Start your thesis with missing credits

In the last examination board meeting it was decided that it is possible to start the master thesis even if up to 9 credits are missing. So it is possible to begin the master thesis with 81 Credits.

Also every master student that studies under the new MPO, can take more credits in one module then needed and decide later which courses should count for the final grade. For example after taking the course Sensors, it is possible to take Signal Processing and Computer Vision and chose the best two grades out of three.

For any questions regarding this, please refer directly to Mr. Götze.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Best wishes from your A&R Helpers team. This was a succesful year for us, we found an accomodation for every new student and many seniors moved to better appartments. The goals for the next year, are to decrease your average study time and to take care that as many topics as possible will be offered by the "Technische Universität Dortmund".

Study hard for Computer Systems and read the script of it for several times, before the exam.

2nd Movie Event

The next movie event will start on monday 17.12. at 17.00 at the same room like the 1st movie event. P1 4th floor in the rooms of the "AG Datenverarbeitung", thanks to the whole team, for supporting us at this event.

The movie will be "Das Boot", one of the best German movies ever. Director: Wolfgang Petersen

NRW Ticket

The results for the election of NRW tickets or not are out. 30% of all students voted, which is a very high number compared to other elections.

• 80% voted for the NRW Ticket
• 30% to repeat a boycott of tuition fees

So it looks like the NRW ticket will come next term SS08. Lets all hope the best, it will be a great thing for all of us. We need to pay 30€ more and can then move around in whole area of NRW, which is the biggest state in Germany.

Source: ASTA Dortmund

1st Movie Event

You are welcome to join us at our first movie evening which is
tomorrow ( 22.11.07 ) at seminar room of P1-04 (Physics Building, 4th
Floor) at 18.30.

Our first movie is "The Lives of Others - Das Leben der Anderen".
Last years Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner movie. Original sound with subtitle.

Below you can see the details about the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

Oceans Thirteen for free

The UNI Film Club shows today Oceans Thirteen for free. At Emil Figge Str. 50 in room at HS 1. Start is at 20:15. The movie is in German language.

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Group Projects WS 2007/2008

The group projects for the Winter semester 07/08 will start with a short presentation on

Friday 19.10. at 11:00 am in room C1-04-105 Chemistry Building

Afterwards you can directly register for one of the following group projects:

1. Supervised Learning of Vision Based Robot Navigation (Dr. Frank Hoffmann, RST)
2. Implementation of navigation software for the mobile robot "Robotino" (Sören Kerner, IRF)
3. Development of the control software for a lab model of a pipeless plant (Tobias Neymann, AST)

For questions about this please approach the people assigned to each project before the 19.10.

Time schedule for Winter Term 2007/2008

The new timetable is online and can be found here (PDF). The lessons starts normally in the week of the 14.10. Despite Fundamentals of Robotics for the new batch. There will be no training before the first lesson. Object Oriented Programming will start at 16.10.!

For the students of the third term, I just can give the hint to visit the web pages of the lessons or professors to get information about starting date. If you know something please send me a mail, I will publish it then.

The timetable may content false information, like in the past. Please refer to Mr Burda for any complaints or questions.

Visit Kick-Off 07-08

Dear future and current A&R students,

The new semester Kick-Off of our department will be on Monday, 8^th of October, at 9:30 a.m., at the Campus Nord, Building ET-A, Friedrich-Wöhler-Weg, Seminarraum 3.21.

Please be kind to attend our Orientation Tutorial. Below you can see the tutorial plan:

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Tutorial Plan

• 09:30 Introduction

• 09:45 Presentation of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Götze

• 10:30 Presentation of Automation&Robotics Council

  • Advices and Hints About Life in Germany and University from Senior Students.
    Brief information on

    • Accommodation

    • Lectures

    • German Courses

    • A&R Council

    • Answers to Your Concerns and Questions

• 11:30 Short break -- Meet your colleagues

• 11:45 Campus Tour

Your A&R Orientation Tutors

New Webpage for A&R

There is a new web page for the A&R batch, made by the process control laboratory. It seems that Prof Engell also did not like the old web page. The curriculum ist partially updated, but there are still wrong information in it.

Everybody who likes the old more can still admire it linked by the faculty of ET/IT. OK I know maintaining a web page is a hard job.

The new web page is for sure better then the old one. Try by yourself.

http://www.automationrobotics.uni-dortmund.de/

Germany needs foreign specialists

Germany needs foreign workers, the country does not have enough engineers, so it seems wise to hire workers from other countries. Many students like in Automation and Robotics are eager to work in Germany after they finished their Master. To do that very good knowledge of the German language is mandatory, but there is a second obstacle that makes it very difficult to work in Germany for a local company. The immigration law (German) from 2004 makes it difficult for foreigners to work here, because the "Agentur für Arbeit" claims that a employee is only important if he/she earns more than 84,000€. No German company will pay that to a beginner, even with a PhD.
Some people told that it still is possible, but I do not know more about this. Does anybody of you have different or same experiences or know some foreigners who are allowed to work in Germany? Please comment or mail us.

Source: Tagesschau (German)

Council Meeting of Automation and Robotics

02.05.2007

Subjects of Meeting

• Formation of work group instead of student council
• Advantages are having our own money and less formalities
• 50€ per semester + additional budget for special activities such as orientation tutorial for new batches and meetings with barbecue parties (expenditures should be proved by documentation)
• There will be a meeting with ET/IT each year
• Malte and Jeronimo will be elected for Board of Examination to represent work group of AR

The full protocol can be seen here.

Please try to attend the next meeting…

Results for Computer Systems are out

The results for Computer Systems are out and can be found here. The results are poor, but the exam seems to be easier then the first one. The reasons for this are unknown, so if you did this exam and you know what went wrong in your exam, please comment or mail.

Workgroup instead of council

Yesterday, in a meeting with members of the Fak-Rat of the department of Electrical Engineering, they offered us the status of a work group as part of the student council FS/IT. We will have our own money and can make our own decisions, but we do not have the problems regarding a council, like regulations (in German). After a meeting of our council members we decided to enter negotiations with them and composed a mail (see below for the text of this Mail). Their suggestion could save us a lot of working time, which we then use to support you and especially preparing the arrival of the new students. After the end of the proceedings we will make another meeting of our whole batch, to get your confirmation.

Dear members of FS ET/IT,

As per our meeting with members of the Fak-Rat on 16.04 2pm, we put forward your suggestion about founding a work group instead of a student council in front of all A&R student representatives. After the discussion we agreed upon a forming a work group for A&R. We still have some concerns about the exact rights of this work group and the distribution of money, name of our group etc. We would like to discuss this in another talk.

Thank you very much for your suggestions and support.

Best Regards

Student Council Automation and Robotics

Results of Fundamentals of Robotics

The results of Fundamentals of Robotics are out and can be found here. The exam can be inspected at
IRF Room 212b, April 16th 2007 from 3 till 4 p.m.

Protocols are now viewable in your browser

All protocols are now accessible under this address Here as HTML Files, if you prefer the MindMap Version you can find them here. All new protocols will be published only there, you will not receive anymore Mails regarding this topic. We publish the protocols, because we do not think, our work should be confidential. If you would like to participate in the student council of Automation and Robotics, please let us now.

Welcome post for new students

As you might have received your admission by e-mail up to now, we like to welcome you to the Students Body of Electrical- and Computer Engineering.
We know you have a lot of questions concerning the course and the living in Germany. Thus we like to provide you with some of the most interesting and important issues concerning your oncoming studies. Feel free to have a look at the different folders of our forum and suggested websites for more information. As the next Winter Term gets closer, you should consider the issues also listed under the topic Newbie-Guides.
Source: Gerd Sebastiani