Quality, Safety and Environment
Master
Quality is an aspiration of any industry. Only when high quality standards are met, will product sales be profitable. This necessitates the investment of financial resources in the production process as well as in environment and safety. Thus, quality and safety form the basis for the sustainable development of an economy.
The QSE M.Sc. course focuses on the scientific background of quality, safety and environment. Management aspects are also addressed.
Quality: Quality management (including ISO 9000), quality design by statistical process control, quality through intelligent process control, product quality in the chemical industry.
Safety: Probabilistic calculations for accidents in industries, consequences of accidents in industries, modelling and simulation in industrial safety, safety management in major industries, safety aspects of transport and storage of bulk materials, safety aspects of chemical reactions, ergonomics of occupational safety, experimental fire and explosion protection, safety as a learning process
Environment: Environmental politics, strategies, and economy, air pollution controls, laboratory experiments (including use of a mobile laboratory), combustion technology, waste water treatment, clean-up of contaminated sites, global warming, combustion and thermal disposal, traffic and environment.
System aspects play an important role. For example, the safety of an entire plant is addressed, making it clear that improvements in one section might be detrimental in another and hence have a negative overall impact. The students are taught to think in terms of such contexts.
QSE has received accreditation by ASII, a German Accreditation Agency specialised in accrediting degree programs from the fields of engineering, informatics/computer science, the natural sciences and mathematics.
Degree awarded
M.Sc. degree
Course beginning & duration
The Course begins in October of every year. Its duration is one year and it lasts from the beginning of October until the end of September.
Course language
Tuition is exclusively in English. However, students are encouraged to make use of German courses offered by the university in order to enable them to deal with matters of daily life.
German language course
A German language course prior to the beginning of the programme is optional.
Target group
Junior staff members from companies in the process and engineering industries, holding a degree in engineering. They will be capable to deal competently with specific questions related to the various areas of the course as well as with the corresponding management tasks. They may work as safety, quality or environmental engineers, consultants, chartered engineers, etc.
Application deadline
Application deadline for DAAD candidates: 31st of August of the year prior to start at the German embassy in the applicants' country and 15th of October of the year prior to start at the university.
Application deadline for self-financing candidates: 15th of January of the starting year.
Admission requirements
Candidates are required to hold a B.Sc. plus at least 2 years of industrial experience, a M.Sc. or an equivalent degree with excellent achievements in process or chemical engineering. Applications of candidates from closely related fields will be considered.
Non-native speakers must prove a command of English corresponding to 550 points (paper-based) or 213 points (computer-based) or 80 points (internet-based) of the international TOEFL test (ETS - Dep. No. 0183) or alternatively as follows: Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) - minimum score: C, Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) - minimum score: B, International English Language Testing System (IELTS) - minimum overall band score: 6.0
Kontakt
QSE Coordinator
Department of Process
Design and Safety
Institute of Process Equipment
and Environmental Technology
Building 23 | Room 307
Phone +49 (0) 3 91/67-1 81 17
Fax +49 (0) 3 91/67-1 11 28