Final presentations of the "Interdisciplinary Research Projects" of the Master's degree program Intelligent Manufacturing on July 8, 2024 at IMW

In the summer semester 2024 (SoSe2024), students on the English-language Master's degree course in Intelligent Manufacturing learned about good scientific practice and the implementation of practical product development tasks in the subject “Research Methodology and Interdisciplinary Research Project”.

The first step of the “Research Methodology” lecture is to teach the specific research procedure and the second step is to teach methods for clearly presenting, setting objectives and structuring a research topic. In the second step, students can put the tools they have learned directly into practice and work in teams on a practical research project in the fields of automatic reverse engineering, 3D reconstruction and object recognition in circular product development.

Automatic reverse engineering is used, for example, when components are required as CAD models but the corresponding CAD files are not available. Object recognition is a technique that is used to identify objects, for example to ensure the completeness of a technical process (“computer-based vision”). The students implemented this with the help of a camera and the algorithms they had developed for this purpose.

The students were given specific tasks for the subject areas, for which they had to develop a solution and present the results. The presentation of the results took place in two parts, with the students giving an interim and final presentation on the one hand and submitting a 6-page scientific paper on their research projecton the other.

In order to teach and promote bothtechnical skills and soft skills, a learning aid on presentation rules was offered in addition to the research project task. Together with Antje Mackensen (M.A.), the tutor for tutorial work (Team Study Support, Department 5) at Clausthal University of Technology, the IMW team created a Moodle self-study course for preparing the presentations and held an introductory workshop. This answers questions such as “How do I present successfully?”, “What are the presentation rules?” or “Which presentation template should I use?” and uses learning-promoting elements (e.g. quiz, video, cloze text...) to promote and support learning and preparation during the semester. Student Waiza Hussain was involved in the implementation of the Moodle course.

In SoSe2024, 56 students (14 teams of 4 students each) actively participated in the course, which is supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. David Inkermann and research assistant Theresa Ammersdörfer (M.Sc.) from the Chair of Integrated Product Development at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMW).

If you are also interested in the practical work of the Institute or would like to become part of our team (e.g. student assistant, student research project, etc.), please contact us directly at: ipe@imw.tu-clausthal.de

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