Balanced education in Economics and Engineering, teaching of soft skills, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering branches of study, inter-disciplinary professional fields, incl. seminars and case studies/project work (Bachelor's) 9-week subject-related work placement (Bachelor's), 4-week technical stage I work placement (Bachelor's), theoretical or practical thesis, professional competence, continuation course in consecutive (e.g. Industrial Engineering) and non-consecutive Master's courses.

Cooperation agreements with 75 partner universities, including 64 Erasmus +; 255 exchange places (including 220 places Erasmus +) for students of the faculty including courses in Industrial Engineering (as of Nov. 2019); advice from the International Office of the Faculty of Economics (English-language courses, especially in the Master's programme; American-African-European (AAE) Summer and Winter Schools, English language course in the Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, constant expansion of the English-language courses.

Aalborg University, Dänemark; Tampere University of Technology, Finnland; Lulea University of Technology, Schweden; Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Frankreich; Università degli Studi di Verona, Italien; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, Spanien; Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCuyo), Argentinien; Xiamen University, China; National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Participation in (technical) equipment of the faculties of Mechanical Engineering: for example laboratory for integrated product development, project house METEOR, experiment and digital factory as well as Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: for example computer workstations with FEM software for the development of electromagnetic energy converters, laboratory hall with transformers, DC machines, engine test benches; teaching licenses for various software tools, for example for material flow analysis, extensive economics databases, plus a wide range of literature available online.

Research into new technologies in interdisciplinary projects, for example in the areas of mobility, lightweight materials and energy: for example Smart Rail Connectivity Campus (SRCC, research campus for sustainable mobility in the Chemnitz-Erzgebirge region, the CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE "MERGE Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures" ( Federal Cluster of Excellence), ESF junior research groups (including new environmentally friendly technology for fibre ceramics "FiberCer"), BMWi project TOpWind.

Compulsory electives of junior professorship for Entrepreneurship in Start-Ups and Succession (endowed chair of the Sparkasse Chemnitz), partnership with the start-up network SAXEED

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