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Skills: Get to know relevant components and systems, their electrical behaviour and rules for their application

Course Content:

•     Solar Cells and Modules
•     Converter Systems
•     Wind Power Systems
•     Biomass Systems
•     Fuel Cell Systems
•     Electric Storage Systems
•     Operation of Decentralized Fed Electric Grids

Requirements: Basics of Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Systems
Type of Exams: Oral exam
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2 SWS
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Scheffler

Skills: VHDL and FPGA programming
Course Content: VHDL, design and simulation and programming
Requirements: Digital circuit design, understand programmable logic
Type of Exams: Documentation (app. 20 - 25 pages) and 20 min lecture
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Steffen Becker

Skills:

• Foundations of the physical chemistry of polymers and their characterization methods
• Overview of analytical techniques for polymers
• Learning to perform basic polymer analyses using different techniques
• Writing of scientific reports

The students should be able to apply and evaluate the basic principles of polymer characterization method.

Course Content (Lecture):

• Statistical treatment of analytical data
• Special chromatographic techniques for the investigation of polymers and polymer additives
• Principles and instrumental parameters in molecule spectroscopy (IR- and Raman spectroscopy)
• Thermal analytical methods for the characterization of chemical and physical properties of polymers
• Basic principles of analytical chemistry
• Chemical equation, Stoichiometry

Course Content (Lab course):

• Extraction of additives and analysis of extracts and residual. monomers by GC/MS
• Elastomer characterization by TMA
• Qualitative analysis of polymers and copolymers by FTIR spectroscopy (MIR or NIR)
• Mn of polymers by vapour pressure osmometry or membrane osmometry

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written exam
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr. Günter Reinhold

Skills: The students will get enhanced knowledge in the field of modern digital mobile communications. After the course they are able to:

• Describe the tasks and background of the current digital mobile communication standards,
• Name the main network elements and their function and
• Denote the fundamental principles, algorithms and protocols of these standards.

Course Content:

• Introduction in mobile communication concepts
• GSM system for mobile communication
• 3rd generation system - UMTS
• Efficient packet data transfer with HSPA
• LTE as a 4th generation system

Requirements: Basics in communications systems, Principles of computer networks
Type of Exams: Oral examination (30 minutes)
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jens Mückenheim

Skills:

• Basic theoretical and advanced experimental methodic knowledge of piezoelectric transducers
• Development, setup and characterization of ultrasound transducers for typical applications
• Basic knowledge of measurement and simulation of mechanical and electrical properties of piezoelectric sensors and actuators

Course Content:

• Fundamentals of piezoelectricity, piezoelectric materials, design and modelling of (ultra-)sound transducers, simulation and measurement of (ultra-)sound fields, piezoelectric actuators
• Seminar: current sensor developments
• Practical course: construction of an ultrasound transducer incl. design, setup characterization and application test

Requirements: Physics I, Physics II (Sensor Technology recommended)
Type of Exams: Oral examination, written protocol/seminar paper
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus-V. Jenderka

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring a basic knowledge about testing polymer materials
• Practical skills for mechanical and physical testing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Basics of melt flow
• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Spinning, foaming
• Elastomer processing
• Processing tires
• Blown film extrusion
• Recycling of polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Processing Lab):

• Extrusion
• Injection molding
• Elastomer processing
• Blown film extrusion

Requirements: Basic knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. P. Michel

Skills:

• Acquiring perspectives for the work as a polymer scientist or polymer engineer
• Acquiring a basic knowledge about testing polymer materials
• Practical skills for mechanical and physical testing of polymer materials

Course Content (Lecture):

• Elastic, visco-elastic and plastic deformation behaviour of polymer materials and phenomenological models, quasi-static test methods of polymer materials (tensile, compression, bending), hardness measurement and test methods, charpy impact test

Instrumented impact tests as methods for toughness characterisations of polymer materials, Fracture mechanic concepts for polymer materials

Course Content (Polymer Testing Lab):

• Content item: characterisation of elastic properties, tensile test, bend test, ball indentation test, Charpy impact test, drop weight test, tensile impact test

Requirements: Knowledge about polymer materials
Type of Exams:

• Completion of lab course protocols
• Written exam

Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Beate Langer

Outcomes: Diversity management, HR, demographic changes, CSR and other topics arise more and often in present business contexts and need to be implemented for functioning economies. Students will be able to interpret and assess advantages and disadvantages of leadership, self- and employee motivation in a business context as well as self-management, self-control and self-care. Different methods, theories, and routines will be taught, applied, and assessed for their different purposes as well as their individual advantages and disadvantages.

Skills:

Based on practical and relevant case studies students know and understand:

• the theoretical foundations and fields of application of leadership theory as well as basic leadership techniques that occur in practice.
• current and future challenges in this context.

Students will acquire the skills:

• to deal critically with basic knowledge and to deepen this knowledge independently;
• communicate purposefully with others and achieve results together.

Course Content:

• Personnel management and HR
• diversity management and awareness of diversity and empowerment,
• change management,
• self management,
• internal corporate communication,
• development of a healthy corporate and leadership culture,
• conflict management,
• framework conditions of the western working world and industry-4.0 environment in Germany,
• opportunities and risks of New Work, agile management, remote work,
• new work formats, company and business models

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Christian Allner, B.A./M.A.

Skills: Students develop a basic understanding of current aspects or technologies from the computer-science fields covered by the seminar. They gain basic competences in performing independent research on a given topic and in summarizing and classifying information. They further improve their skills in presenting and discussing their findings and results

Course Content:

• Summarizing and reporting on a chosen topic from the fields of computer networks and programming technology
• Reading and understanding provided and/or self-discovered material (e.g., technical articles, scientific papers)
• Work on a project that is related to the topic
• Discussions on the seminar topics
• Presentation skills

Requirements: foundations in computer networks and reliable programming skills (e.g., advanced programming course). Students may choose between English or German for project work, material/input, presentation and documentation
Type of Exams: oral presentation with group discussion and software prototype
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sven Karol

Outcomes: Students will be able to understand and design CRM and loyalty marketing strategies, to compute and interpret major CRM metrics, to develop CRM campaigns, to master email marketing and to have a basic knowledge of all the steps needed for undertaking a data mining project. Furthermore, the students will apply what they have seen in class by working on a project work with actual customer data.

Skills: Based on practical and relevant case studies students will know and understand:

• the theoretical foundations and fields of application of CRM as well as basic communication techniques that occur in practice.
• current and future challenges in CRM.

Students will acquire the skills:

• to deal critically with analytics and develop a flow of analysis in CRM;
• communicate purposefully with others and achieve results together.

Course Content:

• Theoretical foundations of CRM
• CRM in practice: challenges and best cases
• CRM processes
• KPIs for Loyalty programs in Retailing
• Customer Analytics
• Customer Analytics with Excel
• RFM Analysis and segmentations in CRM
• Data Mining: the CRISP-DM
• How to do consulting in a CRM Project
• Introduction to Digital Analytics
• Email marketing planning and metrics
• Email marketing with Mailchimp
• From CRM to Customer Experience Management

Type of Exams: oral presentation 
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 56 overall (6 weeks of online teaching starting in the week of November 14 with 6 hours weekly plus 20 hours in presence in Merseburg in January)
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ieva

Skills: Based on practical and relevant case studies students know and understand:

• the theoretical foundations and fields of application of decision theory as well as basic communication techniques that occur in practice.
• current and future challenges in this context.

           Students will acquire the skills

• to deal critically with basic knowledge and to deepen this knowledge independently;
• to communicate purposefully with others and achieve results together.

Course Content:

• Theoretical foundations of decision theory and communication theory
• Basic elements of a decision model
• Decision under certainty and uncertainty
• Cognitive load in decision-making/ decisions under stress
• Target Costing
• Cost-utility analysis
• Preference matrix
• Analytical Hierarchy Process
• Decision Tress / Expected Value
• Roll Back Approach
• Basics of communication and information
• Body Language
• 4 facets of a message
• How to give and receive feedback
• Structure and Organization of information in companies

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral Presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Dr Dirk Förster - Trallo

Skills: Students gain an overview about the development of the globalization with related institutions, common market entry strategies of firms and marketing activities for doing business in other countries.

They learn to understand the drivers of offering products and services in other cultural areas to B2C customers. In the lecture, students will individually examine market entry strategies and doing business of case study companies. They present their research results in the course for discussion. Thus, they learn to define own research topics and examine relevant issues in international business and management.

Course Content:

Globalization and international institutions

• Brief history of globalization
• From GATT to World Trade Organizations
• European Union, Nafta and ASEAN

Market selection and market entry strategies

• Export Management
• Foreign direct investments (FDI)
• Joint Ventures

National Cultures and cultural intelligence
Products and pricing in international markets
Communication in international markets
Sales policy in international markets
Student's presentations

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreen Pick

Skills:

• Basic insight into the concepts
• Tasks and methods of Financial Management
• Acquire the methodological skills: to realize financial goals, to make decision, to make processes and to control
• Gain an understanding of the function of Financial Management in organizations and
• Understand the relations with external market participants
• Planning- and controlling techniques and cost management
• Students know and understand:
  • Foundations of International Financial Management
  • The foreign exchange market, exchange rate determination and currency derivatives
  • Foreign exchange exposure and management
  • World financial markets and institutions
  • Financial management of the multinational Firm
  • Managing currency risk
  • Financing international operations
  • International management of working capital

Course Content:

• Foundations of International Financial Management
  • International monetary system and balance of payment
  • Corporate governance around the world
  • Evolution and behavioral definition of multinational corporations
  • Global competition
• Foreign Exchange Market, Exposure and Management
  • Exchange Rate Determination
  • Currency and Derivatives Markets
  • Management of Transaction, Economic and Translation Exposure
• World Financial Markets and Institutions
  • International Banking, Money- , Bond- and Equity Markets
  • Interest Rate, Currency Swaps and Int. Portfolio Investment
• Financial Management of the Multinational Firm
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Cross-Border Acquisitions
  • International Capital Structure, Capital Budgeting, Multinational Cash Management
  • International Trade Finance, Tax Environment and Transfer Pricing
• Managing Currency Risk
  • Translation and Transaction Exposure
  • Economic Exposure
• Financing International Operations
  • International and Domestic Capital Markets
  • International Financial Markets
  • International Cost of Capital
• International Management of Working Capital
  • International Trade Management
  • Financial Management for the Global Enterprise

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Petersen, Michael Rode

Skills: The students

• can conduct a literature research
• can choose adequate research methods
• can use adequate research methods
• can present their findings on an international conference
• can document their findings in a publishable form

Course Content:

• Theoretical introduction into Mobility especially E-mobility
• Theoretical Introduction into "scientific writing" and "how to make a survey"
• Literature research
• Research for the Case Studies on e-mobility in Merseburg
• Gathering ideas for the improvement of mobility in Merseburg
• Group work
• Workshops, Excursions in and out of Germany

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Seminar paper and presentation
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann, Ms. Lößer

Skills: Students develop an understanding of the basic concepts of imperative programming languages and can apply them to create their own programs. After completing this course, students will be able to write smaller programs on their own. They can structure and organize source code, and reuse existing programs from libraries. Further, students are able to use compilers and development environments effectively.

Note: German course! Students may choose between English or German for lecture slides and lab exercises.

Course Content:

• Programming paradigms and abstraction
• Control structures
• Data types
• Functions and recursion
• Memory management
• Basic input and output
• Compiler and development environments
• Labs in the C programming language

Requirements: Solid ability to use a computer, high affinity for IT-related topics, sound motivation and eagerness to learn programming
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Sven Karol

Skills: Students achieve the ability to conduct data science projects. They learn how to identify and solve underlying problems in typical data science tasks. They get familiar with visual data science tool and use it to solve data science challenges. Students present their results to other participants of the course which increases their presentation and social skills

Course Content:

• Data science process
• Data preparation
• Feature engineering
• Model selection
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Result evaluation
• Data visualization
• Introduction into Visual Data Science Tool

Requirements: none
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and seminar thesis
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmeißer

Skills:

Students gain an overview about strategic marketing and the marketing mix of companies. The fundamentals of marketing will be examined with a case study about a real marketing strategy of a company. Different questions will be discussed in the sessions. Similar to the case study, students will do research for their own case study of a company's marketing mix. They present their research results in the course for discussion in front of the course participants. Thus, they learn to define their own research topics, learn to transfer theoretical approaches to practice and they deepen their social and presentation skills. They further practice to write a seminar thesis as part of your course work and thus prepare for the bachelor thesis.

Course Content:

• Introduction
  • Markets and definition of marketing
  • What is a relevant market
  • Market segmentation
• Marketing Strategy
  • Methods for analysing a company‘s situation
  • Market goals
  • Marketing strategy
• Elements of the Marketing mix
  • Product policy
  • Price policy
  • Communication policy
  • Sales and sales management
• Case studies of the students

Requirements: Knowledge of basics of marketing is suggested but not necessary
Type of Exams: Oral presentation and written seminar thesis
Credits: 2.5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Doreen Pick

Skills:

• Knowledge about the field of activities and design options in Supply Chain Management
• Application methods in inventory positioning and lot sizing in the deterministic case and cases of demand uncertainty
• Application of tools and methods in designing supply networks
• Awareness of the requirements of global logistics
• Application of methods in risk management
• Certain methods in risk management in supply networks
• Finding the right pricing strategy for goods facing a changing customer demand in segmented markets

Course Content:

• Inventory management: enhanced static economic lot sizing, newsvendor model, inventory holding policies, dynamic economic lot sizing, risk pooling
• Network planning: locations, capacities, service level
• Supply contracts: make-to-stock and make-to-order decisions, information asymmetry
• Global logistics: risks and chances, risk management
• Smart pricing

Requirements: Basic logistics knowledge on lot sizing and order policies
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann, Ms. Lößer

Skills: You will be able to explain the scope, origins and significance of the management accounting function. Furthermore, you will be able to design an appropriate planning, control and information supply system.

Course Content:

• Review cost accounting
• Marginal accounting
• Bottleneck calculation + deviation analyses
• Anglo-american Costing Systems
• Income statement
• Planning, budgeting + forecasting
• KPIs
• Business consulting

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 2,5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Rachfall

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Using standard structures of written and oral communication appropriately
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information on common business topics

Course Content:

• Social English: e. g. introductions and greetings; presenting yourself in a professional way
• Getting to know the company; describing job activities; making arrangements; writing e-mails
• Brands/Advertising
• Money/Finance
• Business Travel
• Globalization
• Basic structures (verb tenses, conditional clauses, passive)

Requirements: General English skills at level B2 or equivalent
Type of Exams: Written examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 6
Lecturer: t.b.a.

Skills:

• You will develop your abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking in an academic context
• You will learn about academic culture and study methods in an English-speaking environment
• You will focus on grammar and vocabulary that is of particular importance in academic written and spoken communication
• You will acquire skills enabling you to participate in lectures, tutorials, workshops and conferences

Course Content: The course includes a variety of topics, e.g.

• Academic Orientation
• Choices and Implications
• Risks and Hazards
• Language and Communication
• Difference and Diversity
• Work and Equality

Requirements: General English skills at Upper-Intermediate Level
Type of Exams: 4 tests
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Deborah Le Guillou / Uwe Schiffke / Gesine Kögler

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary level to basic/general level about specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in German

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Oda Brauer

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of German texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding different phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in German

Course Content:

• Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing
• Methods for reading texts at upper-intermediate level, presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises

Requirements: Basic knowledge of German at level B1
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva

Skills:

• Teaching of intercultural competence and applied geography knowledge
• Conversation in a professional setting: explaining and understanding cultural phenomena, intercultural differences and gained awareness/cognition
• Presentations and negotiations in German
• Summarizing an issue
• Discussing

Course Content:
Methods for presenting and interchange sociologic and sociolinguistic knowledge/awareness ‘Study Visit in Germany’: for instance the personal intercultural experience of

• Stereotypes
• Expectations before arriving
• Comparisons/contrasts, self-perception vs. public perception, opinion about foreigners
• Experience exchange
• Applied geography, politics, economy, culture, education system, music, language etc.

Getting to know German traditions/rules/customs: guideline to the business world, studying, everyday life, dealing with public authorities and private persons.

Requirements: German at level B1, English at level B1
Type of Exams: Written report in German or English / 6 pages without pictures
Credits: 2,5
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva / Uwe Schiffke

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of texts, correspondence, comments and interviews at elementary to basic/general and subject-specific topics
• Listening comprehension at elementary basic level
• Speaking skills
• Presenting in Spanish

Course Content:

• Introductions
• Meeting people
• My profession/occupation
• Small talk
• Summarizing
• Reading techniques
• Presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues and video units
• Listening

Requirements: None
Type of Exams: Written examination, oral examination
Credits: 2
Teaching Hours per Week: 2
Lecturer: Oda Brauer

Skills:

• Being able to communicate successfully in an English-speaking environment
• Being able to discuss a wide range of general, job-related and familiar subject-specific topics
• Being able to explain technical phenomena and specific processes
• Understanding relevant written and spoken information (instructions, reports, interviews, presentations, lectures)

Course Content:

• Technical Functions and Applications
• Describing Technical Processes
• Engineering Design
• Energy Engineering
• Automation/Robotics
• New Developments in Science & Technology
• Explaining Tests & Experiments
• Recycling/Waste Management
• Complex Linguistic Structures
• Applying for a job/internship

Requirements: English skills at Common European Framework (CEF) Level B2 (or equivalent)
Type of Exams: Written and oral examination
Credits: 5
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Uwe Schiffke

Skills:

• Reading comprehension of foreign-language texts, presentations, lectures, comments und interviews at intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of interdisciplinary and subject related topics
• Conversation in a professional setting; explaining and understanding technical phenomena
• Presentations and negotiations in the foreign language

Course Content: Methods for presenting scientific investigations and research in: hypothesis, providing a structure, methods for quoting, summarizing. Methods for reading technical texts at upper-intermediate level presentations, grammar and vocabulary exercises for students, dialogues, video units and listening exercises.

Requirements: Basic knowledge of German at level B1
Type of Exams: Written or oral examination
Credits: 5 (may vary depending on which course of study)
Teaching Hours per Week: 4
Lecturer: Svetlana Telepneva