Industrial Engineering (Master)

Industrial engineers help to ensure that technical problems are also solved from an economic point of view and that economic problems are solved taking technological constraints into account. The aim of the consecutive Bachelor's/Master's degree course is to train industrial engineers who are able to think in interrelationships and bridge interfaces between technology and business. The Master's program prepares graduates to creatively adapt to new challenges in their professional lives. The degree qualifies students for academic work and gives them the formal authorization for a subsequent doctorate.

The Master's degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management takes students to the cutting edge of current research and thus enables the rapid transfer of new knowledge into business practice. Clausthal University of Technology strives for a generalist education with a combination of a general understanding of technology and economics, which enables students to take up very demanding jobs in industry. The future-oriented Energy and Raw Materials Management course covers the entire energy supply value chain, from the extraction of energy resources to the marketing of various forms of energy. The more general Production and Processes course covers the general production management perspective of production processes. The materials technology field of study prepares students for work in branches of industry in which modern metallic, inorganic and organic materials are researched, developed and marketed.

Fields of activity:

• Raw materials and process engineering industry,
• energy industry,
• mechanical engineering,
• steel, plastics and building materials industries,
• automotive industry and, in particular, management consultancies.

The Clausthal Master's degree course in Industrial Engineering and Management provides a broad education in engineering and economics based on subject areas - production processes, energy and raw materials or materials technologies - and does not aim to specialize in engineering sub-disciplines. This makes the course unique in Germany, and the success of Clausthal graduates shows that it fully meets the requirements of the job market. The course is also characterized by close supervision of students, high teaching quality and a high degree of internationality. Practical relevance is provided in particular by an 8-week pre-study internship and specialist internships in the specializations.

In the Master's degree course in Industrial Engineering and Management, students are introduced to current research areas in three fields of study: Production and Processes, Energy and Raw Materials Management and Materials Technologies. For each field of study, there is a special economics program tailored to the field of study, which can be sharpened by corresponding elective subjects with a wide range of elective options and a seminar. Engineering and economics content is combined through interface subjects such as project and resource management, material flow and logistics, electricity management or energy economics.

Production and Processes

Engineering subjects:

• Computer-integrated product development
• Computer-integrated production
• Factory and plant planning
• Material flow and logistics

Economics subjects

• Supply Chain Management
• Distribution logistics
• Market research
• Project and resource management

Energy and Raw Materials Management

Engineering subjects

• Deep and opencast mining
• Oil/natural gas production systems
• Fossil and renewable energy resources
• Electricity industry

Economics subjects

• Sustainability management
• Accounting for the energy industry
• Operational planning of energy systems
• Energy and environmental economics

Materials technologies

Engineering subjects

• Materials Science
• Introduction to organic chemistry
• Materials Engineering
• Thermochemistry of materials

Economics subjects

• International and Strategic Management
• Market Research
• Industrial economics
• Foreign trade

Part of the course is a practical work placement of eight weeks, which must be completed as a commercial and/or technical pre-study internship.