Mechatronics (part-time) (M. Eng.)

• University degree (Bachelor or Diplom) in an engineering science or a natural science (e.g. electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, information technology or a related degree programme) with a final grade of 2.5 or better
• relevant professional experience gained after obtaining your degree in accordance with Section 3, usually of at least one year’s duration.
• while studying for your first university degree you must have gained at least 180 ECTS Credits from theoretical courses. Up to 30 Credits can be granted in addition to the above-mentioned year of relevant practical experience if you have at least one further year of relevant professional experience.
• necessary language proficiency in German and English

The admissions procedure is managed by the Technische Akademie Esslingen, An der Akademie 5, 73760 Ostfildern.

Bright prospects for your career and your future

Improve your career prospects with a certified university degree: Manage interdisciplinary development projects or take on demanding tasks in research and development. With a Master's degree, you can also become a development manager or assume overall technical responsibility in a company.

A career in technical sales or product management is a further possibility thanks to your solid technical training. A Master's degree can open the door to management positions in industry or in the public sector. Moreover, with a Master’s degree you can also do a doctorate at a university and thus obtain a further academic qualification.

The degree programme equips students with the following specialist, social and methodological skills:

• sound knowledge of the modelling and simulation of mechatronic systems
• ability to understand and apply the latest methods of developing mechatronic products to the current state of the art
• ability to compute and dimension mechatronic products and components
• ability to undertake scientifically sound planning, to design and develop complex mechatronic products paying due consideration to all domains incl. software
• ability to develop, realise and simulate control and automation concepts for mechatronic systems
• ability to analyse, formulate, process and solve complex tasks, including those which are not fully defined, in the field of mechatronics paying due regard to technical, scientific, social, ethical, ecological and economic aspects and legal stipulations 
• ability to independently acquire new knowledge and skills
• ability to successfully apply and further develop the methods learned to formulate and solve complex tasks which present themselves in industrial research, development and production or in research facilities
• ability to manage a team and to plan, organise, document your own work and the work of an interdisciplinary team and present and advocate it both in public and in front of an audience of experts.

Graduates of this degree programme will be qualified to work in the following fields:

• automotive industry
• biotechnology industry
• automation engineering
• machine tools
• environmental and agricultural engineering
• scientific institutes, research and training institutions
• public sector e.g. monitoring and environment agencies

• planning and construction of mechatronic products.

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