Department of Engineering and Technology

As a center of excellence for innovative and application-oriented technology, the Department of Engineering and Technology links academic teaching and inter-company research with companies and institutions in the region. In this way, the department contributes to strengthening the innovation, attractiveness of employers and competitiveness of the companies in Vorarlberg. The focus is on mechatronics, electrical engineering, computer science, energy systems and environmental technology.

The main focus of teaching includes in particular:

• Development, management and furtherd evelopment of technically oriented courses
• Conducting courses with technical and selected techno-economic content
• Training of technical specialists and managers for companies and institutions in the region

The department lecturers are involved in research projects together with colleagues from the research centers of the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences. The research mostly takes place within the framework of third-party funded projects and is carried out in interdisciplinary teams. A particularly intensive connection exists to the research centers energy, microtechnology, digital factory, business informatics and user-centered technologies. The knowledge gained flows directly into the lessons.

Research Focus:

• Human Machine Interface
• Virtual Reality
• Simulation / Modeling / Processes
• Real-time embedded systems
• Industrial electronics, measurement technology•Robotics, control technology and image processing
• Sustainable energy systems and energy materials
• Autonomous decentralized energy systems

• Erasmus+Project DigiDemo

Due to the rapid progressin EDP, it is increasingly possible to mathematically model and simulate the properties of materials. In many areas, however,  you are still dependent on tests. The laboratories of the technical departments are equipped with the latest technologies, which means that a variety of services and investigations can be offered: 

• Vibration measurement on machines
• Measurement of free-form surfaces
• Tension and pressure testing
• Hardness testing
• Testing toughness using a pendulum machine
• Material analysis using a radio spectrometer
• 3D coordinate measuring technology
• Machine tool diagnosis