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"Engineering Visions” Intensive Program

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
"Engineering Visions” Intensive Program
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Industrial Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2013
Module code: WIBASc-525-625-Ing23
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
3PA+1S (4 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
4
Semester: according to optional course list
Mandatory course: no
Language of instruction:
English
Assessment:
Project work

[updated 02.12.2025]
Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

WIBASc-525-625-Ing23 Industrial Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2013 , optional course, general subject
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 120 hours (equivalent to 4 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 75 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Frank Kneip
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Kneip

[updated 06.06.2018]
Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this module, students will be able to:
•       analyze, evaluate, and describe global challenges in their project
•       expand their personal portfolio of working techniques in order to develop innovative and technical visions for the future
•       apply the most important basic concepts of conscious communication and for dealing with conflicts in interdisciplinary work during the project
•       present work results and document them in a suitable manner
•       In addition, students will have developed their intercultural and foreign language skills in international teams

[updated 02.12.2025]
Module content:
Students will discuss the challenges of today’s world and develop technical visions for what they believe life on earth will be like in 10 to 50 years. In international project groups, they will develop and discuss their own technical visions from fields such as bionics, mechatronics, nanotechnology, intelligent materials, renewable energies, optical technologies and information technologies (selection) for aihre interkulturellen und fremdsprachlichen Kompetenzen in internationalen Teams ausbauen sustainable life on earth.

[updated 02.12.2025]
Teaching methods/Media:
Teaching methods/Media:
The initial phase will focus on inspiring, future-oriented lectures by our speakers on technical topics of the future. The goal of these lectures is to motivate the students and inspire their conceptual work.  The lectures will be accompanied by workshops on creative techniques (brainstorming, mind mapping, World Café etc.) and team building.
During the main phase, students will work autonomously in groups supported by mentors (lecturers from our partner universities). At the end of each day, together with the lecturers, he students will reflect on their own results, as well as those from the other groups.
The intensive program will end with a presentation and self-assessment of each group’s results in the form of a marketplace.


[updated 02.12.2025]
Recommended or required reading:
Project-related literature

[updated 02.12.2025]
 
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