Degree

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc. ME)

Programme Commencement

winter and summer semester

Standard Duration

4 semesters (2 years)

Place of Studies

Campus Duisburg 

Accreditation

Accredited by ASIIN

The four-semester master degree course “Mechanical Engineering” is divided into four profiles, from which the students choose one.

The profile in "General Mechanical Engineering" is a broad-based engineering course without a predefined specialization. Multidisciplinary courses aim to prepare students for a system approach and interdisciplinary problem solving in engineering. Through the international orientation the engineering education is adapted to the globalized economy. Upon completion of this international and broad engineering degree, students will be prepared for positions in:

• (international) machine and plant construction,
• thermal, mechanical and chemical process engineering,
• the Automotive industry,
• environmental engineering,
• Consultancies.

The course aims to give technical depth and develop the knowledge and skills that prepare the students for scientific research, critical analysis of scientific findings, as well as a responsible professionalism. Graduates will thus be well adapted to the rapid changes in the globalizing world.

The curriculum offers the students a broad technical know-how of a typical mechanical engineering training, whereby there is in the technical domain, a set of mandatory core courses as well as three catalogues associated to the areas from where the students must respectively choose two subjects from each. The breadth of their education is guaranteed through this structure in the sense that each student from this field, beyond the mandatory core subjects, is in the obligation to choose two subjects from each of the three content-non-overlapping catalogues. The freedom of choice and the possibility of a personal focus setting are offered to the students by the fact that they can purposely, with the choice of single subjects from these three fields, gain specific abilities in order to deepen the knowledge acquired from the mandatory core subjects. Furthermore, they can, with the three optional subjects, purposely expand a further deepening of a thematic, which had already been started during a mandatory core subject in combination with a subject from these catalogues. Altogether, there are six compulsory optional subjects, which should be chosen out of the following fields:

• Manufacturing and Materials Technology
• Energy and Process Engineering
• Mechatronics

Another profile deals with topics in the field of „Energy and Environmental Engineering“. The “Energy and Environmental Engineering” becomes more and more important within the context of the global climate- and resources-problems. The efficient and climate-friendly provisioning of energy and the avoidance of environmental pollution of soil, water and air are the key challenges of the 21st Century.

The graduates from this master course, who obtained the qualification to on one hand develop efficient and resource-friendly machines and installations, and on the other hand develop technologies for separating problematic substances, can make an essential contribution to this situation. “Energy and Environmental Engineering” are therefore innovative High-tech-sectors and belong to Germany’s strongly growing and future-safe sectors of industry.

In the course of the progressive globalization of the economy, the students of the appropriate master course in mechanical engineering have just a wide scope of job possibilities in and out of Germany. In so doing, the master degree enables the students to aspire to attractive executive positions not only in large scale enterprises, but also in small- and medium-sized enterprises. Young professionals are sought-after in all domains; this is shown by the actual high number of job vacancies as well the future lack of engineers as forecasted by the industries. More to that, other possibilities like jobs at universities, in research institutes and companies, as well as jobs in the public service are also available for master graduates.

Another profile deals with topics in the field of “Production and Logistics”. In the course of the progressive globalization of the economy and the markets, products are manufactured worldwide at distributed locations and require partly new and enormous flow of goods. This initiates an increasingly demand for production and logistics engineers in several branches whose attractive fields of work are open.
In the profile „Production and Logistics“, methods and techniques for the development and the cycle of production- and logistics-processes in value supply chains will be taught. Through the combination of diverse aspects of technology with requirements on the organization, the economy, and the logistics, the students receive a large-scale and interdisciplinary qualification in the value supply chains of this nature not only for the understanding but also for the design and to create new ones. The content thus associates the design scope and that of planning and management.

The internationally oriented master program gives a sound and practical insight in logistics and its influences on production. It qualifies to decision-makers in technical domains of companies as well as that of public institutions and institutions governed by public law, who deal with the management and the arrangement of logistics and production systems. The application areas are outstandingly varied: specialists for example from the following areas

• Industrial Engineering
• Product Engineering
• Production Planning and Production Engineering
• Planning and Operation of Intralogistic Systems
• Setup of Supply Chains
• Application-Oriented Software Development

Graduates will be employed as project engineers and project managers for the planning, the operation and the maintenance of logistic systems both in the internal environment and in the domain of external logistics: in short, wherever technical and organizational expert knowledge is needed in order to master the business processes which deal with the manufacturing and the distribution of products as well as with the provision of services.

Another profile deals with topics in the field of „Mechatronics“. The term „Mechatronis” is associated to the combination of the classical mechanical engineering with electronics and information technology. Here, completely new functions and manufacturing processes emerge due to synergy of mechanical, electronic and electro-technical system components as well as their functional and local integration in common modules.
Students of the profile Mechatronics will be brought to the point where they are able to apply mechatronical principles and even to further develop them. They will in this way become specialists, on one hand for the functionalities-extension of conventional systems using mechatronical principles, and on the other hand, they will use the acquired knowledge to design products through the hardware integration principles of Mechatronics at low cost. These basic qualifications can be individually deepened through specialized knowledge from a multiplicity of further lectures in order to, just as an example, be able to significantly co-design new products in the automotive or robotics engineering.

In the course of the progressive globalization of the economy, the graduates from this course of study have, now more than ever, a wide range of job perspectives in and out of Germany. Thereby, the master degree opens doors to attractive leading positions not only in large-scale enterprises but even more in small- and middle-sized enterprises as well, which offers great and rapid opportunities for promotion.

Innovative industry sectors, in which increasingly specialists are needed, are namely the automotive engineering sector, the robotics sector, the sensor sector, the laser technology area without forgetting the software domain. Good job opportunities are still offered in the automotive branch and in engineering offices. Further employers can be found in the aerospace, in the electrical engineering domain, in the communications engineering sector, in the medical technology as well as in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Added to that, job possibilities in universities, research institutes as well as in public service are open to master’s graduates.

ECTS Credits

The M.Sc. programme has been completed when the following 120 ECTS credits have been acquired:

- 90 ECTS credits from the tested modules comprising the compulsory and elective course units, consisting of

• 38 ECTS credits in the technical compulsory modules
• 32 ECTS credits in the catalogue modules
• 12 ECTS credits in the technical elective module
• 8 ECTS credits in the non-technical module

- 27 ECTS credits for the M.Sc. dissertation and
- 3 ECTS credits for the M.Sc. dissertation colloquium.

Study Plan

Study Plan Master Mechanical Engineering - General Mechanical Engineering
Study Plan Master Mechanical Engineering - Energy and Environmental Engineering
Study Plan Master Mechanical Engineering - Production and Logistics
Study Plan Master Mechanical Engineering - Mechatronics

Schedule

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