Clothing Technology and Management

Engineers specialising in clothing technology and management contribute their technical, business and organisational skills to the realisation of fashion, textile and costume designers’ creative ideas. They are the ones who turn a unique sample into a production-ready garment, carry out quality control, and supply the logistical support that creative processes within the sector can’t do without.

Graduates of this degree course are ideally suited to roles in clothing product development, process planning, management and review, quality control, HR, capacity and delivery planning and costing, management, marketing, purchasing, sales, industrial engineering and data processing. Sectors where they are in demand include the textile and clothing industries, trade and retail, suppliers to these industries, and education. Their day-to-day work might involve product management, overall technical operations or departmental management, providing advisory and consultancy services to suppliers around applications engineering in computer-assisted packaging, finishing or sewing and ironing technologies, acting as independent industrial consultants, or running their own businesses.

This Bachelor’s degree course is seven semesters in duration and centres on skills for applying scientific knowledge in clothing technology to the design and development of innovative products and technologies for the sector.

The course’s first year mainly revolves around the teaching of key principles in science and engineering, textile chemistry, clothing technology, occupational and business studies.

In their second year, students expand their knowledge and skills by exploring the areas of product development and realisation, textile finishing and clothing physiology, the workings and applications of technical equipment used in the field, economic considerations, and methodologies for the development of suitable process control systems in the textile chain.

The course’s fifth semester is taken up by an internship in a clothing-sector business, which represents an opportunity for students to apply and advance their knowledge and skills. 

The required elective modules taken in the final two semesters allow students to specialise in the following areas, in accordance with their career interests:

• Textile science
• Innovative concepts around clothing
• Technical textiles
• Textile colouring and finishing
• Product data management
• Business administration

Students complete the course by writing their Bachelor thesis.

You should be passionate about fashion and keen to solve technical, organisational and business challenges. You’ll do best if you enjoy working with other people and have an open-minded, cosmopolitan attitude towards other cultures.

Interested – but not quite sure yet whether this is the right course for you? Our self-assessment test can help you make up your mind. Take it here: HAW Navigator