FAQ General
Here are a few general FAQs that have accumulated over the course of your studies.
A stay abroad during your studies is worthwhile to get to know the language and culture and to gain new experiences. In addition, you are lucky that not so many electrical engineers go abroad, so with enough lead time and a reasonable application, the chances are quite good.
You should plan quite a bit in advance for a stay abroad during your studies (1.5 years minimum). There are two contact points for stays abroad. One is the department's representative (homepage), who coordinates the Erasmus program, and the International Office. On the website of the department you will find a lot of information about the current programs (ERASMUS+, overseas exchange, partner universities). Bring some time for research and visit the joint information event of the faculty and the International Office. Both contact points will be happy to advise you! Just send an email to the respective contact person and make an appointment.
If there are still places available in ERASMUS, a short-term exchange may be possible.
Due to the many elective modules in the Master's program, a stay abroad is especially useful.
With the Studium Fundamentale you should get an insight into non-specialized courses. For the 3 CP you only have to pass one exam at the end, for the other you may receive a grade and possibly more credits. You can repeat the exam as often as you like. You can find more information on the university website.
The best way to find the courses is via the LSF portal (Veranstaltungen/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/Studium Fundamentale). Of course you have to look in the area of the other departments (not faculty 8 - that's us). It is also worthwhile to have a look directly at the websites of the other faculties.
If you want to pass the Studium Fundamentale with little effort, iyou could register for"Saturdays between bread rolls and Borussia", where you have to participate on four Saturdays and pass a corresponding quiz.
For the Bachelor final seminar you have to attend five Bachelor or Master presentation of other theses. For this purpose, you will receive a routing slip on the department's website, and you will then have to take care of the entries. Note that some professors will only sign off on your visit if you have listened attentively and asked a question about the content AND can give constructive feedback after the lecture.
At the end, you will have your own bachelor thesis final presentation, which does not count towards your bachelor thesis grade.
All presentations will be entered on the department site. If they take place online or hybrid, they will be announced in an extra Moodle room of the faculty.
Sustainability is very important for TU Dortmund University. If you would like to acquire an extra qualification in this subject area, we recommend the Oekologicum program. It consists of an interdisciplinary basic module and two in-depth modules, one of which is from your own department and one of which must be from a different department.
Lectures of the faculty within the Studium Oekologicum.
First of all, a major theft should always be reported to the police. In addition, the department head for infrastructural building management in cooperate center (Dezernat) 6 is responsible for security services on campus. Location and time are interssant for increased controls in the future, so inform the contact person best with an email about the theft.
Of course, valuables should never be left unattended or unsecured on campus.
If the light does not work or if there is any other defect in the physics building, report it to the team of the janitor area 01.
If it is about other buildings, here is the overview on the homepage of the cooperate center (Dezernat) 6, who can be contacted.
If the door to Dilbert has been accidentally locked by a cleaner, just go to the main doorman in the front of HGII and ask someone to unlock the door.
Yes, the master's modules are listed as additional subjects in the bachelor's module handbook. This allows you to listen to and examine subjects from the Master's program whose grade is not included in the Bachelor's grade. You can then have this additional work recognized in the Master's program. As a prerequisite for participation, the first four semesters of the bachelor's degree must be completed. (Module Handbook Bachelor 07/21 p.58 ff.) The examination regulations only generally state the possibility of attending the additional subjects, which are not included in the grade. (§ 27 Bachelor PO 09/20)
The Bachelor's compulsory modules cover a broad range of content, so that at the end a degree in "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology" with a specialization has been completed. If someone without this basic bachelor's degree wants to study the master's degree in electrical engineering and information technology, the chairman of the examination board will decide on the basis of the previous studies in which areas of the broad spectrum of electrical engineering there is still a need for specialization. As a rule, each student is given one to three supplementary subjects.
The examination regulations (Prüfungsordnung: PO) are always the ones you started your studies with.
The currently relevant exception is that, due to the pandemic, the PO 09/2020 contains a passage stating that it is to be applied to all students.
The Module Handbook adopted by the department council prior to the beginning of the semester will be in effect for that semester and beyond until a new one is adopted, which will then be applicable for the following semester.
The ECTS grade is determined on the basis of the examination regulations §24:
A = usually the best approx. 10% of successful students; B = usually the next approx. 25% of successful students; C = usually the next approx. 30% of successful students; D = usually the next approx. 25% of successful students; E = usually the next approx. 10% of successful students.
ECTS grades are generally formed by comparing the cohorts of the last six semesters. If this group is smaller than 50, the reference group is to be determined from the last 10 semesters. In principle, the current semester shall not be taken into account in the formation of ECTS grades. As long as no statistical data is available for the calculation of a relative evaluation, no ECTS grades will be shown. For reasons of legally secure awarding, a decision of the examination board may waive the display of ECTS grades. Corresponding notes appear in the final document. The composition of the comparison group must be differentiated according to the degree and the course of study.
Incidentally, the Bachelor's grade is the weighted average of the partial performances, with truncation after the first decimal place.
If health impairments cause (temporary or permanent) disadvantages in the examination, these should be compensated. Either by changing the examination format or often by extending the processing time.
For this purpose, a medical certificate must be submitted, stating the duration and nature of the impairment and, if applicable, a proposal for compensating the disadvantage. With this, a consultation should then take place at the DoBuS (Dortmunder Zentrum für Behinderung und Studium), where the application for compensation of the disadvantage is handed out and a statement is entered.
The examination board must also take a position on the application.
Since the procedure can take a little longer, it is best to inform your examiners or the organizers of the module early that you have submitted an application, so that they can plan accordingly (at the latest four weeks before the exam, if it is to go smoothly).
You can find more information here: Nachteilsausgleich.
The corresponding page of the DoBuS: DoBuS Advice