Studiengang Automotive Mechatronics and Management at the FH Oberösterreich/Wels (A)

Fakultät für Technik und Angewandte Naturwissenschaften

FH Oberösterreich/Wels (A)

Stelzhamerstraße 23
A-4600 Wels, Österreich
Phone: +43 5 0804-43053

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Basic information

Total number of students	40 *
Number of master degree students	40
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	40.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	45.0 %

Cooperative Education

Students in cooperative education	30
Extent of interlinking	no data

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

no undergraduate degree programmes

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	90.5 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	no bachelor degree programme
Contact with work environment, master's	8/12 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	99.2 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	97.3 %

Research

Third party funds per professor	47.1
Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)	9

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Degree courses with details

Automotive Mechatronics and Management (M.Sc.)

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Further degree courses of the department

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Special features regarding teaching
Vehicle Engineering: vehicle components, drive concepts, road performance; Vehicle Mechatronics: sensors, actuators, signal preparation, system architecture; Vehicle Systems: regulation-, safety- and support systems; Vehicle Informatics: communication structure, Car2X communication; Quality Management: quality planning, quality assurance, quality management systems; Business Economics & Management: innovation, market-oriented management, IPR: Intellectual Property Right, management, controlling, production economics
Special features regarding the international orientation
Lessons 100% in English; International classroom; Involvement of international guest lecturers; Semesters abroad and / or internships abroad and short-term programmes are actively funded; International interns are involved in ongoing research projects; International regular students are welcome in all courses; Lecturers regularly take part in international conferences / training courses
Special features regarding the equipment
Laboratories for electrical, control, regulation, process control, drive, sensor, measuring and testing, microelectrical/digital technology, optics, sound, vibration and plastics technology, optics, image processing, product innovation, design prototyping, mechanical material testing and analysis, heat treatment, remelting technology, plasma treatment, coatings, surface technology, 3D scanning, generative manufacturing, metallography, tribology; fully automatic flexible manufacturing and assembly system (robots, CNC machines, transfer system), forming processes and simulation of processes
Special features regarding research and development
The Faculty of Technology in Wels is the largest and strongest research faculty of the FH Oberösterreich: approx. 180 current projects, approx. 10M€ acquired R&D funds per year and approx. 250 R&D employees. Major projects, e.g: Josef-Ressel-Zentrum for innovative multi-body dynamics, Josef-Ressel-Zentrum für thermographic non-destructive testing, K-Zentrum für Feed and Food, Quality, Safety and Innovation, various Interreg projects together with research institutions from Germany and the Czech Republic, and many more.
Support for founders
FH OOE operates its own transfer centre for business start-ups and entrepreneurship; opportunities/risk analysis of a business idea for market suitability; potential analysis of innovation and personality; entrepreneur tests; support in the development of the business plan; selection and contact to suitable subsidies, investors and mentors; support during self-positioning, marketing and sales design; establishment and maintenance of further contacts. Furthermore, FH OOE offers 3 coworking spaces for free to develop business Ideas
Other special features
This international Master’s degree programme meets the demand of the motor vehicle industry for engineers who can combine complex individual components into innovative mechatronic systems with improved or completely new functions and in doing so think and act under consideration of qualitative and cost aspects. The fields of activity of graduates are therefore in the execution and management of mechatronic development projects, in the design and validation of mechatronic vehicle systems or as quality engineers in the field of quality assurance in the product development process.
Further information on research activities
https://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-wels/forschung/research-center-wels/
Further information about study entry phase
https://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-wels/kooperation/services-fuer-schulen/fh-sciencelabs-wels/
Information on access restrictions
https://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-wels/studiengaenge/master/automotive-mechatronics-and-management/