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.

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

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)