Application-oriented content; Interdisciplinary culture; Small practical and exercise groups; Equal distribution of contents between business administration, engineering and cross-curricular knowledge; Generalist education. E-learning with Moodle as the central electronic communication platform for students among themselves and between students and lecturers, with chats, blogs and teaching materials. Study programmes are also offered as combined studies (training-integrated/career-integrated) (permeability)

The Master's degree programme in Industrial Engineering (M.Sc.) at the University of Applied Sciences South Westphalia is characterised by a practical and interdisciplinary orientation that specifically prepares for the challenges of digitalisation, globalisation, climate change and mobility. A special feature of the degree programme involves the close links between technology, business administration and management skills. The course content promotes systemic and networked thinking and prepares students for complex tasks in national and international corporate settings.

The international orientation is promoted by a wide range of foreign languages for students, international workshops and worldwide excursions, as well as an English-language course offering. In Industrial Engineering degree programme, students in the 6th study semester based on a learning agreement, a semester abroad can be completed at a freely selectable partner university. The international courses offer the opportunity to spend a year abroad at a partner university

UDLAP (Puebla): Universidad de las Américas Puebla / Mexiko; UADY (Mérida): Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán / Mexiko; TEC de Monterrey (Santa Fe, Mexiko-Stadt, Monterrey, Queretaro, Guadalajara); Tecnológico de Monterrey / Mexico; Foshan University / China; New York Institute of Technology / USA; UC Leuven-Limburg / Belgien; South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences / Finland; Université de Bordeaux / Frankreich

Well-equipped computer labs and computer clusters, SAP lab, legal databases, e.g. beck-online, Wolters-Kluwer / economics: Business Source Ultimate from EBSCO, Carve Out for project management / engineering: Simulation and planning system Autodesk Inventor and Fusion (including standard part databases), simulation of machining processes with ExLSWOP, robot simulation with Ciros Robotic, simulation of pneumatic systems with Festo FluidSim. A number of content-related video libraries are available, such as: Programme instructions and presentation of technical workflows and production examples

Research in the area of product and production process maturity measurement in early development phases, digitalisation in quality management and cost-benefit-optimised quality management. Business Administration: 2020 EXIST potentials; Business start-up grant; Since 2020 FH-Preneur: Internal, cross-location initiative for the sustainable promotion of company founders / 2017-2020 Start-up innovation lab in South Westphalia (ERDF); Business model research; Economics: Entrepreneurship

Sustainability: External speakers on current topics, e.g. as part of the Hagen University Talks. In the winter semester 2022, on the topic of Energy & Buildings and Energy Savings in cooperation with the consumer organisation. The faculty appoints a Sustainability Officer and has a Sustainability Working Group and its own sustainability lab. Lecture series on sustainability and renewable energy; Lectures on Female Entrepreneurship as part of “FH-Preneur”. The Faculty Equality Officer is involved in all important committees/bodies of the faculty.