Continuing advances in automation and control technology make it a key enabler for ever more application areas in nearly all aspects of daily life. The Master's degree program in Automation and Robotics provides the necessary fundamentals for a professional career in the information age fields of automation, control, and robotics.
This English-language degree program is aligned with international benchmarks, offering very good teaching, well-equipped modern laboratories, and opportunities for application-oriented research. Interdisciplinarity is built into its structure, with active participation by the faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Computer Science, Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, and Mathematics as well as the Robotics Research Institute and the Fraunhofer Institute for Logistics.
The challenging range of courses enables students to develop their strengths and thus form their own profile in one of three major fields:
• Cognitive Systems
• Process Automation
• Robotics.
In the first semester, mandatory courses and Matlab training establish the prerequisites for the following semesters. In the second and third semesters, compulsory elective modules in the subject-matter focus area may be selected. The project group gives students the experience of collaborating to tackle a comprehensive scientific-technical problem within a specified period of time. In the fourth semester, a Master's thesis in the chosen major, building on the compulsory elective subjects, is written.
Due to the flexibility of the Master's program in Automation and Robotics, it is possible to integrate a stay abroad into your studies at any time.
Knowledge and skills
Prerequisite for enrollment is a relevant Bachelor's degree with a good grade (2.5) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Information and Communications Technology, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering from TU Dortmund University or a comparable degree.
According to the examination regulations (§3), comparability of degrees obtained at other universities is generally granted if the degree program has the following subject-related content:
a) at least 18 ECTS credits from the field of mathematics and
b) at least 12 ECTS credits from the field of computer science and
c) knowledge of English proven, for example, through
Professional fields
Graduates can work in research and development as well as design and production in many industries including, for example, the automobile, chemical, and aerospace industries. Comprehensive and up-to-date specialist knowledge, skills, and methods, flexible course options, practical components such as the project group, and a very good supervisory relationship during the study program equip graduates for the responsible implementation of engineering activities in industry and business and establish the preconditions for further academic qualifications, for example a doctoral degree.
Further information
The application period for the winter semester ends six months before the term begins, in March of the respective year.