Operations & Logistics Excellence for Microelectronics

Projects play a central role in everyday industrial practice. This course provides a structured introduction to the nature of projects and to the methods needed to design and implement them effectively in an industrial context.

Students explore key dimensions of project management, including project leadership, optimization goals, teamwork, planning, scheduling, and project control. The course is applicable to different types of projects, the examples used focus primarily on product development and investment projects.

This course can be booked individually and is part of the Master's degree “Industrial Management in Microelectronics (M. Sc.)”.

• Foundations of Project Management: Core concepts of projects and project management, including objectives, resources, project types, the product design cycle, and the product life cycle
• Process Organization & Work Packages: Structuring project tasks, defining work packages, and understanding project roles, responsibilities, and competencies
• Leadership, Team Dynamics & Crisis Management: Team and group processes, personality traits, leadership within projects, and managing complex situations and crises
• Project Planning, Scheduling & Control: Time scheduling, cost- and capacity-oriented process design, risk management, and the application of project management tools and software

Participants are able

• to differentiate between project, project management, objectives, resources, types of projects, product design cycle and product life cycle
• to organize and structure processes
• to understand project task, parts and work packages as well as project players and their competences
• to apply different project management tools
• to understand team and group processes, personality traits, managing complex situations and crises
• to apply project planning and time scheduling
• to design cost and capacity-oriented processes
• to control projects including risk management
• to apply project management software.

The contents of the module are dealt with in the form of lectures, tutorial practices as well as self-study. For a better understanding of the contents, case studies in the form of group works are carried out.

Overview

Degree

Participation without an exam: Certificate of Enrollment
Participation with an exam: ECTS Certificate
(8 ECTS)

Start

11 June 2026

Course Dates

11–12 June 2026
15 June 2026
18–19 June 2026
09–10 July 2026
13 July 2026

Course Type

Full-time
On-site (Dresden)

Course Fee

€1,718 (VAT-exempt)

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• Professionals with a recognized higher education entrance qualification and relevant professional experience in the semiconductor sector who want to refresh or deepen their knowledge
• Graduates with a first professionally qualifying university degree in a STEM field, such as mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, or engineering
• Students in STEM degree programs who want to expand their knowledge of microelectronics in a focused way

General admission requirements regulated in the examination regulations of the degree program must be fulfilled.
Literature recommendations can be provided in advance of the module, whose content is assumed known and/or whose content is to be acquired during the module.