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Industrial Engineering, Department

Fakultät für Ingenieurwesen

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Fakultät für Ingenieurwesen
Abteilung Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik, Studiengänge Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
Lotharstraße 1
D-47057 Duisburg
Telephone: +49 203 379-1273
https://www.uni-due.de
Uni Duisburg-Essen/Duisb.
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,650

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

970

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

1.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

5.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

10.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

40.0%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

40.0%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

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Support in studies

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Digital learning

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Transition to Master's studies

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Research orientation

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Support for stays abroad

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Direct contact between lecturers research institutions students; Extensive range of electronic teaching support systems; very wide-ranging technical and economic options; no compulsory definition of specialisations, but the option of choosing study profiles; Balance between technology and business; Courses offered in tandem with students in industrial engineering; Additional tutorials; Many links to professional practice, many practice projects, broad use of methods with simulation games and modern software systems; Opportunity to study abroad; Many programmes accompanying studies; Double degree in Industrial Engineering/Business Administration

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Direct contact between teachers and students; Extensive range of electronic teaching support systems; very wide range of options to choose from in technology and economics; Possibility of emphasis of technical or economics content; very broad flexibility, no areas of focus required, but choice of study profiles possible; Balance between technology and business; Courses offered in tandem with students in industrial engineering; Many links to professional practice, many practice projects, broad use of methods with simulation games and modern software systems; Opportunity to study abroad; many course-related. services

Special features regarding the international orientation

Large number of cooperation agreements, effective motivation of students for stays abroad, between 25% and 35% of students in any given year complete a stay abroad (studying and/or work placement abroad) - exception: Coronavirus pandemic 2020-2022. Within the Engineering Department, students in industrial engineering form the largest student group of the students who take a semester abroad.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

University of Indonesia; University Kebangsaan Malaysia; Tampere University of Technology; Universitá degli Studi di Bologna; Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Universitá di Padova; Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet; Técnico Lisboa; Universidad de Sevilla; Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi

Special features regarding the equipment

Very well-equipped laboratories: e.g. high-voltage and EMC laboratory, Zentrum für Halbleitertechnik, inkl. Optoelektronik (Centre for Semiconductor Engineering, including Optoelectronics), labs for the subject areas of Materials in Electrical Engineering and Nanostructure Engineering, Communications Engineering laboratories (Communications Engineering Systems, Communications and High Frequency Technology), Plastic Injection Moulding Machine and Extrusion laboratories, Torque Test Benches, Print and Flow laboratories as well as Robotics and Periphery laboratories. In addition, there are several PC workstations, print facilities, PC examination rooms and well-equipped lecture theatres as well as WiFi throughout the campus.

Special features regarding research activities

Subject-specific and inter-disciplinary key areas in the fields of: Products/Production, Energy, Logistics, Automotive, Design, Controlling and Finance; Interdepartmental and inter-disciplinary collaboration in academic and application-based projects. Wing students and graduates are active in purely Engineering sciences, in purely Business Administration and in interdisciplinary projects at UDE chairs.

Other special features

Excellent cooperation between students/Industrial Engineering student body and teaching staff as well as programme managers, own permanent position for Industrial Engineering subject-specific guidance and coordination, clear responsibilities, uniform management of study programmes; in addition to the central website for the WiIng degree courses, the WiIng newsletter is dispatched regularly (approx. every 1-2 months) as a central communication tool in close cooperation with the student representatives, the programme managers and the subject advisors; Instagram channel; WhatsApp group of the student society

Further information on research activities

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education