The Curriculum of a Mechatronics Technician

The Mechatronics Curriculum is based on two predefined learning paths — mechanical engineering fundamentals as well as automation fundamentals. Beyond that, educators can choose from a wide array of Industry 4.0 relevant topics related to connectivity and communication, IT security and PLC programming, artificial intelligence, or energy management from the landscape of learning content to enrich their individual teaching process.

In general, we follow two basic principles within the framework of the Curriculum I4.0:

• The learning content covered is conveyed vividly using our learning systems in order to establish practical relevance and thus ensure real competency in action.
• The complexity of the learning content increases successively. Initially, only individual hardware components are considered, only later the overall networked system.

Learning Paths

A learning path is a meaningfully arranged sequence of learning courses and indicates the way each learner goes. The composition of a learning path is based on job-profile specific competency requirements and the associated industry relevant content topics.

The Landscape of Learning Content

The learning content landscape is the overview of all state-of-the-art content topics for which we provide learning courses. The landscape includes both, fundamentals and complex Industry 4.0-related topics. By its design, the Curriculum I4.0 also allows to develop so-called soft skills since they are considered immensely important to be well prepared for the challenges of today's industrial working environment.