Ficha de revisão: Mechatronic Systems Organisation

📋 Course Outline

1. Module Identity and Requirements
2. Course Content and Assessment
3. Seminar and Project Lab
4. Information and Weekly Schedule
5. Artificial Intelligence and Academic Practice
6. Literature and Online Rules

📖 1. Module Identity and Requirements

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

• Mechatronic Systems is module MECM140 in the Mechatronics Master’s programme, with MMSM230 as the corresponding EU4M module.

• The module is taught in English, carries 6 ECTS, requires a bachelor’s degree, comprises 5 SWS, and is offered in classroom and/or hybrid format.

Further detail

• The module contains the lecture Industrial Mechatronic Systems, the laboratory, and the Seminar Mechatronic Systems, with module codes MECM141/MMSM231, MECM143/MMSM234, and MECM142/MMSM233 respectively.

📖 2. Course Content and Assessment

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

• The Industrial Mechatronic Systems lecture covers mechanical systems, sensor systems, actuator systems, control systems, image processing and artificial intelligence, system description, and project management, maintenance, and after-sales topics.

• The examination lasts 90 minutes and permits no auxiliary material.

Further detail

• The lecture has 2 SWS and 2 ECTS with a graded examination, the laboratory has 2 SWS and 2 ECTS with pass/fail assessment, and the seminar has 1 SWS and 2 ECTS with a graded examination.

📖 3. Seminar and Project Lab

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

🔄 Process — The seminar is combined with a project laboratory: students address theoretical issues and fundamentals in the seminar and develop a practical demonstrator in the project laboratory.

• The expected project output consists of presentations, demonstrators, data or code, and a short paper.

Further detail

📌 Seminar and project-lab groups ideally contain 2 students, although groups of 1 to 3 students are possible.

📌 Students are recommended to choose a topic in combination with a research and development project.

💡 Memory Hook

Theory → demonstrator

📖 4. Information and Weekly Schedule

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

📌 Students must regularly check their university email and Teams to receive updated information.

📌 Participation in the seminar and laboratory is mandatory, and their presentations take place in May and June.

Further detail

• The scheduled time slots are Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:30 and Thursday from 15:40 to 18:50.

• The distribution between lecture, seminar, and laboratory is announced separately; the usual arrangement is lecture on Wednesday and seminar or laboratory on Thursday.

📖 5. Artificial Intelligence and Academic Practice

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

📌 Code produced with ChatGPT must be documented and marked as ChatGPT-generated.

⚡ ChatGPT may enhance productivity in coding, research, and understanding new topics, but ChatGPT cannot be treated as a reliable scientific source because its sources may be unknown.

📖 6. Literature and Online Rules

📝 Essential Points

★ Must-know

📌 In online or hybrid lectures, students should switch their cameras on, switch their microphones off when they are not speaking, arrive on time, and not record the lectures.

Further detail

• Textbooks are available as electronic books in PDF format through the library.

📌 Recording online or hybrid lectures is prohibited because of copyright and image-rights considerations.

⚠️ Common Pitfalls & Confusions

1. The examination is not an open-book assessment.
2. Seminar and laboratory attendance is not optional.
3. Using ChatGPT for assistance does not make it an acceptable scientific reference.