Elective Area: Details

The compulsory elective area starts with the main course in the 5th semester and offers great opportunities for individual profiling due to its large scope of 135 credit points. You can choose modules from the fields of Business Administration and Economics, Engineering Sciences and/or related subjects (supplementary area).

The minimum number of credit points you have to achieve in the individual areas depends on the field of study you choose.

Fields of study

There are two fields of study: Standard and International. You choose the International field of study simply by completing at least 20 credit points at a foreign university during your main studies. Otherwise, you will study in the Standard field of study.

In the Standard degree program , you must earn at least 45 credit points each in the fields of Business Administration and Engineering Sciences.

In the International field of study, you need35 credit points each in the fields of Business Administration and Engineering Sciences .

Range of modules

The full range of compulsory elective modules is listed in Annex 1 to the examination regulations. A detailed description of the respective content and qualification objectives, forms of teaching and examination achievements can be found in the module handbook (Annex 3 to the study regulations). Both documents can be found under Study documents.

Specializations

There are different specializations in the areas of Business Administration and Economics, Engineering Sciences and Supplementary Studies. These are

in the 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.

Which modules belongto which specializations can be found in Appendix 2 of the study regulations under Study Documents. In principle, a module can be assigned to several specializations at the same time, even in different areas. Depending on the content match, this assignment is primary or secondary.

Choice of specialization

You are not obligedto choose any of the specializations listed! Instead, you decide which individual modules you take and which specialization they should be assigned to on the diploma certificate. Of course, you must observe the point limits for the Schools of Engineering Sciences and Business Administration. Modules count for the area from which the chosen specialization originates.

If you have completed a sufficient number of modules that belong to a specialization, you can have this specialization indicated on your certificate as a major or minor.

• A major requires at least 40 credit points of modules from the specialization, at least 20 of which must be from primary modules.
• For a minor, modules from the specialization amounting to at least 20 credit points are sufficient, at least 15 of which must be from primary modules.

Depending on your choice, several majors and/or minors (or none at all) may appear on your certificate!