Automation and Safety at University of Duisburg-Essen

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The topics of process monitoring, fault diagnostics and fault-tolerant systems take on greater significance both in research and in the industrial application due to the continuously growing demands on high system reliability and system availability. Beyond the limits of the field of development under the keyword "Industry 4.0â€œ, applications of control and feedback control systems can be found in the industry, in distributed systems and similar areas. This results from the fusion of the classical application fields (e.g., Mechatronics) and through distributed working methods. This Master's programme imparts knowledge on methods in the automation and control domains as well as their implementation in computer-based systems. Additionally, the mathematical modelling and simulation of automated processes will be taught. This will be enabled through a combination of interdisciplinary courses from the natural sciences, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer engineering fields. The students will have the opportunity to get into theoretical complex topics and to solve complex automation tasks, which require sophisticated methods and techniques from modelling and simulation. For the graduates, job opportunities as engineers are open, for example, in conception, planning and project management in following domains: automation domain, process technology, production control engineering, power transmission, central building control systems, traffic control systems, and the automation of cars and planes.