The programme’s key components include information technology, electronics, power engineering, and automation technology. Increasingly, there is an obvious intertwining of all areas of industry with those of IT, software, and microelectronics. The focus of the BTU’s training programmes is thus to advance knowledge in the areas:

• Information Technology and Electronics
  The aim of this training programme is to develop electronic switches and circuit design, as well as applications in telecommunications; high-frequency engineering aspects are also stressed, as are technology and mobile communications.
• Power System Management
  Whereas the abovementioned topics emphasise hardware development for IT applications, the field of power system management deals with IT control of large networks, such as rail and energy networks. In terms of course content, this specialist field receives strong support from partners in industry such as Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) and Siemens.
• Automation Technology and Propulsion Systems
  This specialist field deals with electrical engineering equipment used for industrial production using NC technology and robotics, power electronics controlled drives, energy supply, as well as the pertinent electronic switches, microprocessor technology, control engineering, and control systems.
• Energy Systems and Decentralised Energy Supply
  Modern energy systems are increasingly characterised through their use of decentralised, partially regenerative sources. Inasmuch as the quantity of electricity generated and that consumed at any one time within the electricity mains must be in balance, the challenge of the coming decade is to safely combine the classical system of electricity generation with the decentralised electricity supply model.