Cooperation with local companies enables students to experience a programme with high practical relevance. Through highly topical subjects such as digital production, everything related to the energy transition and e-mobility, international management with intercultural management and change management as well as digital marketing and distribution with the topic of product management and technical purchasing, students are optimally prepared for the professional world.

Practical phase abroad possible. Exchange students from the Swiss German University, Indonesia, participate in individual courses, with a group of between 20 and 50 students coming to Soest each year. In addition, the faculty offers international English-language Bachelor's and Master's degree courses. The student body in the department thus comes from more than 60 different countries.

UniLaSalle - Institut Polytechnique, Frankreich; Munster Technological University, Irland; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Litauen; Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Niederlande; Rzeszow University of Technology, Polen; Comenius University, Slowakei; Universitat Politècnica de València, Spanien; Marmara University, Türkei; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Ungarn; Swiss German University, Indonesien

Students of the degree programmes have access to the laboratories of the departments of Electrical Energy Engineering and Mechanical Automation Engineering, e.g.: Electrical power laboratories; High Voltage Engineering; Automation engineering and learning systems; Electronics; Electrical machines, drive systems and power electronics; Design Engineering; Production Management; Project and Process Management; Logistics; Automotive workshop / Theory of Design Laboratory; 3D printing centre.

Research is conducted by the faculty on all topics in the field of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering as well as regarding the energy transition and e-mobility. Areas of focus include digital marketing and distribution, ERP processes and data-driven production systems. A special focus is on the application of agile methods and the use of artificial intelligence to optimise development, production and business processes. At the Fraunhofer Application Centre for Inorganic Lighting Materials, practical research and transfer projects are carried out with industrial partners.