Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering and Management

Digital products and services will characterize tomorrow’s world, and organizations are digitally transformed across all functional areas. The Master’s Program Information Systems Engineering and Management qualifies graduates to drive the digital transformation of products, services, and organizations from a business and IT perspective. Graduates encounter digitalization challenges with an engineering orientation and solve them with the help of modern management methods.

Two Specializations

Choose between the two Specializations "Digital Services" and "Autonomous Robotics" in Information Systems Engineering and Management:

Specialization "Digital Services"

• Immediate globalization capabilities, agile development and deployment, individualization of delivered solutions
• Availability of “Big Data” and sophisticated AI-based analytics, enable customer intimacy,  improve internal efficiency
• Connect service (eco)systems via digital services and create smarter systems

Specialization "Autonomous Robotics"

• Designing and creating in a production or logistics context.
• Smart manufacturing and automation with Industry 4.0
• Cloud, Fog Robotics
• Designing, creating, and controlling autonomous robots
• Controlling of collaborating robots (including lab)

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Participants of Information Systems Engineering and Management

In the program Information Systems Engineering and Management, you can find (inter)national graduates with a Bachelor's or Master´s degree in Economics, Computer Science, Business Informatics, Information Management, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or Industrial Engineering and Management - always with initial work experience.

Enablers of Digital Transformation are line of business representatives with a business or an engineering background as well as IT specialists and can have positions like:

• Information/ Communication Technology Manager
• IT Coordinator / IT Consultant
• IT Service Manager / IT Integration Manager
• Product Manager
• Project Manager
• Engineers e.g. in Product Development, Production

Industries:

• All industries affected by the digital transformation
• Specializations qualify graduates for new opportunities in e.g.: IT, telco, automotive, consulting, production, logistics, finance, media, trading, public as well as health sector.

Career Perspectives after Graduation

The ongoing digitalization of economy, industry, and society is increasing the demand for skilled workers. Various fields of activity are opening up in high-tech industry, manufacturing companies, small and middle-sized companies as well as IT start-ups and service companies, especially with regard to digital services and industry 4.0.
Capturing the emerging opportunities requires globally thinking visionaries and managers, who are able to combine profound competence in information technology with excellent know-how in management. This opens up excellent and sought-after job profiles for graduates.

Program Directors 

	Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis Institute of Applied Informatics & Formal Description Methods (AIFB), KIT
	Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM), KIT Get to know Prof. Reussner in his interview.
	Prof. Dr. Martin E. Ruckes Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance (FBV), KIT

KIT Teaching Quality

The HECTOR School offers top-level teaching derived from state-of-the-art research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Numerous institutes and departments of the KIT are involved in the HECTOR School Master´s program Information Systems Engineering and Management:

• Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM)
• Institute of Economic Policy Research
• Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance
• Institute of High Frequency Technology and Electronics
• Institute of Industrial Production
• Institute of Information Law
• Institute of Information Processing Technology
• Institute of Applied Business Studies and Management
• Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods
• Institute of Economic Theory and Statistics
• Institute of Industrial Information Technology
• Institute of Materials for Electrical Engineering
• Institute of Micro- and Nanoelectronic Systems
• Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics
• Institute of Product Development
• Light Technology Institute