Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science

Numbers and Facts

  • over 1005 students and about 132 graduates per year
  • 30 professors, reinforced by almost 20 lecturers
  • 70 non-scientific and scientific employees, including 49 project engineers
  • 29 laboratories
  • affiliated institute aia (automations institut amberg)

Competence Fields

Within the "large" areas of electrical engineering/information technology, computer science and media, the EMI department specifically occupies the following fields of competence. In these areas, the professors and their staff are constantly engaged in knowledge transfer with external partners within the framework of demanding projects, which in turn benefits teaching, for example in the form of specialization subjects and theses.

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

  • Plant automation / An-Institut aia (automations institut amberg)
  • Automotive
  • Electric drives
  • Power Electronics
  • Signal processing / communication technology

Educational Technology

  • Digital teaching and didactics: theories of multimedia learning for teaching/learning guidance, development of teaching and training concepts, and more
  • Video production, animation, educasts: Audio production, explanatory animations and interactive videos with green screen technology and lightboard, among others, e.g. for inverted classroom scenarios
  • Immersive teaching and learning in augmented and virtual worlds
  • Modern technologies and authoring tools for instructional development, e.g. Articulate, Adobe CC, Mahara and others

Computer Science

  • Study programs Geoinformatics and Land Management, Industry 4.0 Informatics and Media Informatics
  • Information Security
  • Mobile & Physical Computing
  • Visual Computing

Engineering Education

  • Vocational specialization electrical engineering and information technology
  • Computer Science
  • Mechatronics
  • Vocational education and social sciences

Artificial Intelligence

  • Data Analytics & Computer Vision
  • Smart Energy und Smart Home
  • Smart Robotics & Smart Media

Media Production and- Design

  • Digital Media
  • Information visualization
  • Image- und Product Movie

For more information, see Projects and Labs.