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2020 Electives: Project Management Skills

Course Aims:

The overall qualification goal of the module is to enable the students to plan, implement, and successfully complete projects economically, efficiently, and according to modern agile and classic management methods. They understand the project or product life cycle and, based on the mediating classic and agile project and product management methodology, they can create, analyze, interpret and evaluate individual essential building blocks of project management and apply them future-oriented. They will learn about challenges in ensuring quality (quality management), opportunities, and threats in development and implementation (risk management), and the principles of identifying user needs (requirements management). Furthermore, the students learn the roles, tasks, and processes in modern project management, as well as the special features and challenges in stakeholder management, and can implement this in the future in a communication and information management strategy. Also, the students are aware of the similarities and differences between individual and multi-project / project portfolio management.

Course Content:

At the end of the course, the students can act in the mediated roles in agile and classic projects, understand the essential project management processes, can generate central management documents themselves, and can apply and further deepen the methodology in future projects.

2020 Electives: Efficiency Management

The far-reaching changes brought about by the energy transition are increasingly affecting other industries. Policy objectives and stricter regulations require companies to be more responsive to their energy and resource consumption, but there can also be great opportunities. In addition to potential savings through greater energy efficiency, the utilization of flexibility options can also be used to justify new business models.

In this module, innovative research approaches in the fields of energy efficiency and building technology will be analyzed and applied in cooperation with companies from the respective fields, offering students and companies alike an attractive cooperation at the interface of entrepreneurial praxis, research and science – a win-win situation for both sides.

Students look at aspects of buildings and energy efficiency, including greenhouse gas emissions, demand management, combined heat and power, process chain management, energy efficiency technologies, amortization calculations, local heating and cooling supply, project management, and ISO standards. In doing so, they apply the knowledge gained in earlier modules in practice.


2021 Business

This module is an introduction to business studies. It covers the most important principles of business studies taking into account social responsibility and sustainable development. The module engages with the latest research and encourages a critical and reflective approach in providing a foundation in business studies for subsequent modules. Students will be able to define the main features of business studies, apply problem-solving skills to case studies using different fields of knowledge and present options for optimizing the energy sector.

2021 Economics

This module is an introduction to economics. It covers the most important principles of economics taking into account social responsibility and sustainable development. The module engages with the latest research and encourages a critical and reflective approach in providing a foundation in economics for subsequent modules. Students are able to identify specialized knowledge and aspects of economics and compare general and selected cases from the energy sector.

2021 Technology

In this module, students review and gain more in-depth general technical knowledge and knowledge of energy technologies and systems in the context of current developments taking into account social responsibility and sustainable development. The module also covers the most important technological insights, and the technological foundations of the subsequent modules are explained. Students will be able to define and evaluate various procedures and apply them to selected cases in the energy sector.