Electrical & Industrial Engineering

After successful completion of this course, students:

• Understand the fundamental terms of business administration and economics
• Understand the way of economic thinking
• Master basic methods of business administration and economics
• Get insights into the importance and tasks of the functional areas of a business
• Understand the complexity of business processes and economic developments

On Campus

After successful completion of this course, students:

• Understand the operational process of producing goods and the fundamentals of procurement and purchasing
• Know the fundamentals of manufacturing, different production types, production planning and control in order to understand optimisation and adjustment decisions (e.g. as part of lean manufacturing)
• Get insights into logistics, from transport systems to internal and cross- company integrating supply chains

Recommended: Module "Principles of Business Administration and Economics" (WIT150 - see above)

B2 Level in English

Throughout the course, students:

• Understand basic marketing and sales models and theories
• Analyze market and demand behaviour
• Reflect and describe typical organisational settings in the field of marketing and sales
• Solve marketing related case studies in order to gain a better application-oriented knowledge about marketing and sales objectives

B2 Level in English

For Bachelor Students: Course for 3rd/4th Semester

After successful completion of this course, students:

• Learn why and how production and logistics are organised and coordinated in international networks
• Acquire fundamental knowledge of international network structure, especially of types and configuration of production and logistics networks
• Acquire fundamental theoretical knowledge for analyzing, creating, optimizing and controlling international production and logistics networks
• Obtain skills for practical problem solving in production and logistics networks
• Gain managerial competencies with respect to network leadership, cross-company communication and international organisation as well as sustainability
• Understand the basics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies
• Get to know a variety of marketing instruments

On Campus

This course runs over two semesters. Attendance for only one semester does not result in ECTS credits.

Content: Recognising the criteria of a successful academic paper regarding content, structure, literature research, and citation. Introduction to the methodology of science by in-depth discussion of a selected topic of engineering and management.

Knowledge: Know the process and methodology of science.

Skills: Conduct thorough literature research and use appropriate sources of professional information for job purposes. Speak and write in a scientifically correct way.

Competences: Prepare and present results of academic articles, and document these results. Critically analyse subject-specific statements, discuss them and assess them regarding their practical relevance.