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Management Science and Engineering

Overview Study programs Teaching & Research

Aspects of our teaching

Innovative teaching methods ensure the formation of excellent graduates. We employ a wide variety of formats to deliver diverse course content. Regularly scheduled cross-faculty, cross-university, and cross-national courses provide a broad educational experience. Excursions complement the theoretical knowledge gained in lectures by providing practical, real-world insights. These opportunities also allow students to make valuable contacts and gain deeper insights into companies and sectors.

Some examples:

Teaching Award of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences for Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse

Her efforts were recognized for her outstanding implementation of the compulsory module "Mathematics B for Industrial Engineers" as an online format.

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Course "Learning Factory 4.X

The Learning Factory 4.X is a collaborative project between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.

Students at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences are tasked with creating a marketable product, considering both design and economic aspects. KIT students are responsible for developing a virtual reality (VR) application to visualize these products, thereby supporting the university students in the marketing and product development phases. The VR application is primarily used for design review, functional analysis, and the presentation and marketing of the products.

The students' project outcomes include:

The One-Click Solution

Project Knife Block

Lasering, Drilling, Bending, Welding

Long Night of Electrical Engineering

How do you solder a circuit board? How do you measure direct and alternating current correctly?

During the Long Night of Electrical Engineering, students gain hands-on experience in the fundamentals of electrical engineering. Various stations are set up where students can conduct experiments, such as measuring circuits and experimenting with electric and magnetic fields.

Design Thinking Workshop

Creative Idea-Finding Processes in Creative Environments: At HKA, entrepreneurship and founding new ventures are highly valued. In elective courses and design thinking workshops, students develop their own ideas for potential product developments, strategies, and business models. Therefore, the HKA provides creative spaces, such as co-working spaces and the Entrepreneurship Garage, to support these innovative processes amongst students and faculty members.

Exkursion to TRUMPF

Students from the International Industrial Goods Marketing course, accompanied by Prof. Dr. Christian Braun, visited the machine tool manufacturer TRUMPF.

These excursions not only provide valuable insights into production sites but also offer students excellent opportunities to explore potential internships and future employment conditions.

Applied research

Alongside teaching, applied research is a central focus of the Faculty of Management Science and Engineering, with plans for further expansion in the future. Our doctoral students focus their research projects on current, relevant topics. The faculty presents its scientific focus and research results through various publications and contributions by professors.

Research at HKA

Current research projects

KATE - Doctoral College on Accessibility Through AI-Based Assistance Technologies

The KATE graduate school is a new cooperative and interdisciplinary program between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA). The goal of this doctoral program is to enhance the autonomy and participation of people with disabilities through the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistance systems.

FederatedForecasts

Cross-faculty research project investigates the accuracy of renewable energy performance forecasts using federated machine learning.

Mauer-Roboter 4.0

The Institute for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, in collaboration with Dressler GmbH and AAT Automation GmbH, is developing a mobile robot that will autonomously build sand-lime brick walls on construction sites in the future.

Robdekon

The competence center "Robot Systems for Decontamination in Hostile Environments" is dedicated to researching autonomous or semi-autonomous robot systems. These systems are intended for practical use in environments where work has previously posed significant risks to humans.

Robot Hub Academie

Robot Hub Academy: Training Future Robotics Experts in the Upper Rhine. A new robotics project will start at HKA on April 1st, funded by the European Union as part of the Interreg Upper Rhine 2021-27 program. The project aims to train future robotics experts in the Upper Rhine region.

Robot Hub Transfer

Neues EU-Projekt an der HKA unterstützt Unternehmen beim Einsatz von Robotern. Zum 01. April startet ein neues Robotik-Projekt an der HKA, gefördert von der Europäischen Union im Rahmen des Programms Interreg Oberrhein 2021-27, mit dem Ziel, Robotersysteme sinnvoll und wirtschaftlich in Unternehmen zu integrieren.

WIN4Climate

Heat Turnaround in Industry The WIN4climate project aims to develop, present and make available to the general public processes and solutions for decarbonization and flexibilization of heat supply in industry in a real business environment. read more

CROCEMS

Collaborative RObotics for Circular Economy in Manufacturing Sectors comprehensive training course on the application of collaborative robotics in circular economy processes: sensor planning system for vision, recognition of reusable parts or disassembly of valuable materials

QualiTED

Autonomous, mobile system for intelligent linking of production workstations with transport-parallel quality assurance

Tailwind

Development of an innovative, digital platform business model for wind turbines

KI5GRob

Cloud computing and 5G as enablers for new sensor technologies in robot-based production and logistics: AI-methods for multimodal sensor signal processing and interpretation for the flexible use of robots in handling tasks

TOURINGS

Innovative Training Solution for the Installation of Collaborative Robotics in Manufactoring Sectors Developing innovative training tools for the manufacturing sectors in the field of collaborative robotics

Start-upKMU@HsKA

The aim of the start-upKMU@HsKA project is to establish new companies together with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and people from the university who are willing to start up a company.

PeTRA

Person Transfer Robot Assistant: Creation of a support solution in patient logistics for the high-quality fulfilment of the transfer needs while at the same time relieving the workload of nursing staff and assistants

KIAlgoNetzwerk

CriminalNetworks Combating billing fraud and corruption in healthcare using AI-based identification of conspicuous network structures.

KOEX

BMBF funded project: Collaborative Machine Learning for the Detection of Fraud and Risks in ERP Systems (KOEX)

SyDaVis-AI

Synthetic Data for Vision Systems with AI Development of a synthetic data generation and training pipeline for AI-based machine vision systems in industrial applications

Rob-LPI

CAD-based planning of robot-guided camera systems for large-large-part inspection tasks Development of a planning and execution system for the robot-based inspection of large-volume assemblies.

Automated Item Picking @ adidas AG

Feasibility study Automated Item Picking @ adidas AG Development of a prototypical solution for adidas AG to automate the order picking process for sports and fashion articles. The primary goal is to detect and pick shoeboxes and plastic-wrapped apparel fully automated from a load carrier

Dynopt

Dynamic Optimization Cooperating with the Karlsruhe-based software company SIVIS GmbH in this industry-funded research project the project partners are involved in joint research and application of the techniques of Dynamic Optimization to drive innovations in management of large-scale enterprise systems.

AutoBer

Automated Development of Secure and Human-readable Role-based Access Control Models for ERP Systems Piloting of a software system - the "virtual business consultant" - that allows to partially or completely automate typical IT consultant services

Additive Design and Manufacturing Lab

Marketing and Sales Laboratory

Cross-faculty Research Area for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Laboratory for Work Science (DE)

Product and technology development laboratory (DE)

Cross-faculty industrial robotics laboratory for teaching

Labor Data Science

Solar air conditioning real laboratory (DE)

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