The Faculty of Engineering is restructuring its range of courses for the winter semester 2024/25 and is also adapting some existing courses in this context. This includes adjusting the credit points and updating the content as well as adapting the regulations to the university's new framework examination regulations. Furthermore, several new specializations and profiles have been added to the degree courses and the elective catalogs have been adapted to new research findings and areas. The specific changes are as follows.

The titles of various modules and their contents as well as the number of semester hours per week and credit points have been adjusted.

The following degree programs and specializations have been renamed. The contents have been adapted accordingly.

• The specialization "Telemedicine" in the Master's degree course "Medical Engineering" is now called "Neuroengineering and Robotics".
• The specialization "Energy and Process Engineering" in the Bachelor's and Master's degree course "Mechanical Engineering" is now called "Sustainable Energy and Process Engineering".
• The specialization "Product Engineering" in the Bachelor's and Master's degree course "Mechanical Engineering" is now called "Product Design and Engineering".
• The specialization "Ship and Offshore Technology" in the Bachelor's and Master's degree course "Mechanical Engineering" is now called "Sustainable and Autonomous Maritime Systems".
• The specialization "Metal Processing and Application" in the Bachelor's and Master's degree course "Mechanical Engineering" is now called "Sustainable Metal Cycles".
• The Bachelor's degree course "Electrical and Electronic Engineering" is now called "Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering".
• The specialization "Ship and Offshore Technology" in the Master's degree course "Mechanical Engineering" is now called "Sustainable and Autonomous Maritime Systems".

New specializations have been established in the following degree courses:

• Bachelor's and Master's "Mechanical Engineering": new specialization "Autonomous Systems"
• Bachelor's "Mechanical Engineering": new specialization "Technologies of Logistical Systems"
• Bachelor "Mechanical Engineering": new specialization "Management"
• Bachelor and Master "Industrial Engineering": Consolidation of the specializations "Electrical Power Engineering" and "Information Technology" into "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology"

The following degree programs and specializations will be discontinued. New enrollment is no longer possible.

• Bachelor Computer Engineering
• Bachelor and Master "Mechanical Engineering": specialization "Foundry Technology"

All students already enrolled who started their studies in the summer semester 2024 or before will remain in the old version of the examination regulations and can complete their studies using the existing study plans. They have the opportunity to successfully complete their studies for a period of one and a half times the standard period of study.

Should you nevertheless wish to switch from the current PO19 to the new PO24, you can do so by submitting an application. The equivalence list provides an overview of which modules that have already been successfully completed can be credited in the new PO24. Students who are considering a change should definitely weigh up the possible advantages and disadvantages in advance. It is no longer possible to return to PO19 after changing to PO24!

• Courses that are only offered for the old PO19 are offered up to the semester assigned in the curriculum plus one year in which the subject can be taken. The following examples illustrate this:
  • If a course in the Bachelor's degree program is located in the 5th semester, it will be offered until winter semester 2026/27 (5+2 semesters from winter semester 2023/24).
  • If a course appears in a catalog of a Master's degree program from which a selection is to be made in the first 3 semesters according to the study plan, the course will be offered until winter semester 2025/26 if it is scheduled in winter semester.
• All examinations that are only offered in the old PO19 are offered up to one and a half times the standard period of study of the respective degree program.
• If new courses are offered in the new PO24 that were not offered in the old PO19, they will only be taught from the semester in which they can be taken according to the study plan. The corresponding examinations will also only be offered from this point in time. The following examples illustrate this:
  • If a course in the Bachelor's degree program is located in the 3rd semester, it will be offered and examined from winter semester 2025/26 (3 semesters from winter semester 2024/25).
  • If a course in the Bachelor's degree program appears in a catalog from which it can be selected from the 4th semester onwards according to the study plan, it will be offered and examined from the SoSe 2026 (4 semesters from WiSe 2024/25).
  • If a course appears in a catalog of a Master's degree program from which it can be selected in the first 3 semesters according to the study plan, the course will be offered and examined directly in winter semester 2024/25 or summer semester 2025 according to the planned rotation.