Digital Engineering
Course of study
- Nachhaltige Verfahrens- und Umwelttechnik
- Energieprozesstechnik
- Chemieingenieurwesen: Molekulare und strukturelle Produktgestaltung
- Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Verfahrens- und Energietechnik
- Chemical and Energy Engineering
- Process Safety and Environmental Engineering
Abstract
In process engineering, apparatuses and processes with a high variety of technical complexity are daily used in the producing industry worldwide. The Faculty of Process Systems Engineering therefore aims at qualifying its students for the industrial needs at a high academic level. For this purpose, several theoretical lectures are offered together with applied seminars and practical work in laboratory sessions. However, the variety of processes and equipment is too large to teach all aspects in the given limited time. Also, with an increasing number of students, practical laboratory work will reach its limits.
A future-oriented new strategy that would help not only to overcome this shortcoming but also to bring students in contact with industrial processes at an early stage of education can be seen in digital engineering, where the processes are visualized and become easily accessible in virtual apparatuses. Thus, the goal of this student project is the visualization of apparatuses and processes with different complexity and level of detail. Examples are dryers, reaction columns, etc. but also processes in e.g. batteries, electrolysers etc.
Aims and Scope
The aim of the module is the development of Apps, which shall afterwards be used in digital teaching for the visualization of processes in the field of process engineering. This is achieved by the interdisciplinary work of students from FIN and FVST. The students of FIN thereby have a higher workload for the development of the Apps wherefore different gradings are applied.
The students from FVST shall apply their knowledge about processes to support the development of the Apps conceptually as well as substantially. The main challenge is to not only employ their theoretical knowledge but also to elaborate technical details which are required for the visualization of the process. For this purpose, the students must provide all the necessary physical, chemical as well as instrumental information and data in a way that the students from FIN (who are not familiar with process engineering) will be able to develop a virtual process. Implementation of the Apps shall be continuously accompanied and supervised by the FVST students.
The result of the joint work shall be evaluated and presented at the end of the semester. In addition to that, the continuous documentation of the implementation of the Apps has to be summarized in a report.
The specific tasks thus can be summarized as:
- Application-oriented work,
- Interdisciplinary work,
- Organisation of the work in a team,
- Targeted, time-optimised work,
- Summary of the work in form of a report,
- Presentation of the results, and
- Evaluation of the App.
Former projects
Here you can find some of the project results from previous years:
A full list of the projects is availyable at here.