Major Industrial Engineering
Studying Engineering
Designing and managing technology: The major in industrial engineering combines various scientific fields that are significant for automation engineering, as well as production engineering in industry.
Students of the major move across the disciplinary boundaries of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer sciences. They combine these topics with learning from business administration and manufacturing management. Students acquire a fundamental knowledge of physics, measurement technology and methods, and technical mathematics.
Thereafter, they can choose between two concentrations for their studies: production engineering and automation engineering.
Depending on the desired educational orientation, students must choose from one of the academic fields:
- The field of production engineering deals with comprehensive academic and practical topics connected to the technologies and the management of production systems. These include, among others, construction systems, material science, materials management and manufacturing technologies.
- Students in the field of automation engineering acquire comprehensive technical knowledge in the areas of automation-, electrical-, and computer engineering. The specialized subfields within this major are in the area of optics and sensor technology, measurement-, guidance-, and control engineering, as well as in process data processing and electrical drives.
Educational goals
As a student in the industrial engineering major you will bring comprehensive knowledge of technical matters to your professional life and you will be able to develop practical solutions. Through your studies, you will acquire a well-grounded education in engineering and the natural sciences; your learning will stretch between two major branches of industrial engineering. As a graduate, your abilities will be aligned with the assignments typical of an industrial concern, which increasingly are of an interdisciplinary nature.