Mechanical Engineering B.Eng. (Aachen)

Mechanical engineering is an important source for technical innovation. Mechanical engineers develop and design machines and plants and are constantly refining them. With over one million permanent employees in more than 6,700 larger and smaller companies, the mechanical engineering sector is the industry with the highest employment in Germany.

The practice-oriented 7-semester full-time degree program Mechanical Engineering B.Eng. qualifies students to perform engineering-oriented mechanical engineering activities in industry. In addition to core scientific and technical competencies, graduates also acquire interdisciplinary qualifications.

In the first 4 semesters of the full-time program, the curricular focus is on teaching basic competencies in natural sciences and mechanical engineering. With the 4th semester, students can choose a specialization and thus set a focus on new technologies.

The fifth and sixth semester complete the theory semesters with the new compulsory subject Finite Element Method, Business Administration, Control and Measurement Technology, with five in-depth modules, the university-internal Project 2 and the module "General Competences". The module "General Competencies" aims to provide you with important methodological competencies that go beyond the narrower field of engineering. Such competencies can be acquired, for example, in the context of tutorial activities or during participation in important university committees.

The seventh semester includes the practical project and the bachelor thesis with the final colloquium. During the first half of the semester, the practical project is to be carried out in an industrial company under the supervision of a professor. The students perform engineering activities and document them in a final report.

The practical project emphasizes the industrial orientation of the degree program. Upon completion of the practical project and submission of the final report, students may be admitted to write their bachelor's thesis. The thesis is written autonomously by the students, supervised by a professor and carried out to a very large extent in an industrial company. The thesis usually has a design-oriented, experimental or empirical focus. After completion of the bachelor thesis, the program concludes with a colloquium in which the candidate reports on the bachelor thesis in a presentation and faces critical questions in a subsequent discussion and defends his/her bachelor thesis.