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)

Areas of expertise

Within the "large" fields of electrical engineering/information technology, computer science and media, the EMI faculty focuses specifically on the following areas of expertise. The professors and their staff are constantly transferring knowledge in these areas with external partners as part of challenging projects, which in turn benefits teaching, for example in the form of specialization subjects and final theses.

  • Plant automation / affiliated institute aia (automations institut amberg)
  • Automotive
  • Electric drives
  • Power electronics
  • Signal processing / communication 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, including with green screen technology and lightboard, e.g. for inverted classroom scenarios
  • Immersive teaching and learning in augmented and virtual worlds
  • Modern technologies and authoring tools for teaching development, for example Articulate, Adobe CC, Mahara and others

  • Geodesy and land management
  • Geoinformatics

  • Industry 4.0 Informatics and Media Informatics degree programs
  • Information Security
  • Mobile & Physical Computing
  • Visual Computing

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

  • Datenanalyse und Computer Vision
  • Intelligente Energie und Smart Home
  • Intelligente Robotik und intelligente Medien

  • Digital media
  • Information visualization
  • Image and product film