Automation Engineering

The interdisciplinary course of study in Automation Engineering is offered by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences, and the Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering.

The task of Automation Engineering is to ensure, that a given technical system or process can be run without intervention of humans. This can be an autopilot of a plane or car, the sensitivity of a robot, or the automatized emergency shutdown of a process plant. To automatize the system, it is necessary to perform the following four tasks for an automation engineer:

• Modeling: How can I model the given process?
• Control: How can I control process, such that given requirements are fulfilled?
• Monitoring: How can I operate and monitor the process?
• Embedding: How can I program microcontroller, such that they can perform these tasks?

These questions are in terms of their generality independent from application. Thus, automation engineering can be interdisciplinary applied to several branches of industry, and working as an automation engineer is diverse and multifaceted.

This master course teaches you in German, how to answer the four questions mentioned above.