INFORMATION MEETING PTS & MPT STUDENTS REPRESENTATIVES OF POLYMER TECHNOLOGIES
AGENDA Main differences PTS & MPT Elective Tracks Elective Seminars 4 Steps before your Master Thesis 4 Steps towards a successful Master Exam 2
PTS VS. MPT Differences between PTS and MPT?
STRUCTURE Subjects PTS (479) MPT (480) ECTS Mandatory Subjects 50.8 X* Subjects X* 81 Elective Subjects 30.2 X* Master's Thesis (incl. Master's Thesis Seminar) 25 25 Master's Examination 2 2 Free Electives 12 12 Total 120 120 X* You don t have to do this in this Master degree program
STRUCTURE PTS (479) MPT (480) Subjects ECTS Mandatory Subjects ECTS Polymeric Materials and Testing Polymer Product Engineering 16.8 Basics in Polymer Technologies (Bridge Subject) 0/19 1 16.5 Management Basics 12 Polymer Processing 17.5 Management Advanced 15 Advanced Polymer Technologies 25 Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies 29/10 1 1 If admission to the Master's program has been based on a Bachelor's degree program in "Polymer Engineering and Technologies (according to 2 (2)), then the subject Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies with an amount of 29 ECTS points is required. Alternately, if admission to the program had been based on another Bachelor's degree program, according to 2 (3), then it is necessary to take the Bridge subject "Basics in Polymer Technologies" and the subject Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies with an amount of 10 ECTS points is required. [Find more details in the Master Curriculum for Management in Polymer Technologies (MPT)]
Business Administration MPT (480) Polymer Technology and Science PTS (479) Elective Subjects (At least two groups with 8 ECTS each) ECTS Chemistry and Chemical Technology 8 Physics of Materials and Materials Science 8 Process Technologies and Modelling 8 Process Automation and Control 8 Computational Engineering Sciences 8 Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering 8 Management and Business Administration 8 Polymer Industry and Sustainable Development 8 Soft Skills 0-3 Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies 10/29 Subject for the Master s Examination: Polymer Chemistry Subject for the Master s Examination: Polymeric Materials and Testing Subject for the Master s Examination: Polymer Processing Subject for the Master s Examination: Polymer Product Engineering & Design Subject for the Master s Examination: Management & Marketing Subject for the Master s Examination: Finance & Accounting
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ELECTIVE TRACKS Which guidelines are there for distribution of the elective tracks?
MPT (480) PTS (479) Elective Subjects (At least two groups with 8 ECTS each) ECTS Chemistry and Chemical Technology 8 Physics of Materials and Materials Science 8 Process Technologies and Modelling 8 Process Automation and Control 8 Computational Engineering Sciences 8 Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering 8 Management and Business Administration 8 Polymer Industry and Sustainable Development 8 Soft Skills 0-3 Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies 29/10 Management, Economics and Law 0-26 Polymer Technologies and Science 3-29 Soft Skills 0-3 - - -
SUB-GROUPS OF ADVANCED ELECTIVES (MPT) Sub-group "Management, Economics and Law : general management and micro-economics macro-economics specific topics related to technical law Sub-group "Polymer Technologies and Science : polymer chemistry and physical chemistry polymer related chemical process and production technologies advanced polymer processing technologies polymer product and process development Sub-group "Soft Skills : gender and diversity 12
SUB-GROUPS OF ADVANCED ELECTIVES (PTS) Chemistry and Chemical Technology Physics of Materials and Material Science Process Technologies and Modelling Process Automation and Control Computational Engineering Sciences Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Management and Business Administration Polymer Industry and Sustainable Development 13
HOW ELECTIVE TRACKS ARE DISTRIBUTED MPT PTS 29 ECTS needed 30,2 ECTS needed Management, Economics & Law 0-26 ECTS Polymer Technologies and Science 3 29 ECTS (at least one Seminar) Soft Skills 0 3 ECTS SE Scientific Tutorial has to be done at the Institute that s responsible for your Masterthesis At least 16 ECTS (8 ECTS for each needed) in two different Sub-Groups Possibility to pass more than 8 ECTS in one Sub-Group It is required to pass at least one Seminar in the Sub-Group Polymer Technologies and Science SE Scientific Tutorial hast to be done at the Institute that s responsible for your Masterthesis 14
ELECTIVE SEMINARS Which mandatory seminars must be completed?
CURRICULUM Seminars in Polymer Technologies of at least 3 to max. 7.5 ECTS must be completed in the subject "Advanced Electives in Management and Polymer Technologies". (MPT) Elective track. (PTS) Source: Curricula (MPT), (PTS) respectively
SEMINARS Seminars with 3 ECTS Scientific Tutorials with 4,5 ECTS SE Seminar in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding SE Seminar in Polymer Injection Moulding SE Seminar in Polymer Product Engineering SE Seminar in Polymeric Materials and Testing* Should be completed at the master thesis institute SE Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding SE Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Injection Moulding SE Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Product Engineering SE Scientific Tutorial in Polymeric Materials and Testing* Must be completed at the master thesis institute * No variable teaching content (source: CEUS)
ELECTIVE TRACKS Which semester do the courses take place? - PTS
ELECTIVE TRACK Chemistry and Chemical Technology Lecture Type ECTs Availability Chemistry and Technology of Silicone Elastomers VL 2,60 WS High Resolution Microscopy II - Scanning Probe Techniques VL 1,50 SS High Resolution Microscopy I - Optical and Electron Microscopy Techniques VL 1,50 SS Nanofiltration UE 1,50 WS Nanofiltration VL 1,50 WS Advanced Polymer Synthesis Lab Course PR 6,00 WS Functional Polymers VL 1,30 SS Molecularly Imprinted Polymers VL 1,30 WS Polymer Chemistry 2 VL 2,60 WS Polymerization Techniques VL 2,60 SS Polyolefins VL 1,30 WS Laboratory Course of Polymer Chemistry 2 PR 6,00 SS Synthesis and Characterisation of Polymer Products VL 1,30?? Synthetic Polymers for Biology and Medicine VL 1,50 WS Technical Biopolymers VL 1,30 SS Technical Polymeric Materials VL 1,30 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Chemistry and Chemical Technology Lecture Type ECTs Availability Exercises in Polymer Chemistry 2 UE 1,60 WS Exercises in Polymerization Techniques UE 1,60 WS Chemische Technologie Organischer Stoffe I VL 5,20 WS Chemische Technologie Organischer Stoffe II VL 5,20 SS Experimental methods in Rheology KV 3,00 WS Physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces II KV 3,20?? Unconventional Lithography: Micro- und Nanostructuring with Polymers VL 1,30 WS Chemische Technologie Organischer Stoffe III VL 2,60 SS Chemische Technologie Organischer Stoffe IV VL 2,60 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Physics of Materials and Material Science Lecture Type ECTs Availability Structure and Properties of Biological Materials VL 1,30 WS Halbleiter- und Festkörperphysik VL 4,50 WS Material Selection, Product Design and Qualification KV 3,00?? Organic semiconducting polymers VL 3,00 SS Polymer Composite Technologies VL 4,50?? Polymeric Materials 6 - Main polymeric materials classes KV 3,00?? Polymeric Materials 7 - Polymers in special applications KV 3,00?? Scientific Tutorial in Polyermic Materials and Testing SE 4,50 WS/SS Seminar in Polymeric Materials and Testing SE 3,00 WS/SS Company Visits: Polymer Industry UE 1,00 WS/SS Introduction to Nano-Biomechanics VL 1,50?? Bionics - biomimetic Materials and Polymers VL 1,30 SS Einführung in die Laserbearbeitung VL 3,00 SS Physics of Soft Matter VL 3,00 SS Advanced Microscopy VL 3,00 SS Ausgewählte Kapitel aus Physik der weichen Materie VL 3,00 WS Metallphysik VL 3,00 SS Physik der kondensierten Materie VL 3,00 SS Seminar aus Angewandter Physik SE 3,00 WS/SS Spezialpraktikum aus Physik der weichen Materie PR 9,00 WS/SS Polymerwerkstoffe 2: Additive für Polymerwerkstoffe VL 2,50 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Process Technologies and Modelling Lecture Type ECTs Availability Computational Modelling and Simulation of Polymer Extrusion Processes KV 4,50?? Optimization Methods in Polymer Processing KV 3,00 WS Polymer Injection Moulding 1: Machine Engineering UE 1,50 WS Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding SE 4,50 WS Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Injection Moulding SE 4,50 WS/SS Selected Topics in Polymer Processing SE 2,00 WS Seminar in Polymer Injection Moulding SE 3,00 WS Seminar in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding SE 3,00 WS Technologies for Joining and Forming KV 3,00?? Tensorial Rheology VL 2,60 SS Exercises in Transport Processes UE 1,60?? Company Visits: Polymer Industry UE 1,00 WS/SS Packaging VL 2,50 WS Polymer Product and Process Development Project PR 4,00 SS Polymer Product and Process Development VL 3,00 SS Statistische Methoden VL 3,00 WS Ausgewählte Kapitel der Computergestützten Methoden der Mechanik KV 3,00 WS Transportprozesse VL 2,60 SS Statistische Methoden UE 1,50 WS Viscous Fluid Flow KV 1,00 WS
ELECTIVE TRACK Process Automation and Control Lecture Type ECTs Availability Applied Measurement and Control in Polymer Processing KV 1,50 SS Production Systems Engineering and Process Automation KV 3,00?? Polymer Product and Process Development VL 3,00 SS Automatisierungstechnik 1 UE 1,25 SS Automatisierungstechnik 1 VL 3 SS Elektrische Messtechnik und Sensorik 1 UE 1,25 WS Elektrische Messtechnik und Sensorik 1 VL 3 WS Elektrische Messtechnik und Sensorik 2 UE 1,25 SS Elektrische Messtechnik und Sensorik 2 VL 3 SS Entwurf elektrischer Antriebe und Aktuatoren KV 2,75 WS Rechnerbasierter Entwurf von Regelkreisen KV 4,5 WS Pneumatik KV 3 SS Ölhydraulik KV 4,5 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Mechanical Engineering Lecture Type ECTs Availability Mathematische Methoden der Kontinuumsmechanik VL 6 WS Computational Modelling and Simulation of Polymer Extrusion Processes KV 4,5?? Design of Lightweight Structures UE 2,5 WS Engineering with Soft Materials KV 3 SS Experimental Solid Mechanics for Polymeric Components PR 2,5 WS Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Product Engineering SE 4,5 SS Seminar in Polymer Product Engineering SE 3 WS/SS Structural Health Monitoring VL 3 WS Structural Integrity Assesment of Polymer Structures KV 3 SS Tribology of Polymeric Materials KV 3?? Company Visits: Polymer Industry UE 1 WS/SS Computerunterstütztes Konstruieren - CAD VL 3 SS Experimentelle und numerische Methoden der Mechanik PR 4,5 WS Experimentelle und numerische Methoden der Mechanik VL 3 SS Höhere Festigkeitslehre VL 3 WS Servohydraulik KV 3 WS Thermofluiddynamik KV 3 WS Computer-aided geometric design VL 3 SS Mathematische Methoden der Kontinuumsmechanik UE 3 WS Ausgewählte Kapitel der Computergestützten Methoden der Mechanik KV 3 WS Structural Durabillity and Damage Tolerance VL 3??
ELECTIVE TRACK Management and Business Administration Lecture Type ECTs Availability Cross Cultural Management for Engineers IK 3 SS Environmental, Resource and Quality Management for Engineers IK 3 SS Finance, Accounting and Taxation IK 3 WS/SS Finance, Accounting and Taxation VL 3 WS/SS International Finance for Engineers IK 3 WS International Marketing for Engineers IK 3 WS Management and Marketing IK 3 WS/SS Management and Marketing VL 3 WS/SS Managerial Accounting for Engineers IK 3 WS Patent Law and Intellectual Property VL 2,6 SS Global Management and Strategy SE 3 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Polymer Industries and Sustainable Development Lecture Type ECTs Availability Structure and Properties of Biological Materials VL 1,3 WS Energy and Resource Efficiency in Polymer Processing KV 3?? Material Selection, Product Design and Qualification KV 3?? Organic semiconducting polymers VL 3 SS Photovoltaic VL 3 SS Polymer Industry and Sustainable Development SE 2?? Scientific Tutorial in Polyermic Materials and Testing SE 4,5 WS/SS Seminar in Polymeric Materials and Testing SE 3 WS/SS Company Visits: Polymer Industry UE 1 WS/SS Environmental, Resource and Quality Management for Engineers IK 3 SS Polymeric Materials 5 - Polymeric Mat. & Sust. Developm. KV 3 WS Bionics - biomimetic Materials and Polymers VL 1,3 SS Technical Biopolymers VL 1,3 SS Principles and concepts in the synthesis of biological composites KV 3,2?? Umweltverfahrenstechnik VL 3?? Global Management and Strategy SE 3 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Soft Skills Lecture Type ECTs Availability Gender Studies Managing Equality TN KV 3 WS/SS Ethics and Gender Studies VL 3 WS/SS Präsentationstechnik und Rhetorik KV 1,6 WS/SS Spezialthemen der Philosophie KS 3 WS/SS
ELECTIVE TRACKS In which semester do the courses take place? - MPT
ELECTIVE TRACK Management, Economics and Law Lecture Type ECTs Availability Production and Logistic Management KS 2,00 WS Global Management and Strategy SE 3,00 SS Master Course Creating Strategic Advances KS 6,00 WS/SS Master Course Dimensions of Marketing Theory and Managerial Applications KS 6,00 WS/SS Master Course Organization KS 6,00 WS/SS Master Course Advances in Strategic Change and Learning KS 6,00 WS/SS Master Course Managerial Accounting KS 6,00 WS/SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Management, Economics and Law Lecture Type ECTs Availability Empirical Economic Research KS 4,00 WS Empirical Economic Research IK 2,00 WS Introduction to Economics KS 3,00 WS/SS Income, Employment and Financial Markets KS 4,00 WS/SS Markets and Economic Decision Making KS 4,00 WS/SS Markets and Economic Decision Making IK 4,00 WS/SS Market Economy and Government Activities KS 3,00 WS/SS Market Economy and Government Activities IK 3,00 WS/SS Income, Employment and Financial Markets IK 3,00 WS/SS Managerial Economics KS 3,00 WS/SS Taxes and Government Expenditure KS 3,00 SS Growth, Cycles and Economic Policy KS 3,00 WS/SS Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates KS 3,00 WS/SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Management, Economics and Law Lecture Type ECTs Availability Fundamentals of Company Law and Law of Associations VL 2,00 SS Law of Employment Relationship VL 2,00 WS Public Law VL 4,00 WS/SS Privat Law VU 4,00 WS Standardisation and Technics VL 2,00 WS Law Converning Quality Assurance and Product Liability VL 2,00 WS/SS Law of Appointed Experts VL 2,00 WS Subventions Law VL 2,00 WS/SS Technical Security Law VL 6,00 SS Public Procurement Law VL 2,00 WS/SS Patent Law and Intellectual Property VL 2,60 SS Formation of Contracts VL 0,50 WS
ELECTIVE TRACK Polymer Technologies and Science Lecture Type ECTs Availability Structure and Properties of Biological Materials VL 1,30 WS Structural Rheology to Polymer Chemistry KV 3,00 SS Applied Measurement and Control in Polymer Processing KV 1,50 SS Chemistry and Technology of Silicone Elastomers VL 2,60 WS Design of Lightweight Structures UE 2,50 WS High Resolution Microscopy II - Scanning Probe Techniques High Resolution Microscopy I - Optical and Electron Microscopy Techniques Material Selection, Product Design and Qualification VL 1,50 SS VL 1,50 SS KV 3,00 - Structure Development in Polymeric Materials VL 3,00 WS Photovoltaic VL 3,00 SS Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces VL 1,50 SS Polymer Composite Technologies VL 4,50 - Polymer Extrusion and Compounding 2: Modelling Screw Extrusion Polymeric Materials 6 - Main Polymeric Materials Classes Polymeric Materials 7 - Polymers in Special Applications VL 3,00 SS KV 3,00 - KV 3,00 -
ELECTIVE TRACK Polymer Technologies and Science Lecture Type ECTs Availability Polymer Industry and Sustainable Development SE 2,00 - Polymer Injection Moulding 1: Machine Engineering Polymer Injection Moulding 2: Process Technologies Scientific Tutorial in Polymeric Materials and Testing Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding UE 1,50 WS KS 3,00 SS SE 4,50 WS/SS SE 4,50 WS Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Injection Moulding SE 4,50 WS/SS Scientific Tutorial in Polymer Product Engineering SE 4,50 SS Seminar in Polymer Injection Moulding SE 3,00 WS Seminar in Polymer Extrusion and Compounding SE 3,00 WS Seminar in Polymeric Materials and Testing SE 3,00 WS/SS Seminar in Polymer Product Engineering SE 3,00 WS/SS Technologies for Joining and Forming KV 3,00 - Solid State Physik for Teacher Training Physics and Biophysics VL 3,00 WS Packaging VL 2,50 WS Safety Analysis and Modeling KV 3,00 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Polymer Technologies and Science Lecture Type ECTs Availability Special and Advanced Methods of Polymer Characterization KV 3,00 - Chemical Interactions in Polymers VL 1,30 SS Laboratory Course of Polymer Chemistry 2 PR 6,00 SS Exercises in Polymer Chemistry 2 UE 1,60 WS Exercises in Polymerization Techniques UE 1,60 WS Analytical Chemistry III VL 2,60 SS Special Topics Mathematical Methods in Engineering Special Topics Mathematical Methods in Engineering UE 1,50 - VL 3,00 SS Physics of Soft Matter VL 3,00 SS Physics of Condensed Matter VL 3,00 SS Chemical Plant Design and Equipment Technology VL 2,60 WS Instrumentation and Process Automation VL 2,60 SS Engineering with Soft Materials KV 3,00 SS
ELECTIVE TRACK Soft Skills Lecture Type ECTs Availability Gender Studies Managing Equality TN KV 3,00 WS/SS Ethics and Gender Studies VL 3,00 WS/SS Techniques of Presentation and Rhetoric KV 1,60 WS Special Topics of Philosophy KS 3,00 WS/SS
MASTER THESIS TO DO 4 Steps before your Master Exam
STEP 1 REGISTRATION Print the form: http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e241/e3285 Submit it to the Department of Examination and Recognition Services The thesis should only take you 6 months afterwards
STEP 2 WRITE YOUR THESIS Use the new corporate design Ask at your Institute for more guidelines Don t forget to include the Statutory Declaration More informations: http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e241/e3285
STEP 3 SUBMIT YOUR THESIS Print versions 2 hard-bound copies (no spiral binding) Submit to the Department of Examination and Recognition Services Electronic version Electronic version must be uploaded at the following address as a PDF file before submitting the print version: http://thesis.jku.at/ You must enable Usage Rights in your PDF document The document may not contain scanned images as a print version Do not secure your document or set a password The document must be saved in a ISO 19005-1 compatible formate (PDF/A) Attention Electronic and print versions must be completely identical Only one working day may pass between
STEP 4 SUBMIT YOUR EXAMINATION ROSTER Print the roster: http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e241/e3286/e4000 Submit it to the Department of Examination and Recognition Services Submit the roster and the print versions of the thesis AT LEAST 4 weeks before the exam
MASTER EXAM TO DO 4 Steps towards a successful Master Exam
STEP 1 REQUIREMENTS Completion of Subjects under 4 & 5 in Curriculum ( 4 MPT) Completion of Master Thesis, Master Thesis Seminar & Free Electives
STEP 2 EXAMINATION COMMITTEE Professor from Master Thesis Institute/Department Head of Committee: Ideally a Prof. from same Module 1 3rd Member: Additional Prof. from different Module 1 [1]: See 4 Mandatory Subjects in PTS Curriculum/ 4 (5)+(6) in combination with 8 (6)+(7) in MPT
STEP 3 BUREAUCRACY Print: http://www.jku.at/content/e262/e241/e3286/e4000 Ask the appropriate Professors according to Step 2 Submit the form AT LEAST 4 weeks before the exam Submit it at Prüfungs- und Anerkennungsservice JKU
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