M. Eng. Additive Manufacturing and Lightweight Design (Hochschule Coburg)

Practical and project-oriented studying is at the heart of this master's program. Students work on concrete projects and immediately apply their knowledge in them. They solve the tasks together in a team with other students. In addition to the lecturers, they repeatedly receive specialist stimuli from companies, e.g. in the context of impulse lectures. Coburg University of Applied Sciences cooperates with the Research and Application Center for Digital Future Technologies (FADZ) in Lichtenfels on the Additive Manufacturing and Lightweight Design course. Students can thus benefit from both a strong research orientation (university) and a high level of application orientation (company).

The combination of additive manufacturing and lightweight construction as resource-saving technologies and processes, the project-centered and practice-oriented teaching as well as research relevance and application orientation make the Master's program at Coburg University of Applied Sciences a unique offering in Germany.

• Product development
• Materials
• Metal
• Design for additive manufacturing (construction)
• Project management
• Calculation and economic fundamentals
• Laser in manufacturing, optics opology optimization and component design
• Physical modeling, Control engineering
• Quality management Simulation in lightweight structural design Calculation of anisotropic structures
• Vibroacoustics in lightweight design
• Jointing technology in lightweight design
• Sustainability design optimization
• Lightweight materials (plastics, Composites)
• Durability
• Finite Elements
• Structural Calculation
• Legal Fundamentals
• Jointing Technology (Joining Technology/Bonding Technology)
• Additive Manufacturing Processes (for metallic, non-metallic, inorganic, polymeric materials)
• Pre- and Postprocessing AI in Manufacturing
• Industry 4.0 (IOT; Digital Twin, CPS, Smart Factory, ...)
• Automated manufacturing systems
• Heat and mass transfer, flows
• Entrepreneurship / innovation management

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New technologies are helping us to develop more sustainable products and processes. 3D printing is one of these technologies of the future. In combination with lightweight construction and new materials, it can contribute to a more careful approach to the environment. Industry has a great need for qualified employees with skills in the field of additive manufacturing. In the Master Additive Manufacturing and Lightweight Design students learn the current trends and developments of these technologies and acquire competences to apply them in the development and manufacturing process (e.g. artificial intelligence, automation, sustainability).

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