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Business Administration and Engineering Degree: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Updated: 30.11.2016 (SPO Version 5, 19.11.2015)

1. Semester WINB111 - Mathematics A

WINB121 - Electrical Engineering A

WINB131 - Technical Communication WINB141 - Physics with Laboratory

WINB151 - Manufacturing Management WINB161 - Business Administration

Module summary Module-code: WINB111 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:

Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Students will be able to identify mathematical problems in calculus, arrange them and solve them by a) knowing and understanding the basic terms and methods of calculus, including convergence and approximation, complex numbers, limits and continuity of functions, sequences, differential and integral calculus, ordinary differential equations and being able to use them for reasoning, b) performing calculations on complex numbers and plotting them on Gauss' complex plane, c) calculating the limits of sequences and function values, d) applying the procedures of differentiation and integration accurately to solve problems with one or more variables and how to use these mathematical methods in engineering and economic sciences, d) classifying differential equations and solving ordinary differential equations using selected methods such as separation of variables, substitution, variation of parameters, exponential approach, right- hand side approach, f) being able to think and reason logically and in terms of the mathematical language in order to evaluate and apply calculus in a practical context as well as during their further studies. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Mathematics A Module code: WINB111 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/Mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Basics and functions 2. Complex numbers 3. Limits of functions, Continuity of functions 4. One-dimensional differential calculus

Module title: Mathematics A

5. One-dimensional integral calculus 6. Infinite sequences 7. Ordinary differential equations 8. Multi-dimensional differential calculus 9. Multi-dimensional integral calculus Recommended Readings: Dürrschnabel, K.: Mathematik für Ingenieure, Teubner Goebbels, S.; Ritter, S.: Mathematik verstehen und anwenden, Spektrum Papula, L.: Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, Band 1-2, Vieweg Notes: Exercise

Module summary Module-code: WINB121 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Krügel, Prof. Dr. Wurll Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Mathematics A, Basics in Physics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Students will be able to analyze simple electronic networks using their knowledge about a) the basic components power supply, resistor, capacitor and inductor, b) current, voltage, capacity, electric energy, electric and magnetic field, c) simple dynamic processes, e.g. circuits and switching and how the different components and quantities are related to each other. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills to proceed with the consecutive courses like Electrical Engineering B and Automation Engineering.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Electrical Engineering A Module-code: WINB121 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Krügel, Prof. Dr. Wurll Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Basic concepts: electric charges, current, voltage, electric resistance, capacity, electric energy. circuit analysis, electric fields (electrostatics, capacity), magnetic fields (force, magneto motive force, inductivity, transformer), semiconductors (p-n junction, diode) exercises

Recommended Readings: Script: A. Führer, K. Heidemann, W. Nerreter, Grundgebiete der Elektrotechnik; Möller, Fricke, Frohne, Vaske, Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik; H. Clausert, Grundgebiete der Elektrotechnik; M. Albach, Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik; H. Claussnitzer, Einführung in die Elektrotechnik Notes: Exercise, Interactive whiteboard, beamer, examples and exercises, comprehensive collection of questions and answers for self-testing, animations, videos, exemplary models and exams, tutorials.

Module title: Electrical Engineering A

Module summary Module-code: WINB131 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Rust Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations

Competencies: Students will be able to communicate in the conventional scientific way, while identifying, explaining and using symbols of technical drawing, e.g. tolerance, surface roughness and so on, conforming to standards when creating technical drafts of predefined objects, interpreting technical drafts taking account of all details, creating technical drafts of objects using 3D computer-aided design systems (CAD), constructing and solving circumscribed construction exercises.

Assessment: Seminar paper, that has to be finished within 1 semester. (learning achievement)

Course: Technical Communication Module-code: WINB131 Lecturer: Thomas Freudenmann and others Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture/ seminar Language: German Content: - fundamentals of technical drawing - drafting of work pieces, dimensions, perspectives, cross sections, tolerances, matching - bills of material construction - machine elements and standardized parts - construction technology - basics of CAD-systems - construction of components, assemblies

Recommended Readings: Labisch, S. u. Weber, C.: Technisches Zeichnen - Selbstständig lernen und effektiv üben, Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Notes: None

Module title: Technical Communication

Module summary

Module-code: WINB141 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. R. Görlich Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. Semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic school knowledge in Mathematics and Physics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations

Competencies: After successfully finishing the course, the students will have acquired thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of the fundamental terms and concepts from the fields of technical optics, thermal transfer and fluid mechanics. They are able to identify and understand the phenomena occurring in these branches of physics. The same applies to some fundamentals of mathematics, since the descriptions of the phenomena are based on the principles of modelling. In the laboratory the students will furthermore acquire the basics for the statistical evaluation and interpretation of measured data. This course provides substantial knowledge, that is required for understanding the content taught in consecutive courses, e.g. engineering thermodynamics. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes; work in the laboratory, 1 Semester. (learning achievement)

Course: Physics with Laboratory Module-code: WINB141 Instructor: Prof. Dr. R. Görlich Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture; work in the laboratory Language:

Content: The lecture contains a lot of experiments and the following topics: Technical optics (spectroscopy, waves, LASER), thermal transfer (heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation) and fluid mechanics (Bernoullis principle, viscosity, Hagen-Poiseuille). The students will conduct fundamental experiments in the laboratory, based on the course content: spectroscopy, torsional oscillation, determination of viscosity (temperature-dependent). Recommended Readings: Hering, Martin, Stohrer: Physik für Ingenieure, VDI-Verlag; Halliday, David: Physik. Bachelor-Edition, WILEY-VCH; Leute, Ulrich: Physik und ihre Anwendungen in Technik und Umwelt, Carl Hanser Verlag

Notes: Exercise. Teaching methods: blackboard, PowerPoint-presentations, Maple simulation software, experiments, exercises, laboratory work.

Module title: Physics with Laboratory

Module summary Module-code: WINB151 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Michael Schopen Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: After successfully finishing the course, the students will be able to solve problems regarding the volume and cost of manufacturing processes and they will know properties and dependencies of manufacturing factors in the process of transformation and as such have the skills to plan and schedule manufacturing processes. They will acquire the fundamental and required knowledge to continue their studies in consecutive courses.


Course: Manufacturing Management Module-code: WINB151 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael Schopen Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Content: - classification of the terms product and manufacturing - outlining manufacturing processes - productivity of manufacturing factors - the importance of manufacturing and cost functions - planning and scheduling manufacturing processes - planning of material requirements and batch sizes - methods of manufacturing flow scheduling - planning of the manufacturing order

Recommended Readings: Corsten, H.: Produktionswirtschaft, Einführung in das industrielle Produktionsmanagement, R. Oldenbourg Verlag München Wien 2007 Kiener, S., N. Maier-Scheubeck, R. Obermaier und M. Weiß: Produktions- Management Grundlagen der Produktionsplanung und –steuerung, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München Wien, 2006 Notes: None

Module title: Manufacturing Management

Module summary Module-code: WINB161 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis, Prof. Mayer Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 1. Semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:


Competencies: The students understand the fundamentals of business administration. They can a) define technical terms, b) associate facts and circumstances with the particular fields of business administration and c) convey these facts and circumstances using exemplary situations and thus apply this knowledge on practical real-world situations and in consecutive courses.


Course: Business Administration Module-code: WINB161 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis, Prof. Mayer, Prof. Dr. Haußmann Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Fundamentals of Economic Activities 2. Year End Closing 3. Customer Relations 4. Procurement 5. Human Resources 6. Capital Equipment 7. Management and Organization 8. Investments into the Future 9. Location Theory 10. Legal Forms Recommended Readings: Albach: Einführung in die allgemeine BWL Hahn: Allgemeine BWL Schierenbeck: Betriebswirtschaftslehre Notes: None

Module title: Business Administration

2. Semester WINB211 - Mathematics B

WINB221 - Computer Science A

WINB231 - Engineering Mechanics A

WINB241 - Manufacturing and Materials WINB251 - Economics

WINB261 - Accounting and Balancing

Module summary Module-code: WINB211 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse, Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:


Competencies: The students will be able to identify mathematical problems of linear algebra, mathematical logic, numerical analysis and financial mathematics, arrange these problems and solve them by a) knowing and understanding the fundamental terms and methods of linear algebra, geometry, mathematical logic, numerical analysis and financial mathematics and being able to use them for reasoning, b) reasoning exactly and logically on the basis of propositional calculus, using deduction techniques, c) knowing linear structures from vector analysis and matrices as a basis for engineering and economic models, including calculations with matrices, solving linear equation systems with gauss algorithm as well as calculating determinants and eigenvalues, d) calculating net present values and future values of deterministic cash flows as well as redemption payments of liabilities, f) being able to think and reason logically and in terms of the mathematical language in order to evaluate and apply these methods in a practical context as well as during their further studies. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Mathematics B Module-code: WINB211 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse, Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Module title: Mathematics B

Content: 1. Introduction to mathematical logic 2. Basics of algebra and geometry 3. Vector algebra: Vector spaces, linear combination and basis, scalar product, vector product 4. Linear systems of equations and matrices: Gauss algorithm, matrices (quadratic, orthogonal), determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors 5. Introduction to numerical mathematics: Floating-point-arithmetic and analysis of errors, numerical solution of linear systems of equations 6. Introduction to financial mathematics: Calculation of interest, redemption payments

Recommended Readings: Goebbels, S.; Ritter, S.: Mathematik verstehen und anwenden, Spektrum Papula, L.: Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, Band 1-2, Vieweg Schwarz, H. R.: Numerische Mathematik, Teubner Tietze, J. Einführung in die Finanzmathematik

Notes: Exercise

Module title: Computer Science A

Module summary Module-code: WINB221 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Richter Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Students will learn to develop computer programs for simple algorithmic problems by a) specifying the problems, b) based on a specification they will be able to find algorithms to solve the problem and to analyze the algorithm’s properties, and c) implement the algorithms in an object-oriented programming language so that the students are prepared to create, evaluate and deploy software for algorithmic problems later on.


Course: Computer Science A Module-code: WINB221 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Richter Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type of Course: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Specification of problems 2. Methods for describing algorithm and their properties 3. Introduction into object-oriented programming using Java: primitive data types, arrays, control structures, methods, recursion, objects, classes, interfaces 4. Selected data structures: stack, queue, list and tree.

Recommended Readings: Ratz, Scheffler, Seese, Wiesenberger: Grundkurs Programmieren in Java, Hanser 2014. Richter, Sander, Stucky: Problem – Algorithmus – Programm, B.G. Teubner 1999. W. Sedgewick: Einführung in die Programmierung mit Java, Pearson 2011

Notes: Exercise

Module summary Module-code: WINB231 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Griesbaum Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: first/second semester (first year) Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None Competencies: Students will be able to apply their knowledge of statics on simplified mechanical models. They will know how to convey necessary abstractions and how to estimate mechanical stress as well as how to plot according models. Using the imparted knowledge about mathematical methods, they will be able to calculate and convert the mechanical load on and within building components into tension and plasticity. Abiding to these concepts they will have the skills to assess the maximum permissible tension and plasticity of structural components. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes.

Course: Engineering Mechanics A Module-code: WINB231 Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Griesbaum Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Statics: 1. Concept of force, rigid body, section. 2. Composition and decomposition of forces, equilibrium in a central force system. 3. Couple of forces, moment of force, equilibrium in a general force system. 4. Forces and moments of force in bearings and joints, static determinacy. 5. Stress resultant in a beam. 6. Frameworks, nodes, Ritter's method. 7. Static friction, Coulomb's law of friction, rope friction. 8. Concept of virtual work. Mechanics of materials: 1. State of stress, stress tensor, principal stress, Mohr's circle. 2. State of strain, strain tensor, law of elasticity. 3. Tension and pressure in bars. 4. Beam bending, beam models, geometrical moment of inertia, pure bending, linear bending, elastic curve. 5. Lateral force, shearing deformation. 6. Torsion, contortion.

Recommended Readings: Gross, D. u. a.: Technische Mechanik, Band 1: Statik. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. Gross, D. u. a.: Technische Mechanik, Band 2: Festigkeitslehre. Berlin, Heidelberg:

Module title: Engineering Mechanics A

Springer, 2012. Hibbeler, R. C.: Technische Mechanik 1 – Statik. München: Pearson Studium, 2005. Hibbeler, R. C.: Technische Mechanik 2 – Festigkeitslehre. München: Pearson Studium, 2006. Notes: Exercise. For both sections of the course, statics and mechanics of materials, there will be a printed script (about 170 and 100 pages long) and a collection of exercises (about 130 and 40 pages) as well as 14 pages of assignments. We will also offer a weekly tutorial.

Module summary Module-code: WINB241 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None Competencies: Students will acquire the skills to describe the micro-structural composition and mechanical behavior of common materials under static stress. They can evaluate the commonly used manufacturing methods in the industry by assessing their advantages and disadvantages, their procedures and by illustrating the processes. This will enable the students of this course to choose suitable methods for manufacturing products as well as the manufacturing procedures and individual steps. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes. Presentation, 15 minutes. (examination prerequisites)

Course: Manufacturing and Materials Module-code: WINB241 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture/ seminar Language: German Content: Materials: metals, synthetics; Manufacturing casting and molding, forming, cutting, joining, coating, changing material properties and other special topics related to manufacturing methods and their economic fundamentals. Recommend Readings: Lecture script Notes: None

Module title: Manufacturing and Materials

Module summary Module-code: WINB251 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schmidt Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: The abilities for logical and abstract thinking and writing as well as basic knowledge in differential calculus and financial mathematics. Pre-requisites according to the examination regulation:

Competencies: Students are able to describe and analyse systematically market processes as well as macroeconomic processes and relations and to describe the effects of economic policy measures. Therefore, they - contrast differentiatingly the various microeconomic models of market processes and choose and solve the model relevant for the problem in question, - analyse the most important macroecomic relations with the aid of a macroeconomic model, in order to grasp and to critically scrutinize the logic of economic decisions and also to evaluate critically economic policy measures. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Economics Module-code: WINB251 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schmidt Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Content: 1. Principles of supply and demand: Market and competition, supply and demand, consumer, producer, efficiency of markets; 2. Private households and consumer decisions: Preferences, budget restrictions, consumer choice; 3. Markets and companies: Production and production costs, cost and yield, market form and competition; 4. Indicators of economic performance: gross domestic product, and national income, price indicators, employment and unemployment; 5. The macro-economic equilibrium: interaction of the goods and money market, opportunities and limitations of monetary and fiscal policy; 6. Employment in the national economy: causes of unemployment and employment, wage and price setting, inflation vs. unemployment; 7. Current economic problems

Module title: Economics

Recommended Readings: Bofinger, P. (2015): Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre: eine Einführung in die Wissenschaft von Märkten (4. Aufl.). München: Pearson Notes: Exercise, project work

Module summary Module-code: WINB261 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Kunz Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None Competencies: After successfully finishing the course the students will have acquired the skills to create an annual financial statement with balance sheet and income statement. They will command the principles of double-entry bookkeeping, arrange accounts for a multitude of different business transactions, book these, and develop income statements and closing balances. The students will be confronted with numerous example cases. The course will give the students the abilities to argue with accountants and companies on an equal footing and create the foundation for consecutive courses like management accounting, controlling, finances and investments.


Course: Accounting and Balancing Module-code: WINB261 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Kunz / Prof. Dr. Katrin Haußmann Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Tasks and functional areas of accountancy, stocktaking, inventory, balance sheet, entries to accounts, specific entries in trading enterprises, specific entries in industrial enterprises, special entries (sales tax, personnel expenses, etc.), organization of accounting, annual closing entries (accruals and deferrals, provisions, etc.), balancing and evaluating of non-current and current assets, financial statement analysis.

Recommended Readings: Bieg H., Kußmaul H., Waschbusch G.: Externes Rechnungswesen, 6. Auflage, München 2012

Module title: Accounting and Balancing

Coenenberg A., Haller A., Schultze W.: Jahresabschluss und Jahresabschlussanalyse, 21. Auflage, Stuttgart 2009 Döring U., Buchholz R.: Buchhaltung und Jahresabschluss, 12. Auflage, Berlin 2011 Wöltje J.: Buchführung – Schritt für Schritt, 2. Auflage, Konstanz 2015 Wöltje J.: Jahresabschluss – Schritt für Schritt, 2. Auflage, Konstanz 2016 Notes: None

3. Semester WINB311 - Statistics

WINB321 - Project Management

WINB331 - Electrical Engineering B

WINB341 - Technical Thermodynamics WINB351 - Marketing WINB361 - Cost and Performance Accounting

Module summary Module-code: WINB311 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Udo Krzensk, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Mathematics A

Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None

Competencies: The students will be able to identify and systematize statistical problems and solve them on the basis of the acquired knowledge of methods and principles in statistics by a) using the skills to calculate and interpret the most important characteristics of one- and two- dimensional measurement series as well as to characterize one-dimensional measurement series in graphical terms, b) being able to think in terms of probability, c) using random variables and the corresponding probability distribution for confident argumentations, calculations and interpretations, d) knowing the most important discrete and continuous distributions and assigning them to typical situations, e) calculating probabilities approximatively using the central limit theorem in suitable situations, f) calculating interval estimators for parameters as well as administrating hypotheses tests under consideration of possible errors, in order to evaluate and apply statistical methods in a practical context.


Course: Statistics Module-code: WINB311 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Udo Krzensk, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Descriptive statistics (important characteristics of a sample such as central tendency and variability, histograms, boxplots, empirical distribution function, correlation and linear regression), Probability theory (combinatorics, random processes and their formal description, random variables and their distribution, determination of probability distributions, basic discrete and continuous distributions and their characteristics, limit theorems), Inductive statistics (deducing properties of an underlying distribution or population from a random sample, estimators, confidence intervals and statistical hypothesis testing).

Module title: Statistics

Recommended Readings: Beucher: Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und MATLAB, Springer Hartung: Statistik, Lehr- und Handbuch der angewandten Statistik, Oldenbourg Lehn, Wegmann: Einführung in die Statistik, Teubner Notes: Exercise

Module title: Project Management

Module summary Module-code: WINB321 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Thole Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulation: Competencies: The students will know and understand the significance, the goals and the methods of project management (PM). Taking part in a student-run project organization, they will be enabled to plan and operate an exemplary project with the methods of project management. The students will be able to identify the errors and issues that will occur as the project progresses and develop strategies for problem solving as well as procedural improvements. The students use methods of PM, they implement and document an exemplary project with predefined goals while given a time- and cost- frame. We want to enable the students to plan and operate an actual project in the business world, using the methods of PM

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, exercise, 1 semester, examination prerequisite

Course: Project Management Module-code: WINB321 Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Thole Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture/ exercise Language: German Content: - fundamentals and methods of PM - establishment of a PM, taking into account socio-psychological aspects - project planning, organization, operation and controlling/supervising - support of PM through PM-Software - error-analysis and improvement - technical and organizational problem sets during project progression - students will implement an exemplary project using soft skills and

facilitating communication and team skills as well as self-organization

Recommended Readings: „Projektmanagement“ Meyer/Reher, Springer Verlag Notes: Project Management is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge.

Module summary Module-code: WINB331 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Krügel Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester): 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Electrical Engineering A, Mathematics A and B, Basics in Physics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulation:

Competencies: The students will be able to analyze simple electrical circuits and understand further correlations in electrical engineering, while knowing and applying methods of complex AC calculation, b) by understanding and using instruments for electrical measurements, c) by understanding electromagnetic waves on electric lines and in free space, d) by understanding methods of telecommunications, e) by understanding and applying complex semiconductor devices in circuits, so as to later be able to discuss topics regarding electrical engineering with colleagues.


Course: Electrical Engineering B Module-code: WINB331 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Krügel Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Complex AC calculation, electrical filters, semiconductors, measuring technology, electromagnetic waves and fields, telecommunications, digital and analog circuit technology, exercises. Recommended Readings: Skript, Lehrbücher: A. Führer, K. Heidemann, W. Nerreter, Grundgebiete der Elektrotechnik; Möller, Fricke, Frohne, Vaske, Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik; H. Clausert, Grundgebiete der Elektrotechnik; M. Albach, Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik; H. Claussnitzer, Einführung in die Elektrotechnik, Notes: Digital whiteboard, beamer, examples and exercises, collections of questions for self- control, animations, empirical models.

Module title: Electrical Engineering B

Module summary Module-code: WINB341 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. M. Braun Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Mathematics A and B, Mechanical Engineering A and B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students are able to evaluate and apply the basic concepts and terms of technical thermodynamics. They can balance real processes and equipment, using the law of conservation of mass, the law of conservations of energy, and analyzing the loss of exergy. They can calculate ideal fluid gasses, real fluids and composites without chemical reactions. Thus they will be able to analyze the functions and operating principles of complex thermal machines and devices: thermal engines, heat pumps, refrigerating machines, steam power plants. They are able to evaluate current and future mechanical procedures of energy transformation utilizing the two fundamental theorems of thermodynamics. The course Technical Thermodynamic provides the knowledge, that is necessary for understanding the consecutive course “Energy Engineering”.


Course: Engineering Thermodynamics Module-code: WINB341 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. M. Braun Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Content: Fundamental principles and terms, status change of ideal gases, first and second theorem of Thermodynamics, cycles and energy conversion, steam in machines and devices, moist air, basics of heat transmission.

Recommended Readings: Technische Thermodynamik; Günter Cerbe Gernot Willhelms Notes: Exercise

Module title: Technical Thermodynamics

Module summary Module-code: WINB351 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christian Braun Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:


Competencies: After successfully finishing the course, the students will be able to analyze market specific parameters of a company and to deduce and establish solutions for different questions in marketing. Thereby they are able to take into account the complex positions of suppliers, consumers and competition as well as environmental and influencing factors.


Course: Marketing Module-code: WINB351 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Christian Braun Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: 1. Characterization of marketing 2. Consumer behavior and market segmentation 3. Strategic marketing 4. Marketing-mix (Product policies, pricing, communication, distribution policies) 5. Implementation of marketing 6. Marketing control

Recommended Readings: Meffert, H., Burmann, C., Kirchgeorg, M., Marketing – Grundlagen marktorientierter Unternehmensführung, 12. Auflage, 2015 Notes: None

Module title: Marketing

Module summary Module-code: WINB361 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Business Administration, External Accounting Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students are able to take into account business specifics and develop and implement an efficient cost accounting system, by building on economical and cost theoretical basics for a) the development of business specific system architectures for the individual fields of cost-type accounting, cost center accounting, calculation and short term income statement, b) the operationalization of these architectures with actual numbers, c) the interpretation of the results under including potentially necessary counter measure activities. Furthermore the students are able to solve upcoming business decisions using full cost accounting or marginal costing.


Course: Cost and Performance Accounting Module-code: WINB361 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Content: The position of cost accounting amidst accountancy, theoretical principles of cost accounting (costs, cost differentiation, cost function), systems of cost accounting, subfields of cost accounting (cost-type accounting, cost center accounting, calculation, short term income accounting), fundamentals of marginal cost accounting (direct and multi stage costing)

Module title: Cost and Performance Accounting

Recommended Readings: Haberstock, L. : Kostenrechnung I, Schmidt Haberstock, L. : Kostenrechnung II, Schmidt Wöltje, J. : Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung – Alle Verfahren und Systeme auf einen Blick, Haufe

4. Semester WINB411 - Engineering Mechanics B

WINB421 - Automation

WINB431 - Corporate and Human Resource management WINB441 - Computer Science B

WINB451 - Logistics

WINB461 - Foreign Trade

Module summary Module-code: WINB411 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Griesbaum Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: third/fourth semester (second year) Pre-requisites with regard to content: Physics required, Mathematics A and B and Engineering Mechanics A will be useful


Competencies: The students are able to describe the movement of a point mass or multiple point masses and make assertions about the cause or the impact of the movement. They are able to choose an appropriate coordinate system and plot the kinematic basic parameters (position, velocity, acceleration) of the individual point masses mathematically and convert them into each other. For the mechanical system they are able to balance forces, energy, momentum and angular momentum and characterize the type movement. They can project real mechanical systems on the physical models of mass-point kinematics. Using the acquired methods they are able to estimate the operating forces, acceleration and velocity, that are occurring in real operations. They command the application of the associated mathematical methods and are able to make quantitative and qualitative conclusions, that are relevant for drafting concepts of mechanical systems or analyzing mechanical operations.


Course: Engineering Mechanics B Module-code: WINB411 Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Griesbaum Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Kinematics: 1. Cartesian and polar coordinate system. 2. Mechanical translation, velocity, acceleration. 3. Rotation, angular speed, angular acceleration. Mass-point-kinetics: 1. Newton’s axioms. 2. Newton’s law, constraint forces, active forces, equations of motions. 3. Work and conservation of energy. 4. Conservation of momentum and conservation of angular momentum. 5. Collision problems, elastic, inelastic, real collisions. 6. Mass-point-systems. 7. Oscillation.

Module title: Engineering Mechanics B

Recommended Readings: Gross, D. u. a.: Technische Mechanik, Band 3 Kinetik. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. Hibbeler, R. C.: Technische Mechanik 3 – Dynamik. München: Pearson Studium, 2006. Notes: Exercise. For both sections of the course, kinematics and mass-point-kinetics, there will be a printed script (about 180 pages long) and a collection of exercises (about 200 pages) as well as 14 pages of assignments. We will also offer a weekly tutorial.

Module summary Module code: WINB421 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Köbbing, Prof. Dr. Wurll Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 4. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basics of Electrical Engineering, Semiconductors and Digital Technology, Mechanical Engineering Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to draft control systems for automated processes. They willa) acquire an understanding of the modeling of technical processes, b) learn about components and structures of automated systems, c) get an extensive overview about sensors and actuators and d) learn to program exemplary control systems, that are compatible with the IEC 61131 standard.The students will acquire proficient skills and knowledge to communicate with engineers from other fields on the same level and to make appropriate decisions together. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Automation Module code: WINB421 Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Köbbing, Prof. Dr. Wurll Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language of instruction: German Content: The course contains a lot of material from the subfields of electrical engineering and digital technology, essential material from the subfield of mechanics and fewer amounts of material from the fields of semiconductor technologies and electronics. All fields are subfields of physics. This course teaches the basics of sensor technology (measurement technology, signal processing, the most important analogue and digital sensors), the fundamentals of actuator engineering (mechanical, pneumatic, electrical actuators and actuators from mechatronics) as well as the basic principles of control systems and their conception. Recommended reading: Extensive script, Lehrbücher: Heinrich et. Al. „Grundlagen Automatisierung“; Lauber, Göhner: „Prozessautomatisierung“ Comments: Use of a beamer, complemented by a blackboard for writing down examples and exercises. An essential collection of questions for self-study completes every chapter. The lecture will be accompanied by animations, a multitude of videos and exemplary models.

Module title: Automation

Module summary Module-code: WINB431 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kahabka Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 4. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic Studies completed Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: This course imparts a basic understanding of additional competencies to perform in workforce-, organization and business-development as well as in business administration and human resources. The students will commit themselves to the responsible study and analysis of operational business processes in the fields of workforce and organization in relation to the tension-rich intersection of individuals, society and the economy.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, seminar paper, 1 semester (examination prerequisite), presentation, 15 minutes (examination prerequisite)

Course: Corporate and Human Resource Management Module-code: WINB431 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kahabka; Batsching Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture, seminar Language: German

Content: Basics of Business Administration, leadership theories, -concepts and –models, systems of management, strategic planning of human resources planning, recruitment, qualitative and quantitative staff planning, evaluation of personnel, evaluation of staff performance, systematic development of staff, human resources and organization. Controlling in Human Resources. Recommended Readings: Jung, Rüdiger et al: Allgemeine Managementlehre. Lehrbuch für die angewandte Unternehmens- und Personalführung. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 6. Auflage 2016 Notes: A paper on a given subject from a catalogue is obligatory and has to be presented verbally during the lecture.

Module title: Corporate and Human Resource management

Module title: Computer Science B

Module summary Module-code: WINB441 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Richter Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 4. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Computer Science A


Competencies: The students will be able to develop software in an integral process. They a) model system requirements, b) design software architectures, c) implement the requirements and the software architecture using an object-oriented programming language and d) apply Software Engineering process models, such that the students will later be able to play parts in application-oriented IT-projects.


Course: Computer Science B Module-code: WINB441 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Richter Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. The life-cycle of software systems and the quality of software 2. Finite automaton and the Unified Modeling Language 3. Methods and patterns for the software design 4. Object-oriented programing with Java: polymorphism, collections, exception handling, input/output, GUI-programming, multi-threading 5. Software Engineering process models.

Recommended Readings: Heide Balzert: Lehrbuch der Objektmodellierung: Analyse und Entwurf mit UML 2, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson: Entwurfsmuster von Kopf bis Fuß, O’Reilly. Ratz, Scheffler, Seese, Wiesenberger: Grundkurs Programmieren in Java, Hanser. Wayne Sedgewick: Einführung in die Programmierung mit Java, Pearson.

Notes: None

Module summary Module-code: WINB451 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester / Prof. Dr. Claas Christian Wuttke Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 4. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students develop solutions for subtasks of internal logistical processes and integrate these solutions into an overall concept. They acquire fundamental knowledge for laying out storage-, transport- and transshipment processes and apply the learned methods on the fields of procurement, manufacturing and distribution. They will be able to apply appropriate standard methods of logistical planning autonomously.


Course: Logistics Module-code: WINB451 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester / Prof. Dr. Class Christian Wuttke Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1) Introduction: Tasks and goals of 2) the basic role of logistics: storage, storage facilities, inventory management, order fulfillment, commissioning, packaging, transport. 3) Procurement Logistics (stock procurement, procurement of supplies in sync with the manufacturing process 4) Logistics of manufacturing (layout draft, manufacturing planning, control of material flow) 5) Logistics of distribution (distribution systems and delivery services) 6) Disposal 7) Risk management 8) Controlling in logistics Recommended Readings: Buscher, U. et. al. (2013): Produktion und Logistik. Einführung mit Fallbeispielen. 3. Aufl. 2013. GUC Gesellschaft für Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling. Ehrmann, H. (2014): Logistik. 8. Aufl., Ludwigshafen 2014. Gudehus, T. (2011): Logistik. Grundlagen, Strategien, Anwendungen. 4., aktual. Aufl., Springer 2011. Gudehus, T. (2013): Logistik 2. Netzwerke, Systeme und Lieferketten. Springer 2013. Koether, R. (2014): Distributionslogistik. Effiziente Absicherung der Lieferfähigkeit. 2., akt. u.erw. Auflage 2014. Gabler. Martin, H. (2014): Transport- und Lagerlogistik. Planung, Struktur, Steuerung und Kosten von Systemen der Intralogistik. 9., vollst. überarb. u. akt. Aufl.

Module title: Logistics

2014. Springer Viehweg Verlag. Pfohl, H.-Chr. (2010): Logistiksysteme. 8., neu bearb. u. akt. Auflage, Berlin, Heidelberg 2010. Schulte, Chr. (2012): Logistik. Wege zur Optimierung der Supply Chain. 6. Aufl., München 2012. Weber, J./Wallenberg, C. (2010): Logistik- und Supply Chain Controlling. 6. vollst. überarb. Aufl., Stuttgart 2010. Wildemann, H. (2012): Supply Chain Management. 6. Aufl., TCW, München 2012 Notes: None

Module summary Module-code: WINB461 Module coordinator: Prof. König Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 4. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Economics, Business Administration, Cost and Performance Accounting, Marketing Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: None Competencies: 1. The students get an overview of all aspects and processes when doing international business 2. They are able to autonomously acquire the specific knowledge necessary for operational foreign trade 3. They are able to coordinate all tasks of planning and processing when doing international business 4. They will acquire the skills to process and apply their up-to-date knowledge in the fields of the international exchange of products, services, payments as well as the financing of foreign trade deals 5. They can prepare and make decisions, that are related to the building and closing of international deals

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, presentation, 15 minutes (examination prerequisite)

Course: Foreign Trade Module-code: WINB461 Instructor: Prof. König, Prof. Dr. Braun, Prof. Dr. Seiter Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture, seminar Language: German 1. Companies in a global environment 2. Organizations and service-providers in foreign trade. 3. Ways of distribution and procurement in foreign trade 4.1 Overview of the instruments of trade policies 4.2 Legal parameters in the EU and in Germany. 4.3 International purchase agreements. 4.4 Conditions of delivery. 4.5 Commercial papers and documents. 4.6 Import and export procedures, tariffs 5. The European domestic market 6. Risks of foreign trade 7. External exchange of payments 8. Foreign trade financing 9. International marketing

Recommended Readings: Kehr, Henning; Jahrmann, Fritz-Ulrich: Außenhandel (Kompendium der praktischen Betriebswirtschaft), 14. Auflage / 2015Bundesanzeigerverlag: www.export-plus.de Notes: None

Module title: Foreign Trade

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5. Semester WINB511 - Internship Preparation

WINB521 - Internship

Module summary Module-code: WINB511 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christian Seiter Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 3. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The participants will be able to analyze and apply the different success indicators of teamwork. They will demonstrate the ability to perform a self-analysis and write an appropriate application, meaning they are able to look for an internship, write a cover letter and a CV to get an internship for the next semesters in the country or abroad. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their past applications and develop appropriate improvements to raise their chances for a successful search for an internship.

Assessment: Presentation, 15 minutes, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Internship Preparation Module-code: WINB511 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Christian Seiter, Prof. Christoph Ewert Contact hours: 2 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory seminar Language: German Content: 1. Teamwork: designing the process, feedback, core teamwork 2. Application process: literature, self-analysis, search for internships, application with cover letter and CV, introduction, interview, follow up and negotiation, recruitment tests, assessment and case studies, employment agreements and stay abroad, separation from a company: employer references, networking 3. Training in reasoning: design presentations, structural thinking, De Bono' concept, the pyramid principle. Recommended Readings: Hesse/Schrader: Die perfekte Bewerbungsmappe für Hochschulabsolventen, Eichborn Hesse/Schrader: Das Bewerbungshandbuch, Eichborn Miriam Naficy: The fast track, Broadway books Notes: None

Module title: Internship Preparation

Module summary Module-code: WINB521 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Jörg Wöltje Credits (ECTS): 25 points Semester: 5. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None

Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: § 42 SPO

Competencies: During their practical semester the students will apply and improve their economical and engineering skills and knowledge, that they acquired so far in their studies, if possible autonomously through project-work in a team. They can be deployed in typical fields and be assigned with the common tasks of economical engineers to work with them and reflect on and evaluate their experiences. The students will become acquainted with the different aspects of in company decision-making and the relations of the different processes in an industrial or service-oriented company. They are furthermore to study the deeper relations of business, technology, organization and company sociology. They should be able to question and analyze their observations.

Assessment: Practical work/95 days, (learning achievement)

Course: Internship Module-code: WINB521 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Wöltje Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory Language:

Content: The careful preselection (and approval) of the internship, regular cultivation of contacts with the coaches in the companies as well as the continuous coaching during the internship will provide the students with a setting, in which professional contributions will help them get proficient insights in economical, technological and organizational coherences in at least two of the following corporate fields: controlling, finance and accounting, human resources, sales and distribution, development and design, manufacturing and assembly, information processing, marketing, materials management, logistics, production planning and control. Following exact guidelines, the students will have to write a report on their internship. In this report they will have to prove, that they fulfilled all the required content-related and practical tasks.

Module title: Internship

The report will have to be signed by their supervisor in the company and will be complemented by an activity report and reference, that proves the fulfilled tasks in regard to type and content of the work as well as the time, duration and days of absence.

Recommended Readings:

Notes: The completion of this module depends on the successful completion of the previously mentioned module WINB511 Internship Preparation as well as the internship itself including the submission of the written report.

6. Semester WINB631 - Control Systems Engineering WINB641 - Enterprise Resource Planning WINB681 - Finances and Investment

Module summary Module-code: WINB631 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Krügel Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Electrical Engineering A and B, Mathematics A and B, Basics in Physics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to analyze dynamic systems and create control loops. They will demonstrate the ability to evaluate the associated methods such as the Laplace- transformation, transfer functions, control unit design and optimization methods within the time, frequency and image range and apply these methods to successfully examine, assess and solve complex and unfamiliar problem sets in the fields of control systems engineering, system dynamics and system identification.


Course: Control Systems Engineering Module-code: WINB631 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Krügel Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Circuit diagram, control loop elements, controlled system, controller, time behavior, frequency behavior, Laplace-transformation, transfer function, complex frequency response, linear control circuit, methods of control design, analysis of stability, methods of optimization, exercises with MATLAB/Simulink Recommended Readings: Skript, Lehrbücher: A. Böttiger, Regelungstechnik, H. Unbehauen, Regelungstechnik 1 und 2; J. Lunze, Regelungstechnik 1 und 2; Mann, Schiffelgen, Froriep, Einführung in die Regelungstechnik. G. Schulz, Regelungstechnik 1, Oldenbourg Lehrbücher für Ingenieure, 2007 Notes:

Module title: Control Systems Engineering

Module summary Module-code: WINB641 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: Semester 6 Pre-requisites with regard to content: Industrial business operations, logistics incl. production planning, accounting, successfully finishing the courses computer science A and B as well as manufacturing management. Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students are able to apply Enterprise-Resource-Planning-systems (ERP systems) to automatically execute cross-divisional business processes. For this they should be able to explain the architectures and the processing principles of ERP systems, to work and calculate with their methods of quantity-oriented disposition and value-oriented booking, to implement usage scenarios in a graphical process notation and to autonomously execute integrated business procedures on a running ERP system, so as to later assess the technical and economic potential of ERP systems and sensibly automate business procedures of companies driven by an IT-based integration thereby improving the achievement of company goals.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, Exercise, 1 Semester (examination prerequisite)

Course: Enterprise Resource Planning Module-code: WINB641 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Hahn, Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type of Course: Obligatory lecture and exercise Language: German or English Content: Introduction to enterprise systems and software integration. Market survey and history of enterprise software products and their suppliers. Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related enterprise systems in on-premise and on-demand scenarios. Introduction to SAP: Company and products. Enterprise resource planning: definition and system architecture. Introduction to a virtual enterprise modelled in ERP. Navigation with the ERP software (e.g. SAP ERP). Representation of company organizational structures and business processes in ERP. Exercises/case studies: Planning and controlling business activities in a selection of application domains supported by ERP. This may include: accounting (e.g. financials or controlling), logistics (e.g. materials management, production planning and control, or sales and distribution), or human resource management (e.g. personnel management or payroll).

Module title: Enterprise Resource Planning

Recommended Readings: Will be announced during lectures. Notes: Work in the laboratory

Module summary Module-code: WINB681 Module coordinator: Prof. André Wölfle Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Internal and external Accounting, Business Administration Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Students will be able to gather and arrange data that is relevant for decision making, and perform investment calculations. They will be able to assess the suitability of different methods to analyze investments depending on the type of decision situation and apply the chosen method to make investment decisions based on models. The students will understand and analyze the requirements of liquidity and capital of a business venture by applying analytical tools aiming to decide on suitable method of financing and to frame the liquidity and capital structure. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Finances and Investment Module-code: WINB681 Instructor: Prof. André Wölfle Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Static and dynamic investment calculations, inclusion of dept capital and income taxes. Deciding on operating time and replacement time. Leverage effect, self- and dept financing, internal and external financing, credit substitutes, capital requirements, cash flow and cash flow statement, financial operating numbers, company valuation, stocks, capital increase, financial derivatives, bonds, ratings. Recommended Readings: Bieg, H.; Kußmaul, H.: Investitions- und Finanzierungsmanagement, versch. Bd., 2. A., München 2009/10; Blohm, H.; Lüder, K.; Schäfer, Ch.: Investition, 10. A., München 2012; Kruschwitz, L.: Investitionsrechnung, 14. A., München 2014; Perridon, L.; Steiner, M.; Rathgeber, A.: Finanzwirtschaft der Unternehmung, 16. A., München 2012; Wöhe, G.; Bilstein, J.; Ernst, D.; Häcker, J.: Grundzüge der Unternehmensfinanzierung, 11. A., München 2013; Wöltje, J.: Investition und Finanzierung, 1. A., Freiburg 2013; Brealey, R.; Myers, S.; Allen, F.: Principles of Corporate Finance, 11 Ed., New York 2013, McGraw-Hill. Notes:

Module title: Finances and Investment

6. Semester Specialization: Production Management

WINB611P - Operations Research

WINB621P - Database Systems

WINB651P - Work Science

Module summary Module code: WINB611P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Mathematics A (Calculus), Mathematics B (Linear Algebra), Statistics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: Please insert the requirements for the module specified in the examination regulations. Competencies: The students will be able to calculate solutions for the optimization classes linear optimization, transportation problems, integer and combinatorial optimization and interpret the results by a) classifying practice-oriented optimization problems and transferring these into mathematical models, b) identifying suitable solution methods and algorithms for this purpose c) autonomously applying these on optimization problems of lower dimension in order to later asses the possible applications of mathematical optimization methods in a practical context and thus evaluate the involved opportunities, risks and limits. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Operations Research Module code: WINB611P Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language of instruction: German Content: 1. Introduction to operations research 2. Linear optimization: graphical solutions, formulation of linear optimization problems, theoretical basics 3. Simplex-algorithm: primal Simplex with a known and unknown feasible basic solution, duality 4. Transportation problems: basic model, heuristic determination of a feasible basic solution, matrix reduction, optimality test, stepping stone method, expansion of the basic model, transshipment problem, assignment problem 5. Integer optimization: cutting-plane method by Gomory 6. Travelling salesman problems: formulation, combinatorial optimization problems, complexity, start heuristics, branch and bound method

Module title: Operations Research

Recommended reading: Domschke, Drexl: Einführung in Operations Research, SpringerDomschke, Drexl, Klein, Scholl, Voß : Übungen und Fallbeispiele zum Operations Research, Springer Comments:

Module summary Module-code: WINB621P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Computer Science A and B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to deploy simple applications based on databases, identify the architectures and elements of information systems and evaluate their use in businesses. They will be able to communicate needs and requirements in the common technical language between the different departments and the IT-division and to program relational databases and optimize them. They will acquire knowledge about current developments in the fields of IT and they will be able to evaluate their importance. All of that to be able to apply business-IT and specify further improvements. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, exercise, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Database Systems Module-code: WINB621P Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis, Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture/ exercise Language: German Content: 1. Overview of the range of applications and types of databases in the commercial environment. Comparative discussion about the architecture of Information-Systems in special consideration of the role, that databases perform 2. Relational data model: Theoretical basics, expressions and requests in relational algebra 3. The database language SQL: Simple and complex instructions and requests from DDL and DML 4. Procedure in database project with focus on database design via UML diagrams and their implementation in relational data structures 5. Database optimization: Theory and practice of normalization 6. Transaction management: Concept and principles of multi- user synchronization 7. Introduction and discussion of current trends in the application and industry of IT, e.g. cloud Computing, NoSQL, big data, Internet of things, …

Recommended Readings: Kemper/Eickler: Datenbanksysteme - eine Einführung; Piepmeyer: Grundkurs Datenbanksysteme - von den Konzepten bis zur Anwendungsentwicklung Notes:

Module title: Database Systems

Module summary Module-code: WINB651P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Kahabka Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic Studies completed Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: On one hand, this course aims to enable the students to combine the different core disciplines of an economical engineer (thinking like an engineer, economical optimization, self-organization, social communication) through the application of the developed results on the work environment. On the other hand, through partially autonomous teamwork on specified problem sets in the ergonomics lab, the students will be familiarized with the principles of a strategically optimized personnel and resource deployment in an efficient work organization.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, laboratory, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Work Science Module-code: WINB651P Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kahabka, Prof. Dr. Grimm Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture and work in the laboratory Language:

Content: 1. System of ergonomics 2. Ergonomics, workplace, work environment 3. Mental and physical work 4. Performance, breaks, fatigue, recovery, qualification 5. Group- and team-management, motivation management, leadership 6. Wage and salary types, performance assessment 7. Work time management, time management 8. Process organization and structural organization, work structure 9. Knowledge management, communication management Recommended Readings: Schlick, Bruder, Luczak: Arbeitswissenschaft. Springer 2010 Notes: Development and presentation of a laboratory work on a given problem set in the lab of ergonomics

Module title: Work Science

6. Semester Specialization: Sales & Procurement

WINB651E - Market Research

WINB661E - Supplier and Procurement Management WINB671E - Sales and Negotiation Techniques

Module summary Module-code: WINB651E Module coordinator: Prof. Ewert Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Marketing, Project Management Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will acquire knowledge about the methods of segmentation of markets, the implementation of secondary and primary surveys, the evaluation and interpretation of obtained data. They will learn the fundamental methods of qualitative and quantitative forecasting. They will get an overview of the topics focus groups and expert reviews. The students will be able to apply simple procedures of market research for consumer and industrial goods and they will be able to take a leading role in conducting research projects in association with external market researchers. All of that while assessing the used methods with regard to suitability and correct application.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, presentation, 15 minutes, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Market Research Module-code: WINB651E Instructor: Prof. Ewert Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: 1. Basic concepts and terms 2. The process behind the purchase decision from the perspective of market research 3. Market segmentation 3.1 What is market segmentation? 3.2. Segmentation 4. Hypothesizing 5. Gathering and evaluating information 5.1 Secondary analysis (desk research) 5.2 Primary analysis (primary research) 5.3 Assessment and interpretation of data 5.4 Market forecast 6. Group discussion 7. Eye-tracking. To exercise the practical application parallel to the lecture, the students will work in groups on market research tasks and present their results in class. The tools necessary for the project will be introduced in the marketing lab.

Recommended Readings: Hüttner; Marktforschung. Günther, Vossebein, Wildner; Marktforschung mit Panels

Module title: Market Research

Module summary Module-code: WINB661E Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to design and optimize business procurements in collaboration with suppliers. They will acquire knowledge about relevant target figures and methods in procurement management and apply this knowledge target-oriented. In addition to analytical and design-oriented economical instruments, the students will also acquire knowledge regarding legal questions of procurement and will able to assess contractual guidelines.


Course: Supplier and Procurement Management Module-code: WINB661E Instructor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester Contact hours: 2 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Introduction 2. Needs assessment (procurement program, types of needs assessment, instrument: value analysis) 3. Procurement market research 4. Operational procurement (procedures and aspects of decisions, instruments: ABC analysis and RSU analysis) 5. Supplier management (supplier structure, supplier analysis and selection, bid comparison, relationship management, supplier relationship management, instrument: portfolio analysis) 6. Supplier evaluation 7. Sales contract policies 8. Conducting purchase negotiations (preparing the negotiations, conducting negotiations, the follow- up, negotiation techniques, instrument: price structure analysis) 9. Quality management in procurement 10. Organization in procurement 11. Risk management in procurement 12. Sustainability in procurement 13. Controlling in procurement

Recommended Readings: Hofbauer, G. (2012): Lieferantenmanagement: Die wertorientierte Gestaltung der Liefer- beziehung. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2012. Jäger, St. Chr. (2009): Instrumente des Beschaffungscontrollings: Balanced Scorecard .IIgel Verlag 2009. Kunkel, A. et. al.

Module title: Supplier and Procurement Management

(2010): Verhandeln nach Drehbuch. Redline 2010. Large, R. (2013): Strategisches Be- schaffungsmanagement. 5. Aufl., Gabler Verlag 2013. Pittner, S. (2014): Strategisches Lieferantenmanagement. Einflussgrößen und Aufgabenfelder. Igel Verlag 2014. Schuh, G. (2013): Einkaufsmanagement. 2., vollst. Neu bearb. Aufl. Springer Viehweg 2014. Tcharnetsky, V. (2014): Der Lieferanten-Lebenszyklus.. Cuvillier 2014. Wannenwetsch, H. (2013): Erfolgreiche Verhandlungsführung in Einkauf und Logistik. 5. Aufl., Springer 2013. Weigel, U./Rücker, M. (2013): Praxisguide Strategischer Einkauf: Know-How, Tools und Techniken für den globalen Beschaffer. Springer Gabler 2013. Notes:

Module summary Module-code: WINB671E Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Murzin Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Marketing Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: After successfully finishing the course the students will have mastered the techniques necessary for sales talks and will be able to autonomously conduct targeted sales talks in technical fields. Psychological basics form the foundation for conducting pragmatic conversations. The implementation of the theoretical content will be practiced and further developed by going with sales representatives, conducting acquisitions by telephone, performing simulated purchases and playing role playing games. Everything will be recorded in written reports and be part of the overall grading. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, seminar paper, 1 semester (examination prerequisite)

Course: Sales and Negotiation Techniques Module-code: WINB671E Instructor: Prof. Dr. Murzin Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture, seminar Language: German Content: Fundamentals of sales psychology, sales phases, planning and structuring of sales talks, problem-solving strategies, telephone training, handling objections, price negotiation, closing techniques in sales talks, follow-up and instruments for customer analysis. Recommended Readings: To be found in the script Notes:

Module title: Sales and Negotiation Techniques

6. Semester Specialization: Services

WINB621D - Database Systems

WINB651D - Services Marketing WINB661D - Service Economics

Module summary Module-code: WINB621D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Computer Science A and B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to deploy simple applications built on databases, identify the architectures and elements of information systems and evaluate their use in businesses. They will be able to communicate needs and requirements in the common technical terminology between the different departments and the IT division and they will have the means to program relational databases and optimize them. They will acquire knowledge about current developments in the fields of IT and they will be able to evaluate their importance. All of that to be able to apply Business-IT and specify further improvements.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, exercise, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Database Systems Module-code: WINB621D Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis, Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Overview of the range of applications and types of databases in the commercial environment. Comparative discussion about the architecture of Information-Systems in special consideration of the role, that databases perform 2. Relational Data Model: Theoretical basics, expressions and requests in relational algebra 3. The database language SQL: Simple and complex instructions and requests from DDL and DML 4. Procedures in database projects with focus on database design via UML diagrams and their implementation in relational data structures 5. Database optimization: Theory and practice of normalization 6. Transaction management: Concept and principles of multi- user synchronization 7. Introduction and discussion of current trends in use in the industry of IT, e.g. cloud computing, NoSQL, big data, Internet of things ...

Recommended Readings: Kemper/Eickler: Datenbanksysteme - eine Einführung; Piepmeyer: Grundkurs Datenbanksysteme - von den Konzepten bis zur Anwendungsentwicklung Notes:

Module title: Database Systems

Module summary Module-code: WINB651D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Seiter Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Marketing


Competencies: The students will be able to evaluate the special features of services marketing as compared to the classical marketing of goods. They will be introduced to the relevant analytical methods on services marketing and will be able to apply these in case studies. The students will be able to decide which tools are necessary for strategic decision- making so as to successfully implementing marketing strategies. They will be able to formulate a professional marketing-mix for services. They will know the factors of success for effective services marketing and will be able design a practice-oriented marketing controlling for services. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, practical work, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite), presentation, 15 minutes, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Services Marketing Module-code: WINB651D Instructor: Prof. Dr. Seiter Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Lecture, project / Obligatory Language: German Content: 1. Subjects and special features of services marketing 2. Concepts and theoretical basics of services marketing 3. Information base of services marketing 4. Strategic services marketing 5. Quality management in the service sector 6. Operative services marketing 7. Implementation of services marketing 8. Controlling in services marketing 9. International services marketing 10. Development trends in services marketing

Recommended Readings: Dienstleistungsmarketing, Meffert, Bruhn, Gabler Marketing Professional Services, Kotler, Prentice Hall Dienstleistungsmarketing, Wiesner, Sponholz, Oldenbourg Dienstleistungsmarketing, Bieberstein, Kiehl Notes:

Module title: Services Marketing

Module summary Module-code: WINB661D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Krämer Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Business Administration and Economics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: This lecture imparts the economic and technological backgrounds of the increasing tertiarisation and analyzes its reasons. The students will be able to identify the determinants of the tertiarisation as well as analyze the multi-layered relations between services and industry. The students will furthermore study the international aspects of the service economy and acquire knowledge about the relevance of innovations and technologies for the further development of services.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, seminar paper, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite), presentation, 15 minutes, (examination prerequisite)

Course: The Service Economy Module-code: WINB661D Instructor: Prof. Dr. Krämer Contact hours: 5 points Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: Service economy: overview, classification and statistics, services in international comparison, services as a success factor for business, determinants of tertiarisation: structural change, outsourcing and more, tertiarisation of industrial goods production and services accompanying products, services and the state: deregulation of the service sector, service directives in the EU, business-related services: on the interdependency of manufacturing and services, inter-dependency of supply and technology, personal services: perspectives of household-related and social services, internationalization of services: servicing exports vs. exporting services, international services trade, financial and exchange markets, innovation and productivity in the service sector, digital services

Recommended Readings: Hill, T.P. (1977), On Goods and Services, in: Review of Income and Wealth, Bd. 123, Nr. 4, S. 315-38; Ludwig, U./ Brautzsch, H.-U./ Loose, B. (2011), Dienstleistungsverbund stärkt

Module title: Service Economics

Bedeutung der Industrie, in: Wirtschaftsdienst, S. 648-650; Niebel, Thomas (2010), Der Dienstleistungssektor in Deutschland – Abgrenzung und empirische Evidenz, ZEW Dokumentation Nr. 10-01, Mannheim; Schettkat, R. (2010), Dienstleistungen zwischen Kostenkrankheit und Marketization, Bonn 2010; Krämer, H. (2011), Dienstleistungen im Strukturwandel: Entwicklung und Perspektiven für Wachstum und Beschäftigung in Europa, in: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Heft 2, Juni 2011, S. 269-291; Krämer, H. (2015a), Schaffen Dienstleistungen Werte? Der historische Produktivitätsstreit und seine Bedeutung für die Dienstleistungsökonomik, Karlsruher Diskussionsbeiträge aus der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 3/2015, Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft; Krämer, H. (2015b), Baumol’s Disease und unternehmensbezogene Dienstleistungen, in: Gotsch, M./Lerch, Chr. (Hrsg.), Messung der Produktivität innovativer und wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen, Stuttgart: Fraunhofer Verlag, S. 157- 179; Gotsch, M., Fiechtner, S., Krämer H. (2016), Open Innovation-Ansätze für den Dienstleistungsinnovationsprozess. Die Entwicklung eines Service Open Innovation Framework, in: O. Thomas, M. Nüttgens, und M. Fellmann (Hrsg.), Smart Service Engineering. Konzepte und Anwendungsszenarien für die digitale Transformation, Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.

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6. Semester Specialization: Logistics Management WINB611L - Operations Research

WINB651L - Logistics B

WINB661L - Supplier and Purchase Management

Module summary Module code: WINB611L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Mathematics A (Calculus), Mathematics B (Linear Algebra), Statistics Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: Please insert the requirements for the module specified in the examination regulations. Competencies: The students will be able to calculate solutions for the optimization classes linear optimization, transportation problems, integer and combinatorial optimization and interpret the results by a) classifying practice-oriented optimization problems and transferring these into mathematical models, b) identifying suitable solution methods and algorithms for this purpose c) autonomously applying these on optimization problems of lower dimension in order to later asses the possible applications of mathematical optimization methods in a practical context and thus evaluate the involved opportunities, risks and limits. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes

Course: Operations Research Module code: WINB611L Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses, Prof. Dr. Susanne Kruse Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language of instruction: German Content: 1. Introduction to operations research 2. Linear optimization: graphical solutions, formulation of linear optimization problems, theoretical basics 3. Simplex-algorithm: primal Simplex with a known and unknown feasible basic solution, duality 4. Transportation problems: basic model, heuristic determination of a feasible basic solution, matrix reduction, optimality test, stepping stone method, expansion of the basic model, transshipment problem, assignment problem 5. Integer optimization: cutting-plane method by Gomory 6. Travelling salesman problems: formulation, combinatorial optimization problems, complexity, start heuristics, branch and bound method Recommended reading: Domschke, Drexl: Einführung in Operations Research, SpringerDomschke, Drexl, Klein, Scholl, Voß : Übungen und Fallbeispiele zum Operations Research, Springer Comments:

Module title: Operations Research

Module title: Logistics B

Module summary Module-code: WINB651L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Wurll Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Logistics A Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to apply the different methods and concepts of identifying products, storage, sorting and the order picking of goods. They will get an extensive overview about the state of the art and the research in the field of intralogistics. They will get to know selected case-studies and practice-oriented examples and they will be able to analyze those, so as to later be able to design and asses customer-specific requirements for intralogistics solutions.


Course: Logistics B Module-code: WINB651L Instructor: Prof. Dr. Wurll Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture and laboratory work Language: German Content: - overview, limits and current development trends in material flow technologies - concepts, content, trends, fields of application and challenges of digitalization

(Industry 4.0, Internet of Things) - identification Systems and types of packaging - conveyor technologies, continuous conveyors, non-continuous conveyors, driverless

transport systems, bearing and rack types, bearing functions, storage types and systems - basics and technical components of commissioning systems

Recommended Readings: Materialflusssysteme, ten Hompel (2007) Fahrerlose Transportsystem, Ullrich (2013) Internet der Dinge in der Intralogistik, Günthner (2010) Kommissionierung, ten Hompel (2011) Sortier- und Verteilsysteme, Jodin (2012) Notes:

Module summary Module-code: WINB661L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 6. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: None Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to design and optimize business procurements in collaboration with suppliers. They will acquire knowledge about relevant target figures and methods in Procurement Management and apply this knowledge target-oriented. In addition to analytical and design-oriented economical instruments the students will also acquire knowledge regarding legal questions of procurement and are able to asses contractual provisions.


Course: Supplier and Procurement Management Module-code WINB661L Instructor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Ester Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Introduction 2. Needs assessment (procurement program, types of needs assessment, instrument: value analysis) 3. Procurement market research 4. Operational procurement (procedure and aspects of decisions, instruments: ABC analysis and RSU analysis) 5. Supplier management (supplier structure, supplier analysis and selection, bid comparison, relationship management, supplier relationship management, instrument: portfolio analysis) 6. Supplier evaluation 7. Sales contract policies 8. Conducting purchase negotiations (preparing the negotiations, conducting negotiations, the follow-up, negotiation techniques, instrument: price structure analysis) 9. Quality management in procurement 10. Organization in procurement 11. Risk management in procurement 12. Sustainability in procurement 13. Controlling in procurement Recommended Readings: Hofbauer, G. (2012): Lieferantenmanagement: Die wertorientierte Gestaltung der Liefer- beziehung. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2012. Jäger, St. Chr. (2009): Instrumente des Beschaffungscontrollings: Balanced Scorecard .IIgel Verlag 2009. Kunkel, A. et. al.

Module title: Supplier and Procurement Management

(2010): Verhandeln nach Drehbuch. Redline 2010. Large, R. (2013): Strategisches Be- schaffungsmanagement. 5. Aufl., Gabler Verlag 2013. Pittner, S. (2014): Strategisches Lieferantenmanagement. Einflussgrößen und Aufgabenfelder. Igel Verlag 2014. Schuh, G. (2013): Einkaufsmanagement. 2., vollst. Neu bearb. Aufl. Springer Viehweg 2014. Tcharnetsky, V. (2014): Der Lieferanten-Lebenszyklus.. Cuvillier 2014. Wannenwetsch, H. (2013): Erfolgreiche Verhandlungsführung in Einkauf und Logistik. 5. Aufl., Springer 2013. Weigel, U./Rücker, M. (2013): Praxisguide Strategischer Einkauf: Know-How, Tools und Techniken für den globalen Beschaffer. Springer Gabler 2013. Notes:

7. Semester WINB721 - Computer-aided Manufacturing WINB741 - Quality Management

WINB751 - Business Law

Module summary Module-code: WINB721 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic Studies and Internship completed Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: Internship Competencies: The students will be able to identify, evaluate and critically analyze different methods to deploy computers in the industry. The coherences between the individual fields of added value will be clarified. The students will be able to compare and put the theoretical approaches into practice. The students’ experience from their practical semester will be further enriched by the insights imparted during this course. Aiming at the practical application, the course will also deal with the improvement of value creation through lean production.


Course: Computer-aided Manufacturing Module-code: WINB721 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture and work in the laboratory Language: German Content: CAD, CNC, CAP, MRP, SCM, CAQ, CAE, Data management, CAA, Lean production, operational excellence, and manufacturing organization, as well as additional topics associated with computers in the industry and the related fundamental

Recommended Readings: Lecture script Notes: None

Module title: Computer-aided Manufacturing

Module title: Quality Management

Module summary Module-code: WINB741 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Thole Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:


Competencies: The students will get familiar with and learn to apply different QM-standards and methods. They will be enabled to accompany and lead projects in quality management with established methods. The theoretical basics will be complemented and deepened by group exercises in a practice-oriented lecture. The students will be able to apply, assess and defend their knowledge within the group.


Course: Quality Management Module-code: WINB741 Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Thole Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: This course will give students an overview of the impact and the consequences coming from effective quality management in a company. Discussed topics will be the strategies and methods for the successful implementation of QM in todays’ business practice. With regard to their application range, current methods and instruments of QM, like QFD, FMEA, SPC, Six Sigma, Kaizen, benchmarking, supplier analysis and evaluation, DIN ISO 9000/9001sqq., VDA 19 etc. will be introduced and analyzed. The students will demonstrate the ability to apply the many methods of QM in exemplary situations and teamwork. Recommended Readings: „Qualitätsmanagement“, Brunnner/Wagner, Carl Hanser Verlag Notes: Quality management is a cross-disciplinary field, that directly or indirectly touches and has impact on every division of a company.

Module summary Module-code: WINB751 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. jur. Oliver Keßler Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: A basic understanding of the German legal and economic system (free and democratic social order, social market economy). Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The lecture will give the students an overview of the regulations of the German Civil Code (BGB = Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), especially the general part, law of obligation, property law and inheritance law, and about the methods of law enforcement. Through the work on cases, the students will be able to categorize and solve ordinary cases from the field of civil law. A special focus will be on civil law (BGB) and commercial law contracts (HGB = Handelsgesetzbuch), in particular technology contracts, development and project contracts, engineering-, telecommunications-, Internet- and IT contracts. The students will be able to learn from practical examples, how to assess chances and risks of these kinds of contracts and will be able to implement solutions. They will also be introduced to the law of technology and through studying practical examples they will be familiarized with the basic principles of responsibility for products (especially product liability) and will be enabled to mitigate product specific risks through the application of civil law and to comply with public law (e.g. data protection provisions). The students will be familiarized with the main features of commercial and competition law (patent-, trademark-, utility model- and design law) and thus get to know the possibilities of how to protect technical innovations. The course will be completed with an overview of corporate law (including compliance and corporate social responsibility) and thus enable the students – in an informed way - to participate in the process of implementing the appropriate corporate structure. They will furthermore get insights into the requirements of modern compliance-management and into the principles of corporate social responsibility; they will be made aware of potentially risky and illegal behavior.


Course: Business Law Module-code: WINB751 Instructor: Prof. Dr. jur. Oliver Keßler Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German

Module title: Business Law

Content: 1. Introduction to law 2. Introduction and overview of civil law (general part, obligation law (general and special section), property law, family and inheritance law) 3. General types of contracts of civil and commercial law (purchase-, rental-, employment, service-, agency contracts as well as bank contracts, payment service contracts, commercial transactions, commissioning and logistics contracts) 4. Special types of contracts (technology contracts, development- and project contracts, engineering-, telecommunications-, Internet- and IT contracts) 5. Introduction to technology law (product responsibility, technical standards and quality management, public duties including data protection, commercial legal protection) 6. Commercial law (including compliance and corporate social responsibility) Recommended Readings: Zu 1) Horster, Detlef, Rechtsphilosophie, 2014 Zu 2) Führich, Ernst, Wirtschaftsprivatrecht, 12. Auflage, 2014; Klunzinger, Eugen, Einführung in das Bürgerliche Recht, 16. Auflage, 2013 Zu 3 und 4) Looschelders, Dirk, Schuldrecht Besonderer Teil, 11. Auflage, 2016; Schmitt/Krügler, Projektverträge im Anlagenbau und für vergleichbare Investitionsprojekte, 1. Auflage, 2013; Redeker, IT-Recht, 6. Auflage, 2017 Zu 5) Ensthaler/Gesmann-Nuissl/Müller, Technikrecht, 1. Auflage, 2012; Götting, Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, 10. Auflage, 2014 Zu 6) Grunewald, Gesellschaftsrecht, 9. Auflage, 2014 Notes:

7. Semester Specialization: Production Management

WINB711P - Product Design

WINB731P - Energy Engineering

WINB761P - Controlling

Module summary Module-code: WINB711P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hendrik Rust Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Technical Communication, Material Science Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The Students are able to: - define and explain the essential terms and concepts in the fields of product design construction, Industry 4.0, innovation- and technology management

- present the details of product and technology design - analyze the challenges of product and technology design and derive success factors - draft a procedure for the development of a predefined product - conceptualize modules of a simple product - explain methods of product design - choose and apply the correct method for a predefined process- or project configuration in product design


Course: Product Design Module-code: WINB711P Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hendrik Rust Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: - the correlation between product and technology, trend: Industry 4.0 - market requirements, innovation- and technology management, property rights - phases in product design - organizational types of product design - methods of product design and their application: specification sheet, the design process, brainstorming, design catalogue, basics of design

Recommended Readings:

Module title: Product Design

Module summary Module-code: WINB731P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Marco Braun Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Thermodynamics, Electrical Engineering A and B, Business Administration Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to analyze and evaluate the function and the constructive execution of selected central and decentral power plants and energy technology systems by calculating those with the help of energetic balancing and analysis. They will learn to understand the boundary conditions and correlations, that are necessary to operate such systems. They will be able to understand and assess the further developments in the field of energy engineering and the energy economy so as to be able to make necessary decisions in their future work life. They take into account aspects of cost and execute solutions regarding energy technologies and energy politics from the perspective of economics. They will know current developments and understand the boundary conditions and systems of renewable energy technologies and the possibilities of the integration in complex energy systems and they will be able to discuss these topics. Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, presentation, 15 minutes, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Energy Engineering Module-code: WINB731P Instructor: Prof. Dr. Marco Braun Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Lecture, seminar obligatory Language:

Content: Conventional steam power plants, gas turbines and gas power plants, nuclear power plants, cogeneration, continuous-flow machines, renewable energy technologies, current trends. Recommended Readings: Kraftwerkstechnik zur Nutzung fossiler, nuklearer und regenerativer Energiequellen Autoren: Strauß, Karl ; Regenerative Energietechnik - Viktor; Schabbach Wesselak – 9783540958819; Notes: Exercise, group work

Module title: Energy Engineering

Module summary Module-code: WINB761P Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic knowledge in Finance and Accounting Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: In consideration of business specifics, the students will be able to design and implement effective controlling systems. They will a) identify the central processes of corporate management, b) analyze these processes with regard to their effectiveness and efficiency and afterwards c) significantly and sustainably improve them based on their acquired skills and learned methods in cost accounting and controlling. The students will demonstrate not only the ability to improve controlling processes but also the ability to recognize the necessity of new controlling processes and they will be ready to design adequate solutions and new structures.


Course: Controlling Module-code: WINB761P Instructor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: Controlling will be addressed as a process within corporate management, whereby the lecture will refer to the instruments of financing and accounting. Within the scope of a controlling philosophy the course will deal with the technical and behavioral theoretical basics of controlling. Afterwards the lecture will impart knowledge in the specific subfields strategic controlling and operative controlling and intensively point out their interdependencies. Finally, the course will deal with newer fields of controlling, e.g. balanced scorecard and demand oriented controlling versus supply-oriented/ demand- driven controlling.

Recommended Readings: Horváth, P. / Gleich, R. / Seiter, M. : Controlling, Vahlen Weber, J. / Schäffer, U. : Einführung in das Controlling, Schäffer-Poeschel

Module title: Controlling

7. Semester Specialization: Sales & Procurement

WINB761E - International Business- to-Business Marketing WINB771E - Distribution Marketing WINB781E - Financial Controlling of Purchasing and Sales

Module summary Module-code: WINB761E Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Christian Braun Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content:: Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, Project Management, Foreign Trade Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing the course, the students will be able to analyze the market-based conditions of a company dealing with industrial goods and they will be able to deduce and establish specific marketing approaches in different business relations and environmental situations.


Course: International Business-to-Business Marketing Module-code: WINB761E Instructor: Prof. Dr. Christian Braun Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: 1. Buying center and organizational purchase behavior 2. Business type specific marketing 3. Strategic marketing 4. Product marketing 5. Sales organization 6. Key account management 7. Coordination Requirements of international marketing activities Recommended Readings: Backhaus, K./Voeth, M., Industriegütermarketing, 10. Auflage, 2014 Notes:

Module title: International Business-to-Business Marketing

Module summary Module-code: WINB771E Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Murzin Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Marketing, Sales and Negotiation Techniques Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: After successfully finishing the course, the students will be able to recognize future- oriented and present issues in Sales and hence develop operative and strategic solution approaches, always keeping the customer in the center of observation. The students will work on the course content studying exemplary case studies in small groups.


Course: Distribution Marketing Module-code: WINB771E Instructor: Prof. Dr. Murzin Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: Customer analysis, customer qualifications, strategic and operative design of sales systems, personnel management and wage payment systems, information management in sales, optimized time and route planning. Recommended Readings: To be found in the script Notes:

Module title: Distribution Marketing

Module title: Financial Controlling of Purchasing and Sales

Module summary Module-code: WINB781E Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis, Prof. Dr. Thole Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Business Administration, Cost Accounting, Accounting and Balancing Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to analyze methods of cost accounting and controlling. They a) recognize the underlying functionalities, b) can assign them to the fields of accounting and business administration as well as c) identify their impact on prices. All of that to later be able to understand the methods potential for practical applications. The students will be enabled to systematically assemble the calculation of a technical product requiring explanation and to justify their calculations argumentatively. They will have the means to identify, analyze and modify both technical and commercial cost drivers and compare essential cost influencing product parameters, modify and optimize the products and the deriving technical calculation.

Assessment: Exam, 90 minutes, seminar paper, 1 semester, (examination prerequisite)

Course: Purchase and Distribution Controlling Module-code: WINB781E Instructor: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis, Prof. Dr. Thole Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every Semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German/English Content: - panorama of cost accounting and multi-level contribution margin accounting - practical methods of calculation and analysis of profit and loss accounts - analysis and calculation of technical products and performing benchmarks - influence and impact of cost influencing technical design- and process

parameters on the production costs of a technical product Recommended Readings: Coenenberg: Kostenrechnung und Kostenanalyse; Hummel, Männel : Kostenrechnung; Ziegenbein: Controlling; Ekbert Hering: Kalkulation für Ingenieure Notes: The course will enable the students to work in sales and product management of technical products in need of explanation.

7. Semester Specialization: Services

WINB711D - Information and Communication Technology WINB761D - Service Design WINB771D - Financial Controlling of Services

Module summary Module-code: WINB711D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. I. Rogina Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Computer Science A and B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Students will be able to apply concepts of Information technology, concepts of information, of encoding, of transport and concepts from the processing of information as to later work as service providers or do groundwork for a service provider, using typical procedures from the IT to solve problems relating to IT. They will also have the means to work as IT-consultants themselves or to work and communicate professionally with other IT-consultants to support projects of different kinds from the point of view of Information and communication technology. The students will furthermore acquire the skills to create web applications based on selected web technologies.


Course: Information and Communication Technology Module-code: WINB711D Instructor: Prof. Dr. I. Rogina, Prof. Dr. J. Nimis Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German or English Content: - information and its properties, entropy - encoding, storage, transport and processing of information - computer networks and communication protocols, the ISO/OSI model - privacy and data protection, cryptography, compression - technologies of the WWW and their interplay - HTML, CSS, XML, DTDs - dynamic applications programming with JavaScript and/or PHP, AJAX - introduction into Cloud Computing and current online trends Recommended Readings: Abts, Mülder: "Grundkurs Wirtschaftsinformatik", Vieweg Verlag, Lockemann, Krüger: "Telekommunikation und Datenhaltung", Hanser Verlag, Pomaska: "Webseiten- Programmierung", Springer Verlag Notes: Exercise

Module title: Information and Communication Technology

Module summary Module-code: WINB761D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claas Christian Wuttke Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: The Service Economy, Service Marketing Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to (i) differentiate services regarding their specific requirements as well as opportunities for their progression, (ii) evaluate the impact of technologies on new services as well as the affected employees and users, (iii) plan the application of new technologies in services and (iv) design procedures based on methods. Based on the available methods and process portfolio, the students will have the means to (a) choose appropriate methods and processes and based on that choice (b) design situation-specific procedures so as to later work in the industrial environment and (1) derive required actions for specific corporate tasks and (2) develop and implement target-oriented and efficient plans of measure (3) while taking into account the economical and industry- and company-specific frameworks.


Course: Service Design Module-code: WINB761D Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claas Christian Wuttke Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Types of services and the types of impact on the particular design process 2. The influence of technologies on services 3. Design processes and methods of material goods 4. Models of service engineering 5. Specific methods for services design 6. Design processes for services

Recommended Readings: Bullinger, H.-J.; Scheer, A.-W.; Schneider, K. (Hrsg.): Service Engineering. Entwicklung und Gestaltung innovativer Dienstleistungen. Berlin, Heidelberg 2006; Cooper, R.: Winning at New Products – Creating Value through Innovation. New York 2011; Meiren, T.; Barth, T.: Service Engineering in Unternehmen umsetzen – Leitfaden für die Entwicklung von Dienstleistungen. Stuttgart 2002; Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen des Dozenten Notes: None

Module title: Service Design

Module summary Module-code: WINB771D Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Business Administration, Cost and Accounting, Accounting and Balancing Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to analyze methods of cost accounting and financial controlling. They can a) identify their elements, b) recognize the underlying functionalities and assign them to the fields of accounting and business administration as well as c) point out their applicability and limitations, so as to later demonstrate responsibility when deciding about their practical application and evaluating their significance.


Course: Financial Controlling of Services Module-code: WINB771D Instructor: Prof. Dr. Bleiweis Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: English/ German Content: 1. Panarama of Cost Accounting 2. Multi-Level Contribution Margin Accounting 3. Activity Based Costing 4. Target Costing 5. Analysis of Profit and Loss Statements 6. Approaches of Corporate Management Recommended Readings: Coenenberg: Kostenrechnung und Kostenanalyse Hummel, Männel : Kostenrechnung Ziegenbein: Controlling Notes:

Module title: Financial Controlling of Services

7. Semester Specialization: Logistics Management

WINB711L - Data Administration and -analysis WINB761L - Controlling

WINB771L - Logistics C

Module summary Module-code: WINB711L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Computer Science A and B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to deploy simple applications for data analysis. They will recognize architectures and components of analytical systems and evaluate their use in companies, they will communicate between departments and the IT-division using common terminologies, they will be up-to-date on current trends in the field of IT and assess their significance, as to later be able to professionally apply data analysis in corporations and specify it’s further development.


Course: Data Administration and -analysis Module-code: WINB711L Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Nimis Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. Overview of the range of applications and the range of types of databases in the commercial environment 2. Relational data model: Expressions and requests in relational algebra 3. Database language SQL: Simple and complex instructions and requests from DDL and DML 4. Procedures in data analysis projects: Understanding data, data modeling and -integration using UML diagrams, preparing and extracting data in relational structures (ETL = Extract, Transform, Load) 5. Structure and use of data warehouses, business intelligence and big data systems 6. Use of analysis procedures: Data mining and deduction of foresight 7. Challenges and solutions to analyze big, rapidly changing and/or heterogeneous data pools Recommended Readings: Kemper/Eickler: Datenbanksysteme - eine Einführung; Piepmeyer: Grundkurs Datenbanksysteme - von den Konzepten bis zur Anwendungsentwicklung Notes: Exercise

Module title: Data Administration and -analysis

Module summary Module-code: WINB761L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Basic knowledge in Finance and Accounting Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will be able to develop and implement company-specific controlling systems. They will have the means to a) identify central processes of corporate management, b) analyze them with regard to effectiveness and efficiency and, c) based on their acquired knowledge in cost accounting and controlling methods, improve these processes significantly and sustainably. The students will thus not only be able to optimize existing controlling processes but will also have the ability to recognize the necessity for new controlling processes and accordingly design approaches and solutions for new structures.


Course: Controlling Module-code: WINB761L Instructor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Schorb Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language:

Content: Controlling will be discussed as an integrated process in corporate management while the instruments of finance and accounting will serve as background. Within the frame of a controlling philosophy, the lecture will first impart knowledge about the technological and behavior-theoretical basics in controlling. Afterwards, the lecture will deal with the specific subfields strategic controlling and operative controlling and thoroughly point out their interdependencies. At last, the focus will be on newer topics of controlling, e.g. balanced scorecard and needs-oriented controlling versus supply- oriented/demand-driven controlling.

Recommended Readings: Horváth, P. / Gleich, R. / Seiter, M. : Controlling, Vahlen Weber, J. / Schäffer, U. : Einführung in das Controlling, Schäffer-Poeschel

Module title: Controlling

Module summary Module-code: WINB771L Module coordinator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claas Christian Wuttke Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 7. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Logistics, Logistics B Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: The students will have the means to (i) evaluate the impact of technologies on logistics systems and on affected employees and users, (ii) plan their application as well as (iii) assess existing logistics systems in terms of their structure, operating modes and performance and regarding their current and future requirements. (iv) The students will be able to design plans of measures to customize these logistics systems while, based on their portfolios of methods, (a) choosing appropriate methods and (b) designing situation- oriented procedures so as to later be able to work in an industrial environment and (1) deduce necessary actions for specific business situations and (2) develop, implement and lead target-oriented and efficient plans of measures (3) while taking into account the internal and external frameworks.


Course: Logistics C Module-code: WIN771L Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claas Christian Wuttke Contact hours: 4 Semester delivery: Every semester Type/mode: Obligatory lecture Language: German Content: 1. The role of technologies for the future of value-added systems in logistics 2. Methods and processes for analyzing, planning, specifying and optimizing logistics systems 3. Methods for controlling logistics systems 4. Methods, processes and instruments of supply chain management 5. Complexity management and integrated task in a company. Recommended Readings: Arnold, D. u. Furmanns, K.: Materialfluss in Logistiksystemen, Berlin Heidelberg 2009; Gudehus, T.: Logistik 1: Grundlagen, Verfahren und Strategien, Berlin Heidelberg 2012; Gudehus, T.: Logistik 2: Netzwerke, Systeme und Lieferketten, Berlin Heidelberg 2012; Klug, F.: Logistikmanagement in der Automobilindustrie, Berlin Heidelberg 2010; Erlach, K.: Wertstromdesign, Berlin Heidelberg 2010; Schenk, M., Wirth, S, Müller, E: Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb: Methoden für die wandlungsfähige, vernetzte und ressourceneffiziente Fabrik, Berlin Heidelberg 2012; Becker, T.: Prozesse in Produktion

Module title: Logistics C

und Supply Chain optimieren, Berlin Heidelberg 2008; Corsten, D. u. Gabriel, C.: Supply Chain Management erfolgreich umsetzen, Berlin Heidelberg 2004 umsetzen, Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Notes: None

8. Semester WINB811 - English

WINB821A - Elective Subject A

WINB821B - Elective Subject B

WNIB831 - Bachelor-Thesis

Module summary Module-code: WINB811 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Andrea Cnyrim Credits (ECTS): 8 points Semester: 8. semester; recommended in 1. and 2. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Assessment Test or completed course “Professional English B2“ Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations:

Competencies: Work-oriented, interactive and communicative competencies in the target language English. Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages C1. Assessment: Exam (120 min.) and oral test or simulation or portfolio

Course: English Module-code: WINB811 Instructor: Professors and lecturers of the IFS Contact hours: 6 Semester delivery: Every semester Type of Course: Exercise/ Seminar similar to lab/ Obligatory Language: English Content: Business English and technical English in accordance with the GER. Development of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills for work-related situations at the level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, based on suitable interactive, communicative learning methods with regard to work-related target situations in the desired economical and/or engineering positions. The main emphasis in technical English will be for the students to acquire and be able to apply linguistic strategies and structures as well as technical terms of technical English. This will serve the description of production processes or the presentation of technical facts. The main focus in business English will be the conduct of a business simulation. Common target situations are, for example, business negotiations, business correspondence and writing or rather explaining products and company presentations.

Recommended Readings: A textbook or script will be recommended by the lecturer Notes: After successfully finishing the lectures and by obtaining the certificate, the students will have acquired the level C1 in English.

Module title: English

Module summary Module code: WINB821A Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 8. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Please insert the requirements with regard to content for the whole module. Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: Please insert the requirements for the module specified in the examination regulations. Competencies: The students will get to develop their mathematical-analytical skills in the fields of mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering beyond their chosen specialization and, depending on the chosen course, further deepen different social and socio-ethical competencies and self-competencies. The respectively addressed competencies are specified in the module descriptions of the elective subjects, which you can find in the catalogue A of the elective subjects list. The students will get to choose subjects from the catalogue A at the beginning of the term. Assessment: Depends on your choice from the elective subjects list in the course catalogue A

Course: Elective Subject A Module code: WINB821A Lecturer: Lecturers of the Faculty of Management Science and Engineering Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester with different courses Type/mode: Depends on which course you chose from the elective subjects list in the course catalogue A / elective course Language of instruction: German or English Content: The lectures impart deeper scientific knowledge in the courses described above and in current specialized topics. The respective content dealt with in the elective subjects is specified in the module descriptions of the elective subjects, which you can find in the catalogue A of the elective subjects list. The students will get to choose subjects from the catalogue A at the beginning of the term. Recommended reading: Please insert any recommended reading for the course. Comments: Please insert further comments.

Module title: Elective Subject A

Module summary Module code: WINB821B Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses Credits (ECTS): 5 points Semester: 8. semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Please insert the requirements with regard to content for the whole module. Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: Please insert the requirements for the module specified in the examination regulations. Competencies: The students will get to develop their skills in the fields of production, organization, procurement, marketing, sales, finance and accounting as well as the legal and social sciences beyond their chosen specialization and, depending on the chosen course, further deepen different social and socio-ethical competencies and self-competencies. The respectively addressed competencies are specified in the module descriptions of the elective subjects, which you can find in the catalogue B of the elective subjects list. The students will get to choose subjects from the catalogue B at the beginning of the term. Assessment: Depends on your choice from the elective subjects list in the course catalogue B

Course: Elective Subject B Module code: WINB821B Lecturer: Lecturers of the Faculty of Management Science and Engineering Contact hours: 4 Semester of delivery: Every semester with different courses Type/mode: Depends on which course you chose from the elective subjects list in the course catalogue B / elective course Language of instruction: German or English Content: The lectures impart deeper scientific knowledge in the courses described above and in current specialized topics. The respective content dealt with in the elective subjects is specified in the module descriptions of the elective subjects, which you can find in the catalogue B of the elective subjects list. The students will get to choose subjects from the catalogue B at the beginning of the term. Recommended reading: Please insert any recommended reading for the course. Comments: Please insert further comments.

Module title: Elective Subject B

Module summary Module code: WINB831 Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Angelika Altmann-Dieses Credits (ECTS): 12 points Semester: 8. Semester Pre-requisites with regard to content: Please insert the requirements with regard to content for the whole module. Pre-requisites according to the examination regulations: § 44, Abs. 2, a maximum of 18 points are allowed to be missing from the main studies Competencies: The students will have the means to autonomously work on a differentiated topic from business administration and/or engineering within a given timeframe. They will be able to work results-driven by following scientific criteria by - researching, analyzing, abstracting and structuring information and relevant literature, - teaching themselves relevant technical skills and methods, - choosing scientific methods and procedures and applying them to solve the problem of their Bachelor-Thesis, - interpreting, evaluating, and critically reflecting on their results, also in regard to society, ecology and sustainability, - clearly structuring their thesis, writing it using technical terms and following- scientific guidelines and procedures. Assessment: Bachelor-Thesis, 4 months

Course: Bachelor-Thesis Module code: WINB831 Lecturer: Professors of the Faculty of Management Science and Engineering Contact hours: Please insert the contact hours for the course. Semester of delivery: Every semester Type/mode: obligatory Language of instruction: German (In agreement with the professor, the Bachelor-Thesis can be written in English) Content: The subject of their thesis must be one from business administration and/or engineering and deal with a subject-specific or interdisciplinary problem. The students can pick a topic offered by the supervising professor or, in agreement with their professor, think of one themselves. The topics can also be written in cooperation with a company. Recommended reading: Please insert any recommended reading for the course. Comments: Please insert further comments.

Module title: Bachelor-Thesis

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