Today’s businesses, major corporates and SMEs alike, are increasingly in need of expert engineers with management skills gained at home and abroad. As globalisation advances, so too does the complexity of services and of the technologies employed in the production of goods.
This Master’s degree course in Production Technology and Management provides its graduates with the tools they need to find a firm place in the internationally interconnected world of production and development. Students leave the course skilled in assessing and implementing both the technical and business sides of technological production processes.
Graduates have diverse and numerous career opportunities in industry and services, from the aviation and automotive sectors to FMCG, logistics and conventional mechanical engineering. At HAW Hamburg, we run direct joint R&D projects with businesses to ensure our students get a hands-on, up-to-the-minute education and can start building their network of contacts virtually from day one.
Good reasons to study Production Technology and Management at HAW Hamburg
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Hamburg has a long and noble tradition as a port and a centre of trade, and in our day is a hive of vibrant industrial activity. It hosts leading players in the maritime business, aviation, automotive supply, and general mechanical engineering. There is a long-standing, strong track record of close cooperation between many of these businesses and HAW Hamburg’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Production Management, the modern-day successor institution of the Staatliches Technikum originally established in 1905.
You will study in small and international groups, working closely with your professors and partly in English. Most students complete their Master’s thesis in collaboration with an industrial business, which has the dual advantage of promoting research and technological transfer and ensuring a real-world emphasis to the course.
The modules around which the degree course is based are independent units, which run either in the summer or the winter semester. We can therefore offer two starting dates per year to our new students.
The right course for you?
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This three-semester Master’s degree course in Production Technology and Management is designed to consecutively follow and build on a previous degree course in production technology/production engineering, mechanical engineering or a related discipline. It provides students with the opportunity to graduate with an internationally recognised engineering qualification, the German Ingenieur/in, and enhanced career prospects due to the specific expertise acquired.
Production engineers typically work in industrial settings. Opportunities for them in management are increasingly being joined by roles in sales, product management, technical purchasing, and as internal entrepreneurs with overall or global responsibility for components or logistics networks, supporting and handling the start-to-finish industrial process including client care and leadership.
Course content and structure
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The particular feature of this degree course is the way it brings together engineering competencies with management skills, developing them via real-life industrial case studies in direct cooperation with businesses from a range of sectors. Focal engineering modules relate to continuously advancing technologies such as precision machining processes, measurement technology in production, gear drive production processes and facilities, plastics processing and metal-forming manufacturing processes. Alongside these, required elective modules explore management concepts.
The professors who deliver teaching on the management side of the course can look back on a wealth of experience in management, putting them in an optimum position to explore with students the holistic view of production processes which globalisation has made a must. Modules in business management, project management and communication, innovation management, operations management, customer-specific processes and international supply chain management form the building blocks for the management component of a Master’s degree course centred on research and technology transfer between institution and industry.
Alongside these opportunities for students to specialise, the course works with the others offered by the Faculty to provide a solid grounding, via required elective subjects, in general topics, such as quality and reliability, systems engineering, business and technology management, technology of materials, and system dynamics and simulation, as well as methodological skills. This means our students leave us with a markedly broad-based perspective on systemic, dynamic concepts in production management and innovative materials. We also offer students the chance to take modules from other Master’s degree courses in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and from related and relevant degree courses institution-wide.
In this way, you can spend a year in intense engagement with all the knowledge you need, testing and extending it via a Master’s project and in research labs, to then conclude your studies in the third semester with the challenge of your Master thesis. We have great student/staff ratios and will be with you every step of the way.
Admission requirements
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The admission requirements are as follows:
- Bachelor's degree (in a related discipline) qualifying the applicant for a professional career or a comparable course of studies, or a university Diplom degree with 210 CPs
- English language skills as demonstrated in Abitur or Fachhochschul transcripts (see admissons regulations) or accepted certificates: TOEFL test (at least 87 points, Internet-based); IELTS (minimum: Band 5.5 level); CAE, CPE or FCE (minimum C); or certificates of good performance in foreign countries
- German language skills at A2 level, certified by an acknowledged institution such as the Goethe Institute
- Applicants holding a first academic degree (Bachelor, Diplom, etc.) from non-EU-countries: Graduate Record Examination (GRE); further information is available at www.gre.org
Additional documents to be submitted:
- Curriculum vitae
- Statement of motivation
Documents you may submit (optional):
- Letter of recommendation from a university professor
- Proof of particular professional experience
Important note for applicants with 180 CPs (ECTS) for courses which require 210 CPs (ECTS) from the first degree: Applicants whose Bachelor's degree consists of 180 credit points (ECTS) must acquire another 30 credit points during the first semester of their studies. The specific department decides which examinations and courses must be completed. Applicants will then be temporarily admitted and enrolled for one term in order to complete the missing 30 credit points. After the end of the first semester, the department will inform the Student Admissions and Registration Office whether the missing credit points have been acquired and the student may continue his or her studies.
Important note for applicants with 180 CPs (ECTS) who have not completed 20 weeks in an industrial internship during or after their first degree: These applicants can be temporarily admitted and enrolled under the condition that they make up the missing weeks of practical experience within the Master's programme. This will likely prolong the total study time. The details will be determined by the department.
Application process
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The degree course admits students for the winter and the summer semesters. Application periods: 1 June–15 July (winter semester) and 1 December–15 January (summer semester).
Applications for all Master's courses must be submitted online. The online application system is only activated during the application period. It is not possible to apply outside of the application periods. You can find more information at Applying for a Master's degree course.
Alternatively, you can contact master-application(@)haw-hamburg.de
Questions about applications, admissions and degree courses
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Applications and admissions:
HAW Master's Degree Course Admissions Office
Stiftstrasse 69, 20099 Hamburg (Berliner Tor Campus)
Tel.: + 49.40.428 75-9898
master-application(@)haw-hamburg.de
Office hours:
Drop-in office hours: Monday/Tuesday: 11:00 am–1:00 pm; Thursday: 2:00–5:00 pm
Infothek opening hours: Monday–Thursday: 10:00 am–4:00 pm; Friday: 10:00 am–1:00 pm
Telephone office hours: Moday/Tuesday, 9:00–10:00 am; Thursday: 9:00–11:00 am
Due to the restrictions resulting from the corona pandemic, drop-in office hours are not being offered at the moment. You can reach us by telephone during these times. The Infothek is closed until further notice.
For general queries about degree courses:
Student Counselling Team (Studienberatung)
Stiftstrasse 69, 20099 Hamburg (Berliner Tor Campus)
Tel.: + 49.40.428 75-9110
studienberatung(@)haw-hamburg.de
Advice and information by phone: Monday–Tuesday: 10 am–1 pm; Thursday: 1 pm–5 pm
Contact person for applicants with disabilities or chronic health conditions:
Meike Butenob
Alexanderstrasse 1, 20099 Hamburg, room 4.10
Tel. +49.40.428 75-7220
meike.butenob(@)haw-hamburg.de
Current office hours:www.haw-hamburg.de/inklusion
Contact the department
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Specifically subject-related queries:
Degree Course Coordinator
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Irmhild Heinemann
Berliner Tor 21, room F 208, 20099 Hamburg
Tel.: + 49.40.428 75-8650
irmhild.heinemann(@)haw-hamburg.de