Teaching & Studies

Specialization Production Metrology

The task of measurement technology in mechanical engineering is to record the properties and behavior of systems. The main focus is on measurement and testing methods in production, but also on the recording of measurement data for the control of processes as well as methods for the investigation of material properties and strength.

In addition to the further development of procedures based on known measurement methods, which are used to record rapidly changing variables, progressive automation and increased demands, e.g. on materials and design processes, require measurement systems that provide the required information over a wide area, without contact and without feedback. Nowadays, these are often based on optical principles.

The course on measurement technology in mechanical engineering covers the fundamentals of measurement technology, measurement methods especially for geometric quantities, methods of measurement signal processing, the system-technical description of measurement chains up to the methods of preventive quality management. The training is therefore particularly interdisciplinary and prepares the measurement engineer for a wide range of collaborations.

The Engineer in Measurement Technology

The basic subject of measurement technology not only opens up versatile activities for graduates in various fields of mechanical engineering, such as energy technology, automotive engineering, vehicle construction, control and regulation of processes or in manufacturing and automation technology, but to a large extent wherever measurement technology tasks have to be solved, e.g. in civil engineering, in physics or in medicine.

The application can be e.g. in research and development, in industrial application but also in official institutions. Since in metrology the known or newly developed measuring principle always has to be linked with the respective existing measuring object, the activity requires a constant readjustment to the respective tasks.