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Bachelor’s Degree Program
‘Mechanical Engineering’
The Bachelor’s degree program ‘Mechanical Engineering’
addresses students interested in natural sciences and
technology. Within the three-year program (six semesters),
students acquire fundamental knowledge, basic methodo-
logical skills as well as soft skills required for a mechanical
engineer. The program has a total of 180 credits of the
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
(ECTS).
Admission
To maintain the high quality standards of TUM all appli-
cants have to undergo an aptitude assessment procedure
evaluating their overall performance in the university
entrance examinations, knowledge in mathematics and
physics, language skills, and general motivation. Excellent
applicants are directly admitted to the Bachelor’s degree
program. Good applicants can be admitted to the Bach-
elor’s degree program after demonstrating their skills and
motivation in interviews.
New Curriculum
With the beginning of the winter semester 2017/18 new
Subject Examination and Study Regulations entered into
force.
What is new?
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The modules ‘Principles of Engineering Design and
Production Systems’, ‘Foundations of Business
Administration 1’ and the ‘Lab Course in Experimental
Physics for Engineering’ are no longer obligatory basic
subjects. Furthermore, in the 5th and 6th semesters,
practical courses have been replaced by an additional
supplementary module and the lecture ‘Mathematical
Tools’. This module imparts knowledge about the
implementation of scientific-engineering models and
methods by means of conventional programming
languages. The main focus is placed on MATLAB
combined with Simulink and Stateflow.
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The new module ‘Uncertainty and Data in Mechanical
Engineering’ (3rd semester) enables students to model
engineering problems containing uncertainty. Having
successfully passed the course students will be capa-
ble of estimating parameters of probabilistic models,
obtaining confidence intervals and testing hypotheses
as well as implementing these tasks in MATLAB.
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The nine week internship in industry can be substituted
by a team project where students learn how to solve
mechanical engineering problems. They work together
in small groups during the semester to examine an
engineering problem. Accompanying the students’
engineering work, soft skill teaching contents support
them regarding team work, time and project manage-
ment as well as product presentation.
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In addition to the Bachelor’s thesis, students have to
take part in the seminar ‘Scientific Practice’, where
research strategies (approach to and use of literature),
good scientific practice (correct way to quote), scien-
tific writing in English and presentation techniques are
taught.
Profile
During the first four semesters of the program, students
acquire profound knowledge of mathematics, the natural
sciences and several fundamental fields of engineering.
These challenging modules are compulsory and prepare
Curriculum of the Bachelor’s degree program ‘Mechanical Engineering’ at the TUM Department of Mechanical
Engineering.
5
Bachelor
Module I
5
Bachelor
Module III
5
Bachelor
Module II
5
Bachelor
Module IV
3
Supplem.
Course
5
Bachelor
Module V
5
Mathematical
Tools
3
Supplem.
Course
12
Project
Work
12
Bachelor’s Thesis
(+ Seminar)
7
Mathematics
I
6
Mathematics
II
6
Mathematics
III
5
Automatic
Control
6
Technical
Mechanics I
6
Fluid
Mechanics I
2
CAD I
5
CAD II
3
Information
Techn. I
5
Information
Technology II
9
Machine
Elements II
5
Materials
Science II
3
Technical
Electricity I
3
Technical
Electricity II
7
Technical
Mechanics III
6
Machine
Elements I
5
Materials
Science I
6
Thermodynamics
5
Heat Transfer
Phenomena
4
Physics
5
Modeling of Un
certainty and Data
3
Chemistry
2
Soft
Skills
1
2
3
4
5
6
Semester
30 per semester
ECTS (total: 180)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
FOUNDATION COURSE
6
Technical
Mechanics II
Studying at the Department of Mechanical Engineering