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Overview Curriculum
Credits represent points awarded for work completed successfully in a given module (Credits are commonly referred to as credit points, ECTS points, CP or ECTS credit points).
The greater the total student workload required to complete a module, the higher the number of credits the module is assigned. The rule is: 1 Credit ≙ 30 hrs student workload.
Figure 1 shows an exemplary overview of the courses. All courses can be attended in any order; however, compulsory courses are strongly recommended to be taken in the first semester.
Figure 1: Overview of the schedule.
Compulsory Modules
For a more detailed description of the modules, please refer to TUM-online.
Compulsory Modules: Fundamentals
Nr. | Name | Semester | Credits |
| MW2360 | Probability Theory and Uncertainty Quantification | WS | 5 |
| ED130037 | Reliability and safety analysis | WS | 5 |
Compulsory Modules: Risk & Society
Compulsory Modules: Risk in practice
Compulsory Modules: Master's Thesis
Nr. | Name | Semester | Credits |
| ED100020 | Master‘s Thesis | - | 30 |
Elective Modules
For a more detailed description of the modules, please refer to TUM-online.
Elective Modules: Risk methods & analysis
15 credits must be chosen from the following modules:
Nr. | Name | Semester | Credits |
| CIT5130003 | Mathematical Methods in Risk Analysis | SS | 5 |
| ED130036 | Risk Assessment | SS | 5 |
| ED130009 | System and Functional Safety | WS | 5 |
| EI04024 | Python for Engineering Data Analysis - From Machine Learning to Visualization | WS, SS | 5 |
Elective Modules: Risk management
15 credits must be chosen from the following modules:
Nr. | Name | Semester | Credits |
Risk Management | WS | 5 | |
Advanced Seminar Marketing, Strategy & Leadership: Risk Perception and Communication | SS | 6 | |
Operational Safety | WS | 5 | |
Human reliability | SS | 5 |
Elective Modules: General elective modules
23 credits must be chosen from the following modules. The catalog of general elective modules is continuously being expanded. If you find a module you would like to have included, please contact max.teichgraeber@tum.de. Whether the courses take place in the winter or summer semester should be checked in each case in TUM-online.
Nr. | Name | Credits |
| BGU60017 | Probabilistic Life Cycle Analysis and Integrity Management of Infrastructures | 3 |
ED130013 | Prognostics and Health Management | 3 |
POL62500 | The Ethics and Politics of Existential Global Risks | 6 |
BGU54009 | Flood Risk and Flood Management | 6 |
BGU46026 | Alpine Hazards | 6 |
MW2282 | Safety and Certification of Avionics and Flight Control Systems | 5 |
MW2407 | Safety and Certification of Aircraft | 5 |
BGU68006 | Road Safety | 6 |
ED130006 | Introduction to Random Vibration | 6 |
BGU60019 | Stochastic Finite Element Methods | 6 |
ED130005 | Uncertainty Quantification with Surrogate Models | 3 |
MCTS0042 | Core Topic: Industries & Innovation | 5 |
CS0277 | Sustainability and Risk Management | 6 |
ED130019 | System-Theoretical Principles of Risk Management for Business Processes and Real Estate Business Processes | 6 |
ED0155 | Knowledge and Risk | 5 |
WZ1808 | Horticultural Risk Management | 5 |
MW0149 | Occupational and Industrial Safety | 3 |
AR30012 | Occupational Health and Safety | 6 |
MW2340 | Operational Flight Safety | 3 |
MW1399 | Helicopter Safety and Certification | 3 |
| MW2089 | Seminar Nuclear Safety Principles | 5 |
| WZ1167 | Work Science and Work Safety | 3 |
| MW1104 | Introduction to Nuclear Safety Analysis of Nuclear Reactors with State-of-Art Computer Programs | 4 |
| IN2247 | Functional Safety | 4 |
| IN2385 | Safety and Security for Cyber-Physical Systems | 3 |
| WZ5022 | Quality Management and Product Safety | 5 |
| EI7644 | Communication Network Reliability | 5 |
| EI71041 | Preventive Reliability Techniques | 5 |
| EI71069 | Reliability of Electric Drives | 5 |
| MA3405 | Insurance mathematics 1 | 9 |
| WZ0043 | Risk Theory and Modeling | 5 |
| BGU67005 | Landslides | 5 |
| BGU53053 | Geodesy (for land management) | 5 |
| MGT001363 | Judgment and Decision Making | 6 |
| WI001056_1 | Principles of Economics | 6 |
| MGT001354 | Artificial Intelligence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 3 |
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Time table of all courses but the general elective modules
The following table provides an overview of the time slots for all courses except the general elective modules. It also does not include lectures with irregular time slots.
The table is updated regularly, but some changes may not be included immediately. Please double check on TUM-Online.
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| 8:00 | Reliability and safety analysis (8:00-11:15) | |||||||||
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Risk & Society (9:45-11:15) | Advanced Seminar Marketing, Strategy & Leadership: Risk Perception and Communication (9:45-13:00) | |||||||||
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| 13:00 | Operational Safety (13:00-14:30) | |||||||||
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Human reliability (15:15-16:45) | ||||||||||
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Risk Lab
Goal and nature of the Risk Lab
Students of the Master’s program Risk and Safety must accomplish the Risk Lab within their studies. The Risk Lab is conducted in the form of a project work. The main goal of the project is for students to collect experience in an application context. This can be as part of a research project or in cooperation with a company. Two basic requirements must be fulfilled:
- a clear contribution to the student’s qualification as a risk manager
- the use of risk and safety assessment tools and methods
The Project can be done individually or in teams of 2 students. The workload of the project must reflect requirements of 12 credits per student. Each credit is equivalent to a workload of 30 hours.
Duration and Deadlines
There is no fixed maximum duration for the Risk Lab project. Only the workload requirements must be fulfilled.
The report of the Risk Lab must be completed and submitted before the start of the Master’s thesis.
Supervision
The project can either be carried out externally in cooperation with a private company or a public authority or as part of a project at one of the chairs involved in the M.Sc. Risk and Safety or it. An academic supervisor from a chair involved in the master Risk and Safety is mandatory.
Examination form
The students have to compose a written report on their project and submit it to their supervisor. The students must give a short presentation (15 min for projects of one student, 20 min for projects of two students) of their project. The presentation takes place at a joint conference with all the other projects that finish in the same semester. The conference is organized once per semester. The registration to the converence is via TUM-Online simular to the registration of exams. At the time of the presentation, the project work must not yet be completed; however, it must be finalized at maximum one month after the presentation.
The weighting of report and presentation in the overall grade are: 80% Report, 20% Presentation.
Registration and grade submission
Projects are not registered since there is no necessity for monitoring their duration. The examiner must only submit the grading after the project is concluded. The following data are required for the examination management:
- Name and matriculation No. of the student
- Title of the project
- Date of grading
- Overall grade
The data must be sent by the supervising chair, signed by the responsible examiner, to the examination officer max.teichgraeber@tum.de.
Recognition of courses
Courses successfully completed at other universities can be recognized. For this purpose we ask you to fill out this form.
Examination Dates
Examination dates are announced in the courses and can also be found on TUMonline.
If you have questions about examinations, please contact your corresponding course coordinator.
Exam Registration
Course enrolment and exam registration are usually not connected. Thus, if you want to take an exam for a course you're taking, you have to specifically register for that exam.
Please consider the following registration periods in TUMonline:
Winter term: | 1st to 31st January |
Summer term: | 1st to 31st July |
Registration after deadline is not possible!
These periods may not be valid for some elective courses, which are held e.g. as a block course.
Registration Procedure
Please refer to the detailed explanation given in the TUMonline Wiki.
- Click on "Study status/Curriculum" in your TUMonline profile card. Do not use "Exam registration"! (You can easily register for the wrong examination, as we got examinations with the same name and date, which are valid only for other study programs!) Click on your study program and choose the desired examination from your schedule (tree structure) and register.
- Please note: The flags in this tree structure have got the following meaning:
- orange: indicates a module which consists out of
- red: lectures – and
- green: examinations.
German Grading System
Marks at German Universities are issued on a scale from 1.0 to 5.0, where 1.0 is the best achievable mark and 4.0 is the passing mark.
Usually one needs to solve 40% - 50% of the tasks correctly in order to pass an examination. The mark 1.0 is usually issued above 80% - 90% correct answers. There are no fixed percentages of correct answers for the calculation of the marks in order to cope with slight changes in the difficulty of the examinations.
Falied examinations can be repeated as often as necessary until the examination is passed. Failed examinations will not be shown on your transcript.
Graduation
Upon finial completion of all compulsory modules (including Master's thesis) and having obtained 120 credits in total, you have successfully complete the Master's program.
Here is some information that might be important for you.
- You will stay enrolled during the semester in which you have passed your final exam. You will be exmatriculated by the end of that semester. Please also see this TUM page on withdrawal from university.
- You don't need to actively deregister from TUM.
- You will receive your final degree certificate, transcript of records and a ranking table by the central offices. You can find more information on your final graduation documents, please visit https://www.tum.de/en/studies/graduation/documents.