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.

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/

Courses of the first semester for Automation and Robotics

Below is the list of courses of the 1st semester A&R. These description is just a personal meaning, it is not official by the University of Dortmund or any official representative. Please use this only as a hint and try to build your own opinion.

The most important tip for you is to directly repeat content of lecture after it was given. Do not shift it to the next day. No matter how late it is and how tired you are. After you arrived at home repeat the lectures from the day.

Mathematics:

The mathematics lectures were delivered by Mr. Peter Furlan. He really gives you the required basic knowledge of Mathematics. He is used to give assignments in the class, even though it is not mandatory to complete those assignments, they don’t have any weight in final exam, but it will be very helpful for your final preparation if you submit these assignments as he checks those regularly and mark your mistakes. The other cool thing about Mathematics is that you are allowed to take 16 pages A5 size handwritten booklet in the final exam. Start preparing this booklet right from your first lecture, you can start with a rough one and then at the end you can neat that. But be careful, you will have just 120 minutes in the exam so prepare it in a way that it can help you in the exam, for example, if you write too small and everything is mixed up it’s not going to help you.

Computer Systems:

Mr Schwiegelsohn delivered in the WS 06/07 the Computer Systems lectures. No doubt he is among the best professors of the university. He encourages discussions in lectures, try to participate in that, it really will increase your interest in the subject a lot. From last year he had changed the pattern of the exam, before it was open book but now it is closed book exam. So the format of the exam is also a bit different now. Earlier there were more technical questions and very few things which you have to copy paste from the script. But now you really need to memorize the script. Last year exam, which you can find from the web, can give you a nice idea about the exam. In Computer Systems you are allowed to take 1 A4 size paper with you. You may write as small as you wish, print outs are also allowed.

Fundamentals of Robotics:

Mr. Hoffmeier conducted the Fundamentals of Robotics lectures. You have to memorize the whole script in Fundamentals of Robotics, no other tip. If you are good in Denavet Hartenberg conventions, it can help you because you will get a problem from this topic with very high weight, in our time it weighted approximately 25 percent of the whole marks.

Logic Control:

Logic Control is taught by Mr. Sonntag. This is a subject where you can get good marks, and improve your overall grade. Here you should not infer that you will good results even if you don't study, this only means that if you put equal effort in every subject then this could be the subject which gives you higher output. You also have an advantage here that you have to submit a home assignment , which makes 25% of the final marks. The instructions are not to work in groups, otherwise your marks will be divided between you and your partner. They definitely will know if you worked in groups because the questions always have many possible solutions, so the advice is to do as it is said. In tutorials you will be given knowledge of some software’s, sometimes it’s a bit boring, but try to learn those, it will be helpful for the whole subject understanding.

The Welcome Presentation from the Kick-Off Meeting 8. October

Here is the presentation that Kiran held for the Kick-Off Meeting at monday 8.10. It contains a lot useful information for new students of A&R.

View Presentation

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.

English-German <-> Deutsch-Englisch

We are sure that up to now you've already visited hundreds of online E-G G-E dictionaries, but for those who haven't or even for those who have, we would like to provide you with some links that we find very useful.
Maybe the easiest way to traduce a document is directly with Google, but for learning everyday phrases, cases or uses, odge dictionary is very useful.

List of dictionarys

• Odge
• LEO
  

If you have another good source, feel free to contact us.