Education 4.0 for mechatronics – agile and smart

The topic Industrie 4.0 and the transformation of the digital world pose new challenges for teaching university students. In our experience, the students, who will need to advance this development after entering the workforce, have surprisingly little interest in it. In our paper, we will show how to implement different concepts mid- and long-term, to inspire enthusiasm for this topic in students. We will also show which activities are necessary to make Industrie 4.0 a permanent item in the course Mechatronics.