Companies in and around Sønderborg are world-leading in a number of technical fields and are experiencing rapid growth. To remain competitive, these companies demand highly educated engineers with competences in mechanics, electronics, and mechatronics.
For the past 20 years, SDU Sønderborg has conducted research and offered unique educational programmes in mechatronics. We are now expanding these activities by strengthening competences in mechanics through CIM and in electronics through CIE.
CIM (Center for Industrial Mechanics) has been established with donations from the Bitten & Mads Clausens Foundation, LINAK, the Region of Southern Denmark, and Sønderborg Municipality.
In recent years, companies’ needs for access to knowledge, facilities, and collaboration have shifted. There is now a growing demand for stronger interaction between complex electronic and mechanical components with a higher degree of autonomy and automation. In addition, there is a need to understand advanced systems, complemented by deep disciplinary expertise in the underlying fields of electronics and mechanics.
Today, mechatronic products must be smaller, digital, and based on embedded systems and software, while offering higher capacity. Products are expected to be intelligent, efficient, reliable, sustainable, and cost-competitive.
Through excellent research, education, and industrial collaboration, CIM will support regional companies in maintaining their leading positions by educating engineers who bring the sought-after competences needed for the rapid development of reliable smart systems. In this way, we promote sustainable development and the green transition that companies and society at large are focusing on.
