Automotive Vehicle Integration - Powertrain and Chassis Engineering

Organisation:: FH Aachen
Ort, Bundesland, Land:: Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Typ:: Full-time
Certificate:: M.Eng.
Duration:: 3 Semester
Certificate:: M.Eng.
Duration:: 4 Semester

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Programme

The positive rapid development within the automotivefield, which is to be observed both by the implementation of high technologies and by the job market aspects, can be affirmed by numerous press and corporate announcements. Additionally triggered by the restructuring in the automotive production process newconcept study courses are becoming essential, which will qualify the future engineers with improved knowhow, that is adapted to the industry recent needs.

Automobile manufacturers do not develop and produce all the products’ components (modules) in-house anymore; they rather assign these tasks to suitable outsourcing-partners. The shifting of system competence to suppliers changes also the qualification profile of the future engineers employed by both the manufacturers and the suppliers. The tasks of an engineer extend successively beyond the construction problems into project management, test-bench operation or software design of virtual product development.

The FH Aachen with its master courses Automotive Vehicle Integration as:

3-semesters course (without Research Semester) or
4-semesters course (with Research Semester)

realises these demands of education.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Esch
Head of the Program

Target audience

As result of the high scientific requirement of the study courses the graduates are able to independently solve field specific problems in product development, as well as in scientific research and are thereby suitable for leading positions.

The master degree of the FH Aachen grants an access to a higher public service level to provide the graduates with optimal conditions to begin the career as German government employee.

Alternatively the Masters of Engineering can find their place in the application orientated research or continue to study a doctorate programme (PhD) at a technical university.

In addition also the capabilities of entrepreneurial way of thinking will be trained during the study. With appropriate field specific knowledge and personal qualification and motivation can self-employment also be a career opportunity.

Emphases/Curriculum

Study Modules:

1. Semester:

Advanced Mathematics
Mathematical Optimisation
Advanced Control Technology
Advanced CAD
Environmental Problems of Vehicle Powertrain
Automobile Electronical Systems
Vehicle Acoustics

2. Semester:

Test Scheduling, Measurement and Control Systems
Structural Dynamics
Advanced Finite Element Methods
Vehicle Integration 2
Vehicle Dynamics and Multi-Body-System Simulation
Vehicle Calibration
Production Release and Homologation

3. Semester:

2 elective modules from:
- Patent Right for Engineers
- Entrepreneurship
- Project Management
- Time Management
- To sell oneself better and more succesfull
- Foreign Languages
Project orientated Master Thesis
Research

If 4. Semester:
Same Modules as in 3. Semester

Practical relevance

Study in a qualified network group with selected partners from industry and research ensures a high practical value of the study course, which constantly orients itself to the needs of the industry.

The network partners are:

FEV Motorentechnik, Aachen
ETAS Group, Stuttgart
Magna Steyr, Graz

Admission/Entrance requirements
Full-time:
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Total fees approx.:	€ 1.500

Admission Requirements: an excellent Bachelor-degree (B. Eng) in Automotive-Engineering or Mechanical-Engineering with correspondingly major-study an excellent Diplom-Ingenieur-degree (Dipl.-Ing.FH or TU/TH) in Automotive-Engineering or Mechanical-Engineering with correspondingly major-study an excellent University-degree in another equivalent engineering study Applicant with a Bachelor-degree of only 6 semesters has to apply for a four-semester master programme (with Semester Research). The application documents must be received by the AcUAS at the latest on: May 31st for the 4-semester long master course (start with winter semester) November 30th for the 3- and 4-semester long master course (start with summer semester) Extended application period only for the registration in summer semester 2009 for the 3 and 4 semester master course: 28.02.2009.

Languages
Language(s) of instruction:	English
voluntary:	English
Going abroad:	not possible

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Organisation

Theory and practice are closely connected throughout the entire programme of study. This focused orientation toward practical professional experience among the 220 professors and 450 academic and research employees guarantees students a professionally oriented and research-based education.

More than 8,000 students are benefitting from this situation. The Aachen University of Applied Sciences offers a first-class education in modern and future-oriented professions. Close cooperation with regional and international businesses as well as well-known research institutions such as the Jülich Research Center (FZJ) is reflected in the quality of programmes offered. The current requirements of business practice are viewed as an opportunity to continually improve and expand the content of the programmes.

Today, prospective students can choose from 29 bachelors and 14 masters degree programmes in the areas of engineering science, business and design. In addition, several degree programmes are offered as dual and occupational degree programmes.

In 1971, the Aachen University of Applied Sciences was created from the consolidation of several universities of applied sciences and professional training institutions. It boasts a more than 100-year-old tradition of practice-oriented education.