Dingolfing Campus: Sustainable Industrial Operations and Business

Knowledge:

• of physical basics of mechanical, thermodynamic, optical and electrical
  phenomena,
• in application of physical laws to the solution of real-world problems.

Skills and competences:

• ability to correctly identify and categorise the physics basics of technical
  applications,
• capability to understand dependences between different aspects of technical applications,
• capability to analyse and visualize physical equations,
• skills in carrying out simple physical calculations.

Contents

• Physics in moving reference frames: inertial forces, centrifugal force, Coriolis force.
• Conservation laws in physics: mechanical work, forms of energy, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, conservation of angular momentum, conservation of charge, conservation of mass.
• The structure of matter: atom models, elementary particles, chemical elements, atomic bonds, molecules, crystals, states of matter, solids, metals, ceramics, amorphous solids, polymers, composite materials, liquids, hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, surface tension, capillary effect, gases, atmosphere, ideal gas.
• Thermodynamics: temperature, temperature scales, kinetic-molecular theory, ideal-gas law, heat, the laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic processes, cycle processes, heat engines.
• Harmonic oscillations and waves: one-dimensional harmonic motion,
  damped and forced oscillations, wave equation, harmonic waves, reflection, standing waves, sound, perception of sound, sound level, Doppler effect, interference and diffraction.
• Optics: spectrum of light, refraction, transmission and refraction at surfaces, polarisation, total reflection, lenses, optical instruments, wave optics, interference, diffraction.
• Exercises: appr. 30 problems with solutions and discussion during exercise

Knowledge:

• Description of the manufacture of electronic devices
• Description of electrical components by characteristic curves
• Knowing important circuit symbols
• Knowing important limit values
• Description of the electrical function of important semiconductor components
• Explain some basic circuits of electronics (rectifier, smoothing, MOSFET as switch/amplifier, basic OPV circuits).
• Description of the conversion between analogue and digital signals
• Knowing the basics and simple circuits of digital technology

Skills:

• Application of knowledge and laws about limit values to component selection
• Analyse and draw simple circuits
• Dealing with formulas, calculation methods and data sheets from engineering practice
• Application of graphical solution methods based on characteristic curves
• Evaluate a digitisation in terms of dynamics and sampling frequency
• Optimising logic circuits with regard to the number of gates

Competences:
The students are familiar with the concepts of electronics and measurement technology and can assess these independently in their later engineering practice in their professional field.

• Contents Production of electronic circuits (development process, electronics design automation, PCB production, interconnection technologies, soldering processes, error probabilities).
• Limit values (safe operating area, thermal resistance, handling of data
  sheets, dimensioning of heat sinks)
• Diode and its applications (Shockley equation, characteristic curve, limit values, data sheets, designs, half-wave rectifier, bridge rectifier, smoothing capacitor, light-emitting diode, photodiode, solar cell)
• MOSFET (function, characteristic curve, limit values, data sheets, designs, MOSFET as switch for resistive and inductive loads, MOSFET as amplifier)
• Operational amplifier (function of ideal/real OPV, principle of negative feedback, non-inverting/inverting amplifier, summer, integrator, differentiator. Cut-off frequency, slew rate)
• Analogue-to-digital converter/digital-to-analogue converter (mode of operation, quantisation error, sampling theorem)
• Digital technology (logic gates, CMOS technology, switching networks, switching units)

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the structure, outputs and results of a compiled programming language
• Understanding of the typical ways of thinking in software development.

Skills and competences:

• Ability to write simple and complex programs in the procedural language
  C/C++.
• Ability to deal with a modern development environment

Contents Programming in C/C++:
Expressions/instructions (evaluation sequence, blocks);

• Input/Output and Elementary
• Operators and preprocessor
• Control structures as well as arrays and pointers
• Functions and parameter transfers
• More complex data types and data structures;
• Algorithms for advanced topics
• Important functions of the standard and mathematical library;
• File handling

Knowledge:

• Understanding of internal accounting
• Knowledge of cost allocation methods
• Understanding decision-related costs
• Understanding of the enterprise as a profit- and loss-generating organisation with capital and asset endowment
• Knowledge of the interrelationships of inventory and flow variables in a business and the expenditure/income effects
• Understanding how a company's profit for the period is generated

Skills:

• Understanding costing, budgeting and planning
• Distinguish and differentiate between full cost and partial cost perspectives
• Understanding of the booking technique and selected basic
• Year-end closing

Competences:

• Carry out and interpret various profitability calculations
• Ability to implement different approaches to cost management and discuss their advantages/disadvantages
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial statements of individual companies and groups of companies

Contents:

• Basics and basic terms as well as cost type accounting
• Cost centre accounting and cost unit accounting
• Full and partial cost accounting systems
• Standard costing and activity-based costing
• Target costing
• Tasks and areas of industrial accounting
• Introduction to industrial accounting

Knowledge:

• Classification of manufacturing processes, differentiation between production engineering and process engineering and energy technology
• Means and methods by which discrete products are manufactured, in particular:
  o Manufacturing process
  o Archetypes
  o Forming
  o Separate
  o Joining
  o Coating
  o Change substance properties
  o Generative manufacturing processes
  o Handling and chaining
• Knowledge of the cost drivers of the above-mentioned manufacturing processes
• Knowledge of important boundary conditions and restrictions of the above-mentioned manufacturing processes
• Knowledge of the possibilities for scaling the above-mentioned production processes with regard to output quantity and workpiece size as well as flexibility with regard to variants.
• Basics of production system design: Definition of work systems, production type and process principle
• Concept of product-determining data and selected specifications

Skills:

• Analysis of technical drawings with regard to essential product features determining the manufacturing process chain
• Analysis of job data with regard to information relevant for work system design

Competences:

• Ability to derive fundamentally suitable manufacturing methods and process chains for typical workpieces on the basis of important product determining data and order data
• Ability to determine the production type and process principle on the basis of essential order data and product structure features
• Contents General basics:
  o Definition and classification of production engineering and its distinction from process and energy engineering
  o Classification of manufacturing processes according to DIN 8580
  o Marking of important product-determining data on technical drawings: Dimensional, form and positional tolerances, roughness, indication of treatment specifications
• Manufacturing process:
  Casting process for metal:
  o Foundry basics, requirements for the design of moulds and products, overview of casting materials, advantages and disadvantages of the process group.
  o Mould structure
  o Mould making and casting processes and their classification
  o Sequence, process identifiers, scaling and example components of selected processes
• Powder metallurgy:
  o Basics: powder production, shaping by pressing or MIM, sintering and post-processing
  o Requirements for the design of moulds and products, overview of the sintering classes, advantages and disadvantages of the process group, example components.
• Primordial moulding of polymers:
  o Basics: Overview of polymer materials, foams and fibre composites
  o Overview of moulding processes in plastics processing
  o Important primary forming processes according to material groups:
  Sequence, process codes, scaling and example components
• Generative manufacturing processes:
  o Basic principle and classification of the procedures, areas of application and procedure codes
  o Presentation of selected processes: Process principle, materials, process designations and areas of application
• Forming manufacturing processes:
  o Basic principle of forming. Influence of forming degree and temperature on the process, classification of the processes, areas of application and process characteristics, comparison of forming with metal-cutting shaping, including environmental aspects.
  o Presentation of important processes in solid, sheet and wire forming
  o Tool design using the example of a shaft blank
• Separating manufacturing processes:
  o Basic principles of cutting, chipping and removal
  o Sequence of the machining process, cutting materials, kinematics and cutting forces using the example of turning, machine straight line and tool life, economic significance of machining
  o Machining with geometrically defined and geometrically undefined cutting edge: important processes, their areas of application and process symbols, examples of workpieces and machine tools
  o Ablation by electrical discharge machining, laser and waterjet: areas of application and process characteristics, examples of workpieces and machine tools
• Joining manufacturing processes:
  o Classification of joining processes
  o Important joining methods for non-positive, positive and material-fit connections: Fields of application and process codes, examples of workpieces and machine tools
• Manufacturing processes Coating:

o Classification and significance of the coating processes
o Integration of coating into the manufacturing process chain
o Environmental relevance: Degree of solid use and solvent content
o Important processes: Fields of application and process codes, examples of workpieces and equipment

• Manufacturing processes change material properties:
  o Metallurgical fundamentals using the example of the iron-carbon system
  o Heat treatment processes for steels: Classification of heat treatment processes (thermal, thermochemical, thermomechanical), heat treatment objectives, process sequence, equipment.
• Manufacturing process chains
  o Definition and process elements, boundary conditions of work planning in single-item and series production, basics of evaluation and selection of alternative manufacturing process chains
  o Manufacturing process chain planning methodology
  o Selected examples of manufacturing process chains: cast housing, smooth shafts, stepped shafts, splined shafts, machined flange
• Handling and chaining:
  o Handling and linking in assembly and manufacturing: Principles, subprocesses, facilities
• Production systems:
  o Work systems: Definition and design features Manufacturing type and process principle
  o Presentation of important manufacturing types and process principles:
  Characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, application according to quantities and component mass.
  o Flow production: Determination of customer cycle and line balancing, availability
  o Trends in modern production systems: Integration and coupling of subsystems, importance of buffers and bearings

Knowledge:

• Standards, players and interventions as constitutive subsystems of sustainable development
• Basic patterns of dynamics within these subsystems

Skills:

• Analysis, description and explanation of the dynamics within the subsystems
• Identify and justify fundamental alternatives to traditional patterns of unsustainable development in technology, economics, politics and culture.

Competences:

• Outlining future concepts on the basis of the three subsystems
• Recognise the need for inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation
• Development of procedures for initiating inter- and transdisciplinary work

Contents:

Standards:

• Ecological carrying capacity: Earth history / Earth system / planetary, regional and local boundaries / tipping points / human species
• Social equity: concepts of justice / operationalisation approaches / distributional issues on wealth, income and power
• Economic performance: performance concepts / supply, welfare, provision and prosperity / limits to growth
• Interaction of the three standards
  Groups of players:
  o Civil society: classification / emergence, organisation, development / significance
  o Policy: essence, forms, processes / sustainability initiatives
  o Science: tasks and limits / transformative science / sustainability science
  o Individual: responsibility / participation / psychology of sustainability
  o Companies: Types / sustainability strategies / sustainability-oriented business models
• Interaction of the five groups of players
• Types of intervention:
  o cultural: values, norms, meaning / creativity and art / education / routines
  o political-institutional: concept of institution / legal systems (especially of the EU and Germany) / environmental, social and economic law / corporate governance
  o economic (in the sense of macroeconomic): Ecological economics / circular economy, post-growth economy, degrowth, common good economy / entrepreneurial initiatives.
  o technological: terms and systematics / history and philosophy of technology / consequences of technology / key technologies of sustainable development
  o Interaction of the four types of intervention
• Application examples
  Outlook: Transformations and future scenarios

Students get thorough knowledge of the relevant subjects for industrial engineering
Mathematical terms, laws and calculation methods.

Skills and competences:

• Ability to confidently apply this knowledge to tasks in different profes-
  sional fields for industrial engineers
• Training in practice-oriented mathematical ways of thinking and develop-
  ment of abstraction skills
  Contents - General basics (equations, inequalities, systems of equations, vector
  calculus)
• Functions and curves (General function properties, Coordinate transfor-
  mations, Integral rational functions, Broken rational functions, Algebraic
  functions, Trigonometric functions, Arc functions, Exponential functions,
  Logarithmic functions, Hyperbolic functions)
• Complex numbers (definition and representation of a complex number,
  complex calculus, applications of complex calculus)
• Differential calculus with one variable (derivative of a function, derivative
  rules, applications of differential calculus)
• Taylor series

Prof. Dr rer. pol. Robert Baumhof

Knowledge:

• to create and understand technical drawings,
• about the application possibilities of CAD systems,
• for the design of components,
• about important machine elements, their function and application,
• basic tasks, methods and procedures of product development.

Skills and competences:

• sketch components/assemblies and represent them in a technical drawing
  in accordance with standards,
• represent components/assemblies with the aid of a 3D CAD system and
  derive drawings and parts lists from them,
• select and design machine elements according to specifications,
• to work out solutions for practice-oriented, constructive tasks under
  consideration of the rules of force-flow-appropriate, material-appropriate,
  production-appropriate and assembly-appropriate design.

Contents Lessons and exercises:

• Tasks of design and development as well as their integration into the
  company processes and organisation
• Technical drawing:
  Standardised representation, dimensioning and labelling; dimensional,
  shape and positional tolerances; fits; surface finishes; types of drawing;
  two- and three-sheet projection; cuts and unwindings.
• Machine elements:
  Structure and application guidelines of selected machine elements: Rolling bearings; Springs; Shafts/axles; Screws; Shaft-hub connections; Gears.
• Design:
  Solution finding; economic efficiency calculation; standard series; design
  suitable for force flow, material, production and assembly; influence of
  surfaces and fits.
• Design methodology and development process:
  Methodological procedures: V-model, simultaneous engineering, VDI
  2221; tools for target-oriented solution search: list of requirements, functi-
  onal/effective structures, morphological box.