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Content:

• Passive building elements: (discrete and integrated building elements), ohmic resistance, coil and capacity
• Semiconductor technologies: terms and principles of IC design and production, pn junction, semiconductor technologies
• Active building elements: bipolar transistor, CMOS transistor
• Principles of analogue technology: basic circuits, biasing, static and dynamic behaviour, 2-port network theory, simulation techniques

This course is only suitable for students with no advanced Business knowledge. Having completed the course students are able to...

• Explain the most important business principles, differentiate between them and identify them within companies.
• Understand the application of these principles in business practice and classify companies accordingly.
• Describe central business functions (purchasing, production, logistics, marketing, sales, financial control, accounting ...).
• Recognise, analyse and evaluate central processes for business planning, decision-making and implementation.

Under the supervision of the lecturer and potentially under the instruction of a tutor, students work in small groups on a scientific or engineering project chosen from the areas of physics, electrical engineering or software engineering that can be implemented with the available resources (time frame, facilities and equipment).

Content:
As the final outcome, the students develop a functioning circuit, build a device or conduct an experiment. Students are responsible for theoretical preparation, practical implementation and documentation of circuits/protocols and evaluations of experiments.
Students will acquire any missing knowledge by studying relevant literature during the semester or from the lecturer if necessary.
The results of the project must be presented. Different presentation forms can be chosen following discussion with the lecturer.

The students are able to independently implement a realistic real estate management task in a scientific manner. The results are presented in a concluding presentation.

Content:
In the supplementary module “Project laboratory in sciences and technology” which must be taken beforehand, the task was to develop a functioning circuit, build a device or conduct an experiment. Building on these findings, the students carry out subsequent research and development work. On the basis of the previously developed device or experiment, students apply scientific methods to systematically look for new findings or practically implement the first concrete application. The available resources (time frame, facilities and equipment) must be taken into account.
First, the project groups have to devise a theoretical or applied research question.  On this basis, a concept must be developed and documented in a requirements specification. The requirements specification is then submitted to the supervisor and discussed. On the basis of the devised concept, the students conduct experiments or further develop the implementations, analysing their findings with a theoretical or applied research approach. The results must be presented as a research poster or research paper or as a documented system or acceptance test to provide functional verification. In addition, the students must give a final presentation.

This module provides students with a basic knowledge of LaTeX. A key focus is the application of LaTeX to create texts with mathematical formulas and implement algorithmic methods of numeric mathematics. They also use the Scientific Notebook tool. Students learn how to independently create texts with LaTeX.

Working together as a team with different roles and responsibilities, the students develop a software product (e.g. Android or iOS app), covering all process stages from the specification of requirements through to delivery. They use software engineering methods to define and manage the customer’s requirements in a structured manner. The students follow a software development process (e.g. RUP, Scrum, Kanban) and use software development tools to help them with their tasks (build, test and document management). They independently create the artefacts for each development phase – specification, design, program, test and configuration – and gain experience with recognised project management techniques. The students use a range of different quality assurance tools, document their work and create a project report and a customer presentation of the final results.

Students have a command of the basic principles of software design, including preparatory and supporting tasks and activities for successfully implementing a project. They learn to apply the principles, methods and tools of software engineering, acquire UML skills for modelling software systems and the ability to analyse, design and implement OO software solutions and generate user interfaces from models.

Content:
- Software development process
- Phases of software development
- Software life cycle models
- Principles of software development
- Analysis phase
- Methods and procedures for process and system analysis
- Specification phase/definition of requirements
- Make-or-buy decision
- Methods and tools in the analysis and specification phase
- Architecture design for application software systems
- Methodologies and processes of software design
- Product and process documentation
- Software quality assurance
- Software development tools

The students use, calculate, describe and define the fundamentals of sustainable building technology. They evaluate a building designed by architects with regard to the energy required for conditioning and the energy used for construction and plan a sustainable building technology concept.