Agile and Consistent Engineering of CPS – Find patterns in industry cases!

Engineering for tomorrow – Enable it right now!

Engineering new high-tech systems requires more than just one discipline: Only with the help of mechanical, electrical and software engineers we can build the systems of tomorrow. One kind of those systems are cyber-physical systems (CPS) connecting the digital world with physical technology. You want to change the way we understand engineering CPS?
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What we want to do

Consistency is a core requirement for collaborative work – something you might have already experienced when working with many people on a single document (such as Google Docs). In Engineering of CPS, that does not only have to apply for single documents. Complicated and dynamic changing models have to be in consistent states: From Software architecture to FEM-Analysis and CAD-models.
Many organizations already try to work on CPS engineering, but face many inconsistencies in their development. By analyzing different organizations, we want to systematically collect inconsistency situations and create an inconsistency situation catalogue to findcorresponding patterns.

What you would do

Your task is the characterization of different inconistency situations to propose patterns occuring in inconsistency situations. This includes systematic structuring of situation descriptions, their graphical and logical representation, derivation of patterns and validation in expert interviews.

Am I the right person?

If you have an background in engineering (e. g. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Software Engineering and Industrial Engineering, …) and you are interested in understanding how CPS engineering of the future works, you fullfill most of our requirements! You should have fun on researching new interesting topics and be willing to take a deep dive into product development theory.

Deine Benefits

  • Working on cutting edge topics relevant for future product engineering

  • Learning of scientific working

  • Intense 1:1 coaching with an doctoral researcher from IPEK

  • Open student space for exchange on convide thesises on interdisciplinary engineering projects

Interested? Write a mail to thomas voelk ∂does-not-exist.kit edu!