The elimination of trade restrictions and increasing globalisation over the past few years has opened global markets for companies, but is also forcing them to deal with heightened competition. Economic decisions are becoming more complex; companies are feeling the pressure to improve their performance requirements.
Furthermore, market realities are driving division of labour processes, with demands for highly-skilled personnel rising accordingly. Finding solutions to problems that occur at the interface between technology and industry is an increasingly complicated business. It is these very interfaces that constitute the interesting working areas of the industrial engineer.

The goal of industrial engineering studies is to impart the skills graduates will need to meet the diverse cross-sector requirements posed by employers today.

The profile of an industrial engineer

Our multi-disciplinary training approach to science, engineering, law, and economics enables industrial engineers to overcome the barriers that exist between technology and management on the one hand, and between industry and science on the other.

By combining a number of important skills and by building bridges between various mindsets and knowledge limitations, industrial engineers seek to promote an integrated management approach. With their qualifications and ability to quickly tackle difficult challenges in very complicated subject matters, industrial engineers can be deployed in nearly all sectors of industry.

Fields of application of a industrial engineer

Industrial engineers work predominately in cross-sector, integrated management positions such as logistics, marketing, operations and accounting systems, as well as controlling, production and company management, but of course in R&D as well.

Industry remains the largest employment sector for industrial engineers. Moreover, the number of attractive employment opportunities in the service sector has also been on the increase over the past few years. Integrative technical/economics approaches are also increasingly embraced in the trade sector, with many wholesalers and external trade firms now also hiring industrial engineers.

Nevertheless, what industry expects of industrial engineers in the related fields of expertise continue to evolve as well.

Master of Science in Business Administration and Engineering (M. Sc.)

The prerequisite for admission to this two-year Master programme is the successful completion of a Bachelor or Diplom programme. Our research-oriented Master programme builds on basic scientific knowledge gained in the Bachelor programme and enable students to independently tackle research tasks, as well as to present and defend their findings in appropriate form.