International

1. The student must be nominated by their home institution.
2. Upon nomination the student will receive an invitation to apply by e-mail.
3. The student must fill and submit follow documents to Cornelia Lorenz:
   • Application Form,
   • Registration Form for foreign guest students and Application for the uniCard (with photo),
   • Online Learning Agreement (Please write the Departmental Coordinator at your faculty here at HoMe as responsible person in your Learning Agreement.)
   • Transcript of records,
   • Copy of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
4. Exchange students will receive their result of admission within 4 – 6 weeks after the deadline.

For the winter term: May 31
For the summer term: November 30

Courses for exchange students are carried out in English and we expect that you have sufficient fluency in English in order to cope with your courses from the start.
If you want to take part in courses in German language you are required to have a minimum of Level B1.

The Studentenwerk (Student Union) offers special guest rooms for international students located directly on campus. The rent for a single room per month is approx. € 305, the deposit is € 350.

Please fill in the application form for the dormitory and send by e-mail to the International Office.

 

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

• Students understand and apply essential contents of environmental engineering like water and wastewater technology, remediation of contaminated sites as well as suitable methods of air pollution control technology, noise reduction technology and waste/recycling technology;
• Students know the structure and the relevant technical components of e.g. sewage treatment plants, flue gas cleaning plants, noise protection plants as well as landfills, waste incineration and recycling plants;
• Students understand the influence of environmental technologies on the reduction of environmental emissions and are also able to evaluate this in a basic way;
• Students know the importance of environmental protection as a challenge for engineers and scientists;
• Students know the most relevant legal regulations and can apply them to the different plants/technologies;
• Students have an overview of microbiology and biotechnology and the diverse fields of application;
• Students are familiar with important groups of microorganisms and under microbial systems;
• Students gain insight into microbial material conversions and their possible applications.

Course Content:

• Basics of the construction and design of wastewater treatment plants as well as methods for sewage sludge treatment
• Contaminated site treatment including relevant pollutants for soil and groundwater, investigation procedures, treatment technologies of soil contamination and technical securing and decontamination measures
• Microbial growth and mechanisms of metabolism and energy conversion, electron transport under anaerobic conditions, special fermentations
• Structure and role of enzymes and enzyme kinetics
• Application examples, in particular for the development of environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies (environmental biotechnology / green engineering)
• Collection and transportation of waste and various processes for waste recovery and disposal (include mechanical waste treatment and subsequent recycling processes, biological treatment of organic residues, thermal treatment of residual waste and high-calorific waste fractions, and technologies for the safe landfilling of wastes
• Characterization of the condition of exhaust air streams and cleaning of exhaust air and flue gas stream (in particular, the methods and technologies for particle separation and removal of gaseous components from exhaust air as well as the main components of flue gas cleaning systems and the combined processes for exhaust air cleaning
• Characterization of noise, measurement and assessment of airborne noise, evaluation of noise sources, as well methods of airborne noise reduction, structure-borne noise reduction and structure-borne noise attenuation

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (90 minutes), prerequisite for admission to the written examination is the regular completion of the practical laboratory class
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lab Classes per Week: 1
Lecturers: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hilke Würdemann & Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Wünsch

Skills: Students will acquire basics concerning chemistry for engineers. After the course the students will:

• Have a basic understanding about atomic model, chemical bonds, chemical processes,
• Have an overview about inorganic, organic, physical and analytical chemistry,
• Understand basics about chemical structure formula.

Course Content:
Basics of structure of matter, periodic table of the elements, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, techniques in a chemical laboratory

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (120 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Valentin Cepus

Skills:

• Primary introduction into the field of Inorganic-, Organic-, Physical- and Analytical Chemistry.
• Basic knowledge about atomic models, bonding force types, major classes of inorganic and organic substances in context to intra- and intermolecular interactions and their fundamental relation to the physical- and chemical properties of substances and materials.
• Repetition of basics in engineering and natural science related matter.
• Laboratory workshop to receive practical experience lab-orientated chemical work processes.

Course Content:

• Basic introduction into the fields of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Analytics
• Repetition of fundamental physical and chemical terms and parameters in an engineering context
• Historical and recent concepts in atom theory and forces in condensed matter
• Structure and trends in the Periodic table of the Elements (PSE)
• Introduction into important inorganic and organic substance classes
• Introduction into intramolecular and intermolecular interactions and their fundamental relations to the physical- and chemical properties of substances and materials
• Chemical processes (solve, dilute, …) and chemical reactions and their thermodynamical description
• Law of mass action, chemical equilibrium, Stöchiometrics, Formular writing, balance of mass and energy, …
• Chemical Reactions standard reactions like Redoxreaction, Addition, Elemination, Substitution, Hydrolysis, ….
• Chemistry of Acids and Bases, pH-Value, Autoprotolysis of water, …
• Electrochemical processes and Corrosion of metals
• Fundamental Structures and Reactions in Organic Chemistry
• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis for material characterization

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (90 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumann

Learning Outcomes & Competences: The students will acquire a basic knowledge of the field of computing science.

Course Content:
Part 1: Computer Sciences

• Historical background of computer science
• Development of computers and basic concepts of digital data processing
• Computer categories
• Production of electronic components
• Hardware of computers
  • Work processes of the computer
  • Hardware components
  • Bus systems, WorldWideWeb
  • Cloud Computing

Part 2: Software Applications

• MS-Word
• MS-Excel
• MS-PowerPoint
• MS-Teams
• ERP-Systems (basic informations about SAP)
• MathLab
• Other programmes

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination and student presentation (practical part)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Ulrich Borchert

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

• Students know basic physical quantities, the physical equations and have knowledge of the SI units of measurement.
• The basic electrical quantities are known and how they are derived.
• They are proficient in simplifying networks of sources and loads to form the basic circuit.
• Calculate resistive networks based on mesh current analysis, branch current analysis, superposition, two-pole theory
• Analysis of nonlinear resistive networks
• Know the terms and quantities of alternating current technology and how they are used in sinusoidal circuits
• Students will know the ac current behavior of linear devices.
• They are able to apply and implement mathematical methods and procedures in solving electrical engineering problems.
• The students have acquired the skills and theoretical knowledge to set up, carry out and evaluate pre-planned experiments.

Course Content:

• Moving charges
• Sources
• Current strength and current density
• Energy of a charge and potential
• Metallic conductors
• Ohm's law
• Temperature dependent resistors
• Direct current circuit
  • Current and voltage in a simple DC circuit
  • Kirchhoff's laws
  • Series connection and parallel connection of resistors
  • Resistor networks
  • Active and passive dipoles
  • Substitute current and voltage source
  • Voltage divider and current divider
  • Energy and power in the direct current circuit
  • Power matching and efficiency
• Linear Networks
  • Network topology, nodes, meshes, branches, complete tree
  • Mesh current analysis
  • Branch current analysis
  • Superposition theorem
  • Two-pole theory
• The alternating current circuit
  • Sinusoidal time functions
  • Arithmetic mean value, effective value, rectified value
  • Ohmic resistance in the alternating current circuit
  • Capacitance in the alternating current circuit
  • Inductance in the alternating current circuit
  • Voltage and current relationships in the time domain
• Pointer diagrams

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written exam (120 minutes). Permitted aids: own collection of formulas.
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Marco Franke

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

• Understand and apply basics of process engineering activities like to construct PIDs (piping and instrumentation diagrams), compiling lists as the equipment-, piping, drives- und instruments-lists, work out the installation plan of the equipment, basics of time and cost management.
• Remember, understand the most important equipment in process technology as heat exchanger, cooling equipment, dryers, crystallization equipment, distillation equipment, filtration, centrifugal separation, mixing equipment, pumps, compressors, vacuum generation, vessels, reactors.
• Basics in process safety, basics of the required utilities (steam, compressed air, electrical current, inert gases) and knowledge of disposed waste streams.

Course Content:

• Engineering projects
  • Process engineering activities (PIDs)
  • Realization of a plant (Project management)
• Equipment and systems
  • Heat exchange equipment (Introduction, air cool -, shell- and tube-, plate- and frame heat exchangers, condensers)
  • Evaporative cooling equipment (Introduction, design configurations, components and materials of construction)
  • Evaporating and drying equipment (Introduction, evaporators, drying equipment, crystallization)
  • Distillation equipment (Introduction, overview of distillation)
  • Mass separation equipment (Introduction, absorption and adsorption equipment, solvent extraction, reverse osmosis)
  • Mechanical separation equipment (Introduction, filtration equipment, sedimentation equipment, centrifugal separation equipment)
  • Mixing equipment (Introduction, mixing equipment)
  • Fluid flow engines (pumps, compressors, jet-pumps, vacuum generation)
  • Further select equipment (Vessels, reactors, piping, measurement, valves)
  • Process safety
  • Utilities and waste streams

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (90 minutes), prerequisite for admission to the written examination is the regular completion of the practical laboratory class
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. nat. techn. Ulf Schubert

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

• Students will gain a basic understanding of the nature of process engineering and get an overview of the field.
• They will become familiar with the unit operations of mechanical and thermal processes in bird's eye view and can explain the underlying physical principles.
• Based on large-scale technical processes (example: ammonia synthesis, ethylene cracker), students learn about the application and purpose of unit operations. They can identify unit operations and their functions.
• They will be able to read, interpret, and create basic and process flow diagrams.
• The students will gain a deeper understanding of the function and physical principles underlying various unit operations of thermal and mechanical processing.
• Representative for thermal processing, two unit operations are studies in more detail: Students will be able to calculate the size of heat exchangers. The can determine the number of transfer units in distillation operations. Representative of mechanical processing, the unit operation of comminution is studied in detail: the students can calculate the required power of a mill, depending on throughput and particle size.
• Students develop initial skills in analytical science problem solving by applying scientific methodology (thesis-experiment-proof). The students recognize and grasp increasingly complex procedural interrelationships.
• The students show a sense of responsibility for energetic and economic aspects. They develop engineering approaches with logical problem analysis. They work independently and responsibly.

Course Content:
Lecture and tutorial class: (In the tutorial class the topics of the lecture are deepened by solving example problems.)

• Introduction to the field of process engineering
• Basic elements of a process plant
• Drawing representation of process plants by flow diagrams with its elements (basic flow diagram, process flow diagram)
• Analysis of selected large-scale processes
• Comprehensive overview of unit operations of thermal and mechanical processing, including underlying physical principles, their application and common equipment types
• Calculation of the size of heat exchangers
• Determination of number of transfer units by the McCabe-Thiele-method
• Calculation of the size of comminution equipment, i.e. power demand for a given throughput und particle size reduction

Laboratory class:

• Students learn about typical laboratory work. They will visit a typical process technology lab and witness various unit operations.
• The lab class is supplemented by excursions.

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Martin

Skills:

• Classification of the engineering materials concerning their structure and chemical composition
• Recognition and abstraction of the coherences between structure and properties of metals
• Knowledge and applicability of the coherences shown in the iron-carbon diagram
• Execution of basic test in the field of engineering material
• Handling with scientific literature during self-study

Course Content:

• Classification of engineering materials
• States of solid objects
• Ideal crystals
• Real crystals
• Classy state and state of super cooled melt
• Alloy formation
• Fe-C-alloys and the iron-carbon diagram
• Material testing
• Fundamental lab courses concerning materials engineering

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (90 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Marcel Auerbach

Skills: After taking this class, students should be able to:

• Interpret logical and mathematical symbols
• Apply scalar products and cross products in geometry
• Solve linear systems of equations and find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices
• Calculate limits of functions
• Be able to differentiate elementary functions
• Use derivatives in optimization problems
• Give Taylor series to given functions
• Use Riemann sums to find the area under a curve
• Recognize the connection between derivatives and integrals (Fundamental Theorem of Calculus)
• Apply simple methods of integration (integration by parts,substitution, partial fractions)
• Find extremal points of functions of several variables

Course Content:

• Logic and symbols
• Basics of linear algebra (e.g. vectors, matrices, scalar products, vector products)
• Systems of linear equations
• Eigenvalues, eigenvectors
• Limits and continuity
• Rules of differentiation
• Optimization using differentiation
• Riemannian sums
• Area under curves
• Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• Methods of integration (integration by parts, substitution, partial fractions)
• Multidimensional functions
• Extremal points of functions of several variables

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (120 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Benjamin Wacker

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

Basic competence to understand and apply analytical strategies which enable to solve technical problems in the field of statics and strength theory

• Ability to state equilibrium conditions in order to calculate basic loads
• Knowledge of different support types in mechanics and how to calculate different support reaction forces
• Ability to calculate internal forces for simple structures, trusses and beams as a basis further strength analysis
• Understand basic relationships in strength theory and their application in the design of pipes and pressure vessels

Course Content:

Fundamentals of statics

• Force systems (force, moment, resultant)
• Systems and supports
• Free body diagram
• Equilibrium conditions
• Plane trusses
• Internal forces in beams
• Center of gravity

Fundamentals of strength theory

• Stress and strain
• Hooke's law, stress-strain diagram
• Stresses in thin-walled cylinders and spheres

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jonas Fischer

Learning outcomes:

• The students possess basic understanding of physical phenomena and relationships.
• The students are able to describe physical problems in a mathematical expression.

Skills:

• Students know the basics about measurement of physical quantities and are able to estimate measurement uncertainty.
• Students are able to analyse simple mechanical systems and to solve problems by application of fundamental mechanical laws.
• Students are able to describe the different types of oscillating systems analytically and use these laws for the solution of problems.
• Students are familiar with the phenomena of wave propagation
• Students are familiar basic principles of hydrostatics and dynamics
• Students are familiar with thermodynamic state and energy variables and are able to apply these on simple model systems.

Course Content:

• Physical quantities, measurement and uncertainty analysis
• Kinematics and dynamics
• Mechanical oscillations and waves
• Fundamentals of hydrostatics and dynamics
• Fundamentals of thermodynamics

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination. Prerequisite for admission to the written examination is the regular completion of the practical laboratory course
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 5 (Lecture, Exercise Class, Laboratory Class)
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus V. Jenderka

Skills:

• The students will learn to develop a given problem definition into a technical and economical design specification
• The students will develop a project plan including task sheets with individual assignments to conduct the project in their team
• With this, they will develop viable solutions including a system to evaluate alternative solutions based on technical constraints and economic viability

Course Content:

• Course hours will be divided in 2 parts:
  • Part A) Seminar teaching covering
    • problem analysis
    • project development and management
    • project economics
    • supportive teaching modules in specific topics relevant to the problems given
  • Part B) Group work (in groups of 3 students)

Requirements: Successful passing of the following courses: Transport Phenomena, Thermodynamics, Introduction to Process Engineering, Equipment in Process Engineering

Type of Exams: Group design; successful submission of design report and economic evaluation; successful presentation of results in seminar
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Schnitzlein

Learning outcomes & competences: Students will gain basic knowledge about the automation of technical processes. They will be able to describe the functionality and application of open and closed loop control, including PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control design. Students will be introduced to technical systems of process control, including actuators and sensors, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control systems (DCS).

Content:

• Introduction to process control
• Sensors and signal processing
• Actuators in process control
• Open and closed loop control
• PID control design
• Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
• Distributed control systems (PCS)

Teaching method/Requirements: The main course will be done by lecturing with some demonstration elements and self-study units. Exercises and tutorials will focus on calculation and design examples. Practical course will include work in process control laboratories in small groups. Participation in practical courses is obligatory.
Type of Exam: Written exam
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ortwein

Skills:

• Knowledge about interaction of bubbles and economic crises
• Implication to German and worldwide activities in the field of energy supply
• Analyzing of the current state concerning energy supply of a company
• Creating of strategies for fitting the energy supply to the needs (personal, operational, social)
• Basics of macroeconomics
• Basics about technologies of renewable energies

Course Content:

• Sustainability:
  1. modeling of macroeconomic states
  2. bubbles and economic crises
  3. strategies for energy supply
• Renewable energies:
  1. different kinds of renewable energies
  2. concept for sustainable energy supply  and way to sustainable energy supply
  3. photovoltaic
  4. solar thermal systems
  5. energy of moving fluids – wind and water energies
  6. biomass
  7. heat pumps
• Grid stabilization:
  1. frequency, load and offer
  2. flexible user and producer, energy exchange market
• Strategies for local systems / countries:
  1. social frame condition for the promotion of investments into sustainable energies
  2. strategies for student home countries

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (120 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Bendix

Skills:

• The students can handle the basics of thermodynamics.
• The students are able to balance energies and losses caused by energy transfer processes.
• The students are able to apply the laws of thermodynamics to simple processes of energy conversion/ heat transfer and study basic engineering via analytical solving of equations
• By creating simple spreadsheets using the start value - Goal Seek
• By using diagrams in combination with reference books.

Course Content:

• Modeling, systems, status and process variables
• Thermal equation of state , internal energy and enthalpy of the ideal
• Conservation of energy, heat, work
• Reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, exergy
• Transfer of heat by conduction, radiation and convection
• Complex transfer of heat, heat transition , thermal resistance
• Energy conversion , internal combustion and heat engines , steam - power - process, heat pumps with compressors
• Thermodynamics of heating and cooling / air-conditioning / humid air

Requirements: None
Type of Exam: Written examination (120 min)
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Bendix

Learning Outcomes & Competences:

• The students are familiar with the basics of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics
• The students can apply practice-oriented methods for the solution of hydrodynamic problems of one-dimensional fluid flow of ideal and real fluids
• The experiences from the accompanying fluidic field work seminar enable the students to plan simple measurements at fluidic plants, to conduct those measurements by themselves, to interpret the findings and convert them into meaningful parameters

Course Content:

• Basics: fluids, gases, state variables, characteristics
• Hydrostatics: hydrostatic pressure, communicating containers, ground force/ wall force due to pressure load, hydrostatic buoyancy
• Hydrodynamics: laws of conservations and balance limits (one-dimensional fluid flow of ideal and real fluids), engineering applications in machines, devices and plants
• Dimensionless quantity: flow types, model experiments
• Field work Transport phenomena: flow measurement technology, determination of pressure loss, mass flow determination, calibration of pressure sensors, measurement of the flow velocity

Requirements: None
Type of Exam:
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Martin Ernst

Skills: Get to know relevant components and systems, their electrical behaviour and rules for their application

Course Content:

•     Solar Cells and Modules
•  Converter Systems
•  Wind Power Systems
•  Biomass Systems
•  Fuel Cell Systems
•  Electric Storage Systems
•  Operation of Decentralized Fed Electric Grids

Requirements: Basics of Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Systems
Type of Exams: Oral exam
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2 SWS
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffler

Skills: VHDL and FPGA programming
Course Content: VHDL, design and simulation and programming
Requirements: Digital circuit design, understand programmable logic
Type of Exams: Documentation (app. 20 - 25 pages) and 20 min lecture
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Steffen Becker

Skills:

• Foundations of the physical chemistry of polymers and their characterization methods
• Overview of analytical techniques for polymers
• Learning to perform basic polymer analyses using different techniques
• Writing of scientific reports

The students should be able to apply and evaluate the basic principles of polymer characterization method.

Course Content (Lecture):

• Statistical treatment of analytical data
• Special chromatographic techniques for the investigation of polymers and polymer additives
• Principles and instrumental parameters in molecule spectroscopy (IR- and Raman spectroscopy)
• Thermal analytical methods for the characterization of chemical and physical properties of polymers
• Basic principles of analytical chemistry
• Chemical equation, Stoichiometry

Course Content (Lab Course):

• Extraction of additives and analysis of extracts and residual. monomers by GC/MS
• Elastomer characterization by TMA
• Qualitative analysis of polymers and copolymers by FTIR spectroscopy (MIR or NIR)
• Mn of polymers by vapour pressure osmometry or membrane osmometry

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written exam
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Valentin Cepus

Skills: The students will get enhanced knowledge in the field of modern digital mobile communications. After the course they are able to:

• Describe the tasks and background of the current digital mobile communication standards,
• Name the main network elements and their function and
• Denote the fundamental principles, algorithms and protocols of these standards.

Course Content:

• Introduction in mobile communication concepts
• GSM system for mobile communication
• 3rd generation system - UMTS
• Efficient packet data transfer with HSPA
• LTE as a 4th generation system

Requirements: Basics in communications systems, principles of computer networks
Type of Exams: Oral examination (30 minutes)
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Mückenheim

Skills:

• Basic theoretical and advanced experimental methodic knowledge of piezoelectric transducers
• Development, setup and characterization of ultrasound transducers for typical applications
• Basic knowledge of measurement and simulation of mechanical and electrical properties of piezoelectric sensors and actuators

Course Content:

• Fundamentals of piezoelectricity, piezoelectric materials, design and modelling of (ultra-)sound transducers, simulation and measurement of (ultra-)sound fields, piezoelectric actuators
• Seminar: current sensor developments
• Practical course: construction of an ultrasound transducer incl. design, setup characterization and application test

Requirements: Physics I, Physics II (Sensor Technology recommended)
Type of Exams: Oral examination, written protocol/seminar paper
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus-V. Jenderka

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring basic theoretical knowledge about processing of polymer materials
• Acquiring practical skills for processing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Basics of melt flow
• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Spinning, foaming
• Elastomer processing
• Processing tires
• Blown film extrusion
• Recycling of polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Processing Lab):

• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Elastomer processing
• Blown film extrusion

Requirements: Basic knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. M. Feldmann

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring a basic knowledge about testing polymer materials
• Practical skills for mechanical and physical testing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Elastic, visco-elastic and plastic deformation behaviour of polymer materials and phenomenological models, quasi-static test methods of polymer materials (tensile, compression, bending), hardness measurement and test methods, charpy impact test

Instrumented impact tests as methods for toughness characterisations of polymer materials, Fracture mechanic concepts for polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Testing Lab):

• Content item: characterisation of elastic properties, tensile test, bend test, ball indentation test, Charpy impact test, drop weight test, tensile impact test

Requirements: Knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Beate Langer

Skills: Students will:

• develop a basic understanding of current aspects or technologies from the computer-science fields covered by the seminar,
• gain basic competences in performing independent research on a given topic and in summarizing and classifying information, and
• improve their skills in presenting and discussing their findings and results.

Course Content:

• Summarizing and reporting on a chosen topic from the fields of computer networks and programming technology
• Reading and understanding provided and/or self-discovered material (e.g., technical articles, scientific papers)
• Work on a project that is related to the topic
• Discussions on the seminar topics
• Presentation skills

Requirements: Foundations in computer networks and reliable programming skills (e.g., advanced programming course). Students may choose between English or German for project work, material/input, presentation and documentation.
Type of Exams: Oral presentation with group discussion and software prototype
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sven Karol

Skills: Based on practical and relevant case studies students know and understand:

• the theoretical foundations and fields of application of decision theory as well as basic communication techniques that occur in practice,
• current and future challenges in this context.

           Students will acquire the skills to:

• deal critically with basic knowledge and to deepen this knowledge independently, and
• communicate purposefully with others and achieve results together.

Course Content:

• Theoretical foundations of decision theory and communication theory
• Basic elements of a decision model
• Decision under certainty and uncertainty
• Cognitive load in decision-making/ decisions under stress
• Target Costing
• Cost-utility analysis
• Preference matrix
• Analytical Hierarchy Process
• Decision Tress / Expected Value
• Roll Back Approach
• Basics of communication and information
• Body Language
• 4 facets of a message
• How to give and receive feedback
• Structure and Organization of information in companies

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Dirk Förster-Trallo

Skills: Students will:

• gain an overview about the development of the globalization with related institutions, common market entry strategies of firms and marketing activities for doing business in other countries;
• learn to understand the drivers of offering products and services in other cultural areas to B2C customers;
• individually examine market entry strategies and doing business of case study companies;
• present their research results in the course for discussion; and thus
• learn to define own research topics and examine relevant issues in international business and management.

Course Content:

Globalization and international institutions

• Brief history of globalization
• From GATT to World Trade Organizations
• European Union, Nafta and ASEAN

Market selection and market entry strategies

• Export Management
• Foreign direct investments (FDI)
• Joint Ventures

National Cultures and cultural intelligence
Products and pricing in international markets
Communication in international markets
Sales policy in international markets
Student's presentations

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreen Pick

Skills:

• Basic insight into the concepts
• Tasks and methods of Financial Management
• Acquire the methodological skills: to realize financial goals, to make decision, to make processes and to control
• Gain an understanding of the function of Financial Management in organizations and
• Understand the relations with external market participants
• Planning- and controlling techniques and cost management
• Students know and understand:
  • Foundations of International Financial Management
  • The foreign exchange market, exchange rate determination and currency derivatives
  • Foreign exchange exposure and management
  • World financial markets and institutions
  • Financial management of the multinational Firm
  • Managing currency risk
  • Financing international operations
  • International management of working capital

Course Content:

• Foundations of International Financial Management
  • International monetary system and balance of payment
  • Corporate governance around the world
  • Evolution and behavioral definition of multinational corporations
  • Global competition
• Foreign Exchange Market, Exposure and Management
  • Exchange Rate Determination
  • Currency and Derivatives Markets
  • Management of Transaction, Economic and Translation Exposure
• World Financial Markets and Institutions
  • International Banking, Money- , Bond- and Equity Markets
  • Interest Rate, Currency Swaps and Int. Portfolio Investment
• Financial Management of the Multinational Firm
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Cross-Border Acquisitions
  • International Capital Structure, Capital Budgeting, Multinational Cash Management
  • International Trade Finance, Tax Environment and Transfer Pricing
• Managing Currency Risk
  • Translation and Transaction Exposure
  • Economic Exposure
• Financing International Operations
  • International and Domestic Capital Markets
  • International Financial Markets
  • International Cost of Capital
• International Management of Working Capital
  • International Trade Management
  • Financial Management for the Global Enterprise

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Petersen, Michael Rode

Skills:

Students will be able to:

• illustrate the importance of the framework of the IASB for standard setting and applying IFRS,
• apply IFRS recognition and measurement rules to the covered accounting issues,
• analyze the consequences of applying various explicit and implicit accounting options with regard to the covered accounting issues, and
• judge which accounting option should be used to achieve certain earnings management objectives.

Course Content:

• IASB and Adoption of IFRS
• Framework and Presentation of Financial Statements
• Inventory
• Property, Plant and Equipment
• Intangible Assets
• Leasing
• Provisions
• Revenue Recognition
• Income Tax

Requirements: Thorough understanding of bookkeeping
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2 (winter term)
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ronny Gebhardt

Skills: The students will be able to:

• conduct a literature research,
• choose and use adequate research methods,
• present their findings on an international conference, and
• document their findings in a publishable form.

Course Content:

• Theoretical introduction into Mobility especially E-mobility
• Theoretical Introduction into "scientific writing" and "how to make a survey"
• Literature research
• Research for the Case Studies on e-mobility in Merseburg
• Gathering ideas for the improvement of mobility in Merseburg
• Group work
• Workshops, Excursions in and out of Germany

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Seminar paper and presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: Irregular; mostly group work/self-study
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann, Abdulaziz Mardenli

Skills: Students will be able to:

• explain the scope, origins and significance of the management accounting function, and
• design an appropriate planning, control and information supply system.

Course Content:

• Review cost accounting
• Marginal accounting
• Bottleneck calculation + deviation analyses
• Anglo-american Costing Systems
• Income statement
• Planning, budgeting + forecasting
• KPIs
• Business consulting

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Rachfall

Skills:

• Present and classify the tasks, activities and instruments of employee management and the model elements of Complementary Management (level 3).
• Critically analyze difficult practical situations, find solutions and evaluate them (level 6).
• Identify and analyze fields of application for employee management, the main problems and concepts encountered in practice, and current and future challenges in this context, and present suitable solution options (levels 1 and 3).
• Critically engage with management literature and independently deepen their knowledge (level 6).
• Effectively managing and leading employees and reflecting on the personal demands placed on line managers with regard to their own suitability (level 6).
• Recognizing one's own strengths and weaknesses; reflecting on one's own behavior in specific situations in everyday professional life, regulating it appropriately, aligning it with the achievement of goals, improving it through learning and implementing what has been learned (level 6).
• Expanding methodological, communication, self- and social skills.
   

Course Content:

• Management and leadership in the context of corporate governance
• The theoretical model of Complementary Management
• The line manager's role
• Uncertainties and personal dimensions
• Defining the content of the job
• Hiring, retaining and letting go
• Providing resources and orientation
• Promoting competence and development
• Shaping collaboration
• Providing care
• Creating motivation
• Constitutive and strategic management
   

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Boris Kaehler

Skills: Students will be able to:

• develop an understanding of the basic concepts of imperative programming languages and can apply them to create their own programs,
• write smaller programs on their own,
• structure and organize source code, and reuse existing programs from libraries, and
• use compilers and development environments effectively.

Note: German course! Students may choose between English or German for lecture slides and lab exercises.

Course Content:

• Programming paradigms and abstraction
• Control structures
• Data types
• Functions and recursion
• Memory management
• Basic input and output
• Compiler and development environments
• Labs in the C programming language

Requirements: Solid ability to use a computer, high affinity for IT-related topics, sound motivation and eagerness to learn programming
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Karol

Skills: Students will:

• achieve the ability to conduct data science projects,
• learn how to identify and solve underlying problems in typical data science tasks,
• get familiar with visual data science tool and use it to solve data science challenges, and
• present their results to other participants of the course which increases their presentation and social skills.

Course Content:

• Data science process
• Data preparation
• Feature engineering
• Model selection
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Result evaluation
• Data visualization
• Introduction into Visual Data Science Tool

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmeißer

Skills:

Students gain an overview about strategic marketing and the marketing mix of companies. The fundamentals of marketing will be examined with a case study about a real marketing strategy of a company. Different questions will be discussed in the sessions. Similar to the case study, students will do research for their own case study of a company's marketing mix. They present their research results in the course for discussion in front of the course participants. Thus, they learn to define their own research topics, learn to transfer theoretical approaches to practice and they deepen their social and presentation skills. They further practice to write a seminar thesis as part of your course work and thus prepare for the bachelor thesis.

Course Content:

• Introduction
  • Markets and definition of marketing
  • What is a relevant market
  • Market segmentation
• Marketing Strategy
  • Methods for analysing a company‘s situation
  • Market goals
  • Marketing strategy
• Elements of the Marketing mix
  • Product policy
  • Price policy
  • Communication policy
  • Sales and sales management
• Case studies of the students

Requirements: Knowledge of basics of marketing is suggested but not necessary
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and written seminar thesis
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreén Pick

Skills: 

• Model building
• Operations research

Course Content:

• Linear programming
• Graph theory

Requirements: Mathematics
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann

Skills:

• Knowledge about the field of activities and design options in Supply Chain Management
• Application methods in inventory positioning and lot sizing in the deterministic case and cases of demand uncertainty
• Application of tools and methods in designing supply networks
• Awareness of the requirements of global logistics
• Application of methods in risk management
• Certain methods in risk management in supply networks
• Finding the right pricing strategy for goods facing a changing customer demand in segmented markets

Course Content:

• Inventory management: enhanced static economic lot sizing, newsvendor model, inventory holding policies, dynamic economic lot sizing, risk pooling
• Network planning: locations, capacities, service level
• Supply contracts: make-to-stock and make-to-order decisions, information asymmetry
• Global logistics: risks and chances, risk management
• Smart pricing

Requirements: Basic logistics knowledge on lot sizing and order policies
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann

Skills / Course Content: This course serves as a basic approach towards feminist concepts in different contexts. We will talk about the history of feminism as well as contemporary movements. Students are encouraged to explore the different meanings of feminism for their respective field (social work or culture and media education). All genders are encouraged to visit this course!
As an introduction please watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Ted talk on Feminism: youtu.be/hg3umXU_qWc
Type of Exam: Presentation and essay
Requirements: Active participation
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2; every Tuesday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  OR  every Tuesday 1:30 p.m.  – 3:00 p.m.
Lecturer: Esther Stahl

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stephan Meise

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Lecturer: Karsten Mohapatra & Linnea Fougmann (Contact: Prof. Dr. Johannes Herwig-Lempp)

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christiane Dätsch

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Lecturer: Dr. Karsten Steinmetz

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Lecturer: Dr. Karsten Steinmetz

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Requirements: tba
Credits: tba
Teaching hours per week: tba
Lecturer: Dr. Chima Anyadike-Danes

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Using standard structures of written and oral communication appropriately
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information on common business topics

Course Content:

• Social English: e. g. introductions and greetings; presenting yourself in a professional way
• Getting to know the company; describing job activities; making arrangements; writing e-mails
• Brands/Advertising
• Money/Finance
• Business Travel
• Globalization
• Basic structures (verb tenses, conditional clauses, passive)

Requirements: General English skills at level B2 or equivalent
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 6
Lecturer: Gesine Kögler / Uwe Schiffke / Maria Sievert

Skills:

• You will develop your abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking in an academic context
• You will learn about academic culture and study methods in an English-speaking environment
• You will focus on grammar and vocabulary that is of particular importance in academic written and spoken communication
• You will acquire skills enabling you to participate in lectures, tutorials, workshops and conferences

Course Content: The course includes a variety of topics, e.g.

• Academic Orientation
• Choices and Implications
• Risks and Hazards
• Language and Communication
• Difference and Diversity
• Work and Equality

Requirements: General English skills at Upper-Intermediate Level
Type of Exams: 4 tests
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Gesine Kögler / Uwe Schiffke

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to discuss a wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Being able to explain technical phenomena and specific processes
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information (instructions, reports, interviews, presentations, lectures)

Course Content:

• Technical Functions and Applications
• Describing Technical Processes
• Engineering Design
• Energy Engineering
• Automation/Robotics
• New Developments in Science & Technology
• Explaining Tests & Experiments
• Recycling/Waste Management
• Complex Linguistic Structures
• Applying for a job/internship

Requirements: English skills at Common European Framework (CEF) Level B2 (or equivalent)
Type of Exams: Written and oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Uwe Schiffke / Maria Sievert / Maud Winter

Skills:

• Teaching of intercultural competence and applied geography knowledge
• Conversation in a professional setting: explaining and understanding cultural phenomena, intercultural differences and gained awareness/cognition
• Presentations and negotiations in German
• Summarizing an issue
• Discussing

Course Content:
Methods for presenting and interchange sociologic and sociolinguistic knowledge/awareness ‘Study Visit in Germany’: for instance the personal intercultural experience of

• Stereotypes
• Expectations before arriving
• Comparisons/contrasts, self-perception vs. public perception, opinion about foreigners
• Experience exchange
• Applied geography, politics, economy, culture, education system, music, language etc.

Getting to know German traditions/rules/customs: guideline to the business world, studying, everyday life, dealing with public authorities and private persons.

Requirements: German at level B1 or English at level B1
Type of Exams: Written report in German or English / 6 pages without pictures
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Uwe Schiffke / Svetlana Telepneva

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary level to basic/general level about specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in German

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Oda Brauer / Uwe Schiffke / Svetlana Telepneva / Maud Winter

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding different phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in German

Course Content:

• Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing
• Methods for reading texts at upper-intermediate level, presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises

Requirements: German skills at level A2
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Oda Brauer / Svetlana Telepneva / Maud Winter

Skills:

• Use of grammatical rules in written and oral statements
• Listening comprehension of Internet posts, videos and dialogues
• Discussions and presentations in German
• Reading comprehension of foreign-language texts, lectures, comments und interviews at upper-intermediate to advanced levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting

Course Content:

• Methods for presenting graphs and statistics
• Methods for summarizing
• Methods for reading texts at upper-intermediate level, presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises
• Methods for listening dialogues at upper-intermediate and advanced levels

Requirements: German skills at level B1
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of foreign-language texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding technical phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in the foreign language

Course Content: 

• Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing
• Methods for reading technical texts at upper-intermediate level presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises

Requirements: German skills at level B2
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5 (may vary depending on which course of study)
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary to basic/general and subject-specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary basic level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in Spanish

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: A1: none / A2: Spanish at level A1
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Oda Brauer

Students coming from Europe (normally) do not need a visa for a study stay in Germany.
Students from non-EU countries need a visa for the purpose of studying (student visa). We advise you to contact the German Embassy or Consulate.
Information on visa regulations can be found here.

Yes. Students wishing to study in Germany must have health insurance coverage. Cost are around EUR 130-150 per month.

Students from Europe can use their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) as a proof of health insurance cover. Students from non-EU countries need a statutory health insurance for their visa but also for the matriculation at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

At Merseburg University of Applied Sciences you do not pay any tuition fees!

The Studentenwerk (Student Union) charges a semester fee of around EUR 280 per semester. The Student Union uses the money to support student lunches, student cultural projects, social services and refurbishment projects. A semester ticket (Germany ticket) is also included. More information can be found here.

A single room on campus currently costs EUR 305 per month + a one-time charge of EUR 350 deposit.

The health insurance costs around EUR 130-150 per month.

Here you will find our cooperation partners.

Residents' Registration Office

Within the first two weeks after your arrival, you need to register at the local authorities (even for a temporary stay). The proof of residence registration is needed to open a bank account. You will need your passport and visa (if necessary) and your rental contract.

Each student receives a EUR 100 bonus per year from the city of Merseburg if they choose that their permanent address is in Merseburg. So, make sure to apply straight away for this bonus when you go to the local residents' registration office.

Immigration Office

Students from non-EU countries planning to stay in Merseburg for more than three months must additionally register at the foreigners' registration office. You will need your passport and visa (if necessary), two biometric passport photos, the proof of residence registration, your certificate of enrolment and a proof of health insurance.

If you have problems filling out the registration forms, our buddies will help you and accompany you to all the offices.

Recommendations for outdoor events, such as:

• Excursions,
• Hikes,
• Swimming

This guideline contains information for international students regarding health, safety, occupational accidents and emergencies.

More information about studying in Germany.

Do you have problems with your studies, study programme or internship here in Merseburg that you cannot solve on your own? Are you dissatisfied with the work of the International Office and would like to share your criticism with us? Together we will look for solutions to your problem. Please feel free to get in touch with us, by e-mail or meet us in the International Office (Hg/G/1/23).

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences has taken a firm stance and offers support to counteract discrimation, sexism, racism, homophobia, all forms of harassment and stalking. If you are affected by discrimination, you can contact the Complaints Office of Merseburg University of Applied Sciences in confidence.