Electronics-based systems (EBS) are components, devices and systems with micro- and nanoelectronics and the associated embedded software. These systems form the basis for a wide range of digital products and processes – from autonomous vehicles to smart home solutions and intelligent machines. The development of such technologies requires not only special expertise but also, and above all, cross-disciplinary skills in the areas of hardware, embedded software and electronics-based systems.
Leading players make common cause
Under the direction of the Institute of Electronics at Graz University of Technology, an “innovation course” has been developed as a pilot project together with twenty partners from industry, science and business. Against the background of a high research dynamic and increasing competition from Asia and the USA, 67 employees of the partner companies participating in the course will be trained from February 2020 to July 2023 to become certified EBS specialists with know-how in innovation management.
Interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge
“There are already training and continuing education courses in individual EBS topics, but an interdisciplinary approach such as in this course is unique,” explains Bernd Deutschmann, scientific director of the course and head of the Institute of Electronics at TU Graz. Deutschmann points out that the previous internal company-relevant further training courses were associated with a high level of expenditure. “With this future offer, the consortium wants to close a gap in the labour market.”
After completion of the pilot on July 31, 2023, the course is to be sustainably integrated into the portfolio of TU Graz Life Long Learning, the service department for continuing education at Graz University of Technology, and will be open to all interested persons, also outside the partner companies.
Scientific partners:
- TU Graz
Institute of Electronics (Scientific Management)
Service department TU Graz Life Long Learning (project management)
Institute of Technical Informatics
Institute of Software Technology
Institute of Elektrische Messtechnik und Sensorik
Institute of Microwave and Ohotonic Engineering
Institute of Automation and Control
Service department for Educational Technology - Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt
Institute of Smart Systems Technologies / Sensors and Actuators - Johannes Kepler University Linz
Institute of Signal Processing
Institute for Integrated Circuits - FH Kärnten, Engineering and IT
- FH Joanneum, Institute of Electronic Engineering
Corporate partners:
- ams AG
- AT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG
- cilab GmbH
- CISC Semiconductor GmbH
- Drone Rescue Systems GmbH
- Efkon GmbH
- evon GmbH
- freaquent froschelectronics GmbH
- Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- ITEC Tontechnik GmbH
- MSG Mechatronic Systems GmbH
- NXP Semiconductors GmbH
- smaxtec animal care GmbH
- Spath Micro Electronic Design GmbH
- xFace e.U
Further information on the research of electronics-based systems at Graz University of Technology can be found online in the article on the first TU Graz-SAL Research Labs and in the article on the Electronic Based Systems Center at the Inffeldgasse Campus.
