STEGO supports the use of digital tools in education
Summary
60 first-year students on mechatronics, technical content creation, user experience and engineering pedagogy courses created hardware and software solutions with the aid of the STEGO CONNECT Industry 4.0 IIoT platform. These phenomena are not new; indeed, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) has been actively tackling them since 2013 with its Maschinenhaus – platform for innovative teaching initiative. The goal of the Maschinenhaus transfer projects is to encourage the integration of actual business and market needs into university teaching and help to ensure that educational content is suitably focused on these. Therefore, STEGO Managing Director Elmar Mangold recognised the importance of taking part in the VDMA transfer project: “I am personally committed to getting young people excited about careers in engineering. As we go forward, we want to actively help other universities to gain practical access to Industry 4.0 applications.” The concept for the concluding workshop on ecological smart homes was developed in cooperation with Mechatronics Professor Peter Eichinger.