STUDY PROGRAM

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

FOR MANUFACTURING

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1. What are the aims, the content, and the structure of the master program?

• The master program Systems Engineering for Manufacturing aims to educate engineer that shall be able to act as system engineering generalists of specialists within the complete life cycle of technical systems, mainly cyber-physical systems representing products or production systems, including engineering, installation, ramp-up, use, and end-of-life activities.
• Therefore, the master program contains mandatory modules covering generally required knowledge and skills for system engineers in the manufacturing field and compulsory chosen modules addressing scientific fields that cover special skills of systems engineers relevant in special application fields along the product and production system life cycle.
• In addition, an internship and the master thesis will ensure that provision of working skills in the practical as well as scientific field.
• The program is structured as four semester program. Within the first semester mainly mandatory lectures will provide the basics of the program. Within the second semester students can follow their interests by selecting scientific fields to be addressed within their studies and the last two semesters contain the internship and the master thesis. More details on the program structure can be found at (Link).

2. What types of courses are used within the master program?

• The Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program contains different types of lectures.
• Within lectures a detailed but comprehensive presentation of knowledge is given. Usually a lecture is related to a scientific filed addressing basic or detailed knowledge.
• Exercise courses intend to provide methodological skills for the solution of scientific and practical problems. Usually the accompany lectures and shall deepen and practicalize the knowledge gained within them.
• Project based courses address the practical application of scientific knowledge in different application field and shall support students to gain project management skills.
• eLearing courses address the provision of practical experiences based exploiting online media. They shall accompany internships.
• Internships are applied to provide inside in practical problems of different industries and companies combined with first applications of knowledge gained within the master program.
• The master thesis as last step of the master program intends to provide students a mean to combine gained theoretical and methodological knowledge within the process of solving a scientific problem and to discuss the outcomes within a colloquium (defence).

3. What are possible career options when studying the program?

• Alumni of the Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program will be able to manage the engineering, creation, use, and end-of-life processes of products and production systems.
• They will understand the multidisciplinary and multi-model nature of these processes and will be able to supervise the involved stuff within these processes.
• They can act as project owners for projects along the life cycle of these technical systems as well as can act as specialist within them.
• Alumni of the Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program are not limited to any industry or company size but will be able to work within nearly all manufacturing related industries and in small, medium and large size companies.

4. How is the application process working?

• The application to the Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program are usually executed via uni-assist. The only exception are applicants with a German bachelor degree that can apply directly to the university (see Link).
• The application is initialized and mainly executed online via my.uni-assist.de.
  
  

  i.	Applicants have to create an uni-assist account, forward their application documents to uni-assist and send card copies to Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg c/o uni-assist e. V. 11507 Berlin Germany
  ii.	Applicants have to pay the application fee to uni-assist by the closing date for applications.
  iii.	If all necessary payments are made and all documents are received at uni-assist, uni-assist will make a pre-evaluation of the application facing a first set of application requirements. If this first set of application requirements is fulfilled, uni-assist will forward the application to the University. (Otherwise you will be informed about the rejection.)
  iv.	The university will execute a complete check of all application requirements. Applicants will be informed about the results of this check (admission or rejection) within four weeks.

5. Which documents are required for application?

• For the application to the Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program the following documents need to be provided 
  
  

  i.	copy of the pages of your passport containing your personal details and photograph, and your residence permit,
  ii.	secondary school leaving certificate (in German or English) with grades and overview of subjects,
  iii.	certificate for the higher education entrance examination completed in your home country, if taken,
  iv.	Bachelor degree certificate including subject and grade overviews,
  v.	Diplomas degree certificate including subject and grade overviews, if applicable,
  vi.	The documents ii, iii, iv, and v have to be available as officially certified copy and sworn translation. They can be requested by the university during the application process.
  vii.	Original of the certificate issued by the Academic Evaluation Centre (Akademische Prüfstelle, APS) for applicants with degrees from India, the People's Republic of China and Vietnam

• The documents ii, iii, iv, and v have to be provided as officially certified copy and sworn translation.
• All documents need to be uploaded and send to uni-assist.

6. How is the enrolement process working?

• Details on the enrolment process are provided in line with the acceptance letter indication the completion of the successful application to the master program.
• Based on the acceptance letter the semester fee has to be payed and the necessary documents for enrolment have to be send to the university.
• If all documents are available and verified you applicants can be enrolled and will get their student number (Matrikelnummer), will get access credentials to the university IT system, and get a student card.

7. Which documents are required for enrolment?

• For enrolment the following documents are required:
  
  

  i.	Passport,
  ii.	Visa,
  iii.	Evidence on German health insurance,
  iv.	Evidence on semester fee payment,
  v.	Evidence on existing residence in Magdeburg,
  vi.	Passport photograph.

8. Which deadlines are relevant within the application and enrolment process?

• For international applicants the application process starts at uni-assist April 15^th each year.
• For international applicants the application deadline at uni-assist is June 15^th each year. Until that date all necessary payments have to be made and necessary documents have to be sent to uni-assist.
• The enrolment deadline is September 30^th each year. Until that date all necessary payments have to be made and necessary documents have to be sent to our university.
• You shall arrive at Magdeburg not later than October 31st of the enrolment year.

9. Which application requirements need to be fulfilled to be applicable for the master program?

• The enrolment to the Systems Engineering for Manufacturing master program assumes, that enrolled students have sufficient basic knowledge and skills to successfully path this program.
To ensure that only students can be enrolled fulfilling the following asset of carefully selected application requirements:

• Details on the application requirements can also be found at (Link).

10. Can results from lectures taken in parallel at other universities / universities of applied sciences be accepted?

• Acceptance of lectures from other univerities or universities of applied sciences is NOT possible.
• Students are encouraged to discuss acceptance cases with the examination office.