Please feel free to contact us by e-mail with your concerns. For a personal meeting at Eilfschornsteinstraße 18, please make an appointment.

• Make your appointment:
  Ms. Angelika Seves
  Email: angelika.seves@imse.rwth-aachen.de
  Tel.: +49 241 80 27341
• Location:
  Center for Wind Power Drives der RWTH Aachen (CWD)
  Campus Boulevard 61, 52074 Aachen
  Seminarraum 001
• Preparing your talk
  a) Duration: max. 10 minutes
  b) Presentation.
          - PowerPoint in.ppt/.pptx format of 8 to 10 slides
          - Focus on own activities; keeping company's description short in order to put more emphasis on your internship
  c) Clear structure
      1. Problem
      2. Solution approach
      3. Execution
      4. Assessment
• Sessions conducted by Dr. Oliver Weber 
• Please provide your internship certificate at the talk
   

Detailed information on curriculum changes can be found here: Curriculum change

If you wish to attend courses abroad and have your achievements recognized, a change of study plan must be submitted before taking the examination abroad. For this purpose, a detailed and credible overview of the content of the subjects and a justification for the choice of subjects should be submitted. For further information contact the faculty's study abroad advice team.

Notes: The faculty's Departmental Student Advisory Service can assist with questions not involving the content, but for instance the number of hours for the exam.
When registering for the exam, the approved application must be presented to the central examination office, ZPA for short in German.

1. Admission to the bachelor thesis to be filled in by the ZPA
2. Issue of the topic
   • Register of the topic and time schedule of the thesis (consultation with the respective supervisor)
   • Obtaining all necessary signatures (supervising assistant, external supervisor if applicable, and supervising professor)
3. Submitting the documentation sheet to the MSE academic advisor for approval of the thesis by the professional field supervisor.
   • Send your intake form digitally to the Student Advising Center.
4. Forwarding of the data entry sheet by the MSE to the ZPA (or examination board in the case of external work).

Further information on the supervision of external work can be found here: Guidelines external Projects

Departmental Student Advisory Service for Machine Construction at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering deals with all basic academic affairs.
The Machine Construction Student Representative Council is a student lobby group where you will find information material on the individual specializations.

The ZPA is responsible for exam management.

The Development and Construction degree program is being phased out and will be replaced by the Product Development degree program. So feel free to ask us your questions.

No. The extra credit points will be forfeited without substitution.

... The module description in the academic regulations suggests that some compulsory courses for the Master degree program build on the knowledge from subjects in the Bachelor degree program vocational field Design Technology. These subjects are not however a constituent part of the elective section for the Master degree program. Can I choose to use these subjects as elective subjects?

Yes. The elective section in the Master degree program can in principle be augmented with other subjects by means of a curriculum change. Although should subjects be chosen that contain more credit points than for the selective section, these will be forfeited without substitution.

No. The bonus points for the "Machine Design I" course can only be used for the corresponding exam in that semester in which they were acquired. After that they are forfeited without substitution.

Yes, the course "Machine Design II/III" is not a formal prerequisite to attend the course "Fundamentals of Product Development" or to write the exam. However, since the contents of the courses build on each other, the MSE recommends the described sequence, i.e. first Machine Design II/III then Fundamentals of Product Development.

No. The supplementary oral exam after the first repeat attempt of the written exam is a gesture of goodwill on the part of the MSE and is not an official provision within the exam rules. The Central Examination Office has therefore decided that this exam can only be taken directly in the context of a written repeat. The only supplemental test that is binding under the exam rules is the supplementary oral examination after the second written retry. As of October 17, 2013

Changing vocational fields must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis between the student and the Central Examination Office.

The MSE student advisor is responsible for reviewing the content of curriculum change requests for the Bachelor's degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management "Product Development" and the Master's degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management "Product Development". Curriculum change requests of other majors are to be submitted to the respective study advisor.