis | Bachelor's Thesis (BA) | Coursecode: 220420602

Bachelor Thesis

13.00

ECTS

0.33

SWS

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

Bachelor Thesis | Seminar (SE) | Coursecode: 220420603

Bachelor Thesis Seminar

1.00

ECTS

1.00

SWS

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

Bachelor Thesis | Modul/Final Examination (FA) | Coursecode: 220420604

Bachelor’s examination

2.00

ECTS

0.00

SWS

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.

Internship | Practical (PR) | Coursecode: 220420601

Internship

14.00

ECTS

1.00

SWS

Students have to solve technical tasks in an industrial environment