Language of instruction
German
Controlling 1 – Cost Accounting
• Basics of cost theory and cost accounting • Systems of cost accounting • In-depth analysis of the three main subsections of cost accounting (cost types, cost centres, cost unit accounting) • Marginal costing – cost splitting, contribution margin accounting, progressive fixed cost calculation • cost resolution • production programm planning
Language of instruction
German
Finance 2 – Balance Sheets
• Legal requirements for creating annual reports • Assessment of cost of sales • Asset allocation and valuation • Assessment of amounts receivable • Accruals and deferred income • Accrued liabilities • Reserve assets • Overhead and turnover cost procedures
Language of instruction
German
Partial financing: • Basic principles of financial mathematics • Basics of financial planning • Sources of external financing • Capital increase and capital reduction • Sources of internal financing • Optimisation of financial policy instruments
Language of instruction
German
Marketing 2 – Sales & Customer Orientation
Customer orientation: • Emergence, impact, dimensions and measurement of customer satisfaction • Customer orientation in corporate management and at the interface with the customer Complaint management: • Complaints, reclamations • Conception of a complaint management system • Personal behaviour in the event of a complaint or reclamation Sales policy (distribution policy): • Structure of distribution channels • Use of sales organs • Design of sales activities • Personal selling in B2B business • Ideal sales process
Language of instruction
German
• Insight into the planning process of a project, focussing primarily on rough and detailed planning • Relevant theoretical basics • Instruments of project planning • Group work using a practical example project
Language of instruction
English
• Meetings and moderation with international participants • Language functions in English as a participant, moderator or chairperson. • Telephone and video conferences • Application of technical and scientific language in meeting situations • Composing an application for an internship Language of instruction: English
Language of instruction
German
Engineering 1 – Components
Basic terminology of machine elements • Introduction to standardised drafting • Standardisation, standard measures, fits and tolerances, structural and positional tolerance • Detachable connections (screws, bolts and pins, shaft-hub connections) • Springs • Rotational elements (axles and shafts, tribology, lubricated bearings, roller bearings, bearing and shaft seals and gaskets, shaft couplings, brakes, gears, belt transmission) • Non-detachable connections (welding, presses, soldering, glueing, riveting)
Language of instruction
German
Mathematics 2 – Statistics
• Descriptive Statistics • Basics of Probability Theory • Evaluating statistics • Confidence intervals • Case studies from engineering and business administration, to be solved manually and with appropriate software (e.g. R).
Language of instruction
German
Productiontechnologies 1 – Shaping
• Casting process • Materials selection for casting purposes • Creating a casting model • Non-cutting forming processes • Forming processes • Rolling • Tube manufacturing • Rail manufacturing • Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
Language of instruction
German
• Mechanics of materials • Thermal expansion of solid matter • Equation of state for an ideal gas • Laws of thermodynamics • Geometric optics: prisma and lenses, telescope, microscope • Sonic waves • Doppler Effect • Luminescence • Light waves: refraction, diffusion • Planck’s Law of Radiation
Language of instruction
German
• Components of a direct-current circuit • Simple semi-conductors (diodes, transistors…) and their applications • generation and curve form of alternating current • AC Units and their behaviour (phase delay) • Three-phase currents and complex nature of performance in a three-phase system • Star and delta circuits, their performance, currents and performance measurements in delta circuits. • Power measurement in three-phase circuits • Analogue technology – Operational amplifier switches • Digital technology – Decoders – Counters • ADC, DAC • Microprocessors • Production of Integrated Circuits (IC)
Language of instruction
German
IT 2 – Business Solutions
IT Management • Requirements management for IT projects • Process models for IT projects Programming • Overview of the essential elements & object orientation • Principles of programming • Basics of physical computing with applied examples
Language of instruction
German
Digitize & Data Visualization
In-depth knowledge of current digitization fundamentals in the areas of data management and visualization, such as: • Selected basics of a programming language (e.g., Python). • Tools for the visualization of quantitative and qualitative process data • Tools for data analysis
Language of instruction
Spanish
Internationalization & Language 1
• Language competence in everyday situations with frequently used expressions and elementary vocabulary (personal information) • expressions in specific areas such as, visiting a city, family and as a customer of a restaurant/shop • Get to know different frameworks internationally Language of instruction: foreign language, e.g. Spanish/German
Language of instruction
German
Sustainable Industry & Production
Basic knowledge for a better understanding of sustainable industry & production: • Necessity and aspects of a sustainable mindset • The role & impact of the industry in the global sustainability context • Climate-friendly manufacturing approaches & energy efficiency