• open admission

For inclusion in a master's degree is the completion of studies at the Bachelor's level requirement.
The subject-specific entry requirements are set out in the current Aufnahme-/Zulassungsordnung (admission regulations).
It also includes the different deadlines for the provision of evidence.

If proof of German language skills is required: Information on German language skills.

The M.Sc. Sustainable Process Engineering has a standard duration of four semesters and comprises 120 credit points (CP). The language of instruction is English. The programme can be started in both the winter and summer semester.

Compared to a Bachelor's programme, the Master's programme places much greater emphasis on acquiring and developing methodological knowledge and skills that play an essential role in the professional qualification of future graduates. Therefore, the course content is divided equally between advanced fundamentals and specialised modules in process engineering, supplemented by a practical module, an elective area that also offers opportunities to acquire interdisciplinary and non-subject specific skills, and the Master's thesis.

Module areas:

1st - 2nd semester: Foundations (36 CP),

1st - 3rd semester: Advanced Modules Process Engineering (24 CP),

1st - 2rd semester: Elective Modules Engineering (12 CP),

3rd semester: Practical Module (12 CP), Free Elective Module (6 CP),

4th semester: Master's Thesis (30 CP).

To ensure the best possible study experience, the first two semesters do not build on each other. Instead, they can be studied in any order without any prerequisites. In the third semester, students work on a research project, for which topics are assigned in both the winter and summer semesters. Alternatively, an industrial internship (12 CP) can be completed.

In the elective area, engineering modules worth 12 CP can be taken according to the student's own interests, and 6 CP can be chosen freely.

The fourth semester is reserved for the Master's thesis, which is worth 30 CP. To register for the Master's thesis, students must have completed the project or industrial internship and have earned at least 60 CP. 

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Wintersemester:

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering (6 CP)
• Thermodynamics of Mixtures (6 CP)
• Sustainable Chemical Process Engineering (6 CP)

Sommersemester:

• Mass transfer in two-phase flows (6 CP)
• Advanced Particle Technology (6 CP)
• Process Chains (6 CP)

Weiterführende Module Process Engineering, z.B.;

• Process Monitoring and Optimization
• Environmental Process Engineering
• Lab Environmental Process Engineering
• Plant Design and Process Analytics
• Thermal Energy Technology (Modern Energy Conversion?)
• Atomization Processes
• Atomistic Simulation of Biological Macromolecules
• Electrochemical Systems
• Circular Economy
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Regenerative Fuels and Chemicals

Foundations

Winter semester:

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering (6 CP)
• Thermodynamics of Mixtures (6 CP)
• Sustainable Chemical Process Engineering (6 CP)

Summer semester:

• Mass transfer in two-phase flows (6 CP)
• Advanced Particle Technology (6 CP)
• Process Chains (6 CP)

Advanced Modules Process Engineering, e.g.:

• Process Monitoring and Optimization
• Environmental Process Engineering
• Lab Environmental Process Engineering
• Plant Design and Process Analytics
• Thermal Energy Technology (Modern Energy Conversion?)
• Atomization Processes
• Atomistic Simulation of Biological Macromolecules
• Electrochemical Systems
• Circular Economy
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Regenerative Fuels and Chemicals

A stay abroad in the form of a semester of study, an internship or to write a project or master's thesis can be ideally integrated into the programme from the third semester onwards, as the examination regulations and an individually regulated recognition practice allow for a very flexible structure of the programme. Existing cooperation agreements can be used for this purpose. The department has numerous European partner universities, some of which are specifically geared towards process engineering courses, such as the University of Palermo (Italy) and the University of Liège (Belgium).

The master's programme is strongly research-oriented and thus offers the best conditions for a successful career in a wide range of technology and research fields. At the same time, the profound education across a broad variety of sustainable processes qualifies graduates for employment in the process engineering industry and in comparable high-tech sectors.

• Chemistry
• Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering

Within the Energy and Resources research focus area of the Department of Production Engineering – Mechanical and Process Engineering (FB 04), in addition to a large number of collaborative projects funded by the DLR, BMFTR, DFG, and BMWE involving the institutes and chairs of process engineering, there are also projects that extend far beyond the boundaries of the department. About 60 researchers are collaborating in the Cluster of Excellence "The Mars Perspective: Resource Scarcity as the Basis for a Paradigm of Sustainability," which is funded under the German Federal and State Excellence Initiative. Together, they are exploring how scarce resources can lead to sustainable solutions. Process engineering concepts play a role not only in scenarios involving the sustainable exploration and colonization of the Red Planet by humans, but also—and perhaps even more importantly—in the insights gained from these efforts that can be applied back here on Earth. Scientists are adopting the “Mars perspective” to rethink the production of materials and components here on Earth from the ground up: The scarcity of resources and extreme environmental conditions on the Red Planet serve as an experimental setting for developing a new paradigm of sustainability that enables innovative, resource- and energy-efficient processes for material extraction and processing. In the long term, the cluster aims to contribute to sustainable space exploration, but above all to drive the green transition on Earth.

To simulate this scenario, the researchers impose self-imposed constraints in four dimensions, for which they develop solutions within the cluster: limited raw materials, limited electrical energy, limited labor, and limited information. Taking these constraints into account, three scientific objectives are pursued: First, the development of (bio-)electrochemical methods that do not rely on fossil fuels and can be used to produce metals, plastics, and other (vital) raw materials—such as oxygen—even from low-quality feedstock. Second, the experimental demonstration of low-energy process chains that can be used to manufacture a range of components of sufficient quality (“enough-to-use”) from the extracted raw materials. Third, the development of innovative operating concepts for production facilities that are operated jointly by small teams of humans and robots under conditions of high uncertainty and limited information.

Numerous other collaborative research projects are being conducted at the three interdisciplinary centers in which Department 04 plays a key role: the MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, the Bremen Research Center for Energy Systems (BEST), and the Center for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technologies (UFT).