Students – MSC-PE

BMW Group

EWS GmbH & Co. KG

Bosch

Thesis in Reinforcement Learning-Based Control Concepts for Electrical Drives

PhD Position Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Further information

Energie-Wende-Garching

TÜV SÜD Product Services GmbH

EM3

BMW Goup

EWS GmbH & Co. KG

Please also check internship opportunities at the chairs webpages:

Global Energy Management & Sales

Please note that the most up-to-date list can be found in the study program module list in TUM online.

Please note that the most up-to-date list can be found in the study program module list in TUM online.

Instead of the Elective Modules listed below, additional Core Modules can also be selected. These Core Modules and their credits are listed in the grade report together with the other Core Modules. The number of credits to be earned for the Elective Modules section is reduced accordingly. 

TUM Modules

Please note that the most up-to-date list can be found in the study program module list in TUM online.

EuroTeQ Engineering University Modules

Courses at the EuroTeQ Engineering University with a close connection to power engineering can also be recognized as Elective Modules. The following courses from the current range of courses are eligible:

• Design of Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Power Plants (DTU)

• Renewables in electricity markets (DTU)

Further information about the EuroTeQ Engineering University and the application procedure can be found here:

https://www.international.tum.de/en/global/euroteq-course-catalogue/
https://www.eduxchange.eu/for-students-tum/explore

Please note that the study and examination periods as well as the examination modalities at the EuroTeQ partner universities are different. You are responsible for checking whether and how the EuroTeQ course and its examination can be integrated into your curriculum and examination schedule at TUM. The MSC-PE Management cannot take on any coordination tasks here.

Please note that the most up-to-date list can be found in the study program module list in TUM online.

Please note that the most up-to-date list can be found in the study program module list in TUM online.

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Courses at the EuroTeQ Engineering University can be recognized as Interdisciplinary Modules. Further information about the EuroTeQ Engineering University and the application procedure can be found here:

https://www.international.tum.de/en/global/euroteq-course-catalogue/
https://www.eduxchange.eu/for-students-tum/explore

Please note that the study and examination periods as well as the examination modalities at the EuroTeQ partner universities are different. You are responsible for checking whether and how the EuroTeQ course and its examination can be integrated into your curriculum and examination schedule at TUM. The MSC-PE Management cannot take on any coordination tasks here.

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The research internship is intended to prepare students for their later scientific activities in research and development by providing them with insight into current research topics during their master studies. The research internship takes the form of project work. Each student in the master program works on an individual project assigned by a professor/supervisor from the respective chair within the scope of the research internship. Upon successful completion of the internship students will be able to draw up (apply learned concepts) and plan a project with an engineering character, to define milestones, as well as to document the progress and results of the project and to present them to an audience.

The research internship covers 12 credits, corresponding to 9 weeks of full-time work. The module may be spread across several blocks of time within a maximum period of half a year. If the internship is divided into blocks, all supervised by the same examiner, a single report of completion of the research internship in the amount of 12 ECTS can be issued at the end of the semester. Absences (e.g. due to illness) of more than three days must be made up.

The research internship has to be carried out under the supervision of a TUM expert examiners. For MSC-PE these are all university professors, lecturers and junior fellows who teach a Core Module or a listed Elective Module. Furthermore, the following professors are nominated as expert examiners for MSC-PE by the Examination Board: Prof. Kreupl, Prof. Alexander Koch, Prof. Lienkamp, Prof. Wen, Prof. Zäh, Prof. Armanini, Prof. Oksanen, Prof. Rudolf Neu, Prof. Daub, Prof. Torgerson.

The student must independently seek a place for a research intership and supervision by a TUM expert examiner. There is no allocation of places arranged by the study office.

Registration can be done at any time of the year.

The entire administrative process will take place in the ED portal at https://portal.ed.tum.de/en/:
(Please note: Nothing will change for Research Internships already registered with a start date before 15 April 2025. No data from ongoing Research Internship can be imported into the ED portal. If your Research Internship is already registered, please submit it in the usual way.)

1. You will look for a chair that will supervise your thesis and agree on a topic for the Research Internship.The student together with his professor/supervisor draws up a work plan defining project objectives, methods and schedule of completion.
2. The supervising chair registers your Research Internship in the ED portal under the category 'Project studies / Projektarbeiten'.
3. You will receive an email about the registration with a link to the ED portal and have to confirm the registration there.
4. The School Office, in consultation with the Examination Board, will review the registration and you will receive approval or rejection by email.
5. You work on the agreed project. Upon completion of the project, the student has to write a report and hold a presentation regarding the results of the project. The length and formal requirements of the report and presentation are not specified in the academic and examination regulations of the degree program (FPSO), but defined by the professor. You arrange the date for the presentation directly with the supervising chair.
6. Upload the written report to the ED portal at the latest on the submission deadline and confirm the final submission.
7. The examiners will evaluate your project work in the ED portal on a pass/fail basis without a grade and you will be informed about the result by email.

Please note: Research Internships are registered and managed in the ED portal until they are finalised. During this time, there is no synchronisation with the TUMonline portal. As soon as the Research Internship is completed and graded, the data is transferred to the Research Internship module in TUMonline.

Detailed description of the process can be found in the wiki at https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMedschooloffice/Final+Theses+in+the+ED-Portal?showLanguage=en_GB.

If you have any technical problems, please contact support-koinon.ed@ed.tum.de

Failed or not completed research internship modules should be reported to the MSC-PE examination board. The module can be repeated as often as necessary.

As with the thesis module, the research internship may be completed externally at a research institution or a research-oriented department of a company, provided the research character of the project work is maintained. If you would like to carry out the research internship in industry or an external institution, you must find a MSC-PE TUM expert examiner who will supervise the internship and give a final grade of "pass" or "fail". Please contact the professors directly on your own. The professor has to agree to the supervision of external projects and draw up a work plan together with the student before starting the external research internship.

Especially if it is conducted as an external internship in industry and it should not count as working days in terms of the "120 full days or 240 half day rule" (see below), the research internship cannot be carried out less than full-time. However, the module may be spread across several blocks of time within a maximum period of half a year.

If you are not a citizen of the European Union or European Economic Area and are aiming for an industrial internship longer than the nine weeks, please note that you may not work more than 120 full days or 240 half days in addition to the mandatory nine-week research internship without permission  (https://www.internationale-studierende.de/en/footer-english/service/links-and-downloads#c2496).

If you cannot complete the external internship in the lecture-free period alone, you have the option of applying for a leave of absence.

The MSC-PE FPSO provides in §37a (3) the possibility of recognition of successfully completed research projects or equivalent achievements as research practice. The decision lies with the MSC-PE Examination Board.

As a rule:

• Work completed within the scope of a Bachelor or Master degree program that is a prerequisite for admission to the master program MSC-PE cannot be recognized toward the research internship.
• Work or activities within the scope of a student job held during the master program cannot be later recognized toward the research internship.

In exceptional cases, periods of employment after the bachelor degree and before commencement of the master program may be acknowledged as research internship, provided that the employment encompassed research activities at a research-oriented institution. Students seeking to have employment activities recognized toward fulfillment of the research internship should contact the master examination board. Recognition is only possible if the items on the following "checklist" can all be answered with "yes":

1. Was the duration of the activity at least three months, of which at least nine weeks were pure research activities (full-time, correspondingly longer in the case of part-time work)?
2. Was the research activity started after completion of the Bachelor's or Diploma program (the date of the certificate is relevant)?
3. Was the research activity completed before the start of the MSC-PE (the date of first enrollment is relevant)?
4. Can a job reference be submitted which states the duration, scope, type of activity and an assessment?
5. Can the activity be described in the form of a scientific manuscript of at least 10 pages with the following sections:

• • Title
  • Author, course of studies, student’s ID
  • Abstract
  • State of the art (with at least 10 references to scientific publications - conference proceedings or journal articles - no manuals, operating instructions, application notes or similar!)
  • Applied scientific methods and procedures (with at least 5 references to scientific publications conference proceedings, journal articles or textbooks - no manuals, operating instructions, application notes, etc.!)
  • Results and progress achieved beyond the state of the art
  • Conclusion

If these requirements are met, the recognition can be applied for by sending an informal application to pa.mscpe@ed.tum.de. The following documents must be attached to the email as a pdf scan:

• Bachelor's or diploma certificate
• Proof of first enrollment MSC-PE
• Job reference
• Scientific manuscript, as described in more detail above

The six-month Master Thesis concludes the MSC-PE Program and it has to be carried out at a chair of TUM expert examiners. For MSC-PE these are all university professors, lecturers and junior fellows who teach a Core Module or an Elective Module. Furthermore, the following professors are nominated as expert examiners for MSC-PE by the Examination Board: Prof. Kreupl, Prof. Alexander Koch, Prof. Lienkamp, Prof. Wen, Prof. Zäh, Prof. Armanini, Prof. Oksanen, Prof. Rudolf Neu, Prof. Daub, Prof. Torgerson.

If you would like to conduct your Master Thesis at an external institution (e.g. chair of a professor not listed as a MSC-PE TUM expert examiner, external research institute or company), this can only be done in agreement and cooperation with one of the above-mentioned MSC-PE TUM expert examiners, who will then be the official topic provider and will carry out the grading of the Master Thesis. The topic of the thesis should be related to the field of power engineering. Please identify and contact the corresponding officially supervising professor or chair by your own and in a timely manner. Please note: We at TUM are not involved in contractual matters between you and the external institution.

Please also note possible offers for master theses under Master Thesis Offers.

Students can start the master thesis if they have passed 65 credits from "Power Engineering Moduls" (Core Modules, Elective Modules, Laboratories, Seminar) plus the research internship.

Before registering, please check carefully whether you really meet the credit requirements for registering for the master thesis (see above) and whether these are correctly displayed in your TUMonline account. Please note that for MSC-PE a confirmation from the program management to you or your supervisor that you fulfill the requirements for the registration for the master thesis is not foreseen.

Registration can be done at any time of the year.

The entire administrative process will take place in the ED portal at https://portal.ed.tum.de/en/:
(Please note: Nothing will change for theses already registered with a start date before August 5, 2024. No data from ongoing theses can be imported into the ED portal. If your thesis is already registered, please submit it in the usual way.)

1. You will look for a chair that will supervise your thesis and agree on a topic for the thesis.
2. The supervising chair registers your thesis in the ED portal.
3. You will receive an email about the registration with a link to the ED portal and have to confirm the registration there.
4. The School Office, in consultation with the Examination Board, will review the thesis registration and you will receive approval or rejection by email.
5. You work on the agreed project and prepare the written thesis.
6. Upload the written thesis to the ED portal at the latest on the submission deadline and confirm the final submission.
   Depending on your degree program, you may also have to write an exposé and/or give a presentation on your thesis. You arrange the date for the presentation directly with the supervising chair.
7. The examiners will evaluate your thesis in the ED portal and you will be informed about the grade by email.

Please note: Theses are registered and managed in the ED portal until they are finalised. During this time, there is no synchronisation with the TUMonline portal. As soon as the thesis is completed and graded, the data is transferred to thesis module in TUMonline.

If you wish to return the topic of your thesis during the thesis period or need to apply for an extension or suspension of the thesis, you can also do this via the ED portal. To do this, log in to the portal and select the corresponding option in the respective thesis.

Detailed description of the process can be found in the wiki at https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMedschooloffice/Final+Theses+in+the+ED-Portal?showLanguage=en_GB.

If you have any technical problems, please contact support-koinon.ed@ed.tum.de

If the master thesis was the last achievement of your studies, please refer to the information at End of Study below.

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A warm welcome to the TUM School of Engineering and Design from the TUM ED International Students-for-Students Center.
Our goal is to support you during your first weeks in Germany while you are getting to know the TUM, the campus, and life in Bavaria. On our website, you will find helpful links, useful contacts, and general information for your studies at TUM. Click here to be taken there directly:

https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMedschoolofficeintern/TUM+ED+International+Students-for-Students+Center

Moreover, we offer a “Buddy Program”, a program by students for students! In this program, you will be matched with a buddy, who is familiar with our university and Munich, studying the same subjects as you, and would love to get in touch with international students. Feel free to ask them any questions about:

• studying at TUM
• student life
• Munich's best spots (for lunch, beer, …)

And of course, we will organize special and fun events for you and your buddy during the semester.

Are you interested and want to join? Then check out the following link for more information:

https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMedschoolofficeintern/ED+International+Buddy+Program


and simply fill out the registration form at the following link:

https://collab.dvb.bayern/display/TUMedschoolofficeintern/Buddy+Program+Registration?desktop=true&macroName=confiform-entry-register

(Please consider: Our Buddies agreed to help you facilitate your start in Munich and to give you tips and advice from a student perspective. They serve as additional contact persons, assisting you. But their commitment is voluntary. Hence, please register for the Buddy Program only if you are interested in an exchange with TUM students. If you are only interested in getting information about study and administrative matters, then the Buddy Program is probably not suitable for you. And, in that case, please do not register for the program but contact our International Students-for-Students Center.)

This is a great opportunity to explore and get to know Munich, and the Bavarian culture, and to find new friends in Germany. Registration is open until October 11th!

Of course, if you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly. You can reach us via email at international@ed.tum.de.

We are so excited to welcome you to this year's Buddy Program!

Your TUM ED International Students-for-Students Center