Chartered Engineer: a trademark remains
WHAT to study? WHERE to study? HOW to study? Selecting the right course is extremely challenging. The Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering at TU Dresden has modularised all its Diploma courses in the wake of the Bologna Reform and changed its assessment to the credits system – thereby ensuring international comparability. However, we continue to offer traditional Diploma courses, as well as Bachelor and Master programmes – with great success: every year, more than 500 Chartered Engineers complete their studies here!
Time-saving Diploma
A continuous five-year course is the best way to gain a professional qualification within the designated period of study. Curriculum delays are pre-programmed in our Bachelor-Master model, because our postgraduate Masters can only be started after the Bachelor course has been fully completed. And the Bachelor dissertation is an intermediate thesis that takes time. Time that a Chartered Engineer saves for a practical semester.
International practice instead of international theory
Many Diploma students use the practical semester of their main course for a stay abroad: they improve their language skills and learn how to work in an international team. A vital aspect for the engineering world of research and industry. Stays abroad can be planned a long way ahead and more easily implemented as part of the Diploma course. A Bachelor course requires a compact learning programme that offers little flexibility for individual study plans.
Solid foundations allow flexible specialisation
Studying engineering at university should be a detailed consolidation of specific specialist areas – based on an in-depth basic education. We train engineers who are not only able to perform specific tasks during their careers, but can also exceed conceptual boundaries and develop new ideas, thereby generating momentum for new technologies and concepts. This requires both in- depth specialist knowledge and an extremely solid foundation in engineering, mathematics and natural sciences. Our Bachelor degree is a streamlined course that has to forego essential elements.
More security, more stability and less organisation
Admission to a Diploma course means that you can plan ahead for many years. Thereby leaving time for what really matters: developing a stable social network and as little organisational effort as possible. Because studying should always involve a little bit more than just learning and research.
We remain flexible
Our "Diploma Supplement" confirms to every graduate that our Diploma is equivalent to a Masters degree. Only the Saxon higher education act provides this opportunity. The Bachelor degree on offer at the Faculty meets the entry requirements for a postgraduate Masters degree at another university. On our postgraduate Diploma programme, graduates from other universities gain the specialist knowledge required for managerial positions.