Why BerlIn - Global Production Engineering - TU Berlin

Business Administration
Dr. Christoph v. Braun
christoph@von-braun.com
Business Administration
MSc. Shahid Qureshi
quresh.shahid@gmail.com
German for Engineers
Dipl.-Germ. Kathrin Herrmann
kherrmann1963@yahoo.com
Module Group d:
Intercultural
Communication
Module Group E:
special Profile
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• German for Engineers is designed to help
engineering students build the necessary
technical language skills for work and everyday
communication. This language course is
an integral part of Intercultural Communication.
Future engineers spend four classroom
hours a week learning the German language.
This prepares them for their six-month internship
in a German company and possibly for
later activities as well.
• Technology and Knowledge Transfer teaches
students the political and social framework
surrounding technical applications. Training
is done by knowledge transfer against a
historical and theoretical background, taking
intercultural management into consideration.
The focus is on the cultural dimensions and
intercultural study as well as on identifying
dominant cultural profiles and variables.
The purpose of this module group is to provide
a place in the curriculum to hold new
events and offer new lectures by lecturers
from outside the university. It also enables
regular updating and continuous improvement
of the teaching program.
• Environmental Management covers
implementation of components of environmental
management systems and the
control elements used in environmental
management.
• Project and Technology Management
Project Management is designed to enable
students to set up planning processes in
projects, manage ongoing projects, learn
how to use risk and quality management
tools for projects, and how to set up
communication and negotiation processes.
Technology Management is designed
to help students apply the concepts of