Over two days, the experts exchanged ideas about new course concepts, innovative teaching methods and recruiting young talent, visited laboratories at the TH Lübeck and laid the foundation for a scientific conference in Jordan in 2024.
New course of study, new concept
First, the course concept for the new bachelor’s degree program was developed Mechatronics presented at the TH Lübeck, in which students have been able to enroll since the winter semester 2023/24. A special feature of this course of study is that it enables students to complete their studies in a hybrid manner according to their individual conditions and this was even part of the accreditation of the course of study.
When the concept for the hybrid design of the courses was subsequently presented, a lively exchange developed on hybrid teaching, with which the teachers had gained a lot of experience since the Corona pandemic at the latest.
Innovative teaching: designing your own escape room
The design of the “Project and self-management” module, which is currently being attended by students of the electrical engineering course and is now also part of the curriculum in the mechatronics course, caused great enthusiasm. The students design and implement various stations of an escape room in teams. The aim is to create a coherent story between the stations. Here, students not only acquire skills in the area of project and self-management, but also get to know each other and learn that technical systems can be implemented even with little prior knowledge.
Insights into laboratories and outstanding students
In the Laboratory for control engineering Martin Hahn gave an insight into the use of CAMeLView for laboratory tests, a development tool for the model-based design of mechatronic systems, as well as the technical equipment of the laboratories used in the mechatronics course. The Formula Student Team at TH Lübeck, founded in 2018 – the Seagulls Lübeck – presented the successes they had already achieved with the SG-03 vehicle and gave a foretaste of the SG-04 vehicle, which the conference guests were then able to view in the workshop.
The following day started with reports from the universities present on current topics relating to mechatronics courses, ranging from the number of new students to projects at the individual universities and measures to attract young talent to (re)accreditation.
Dr.-Ing. Martin Hahn, Professor of Control Engineering and Mechatronics and head of the Bachelor of Mechatronics says about the conference: “The conference was very well received by the participants. I am particularly pleased by the many positive feedback about the mechatronics course with its hybrid teaching concept.”