After successful completion of the course, students are able to find their way around the university and to understand the corresponding curriculum. They gain insight into the university structure, faculty structure, study law and also become familiar with the responsibility that technicians have in our society.

On the 1st day of the Semester all first semester students of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering will be welcomed.

Here, the students will learn all the information needed to register for courses and will be informed about further lessons of this introductory course.

At 8:00 am, the students of the study programs Mechanical Engineering (MB) as well as Mechanical Engineering – Management (WIMB) will be welcomed. After the welcome address, the Fachschaft Maschinenbau holds the first semester tutorial.

Every Wednesday and Thursday from 08:00 – 08:55 there will be lessons on study law, university structure, technology and society as well as the presentation of individual institutes and research divisions of the faculty.

After the lecture series, the students will choose a workshop in which they will learn more about a research area.

Attendance (in person) is compulsory to complete the course.

Lecture with PowerPoint with additional discussions of case studies. Direct support by first-semester tutors.

This course starts on October 1st in the lecture hall FH HS 1. 

During the semester there are 3 examinations, of which (for a positive completion of the LVA) min. 2 must be completed positively.

The exams always start punctually at 8:00 am and last exactly 10 minutes. The exams can not be repeated! The dates of these exams will be announced one week in advance.

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