Master of Engineering

Mechanical engineering

Your next career step: specialize in a Master's degree. You can choose between lightweight construction and design engineering and sustainable production technologies.

Master's degree in mechanical engineering

Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Location: Zittau
Degree: Master of Engineering
Standard period of study: 3 semesters
ECTS points: 90
Enrollment for: Summer and winter semester
Admission restriction: None
Accreditation status: accredited

A world without machines is unimaginable today. Weather satellites, airplanes, elevators or pedelecs have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Designing these technical devices, simulating how they work and finally building them is a mentally and technically demanding and highly creative task.

In the future, digitization will also radically change mechanical engineering. If you want to help shape the path to intelligently networked, self-controlling production or the use of new materials for sustainable and high-performance components in mechanical engineering, the master's degree program with us is your next career step.

 

Your course content in the Master's degree program in Mechanical Engineering

1st semester
  • Project management: Methods and processes
  • Thermal management of components and apparatus
  • Engineering Mathematics III
  • Computer-aided product optimization - practical examples
  • Business law/cost and performance accounting (elective module)

Specialization or field of study Lightweight construction and design engineering

  • Continuum Mechanics / FEM II
  • Structural Dynamics

Specialization or field of study Sustainable production technologies

  • Processing of plastics and composite materials
  • Material flow technology/
    Industrial robot technology
2nd semester
  • Component safety/damage diagnosis
  • Mechatronics in mechanical engineering
  • Introduction to process automation (elective module)
  • Compulsory elective mechanical engineering
    • Bionics
    • Project work manufacturing systems
    • Mechanism technology

Specialization or field of study Lightweight construction and construction technology

  • Lightweight construction
  • Lightweight construction project
  • Designing with plastics and composites

Specialization or field of study Sustainable Production Technologies

  • Bioeconomy and Biopolymers - Sustainable Plastics
  • Production control/
    Industrial management
  • Production Engineering II
3rd semester
  • Final module (Master's thesis and defense)
  • Admission requirements

    Formal requirements for admission to the Master's in Mechanical Engineering

    • Completion of an engineering Bachelor's degree with 210 ECTS credits or
    • Propaedeutic pre-semester (0th semester) for a Bachelor's degree with 180 ECTS credits
  • Target group

    Target group of the Master's degree program in Mechanical Engineering

    The Master's degree program in Mechanical Engineering is suitable for graduates of a Bachelor's or Diplom degree program in engineering who want to develop future-oriented technical solutions to drive innovation in industry, business and science. In addition to your passion for technical devices and systems, you should have technical skills, a good capacity for abstraction and a willingness to work in groups.

  • Contents

    Study specializations to choose from

    You will have acquired important basic knowledge during your Bachelor's degree. In the Master's degree course, you have the opportunity to specialize.

    Major 1: Lightweight construction and design engineering

    In the Lightweight Construction and Design Engineering specialization, you will design, construct and calculate modern components and structures for the automotive, mechanical engineering, rail vehicle and aviation industries. You will learn about the entire product development process - from design to series production. As an engineer, you will be able to technically realize products in an environmentally friendly and marketable manner and will also be familiar with the procedures and development processes for the preparation and recycling of used materials.

    Study focus 2: Sustainable production technologies

    In the Sustainable Production Technologies specialization, you will learn about the methods and manufacturing processes required for the industrial production of goods. You will deal with the economic production of components and work with digitally networked cutting machines and innovative industrial robot technology. As a graduate, you will be able to innovatively design and improve production processes and logistics systems for the manufacture of components.

  • Study objective

    Career prospects as a mechanical engineer

    As a mechanical engineer, many doors are open to you. You can pursue a national or international career, take up key economic and technical positions in small, medium-sized and large companies or work in research and development.

    Typical areas of employment for our previous graduates include

    • Companies in mechanical and vehicle engineering
    • Companies in food and beverage production
    • Companies in textile and clothing production
    • Companies in metal production
    • Engineering and development offices
    • Approval and supervisory authorities
    • Research institutes and universities
    • Engineering service companies
  • Study program
    • 0. semester (only for applicants with 180 ECTS credits): Propaedeutic preliminary semester in which you can acquire the remaining 30 ECTS points. You can choose from a variety of subjects to supplement your specialist knowledge.
    • 1st and 2nd semester: Intensive specialist studies in your chosen specialization in lightweight construction and design engineering or sustainable production technologies.
    • 3rd semester: Semester in which you write your Master's thesis - either at the university or in an industrial company. Final defense to obtain the academic degree "Master of Engineering".

Podcast episode on the degree program

What our students say

Johannes Krutz
It's great that the university in Zittau offers such a broad range of subjects. Looking back, it was the best choice for me.
Johannes Krutz, Master's student in mechanical engineering at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
 
Further information
Photo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fulland
Fachstudienberater
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Markus Fulland
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
02763 Zittau
Schwenninger Weg 1
Building Z VII, Room 135
1st floor
+49 3583 612-4831
Allgemeine Studienberatung
Madeleine Pohl
Department of Studies and International Affairs
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 16
Building Z I, Room 0.21
First floor
+49 3583 612-3055
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