MSE Master of Science in Engineering

The Swiss engineering master's degree


Each module contains 3 ECTS. You choose a total of 10 modules/30 ECTS in the following module categories: 

  • 12-15 ECTS in technical scientific modules (TSM)
    TSM modules teach profile-specific specialist skills and supplement the decentralised specialisation modules.
  • 9-12 ECTS in fundamental theoretical principles modules (FTP)
    FTP modules deal with theoretical fundamentals such as higher mathematics, physics, information theory, chemistry, etc. They will teach more detailed, abstract scientific knowledge and help you to bridge the gap between abstraction and application that is so important for innovation.
  • 6-9 ECTS in context modules (CM)
    CM modules will impart additional skills in areas such as technology management, business administration, communication, project management, patent law, contract law, etc.

In the module description (download pdf) you find the entire language information per module divided into the following categories:

  • instruction
  • documentation
  • examination 

Modules: 19

Academic Writing and Presenting (CM_AcWritPre, 2024-2025)

The goal of this module is to help students to further develop their knowledge and skills in academic writing and presenting through the medium of English. Students will learn what it means to write academic texts and to present to an audience in an accurate, appropriate, and convincing manner. The module is divided into a writing and a presenting part.
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Corporate Management and Entrepreneurship (CM_Entrepr, 2024-2025)

In the module « Corporate Management and Entrepreneurship », students are enabled to evaluate business models. They learn the building blocks of a business modell and elements of sustainable management practices. Along the business model, relevant aspects from different fields such as strategy, marketing, finance and organization are relevant.

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Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (CM_Ethics, 2024-2025)

In an environment that is changing increasingly quickly, students will be taught the ability to assume social responsibility either as engineers or in management functions in companies. They will develop a profound awareness of the ethical aspects of their actions and for the ecological and social impacts of companies. In their subsequent professional careers, they will thus be better able to judge the consequences…

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Innovation and Changemanagement (CM_InnChang, 2024-2025)

The module aims to explain the operational planning and management of innovations to students on the basis of an integrated innovation management model, as well as introducing them to the relevant concepts. This will enable students to establish links to various company-internal and company-external interfaces as part of innovation projects and to correctly interpret and influence these. In this module, students will…

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Privacy and Law (CM_PrivLaw, 2024-2025)

In the Privacy and Law module, students gain an awareness of the threats to privacy in the fast changing digital society and are prompted to reflect on values in the historical and intercultural context.
Students acquire an overview (system and reference knowledge) of actual legal aspects that have not been specifically covered in either the vocational baccalaureate or in the Bachelor's degree course. In the…

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Applied Statistics and Data Analysis (FTP_AppStat, 2024-2025)

Students are introduced to statistical tools used in the industrial sector, and particularly in process and quality control. In this module, students learn to plan and conduct statistical evaluations independently.

Please note: An MSE cursus may not contain both similar statistics modules FTP_AppStat and FTP_PredMod. Students can only choose one of these modules.

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Energy: Production, Consumption and Management (FTP_Energy, 2024-2025)

Energy availability, consumption, and management are among the most interesting and challenging topics of the future. Even in Switzerland, energy consumption is constantly rising, and politically, it has become an accepted fact that we must find ways to reduce energy consumption on a long-term basis. After the disaster of Fukushima in 2011, the Federal Council

and Parliament decided on Switzerland's progressive…

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Raumplanungs-, Bau- und Umweltrecht (FTP_EnviPlan, 2024-2025)

Im Modul werden ArchitektInnen, BauingenieurInnen, GeomatikingenieurInnen, RaumplanerInnen, Umweltingenieurinnen und weitere mit Projekten mit öffentlichen Aufgaben konfrontierte Personen die rechtlichen Grundsätze, gesetzlichen Regeln und Ausführungsbestimmungen vermittelt. Sie sollen befähigt werden, ihr Projekt (Neubau, Umbau, Rückbau, Erweiterung, Entwicklungen und Gestaltungen des Lebensraumes, usw.)…

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Lifecycle Management of Infrastructures (FTP_Life, 2024-2025)

In today's rapidly evolving world, infrastructure assumes a crucial role in shaping the way societies function and progress. Roads, railways, bridges, energy grids, machines, and digital networks all contribute to the foundation of modern society. Managing the lifecycle of these infrastructures becomes a critical discipline, ensuring their reliability, sustainability, and adaptability over time. Various stakeholders…

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Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (FTP_OrdDiff, 2024-2025)

In this module, students learn which class of dynamical phenomena can be described with systems of ordinary differential equations. They learn to recognize the fundamental behavior patterns of these systems and also to develop simulation models for them.

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Partial differential equations in engineering applications (FTP_PartDiff, 2024-2025)

Foundations of the theory of partial differential equations relevant in engineering applications and their numerical solution.

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Building Information Modelling (BIM) (TSM_BIM, 2024-2025)

 

The BIM method (VDC) comprises the digital planning, construction and operation of built assets using digital modelling in combination with suitable organizational forms and processes.

The digital building model is created in interdisciplinary collaboration with a specific goal. It includes both the geometric (3D) and the non-geometric information needed for the agreed uses.

The BIM method is used in the…

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Baustatik (TSM_BauStat, 2024-2025)

Ziel des Moduls ist, durch die Erweiterung des im Bachelorstudium angeeigneten Wissens ein vertieftes Verständnis über das Tragverhalten schlanker Stabstrukturen zu erlangen.
Im Modul werden verschiedene Tragwirkungen vor allem schlanker und elastischer Stäbe behandelt. Speziellere Beanspruchungen wie Querkraftschub und Torsion, inkl. Wölbkrafttorsion werden vertieft behandelt. Weiterhin wird das Tragverhalten…

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Zustandserfassung von Bauwerken (TSM_Build, 2024-2025)

Ein grosser Teil der zukünftigen Bauaufgaben wird an bestehender Bausubstanz durchgeführt werden. Dieses Modul vermittelt dem Masterstudierenden die grundlegenden Methoden und Verfahren zur Erhaltung von Bauwerken.

Die Zustandserfassung mit einer fachlich fundierten Beurteilung ist Grundlage jeder Instandsetzung und ggf. Veränderung von Bauwerken und Infrastrukturanlagen. Die Auseinandersetzung mit bestehenden…

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Dynamique des structures (TSM_Dynamics, 2024-2025)

Le module fournit des méthodes et des procédures pour comprendre, calculer et mesurer le comportement dynamique des structures mécaniques et montre leur importance pour le développement des structures porteuses.

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Maintenance des structures porteuses (TSM_MaintStruc, 2024-2025)

Une grande partie des travaux futurs de construction se fera dans le bâti existant. Ce module apporte aux étudiant-e-s du master les méthodes et les procédés nécessaires dans la maintenance d'ouvrages.

Toute remise en état, modification ou renforcement d’ouvrages et d’infrastructures nécessite un relevé spécifique et fondé de l’état actuel. L'identification des dégâts et des outils appliqués, l'actualisation des…

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Werkstoffmechanik und Plastizität in Konstruktion und Geotechnik (TSM_MatPla, 2024-2025)
  1. Inhalte: Einführung in Kontinuum-Mechanik und in Plastizitätstheorie, Analyse der Stoffgesetze für Boden und Baustoffe im Bereich des konstruktiven Ingenieurbaus; Anwendung der Plastizitätstheorie für Traglastberechnungen in der Geotechnik sowie im konstruktiven Ingenieurbau
  2. Ziele: Nach diesem Modul sollen die Studierenden ein vertieftes Verständnis über die Stoffgesetze von Boden sowie von Baustoffen im…

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Naturgefahren (TSM_NatHaz, 2024-2025)

Das Modul behandelt die wichtigsten meteorologischen-hydrologischen sowie gravitativen Naturgefahren. Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit einzelnen Gefahren (Entstehung, Gefährdungsbilder, Analysen, Massnahmen) werden auch das integrale Risikomanagement sowie rechtliche Aspekte und Haftungsfragen behandelt.

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Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (TSM_StrucEng, 2024-2025)

Der Modulinhalt ist in zwei Themengebiete, Baudynamik und Erdbebeningenieurwesen, untergliedert.

Die Baudynamik beinhaltet: Grundlagen der Kinematik und Kinetik des Massenpunktes; die Modellbildung von dynamischen Systemen und das Aufstellen der Bewegungsdifferentialgleichungen bei Ein- und Mehrmassenschwingern; die Berechnung der Systemantwort infolge dynamischer Einwirkungen; Massnahmen zur Reduzierung von…

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