BSc Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen – Sustainable Production and Business (SPB)

• You will receive an interdisciplinary education, specialising in production as well as sustainable product and business development.

• Your studies combine lectures, project work, laboratories and business games. And internship semester is integrated. ESB Business School and its teaching staff maintain close contacts with business and make good use of the practical experience this offers.

• English-language lectures and a semester abroad at one of our numerous international partner universities worldwide are fixed components of the degree programme and make you fit for a global working environment.

• During your studies, you will go through and control a complete product development and realisation process, right up to marketing the product or your own spin-off.

• You will plan and implement your product idea in small teams. Our lecturers will guide and support you in the process. Small group sizes with good supervision ratios are also the order of the day in our regular lectures.

• In addition to specialist knowledge, social and language skills are also taught, because both these things are important for the coordination of complex production processes and the realisation of a business idea.

Among other things, the course of study deals with the following questions:

•     How can the use of resources and energy and the design of the production environment be as sustainable as possible?
•     How does an idea become a product?
•     What production technology, manufacturing structure and work organization does a company need to be able to fulfill its goals?
•     What steps must be taken from the product idea to organizing the production of a prototype to marketing and founding a company?
•     How do you optimize processes through digitalization and which digital tools can be used to design production?
•     Are environmentally and climate-friendly technologies used?
•     Are social and health aspects taken into account in production and the company?

After two basic semesters and one in-depth semester, you can apply and prove your acquired knowledge and skills in an internship semester.

In the following semester abroad, you will study at one of our international partner universities. This is followed by another in-depth semester at the ESB Business School with us in Reutlingen. And in the final 7th semester, you will write your final thesis in a company.