New at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Mecking and Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology has expanded to include two experts in core areas of electrical engineering and information technology.

We live in the age of information. Based on modern communication technologies, information is ubiquitously exchanged, processed and stored in digital form. This processing takes place by means of modern electronic circuits. A deep understanding of circuitry and the communication technologies based on it is fundamental for a future-oriented education and is taught to students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in modern courses of study. 

We welcome Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber, holder of the professorship for sensor and microsystems technology, to our faculty. He studied physics at the TU Munich. After a research stay at Harvard Medical School, he also completed his doctorate at TUM. There he worked on electronics and algorithm development for nuclear magnetic resonance applications. He then moved to the company Giesecke + Devrient, where he worked in the development of high-security banknote sensors. The aim of his research work is to develop new sensor applications at the interface between physics and electrical engineering.

We would also like to welcome Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Mecking. He is taking over the professorship for Communication Technologies and Signal Processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Prior to his appointment at THI, Michael Mecking was employed at BMW AG in various management functions in Germany and abroad. Most recently, he was head of department at the Regensburg and Oxford plants, where he was responsible for securing and integrating the electrical/electronic, vehicle dynamics and powertrain peripherals in the BMW and MINI models. Michael Mecking studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and at Imperial College London. He earned his doctorate in the field of information theory at the Technical University of Munich, where he lectured on the subject for several years.

In their face-to-face lectures, both new colleagues appreciate open feedback, so that the course of the lecture can be flexibly adapted to the needs of the students. At the same time, digital media are used to increase the accessibility of teaching content and enrich it with practical examples and experiences from industry.

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