Lightweight and Materials Engineering

Building the future!

Function, safety, lightweight, design, cost, durability and sustainability – the right choice of material is crucial for all products. Lightweight design and minimising material usage are essential when moving masses, given climate change and rising energy costs along with managing our limited resources. Understanding the interaction between materials – whether metals, composites, or plastics – their manufacturing processes, and part design is the basis for innovative solutions. This degree enables you to develop high-performance car-, aircraft- or spacestructures, sports equipment, durable and perfectly shaped consumer goods up to innovative environmentally friendly food packaging. Lightweight design and materials engineering make a decisive contribution to achieving climate, resource, and sustainability goals. This degree course offers a wide range of opportunities in a future-oriented industry. It combines innovation, technology, and sustainability.

Career

Graduates are prepared to work in various roles, shaping ideas as product developers, fine-tuning the weight and durability as structural or simulation engineers, and realizing them in an industrial setting by developing and optimising manufacturing processes including tooling systems – always with the perfect material in mind. Internships, projects, and guest lecturers establish easy contact with our local as well as international industrial and research partners. The international-friendly bachelor’s degree program Lightweight & Materials Engineering offers the unique opportunity to acquire not only a cutting-edge engineering degree but also German language skills and opens employment opportunities in Europe and beyond.