At the end of February, Mr. René Meusel, a student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, successfully defended his diploma thesis on "Design of an adaptation for the electrical measurement of MEMS-based pressure sensors at circuit board level under pressure and temperature load". Mr. Meusel completed his diploma thesis at Silicon Micro Sensors GmbH in Dresden. The company's activities include the development, design and production of pressure sensors for the automotive sector. 

As part of his diploma thesis, he developed an adaptation of pressure sensors for adjustment and calibration. Mr. Meusel has succeeded in developing an adaptation in which more sensors can be processed in a short time compared to the previously used adaptation. 

The diploma thesis is assigned to the fields of measurement and production technology. Accordingly, the supervision is carried out jointly by Prof. Förster from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Prof. Kratzsch from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thanks to the cross-faculty supervision, Mr. Meusel was able to access the respective specializations of the supervising professors during his diploma thesis.

The thesis is a good example of the interdisciplinary student training practiced between the two faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.