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CHE University Ranking

Industrial Engineering, Department

Fakultät für Maschinenbau

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Fakultät für Maschinenbau
Universitätsplatz 2
D-39106 Magdeburg
Telephone: +49 391 67-58520
https://www.ovgu.de
Uni Magdeburg
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

400

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

190

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

5.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

12.5%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/16 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

39.2%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

42.9%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support

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Support in studies

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Courses offered

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Study organisation

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Exam organisation

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Digital teaching elements

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Introduction to scientific work

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Offers for career orientation

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Support for stays abroad

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Rooms

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Library

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IT-infrastructure

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Laboratories

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Overall study situation

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Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

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Support in studies

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Digital teaching elements

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies

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Research orientation

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Support for stays abroad

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

16

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Integrated approach to technical, organisational and business contexts based on methodical analyses that focuses on the basic principles, as well as practical tasks and a higher-than-average proportion of projects that teach soft skills as well as subject-related skills.

Special features regarding the international orientation

International orientation in research and teaching; Research: Research projects with international partners; Teaching: International student exchange programmes, programmes with international students engaged in full-time study, partnerships with international partners in science and industry.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Libera Università di Bolzano, Italien; Malta University, Malta; Universidad del Mayab, Mexiko; Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Ungarn; Tampere University, Finnland; University of Lethbridge, Kanada; Universidade do Porto, Portugal; King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand;

Special features regarding the equipment

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has a variety of technical laboratories, which are incorporated into teaching and research, e.g. automotive test benches, logistics laboratories, materials handing systems, telematics laboratories, electromobility laboratories, mechanical engineering testing grounds, laboratories for measurement and materials experiments, CAD development and simulation laboratories, rapid prototyping laboratories, EGO incubators programme, Galileo Test Bed Saxony-Anhalt.

Special features regarding research activities

The Faculty regularly conducts a number of research projects, the results of which are integrated into teaching and students also have an opportunity to collaborate in the research projects. The Master's degree programmes also include a research-oriented project.

Support for founders

The Transfer and Incubator Centre of the OVGU Magdeburg aims to transfer high-potential research findings to regional and inter-regional industry and render them accessible to all market participants. The TUGZ concentrates on the following approaches: Identification of high-potential individuals and target groups, analysis of the value creation potential of product and business ideas, as well as target-group-oriented marketing. Wide range of makerLabs. Student workshop under construction.

Other special features

Close cooperation and joint events with VDI and VWI as well as the BVL. Research facilities in the immediate vicinity of the campus: Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Experimental Factory, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Institute for Competence in AutoMobility (IKAM)

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Last Update 2023: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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