Quality management

Quality management is relevant in all industries. Implementing quality assurance measures, making work processes more effective and efficient in the long term, identifying weak points, implementing continuous improvements and implementing new quality systems are among the key strategic competitive factors. The field of study has a business management background and operates at the interfaces to safety engineering, project and process planning, product development, design and production. As a rule, specialization takes place in one subject area.

Quality management is a purely advanced subject that builds on an undergraduate engineering degree (e.g. safety engineering).

The course content is application-related and ranges from methods and models of quality assurance, risk analyzes and statistics, auditing and standards, quality techniques to product liability. Students learn to think in a customer and process-oriented manner, to recognize complex interrelationships and to assess and apply quality methods in specific tasks. Depending on the course of study, topics from the areas of management and organization are also covered.

An engineering degree program, such as safety technology, testing technology or mechanical engineering, is expected as a background, and if necessary also professional experience.

Since quality management plays a role in many industries, the professional areas of application are broad. Graduates find employment opportunities across sectors in research and teaching, business management, management consulting, project planning and support.