As a student on the Responsible Production and Consumption (RPC) sub-degree program of the innovative Bachelor's degree in Engineering, you will become a European expert in sustainability.

You will gain a critical awareness of the responsible use of resources and goods. Based on engineering fundamentals, you will develop the ability to recognise the technical, economic, social and legal aspects of sustainable production.

The degree program is interdisciplinary and international. Compulsory elective modules totalling at least 30 credit points are completed at one or more European, non-German partner universities. These may include modules from other disciplines, e.g. to deepen your knowledge of business administration and business law.

You organise and design your studies with a high degree of autonomy and flexibility. To this end, you will conclude an individual learning agreement with the examination board about the modules that you will complete at the partner universities.

The first four semesters of the Bachelor's degree program RPC are designed in such a way that you can quickly familiarise yourself with new tasks with varying requirements based on a very comprehensive basic education (in science and engineering). You will not only familiarise yourself with these scientific and engineering fundamentals, but also learn to understand them. This small but subtle difference is crucial for you to be able to transfer and apply your knowledge to new challenges later on and to assess your ideas and the ideas of others in terms of their usefulness and feasibility.

From the fifth semester onwards, you will start your partial degree program and acquire important specialist knowledge and skills that will qualify you for your job profile. After graduation, you will receive a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) and the Responsible Production and Consumption (RPC) sub-degree program will be indicated on your certificate.

Please note that the RPC Bachelor's degree program is not a separate degree program, but a sub-degree programme within our Bachelor's degree program in Engineering. It is therefore essential that you take a look at the corresponding profile.

So if you decide on the Bachelor's degree program RPC, you are actually opting for the Bachelor's degree program "Engineering", in which you then decide on the sub-degree programme that suits you at the end of the third semester, which may be RPC.

What else needs to be said:

When we developed the Bachelor's degree program in Engineering together with committed students at our faculty in 2020, the following was very important to us in terms of studyability:

• relatively few exams per examination period: You don't have to rush from exam to exam, but have the time and opportunity to actually get through the material and learn it for long-term memory
• early contact (from the second semester) with modules with engineering applications and reference to current research work: This keeps your motivation for engineering studies at a high level even during the otherwise long "dry spell" of basic science and engineering training (the first four semesters)
• individual choices through compulsory elective modules from a predetermined module catalogue and by choosing free modules: You can develop flexibly according to your engineering interests and have the opportunity to think outside the box
• You will gain practical and research experience in the basic internship, during two specialist excursions, a student research project, a 14-week specialist internship and a Bachelor's thesis
• An education, which also includes English as a technical language, an introduction to business administration, European values and modules on responsible production and consumption, also provides you with the basis for success in an international environment

We will be happy to support you. If you have any questions about the programme, please give us a call.