Customize your learning experience through selectable modules
Compile the knowledge you really need! In a two weeks timeframe, you will get the latest knowledge on topics that exactly match your interests by taking individual modules from our Master's degree programs.
More than 30 topics are available within these fields:
Learn how to improve business success with information.
Data Driven Marketing (incl. Negotiation Training)
Information Systems Management
Data Analytics
Legal Aspects of Information
Finance & Value
Build a thoughtful business opportunity delivery system that coordinates activities by providing clear metrics for value creation.
Management Accounting
Sustainability
Strategic Financial Management
Case Studies
Decisions & Risk
Learn about various facets of quantitative decision making, such as general model building, risk assessment, random effects, and multiple agents.
Decision Modeling (+Computer Tutorials)
Risk Aware Decisions (+Case Studies+Finance)
Interactive Decisions
Robust and Stochastic Optimization
Innovation & Projects
Gain a deep understanding of technology venturing and the specific management approaches that address the characteristics of technology-driven innovation.
Technology Driven Innovation
International Intellectual Property Law
Project Management
Multi-Project Management in an International Setting
Strategy & People
Learn more about the overall process of strategic management such as strategy formulation, analysis, and evaluation in light of the connection of business strategy and corporate law with current challenges of managing organizations, human resource strategy, and leadership concepts.
Strategic Management
Managerial Economics
Business Organization and Corporate Law
Strategic Human Resource Management
Leadership and Conflict Management
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4 Topics from Production and Operations Management
Data Driven Engineering & AI
Understand the necessary concepts and underlying methods of industrial management in the area of tension between development, optimization, installation and the management of holistic systems (consisting of people, materials and infrastructure).
Industrial Services
Data Structure and Algorithms for Intelligent Engineering
Production and Logistics Machine Learning Lab
Processes, Resources, and Systems in Industrial Engineering
Model Driven Digital Engineering
Understand and implement digitization as an essential component in modern production systems.
IoT Solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems
Simulation of Production Systems and Digital Twin
Sustainable Production and Logistics
Operations Management for Supply Chain Networks
The increasing integration and globalization of production structures leads to an increasing importance of operations management for cost and performance development in operating networks. Expand your knowledge to understand production and supply chain management in consideration of human resources.
Lean and Green Production
Strategic Supply Network Management
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Technologies of Distribution Networks
Networks of Supply and Production Systems
Get first-hand insights into production and supply chains in China. The module takes place at the KIT branch in Suzhou and at the AMTC and Tongji University in Shanghai. It consists of compact knowledge transfer in lectures, case studies as well as excursions and company visits.
Quality Management
Supplier Management
Smart Manufacturing and Automation with Industry 4.0
6 Topics From Information Systems Engineering
Digital Platforms
Understand and develop digital platforms for organizations and markets to drive internal and external digitization in your company or client organizations.
Enterprise Systems
IoT Technologies & Platforms
Platform and Market Engineering
Software Engineering
Gain a holistic perspective on all phases of software system development. This is followed by a focus on the development of large-scale web applications and the use of cloud computing concepts and technologies for the development and deployment of modern software.
Software & Systems Engineering
Advanced Web Applications
Cloud Computing
Process & Knowledge Engineering
Learn more about digital process mapping and knowledge management, where Big Data is an important topic: managing and analyzing large amounts of data to create added value.
Business Process Engineering
Process Mining
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Big Data Management
Security & Privacy Engineering
Experience various aspects of security technology and data protection. These include a general introduction to information security and data protection laws to applied cryptography and network security. Understand how new technologies are used, for example, to ensure an appropriate level of security, privacy and protection in critical (information) infrastructures.
Information Security
Applied Cryptography
Network Security
Data Protection Regulations
Emerging Technologies & Critical Information Infrastructures
Digital Services
Gain fundamental understanding of driving innovation in digital services and adapting service strategies, service design and service management. It focuses in particular on the user-centered design of new services and on the use of data and AI.
Service Innovation
Service Design Thinking
Digital Service Business Models and Transformation
Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems
Autonomous Robotics
Get an introduction to methodologies, algorithms and technologies of mobile robots. In addition to theoretical foundations, emphasis is placed on the practical implementation of the basic concepts of autonomous robotics in experimental laboratory work.
Autonomous Robotics Lab
5 Topics From Financial Engineering
Digital Financial Markets
Gain a deep understanding of financial markets and the resulting business opportunities through topics including digitization, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and an introduction to Python programming.
Global Financial Markets
Block Chain Technology
Digital Currencies and Business Models
Python
Financial Economics for Data Scientists
Get to know the fundamentals and advances of modern finance, from corporate finance and strategic finance to ethics in finance and value theory. Learn how to view data science through the lens of data and algorithms.
Financial Economics
Fundamentals of Financial Data Science
Machine Learning for Data-Driven Decision Making
Experience how machine learning can be used to result in better decision making and to untap hidden value in data.
Machine Learning for Decision Makers
Fundamentals of Financial Machine Learning
Kernel and Bayesian Methods in Machine Learning
Engineering Aspects of Financial Markets
Understand the transformation of finance to financial engineering. Learn about no-arbitrage restrictions in futures and derivatives markets and how to exploit them using modern machine and data science approaches.
Fundamentals of Financial Engineering
Derivatives and Value of Optionality
Alternative Data and Machine Learning for Business Applications
Learn how to work with alternative data and new advances in predictive data analytics and machine learning to contribute to future business and finance innovations.
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
Advances in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
3 Topics From Mobility Systems Engineering
Processes, Methods and Tools of Systems Engineering
Get a comprehensive understanding of embedded systems and cyber-physical systems for mobility and industry 4.0 from requirements to practical implementation in hardware and in software.
Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
Modeling and Simulation
Process Models and Associated Assessments
Big Data Management
Case Study in Embedded Systems Development (incl. Rapid Prototyping)
Introduction Concept Study
Systems Design
Learn various data communication topologies and technologies for implementing an embedded system.
Control Systems Development
Embedded Systems Computer Architecture
Electronic Systems Synthesis (Hardware and Software) incl. Case Study
Future Vehicle Concept Study
Systems Integration and Validation
Experience various testing techniques – as well as self-learning functionalities - including validation in the real environment and the need for ongoing updates after the start of production with globally distributed release and configuration management.
Quality Assurance and Cost of QA of Electronic Systems
Testing Automotive Systems (XiL, virtual testing,…)
Case Study in Testing Automotive Systems
Release-, Configuration- and Update-Management of Self-Learning Functionality
2 Topics From Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
Functions of ADAS
Learn and understand the basis for compelling future driver assistance systems and automated vehicles. This ranges from traffic flow to autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle systems to car-to-X communication systems.
Driver Assistance Systems
Auto Control Systems
Driveability
Traffic Engineering and Control
Car-to-X-Communication
Components and Technology of ADAS
Intelligence in vehicles is based on sensors that collect a wide range of information and IT security systems that process it. Get to know various actuators and sensors in networked applications.
Automotive EMC Technology
Automotive Lighting
Mobile Perception Systems
IT Safety and Security
Hands-on training: Platooning
2 Topics From E-Mobility
E-Mobility - Political and Technical Framework
Get an overview of the framework for electric and hybrid electric vehicles, including transportation market policy, well-to-wheel climate impact analysis, energy management and distribution.
Introduction into Requirements, Solutions and Challenges of E-Mobility
Case Study
CO2-balances: Well to wheel
Transportation Markets & Policy
Energy Distribution
Energy Management
Noise, Vibration and Harshness for E-Mobility
E-Mobility - Components and Technology
Build up detailed knowledge of technical components of electric and hybrid drives, namely the electric machine, power electronics (hardware and control software), transmissions, driving resistances and energy consumption, and energy storage systems (batteries and fuel cells).
Electric Drive Trains
Power Electronics
Energy Conversion
Energy Output
Energy Storage: Batteries and Fuel Cells
Energy Storage: H2-Storage
5 Topics From Energy Engineering
Renewables
Receive an overview of the challenges of global energy supply, from primary energy sources, through the various stages of energy conversion, transport and distribution, to its ultimate use. Technical, ecological and socio-economic aspects are highlighted and enable you to make sustainble decicions.
Scope Energy Systems
Wind Power
Water Power
Solar and Geothermal Power
Thermal Energy Conversion
Experience the whole spectrum of fuel energy conversion by thermal processes for power and heat supply from fossil and biogenic fuels. Learn how to make sound assessments of technical, economic and ecological aspects.
Technical Combustion/ Heat and Mass Transfer
Thermal Power Plants inc. Coal and Gas Power Plants
Turbo Machinery
Carbon Capture and Storage
Energy from Biomass
Electricity Generation & Energy Storage
Gain insights into the operating principles and mechanisms of synchronous generators and the public as well as the scientific discussion and identifies boundary conditions with regard to energy storage requirements. Furthermore, available, state-of-the-art fuel cell technologies and their efficiencies as well as the involved opportunities and limitations are discussed.
Power Generators
Batteries and Fuel Cells
Hydrogen Technology
Thermal Storage
Photovoltaics
Power Electronics
Smart Networks & Energy Distribution
Get an overview of the major components, structure and operating behavior of power systems. This includes the basic knowledge of high voltage engineering, its function, state of the art and its behavior as well as aspects of transmission, distribution and network calculation and control.
Introduction to Power Systems/High Voltage Engineering
Components of Power Systems
Transmission and Distribution
Smart Grids & Emerging Technologies
Energy Economics
Analyze different peculiarities of the energy market from a technical-economic perspective and get the relevant knowledge to identify optimal strategies within this complex sector.
Companies are enabled to accelerate the change process with a customized further education approach.
The targeted continuing education e.g. in digital transformation or alternative powertrains guarantees a high degree of reliability and a direct transfer into the company.
