Elective Area

The compulsory elective area starts with the main course of study in the 5th semester. Due to its structure and scope of 155 credit points , it offers great opportunities for individual in-depth study and specialization.

Table of contents

1. 1. Basic structure
      1. Modules
      2. Fields
      3. Profiles

Basic structure

• The modules in the compulsory elective area are assigned to areas and profiles.
• The areas form the flexible basic structure of the compulsory elective area. Various soft point limits apply to them.
• With the profiles within the areas, you can set further accents in your study orientation.

Modules

The full range of compulsory elective modules can be found in the table Modules of the compulsory elective area on the Study Documents website.

There you can also see which areas and profiles the modules belong to. Some modules are represented in several areas and/or profiles at the same time due to their suitability in terms of content - see the modules highlighted in green or red in the diagram of the basic structure. They are then primarily assigned to the thematically closest profile and subordinate to one or more other profile(s).

You can find out what content and qualification objectives, forms of teaching and examinations the modules contain in the module handbook (Annex 1 to the study regulations) on the Study Documents website.

Fields

The Industrial Engineering and Management degree program has seven areas: Business Administration and Economics, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Methods and Procedures, Presentation and Discussion, Research Design and Supplementary Qualifications.

These areas cover the various qualification objectives of your degree program and are designed to give you a great deal of freedom of choice. The credit points to be earned in each area are not fixed. When choosing modules, you only have to observe the following soft minimum point limits:

• 45 credit points in Business Administration and Economics and/or Business Information Systems,
• 45 credit points in engineering sciences,
• 15 credit points in Methods and Procedures ,
• 5 credit points in Presentation and Discussion .

In addition, there are exactly 10 credit points in the area of research design, which you take in conjunction with the dissertation.

The remaining 35 credit points in the compulsory elective area can be freely selected from these areas or from the supplementary qualifications. This flexibility makes it easy for you to tailor the course content to your interests.

Profiles

Groups of modules that fit together thematically and complement each other form profiles. These profiles allow you to further sharpen and clarify the focus of your studies.

The following profiles are available for the Diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management:

Business Administration and Economics

• Accounting and Finance,
• Learning and Human Resources Management,
• Management and Marketing,
• Operations and Logistics Management,
• Public and International Economics,
• Sustainability Management and Energy Economics.

Business Information Systems

• Advanced Data Analytics,
• Business Processes and Systems.

Engineering sciences

• Work systems and organization: Special issues from mechanical engineering that deal with work organization, occupational safety, ergonomics and human resource management,
• Civil Engineering: Special issues from Civil Engineering dealing with building materials, building construction, building operations, hydraulic engineering, geotechnical engineering, steel and timber construction, solid construction and the statics and dynamics of load-bearing structures,
• Biomedical engineering: special issues in electrical engineering and information technology, dealing with the fundamentals and systems of imaging and the application and evaluation of biomedical engineering,
• Electrical power engineering: Special issues in electrical engineering and information technology that deal with specific principles and methods of electrical power supply, high-voltage and high-current technology, electrical machines and drives, including power electronic components,
• Electronic devices and microtechnology : special issues in electrical engineering and information technology that deal with specific skills in the design, construction and manufacture of electronic components and devices as well as electronics technologies and quality assurance methods and the fundamentals of biomedical technology,
• Energy technology: Special issues from mechanical engineering, which deal with the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, combustion, heat and mass transfer, building energy technology and heat supply, refrigeration technology as well as energy machines and systems,
• Wood and fiber materials technology: Special issues from mechanical engineering that deal with the fundamentals and processing of wood and fiber materials,
• Hydrosciences : Special issues in hydrosciences dealing with hydrology and meteorology, Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment as well as urban and industrial water management,
• Information technology: Special issues in electrical engineering and information technology that deal with circuit technology, communications engineering, high-frequency technology and communication networks,
• Food technology: Special issues from mechanical engineering that deal with technological implementations in the production of various foodstuffs, including material and technical principles,
• Lightweight construction and plastics technology: Special issues from mechanical engineering that deal with lightweight construction, plastics technology and fiber composites,
• Aerospace engineering: special issues in mechanical engineering that deal with the basic framework conditions of aerospace engineering, the principles of aircraft design and the methodological foundations of aerospace engineering,
• Product development: Special issues in mechanical engineering that deal with the design and construction of machines,
• Production and logistics: Special issues from mechanical engineering that deal with production and material flow technology as well as factory and material flow planning in the context of production planning and business administration,
• Production engineering: Special issues relating to the manufacture and production of mechanical engineering products in relation to the tasks of production planning for manual and automated processes, process applications and their development and design, as well as the tasks of controlling and safeguarding industrial production,
• Textile mechanical engineering and high-performance materials technology: Special issues in mechanical engineering that deal with the properties, processing and products of textile materials, testing technology, textile technology processes and machines, and clothing technology,
• Processing machines and technology: Special issues from the field of mechanical engineering that deal with processing procedures, in particular for mass consumer goods, the machines and systems used for this and the packaging technology used, especially against the background of optimization,
• Transport Engineering: Special issues in Transport Engineering, which deal with the fundamentals and in-depth subject areas of automotive engineering, rail vehicles and rail technology, rail systems and public transport, aviation and logistics, traffic planning and road traffic as well as traffic telematics.

Methods and procedures

• Econometrics,
• operations research,
• statistics.

Supplementary qualifications

• Business Education and Management Training,
• Health economics,
• Transport Economics.

You can also choose from a wide range of foreign languages in the compulsory elective area.

Choice of profile

There is no obligation to choose profiles! Rather, you simply decide which modules you take in the compulsory elective area in accordance with the minimum point limits of the areas. If you have completed a sufficient number of modules that belong to a profile, you can have them designated as a major or minor:

• A major requires modules from the profile amounting to at least 30 credit points, of which at least 20 credit points must be from primarily assigned modules.
• For a minor, modules from the profile amounting to at least 20 credit points with at least 15 credit points from primary modules are sufficient.

You can therefore acquire several majors and/or minors - or do without them completely.

In the case of modules that are assigned to several profiles, you decide which profile it should ultimately be included in. The module then counts towards the area to which the selected profile belongs.