Why BerlIn - Global Production Engineering - TU Berlin

Opportunities
For Engineers
Businesses, research facilities, and universities
are being compelled to offer innovative,
effective, and efficient solutions more
and more rapidly in order to improve their
competitive position in today’s increasingly
global markets and to meet the demands of
their customers. This is particularly true in
the case of industry and technology-oriented
businesses, which are often involved in international
value-added chains.
If they are to succeed at this, they will need
people who are innovators in the problemsolving
process to drive technological development
in a global environment. Ever more
complex high-tech solutions require teamwork
in global networks, where people collaborate
with each other even as they compete with
each other. Competence in technical solutions,
economic knowledge and ecological and
social behavior are skills that engineers and
managers must have if they are to cope with
these tasks.
Meeting the increasing demand for such
highly qualified decision makers has necessitated
the creation of new approaches to
academic engineering education. A complete
university education must include technical,
management, and intercultural content
taught using innovative methods of instruction,
such as online learning and projectoriented
teaching.
The “Global Production Engineering,” or GPE,
course of studies was founded at the Berlin
Technical University specifically to deal with
these requirements. Since 1998, outstanding
graduate students in the engineering sciences
from around the world have been trained
in production, engineering, management,
and software skills in this Master of Science
program located in Berlin.
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