Sharkskin, bioceramics, enormous stadium roof structures, or ultra lightweight car bodies – about 70 percent of all technical innovations are based on newly developed materials. Engineers are always on the look-out for the perfect material or tailored material combinations.
However developments and innovations cost money. How expensive can it get? Where can savings be made and what technical developments must remain despite cost reductions?
These questions are difficult to answer in practice, as decision makers confront each other with varying goals. On the one side there are engineers, who want to reach the maximum technical potential, and on the other, business experts, who want to spend as little as possible. Two worlds that often don't understand each other!
Materials engineers often form a bridge over this area of tension. They have interdisciplinary training and assume critical management positions at modern companies.
In order to be able to master the split between various business objectives, they acquire skills in both a technical discipline and business administration.
In contrast to comparable courses of study the course of study at RWTH Aachen offers a clearn engineering focus. This focus allows budding engineers to build technical application skills.
Starting in the fourth semester students can select four elective modules from five engineering focuses in order to create their own individual profile:
- Materials engineering – glass, ceramics, metals
- Materials processing – casting or molding
- Metallurgy and recycling – non-ferrous metals or iron and steel
- Transport phenomena
- Plastics engineering
Students can select a specialization during their Master's studies that is independent of their profile in Bachelor's studies and choose from a spectrum of specialization projects.
