Project Management in Industrial Environments
Build the Skills to Plan, Lead, and Deliver Projects in Complex Industrial Settings
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.)”.
Course Overview
- 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
Objectives
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.
Scientific Director
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schmidt
Associate Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, has held the Chair of Technical Logistics since 2008. Since 2013, he has also served as editor-in-chief of the academic journal *Logistics Research* (in the Technical Logistics and Logistics Engineering section) and as president of the Scientific Society for Technical Logistics (WGTL).
Teaching format
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
(5 ECTS)Start
22 April 2026
Course Dates 2026
22 April, 27 April, 29 April
10 May, 27 May 2026
01 June, 08–09 June, 22–23 June 2026, 29 June 2026
07 July 2026Please note that course dates and times are subject to change.
Course Type
Full-time
On-site (Dresden)Course Fee
€1,074 (VAT-exempt)
Our Continuing Education Program is designed for:
- 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 at TUD Dresden University of Technology who want to expand their knowledge of microelectronics in a focused way
Admission Requirements
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.
