Study

The Master’s of Communications and Computer Engineering builds upon the content, methods and engineering competence acquired in the bachelor’s programme.

Students have the flexibility to customise their course of study by choosing from a broad spectrum of modularised course offerings and a diverse range of projects. They may, for instance, opt to delve deeply into one area of concentration, or alternatively, to develop competences in multiple core areas of electrical engineering. Thus, the programme allows both specialists and generalists to select a course of study that is the most appropriate for their future careers. Graduates leave the programme with a broad and detailed understanding of the state of the art in one or several areas of specialty.

Alongside the traditional lectures and coursework, students also acquire competence in various subject areas through projects completed in conjunction with seminars and internships. This ensures that knowledge is not only transferred on a theoretical level, but also through practical experience in creating real-world solutions while developing the student’s ability to work effectively within a team. Students have the opportunity to work in the university’s current areas of research and are also especially encouraged to participate in special projects with industry partners.

The ability adapt easily to the methods and terminology of future clients or project partners within interdisciplinary research groups is further reinforced in the elective subjects where the methods of electrical engineering are applied to other scientific disciplines such as mathematics, the natural sciences or medicine. This allows student to develop interdisciplinary competence.

The crowning piece of the course is the master’s thesis in which students research a current topic in their area of specialty. As is the case with internships and projects, students have the opportunity to work with the international research teams of the engineering department for their master’s thesis as well. This enables students to become independent researchers capable of designing their own research processes and developing their own problem-solving strategies.

The degrees conferred are equivalent to qualification level 7 of the German Qualifications Framework (DQR) and level 2 of the Qualifications Framework for German Higher Education Qualifications (QRDH). 

Knowledge: Graduates will have acquired profound and broad knowledge in the areas of engineering, mathematics, information science and the natural sciences. They are enabled to perform independent scientific work and to exhibit leadership and responsibility in both a professional setting and in society at large. Our engineers approach new findings in their field with a critical awareness.

Skills – Graduates are able to:

• analyse and solve scientific problems, even when they are unusually or insufficiently defined and reveal conflicting specifications.
• abstract and formulate complex problems emerging from new or developing areas of research.
• apply innovative methods of basic science problem solving as well as to develop new scientific methods.
• develop approaches and solutions to complex and at times unusual questions, and where necessary apply knowledge from outside disciplines.
• create and develop new work, products, processes and methods.
• use their scientific judgement as engineers and information scientists to work with complex and possibly incomplete information and to recognise and deal with contradictions.

Competence – Graduates possess the competence to:

• recognise what information they will need and to locate and acquire such information.
• plan and execute theoretical and experimental studies.
• critically evaluate and draw conclusions from data.
• study and evaluate the application of new and emerging technologies.

Beyond the bachelor’s qualifications, master’s graduates are also able to:

• methodically classify and systematically combine knowledge from diverse areas and deal with complexity.
• quickly and systematically acquaint themselves with new tasks.
• systematically reflect upon the overarching consequences of their work as engineers and to incorporate this reflection into responsible actions.
• critically question existing methods and where needed to develop these methods further.

The general qualifications for the practice of engineering acquired in the bachelor’s studies are expanded and developed in the master’s programme.

International students, researchers and guests will find all necessary information for their stay at the Ulm Universty at International Office

ERASMUS Koordinator: Prof. Carl Krill, Ph.D. carl.krill(at)uni-ulm.de