Tasks of market research, Institutions of market research, Application of secondary statistical data collection, Sources of secondary statistical data collection, Primary statistical data collection (Basics), Application of primary statistical data collection, Sources of primary statistical data collection, Market research in industrial companies, Market research in trading companies, Market research in service companies, Strategic Marketing, Operational Marketing.

Project Contracting, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Project Organization (temporary), Project Lifecyle Management, Project Roles and Project Leadership, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Projects, Project Reporting and Communication, New Ways of Project Management (agile PM).

Basics of engineering, Process and methods of engineering, Computer-aided design, The product development process, Integrated product development, Virtual product hedging, VR and AR technologies, Trends in production technology, Practical example (Construction, VR and AR applications).

Systemic leadership (Development of controlling in terms of time and content, Definition of controlling, Designing adaptive processes, Controlling as a management function and management concept, Horizontal controlling processes, Concept and objective of planning, Basic structure of the planning process, Concept and objective of control, ...), Environment analysis Quality management (Quality as an entrepreneurial success factor, The historical development of the concept of quality in the entrepreneurial context, Quality and its properties, The 14 management principles according to Deming, Deming's reaction chain, Deming's PDCA cycle, Basic principle of quality management, Tasks of quality management, DIN EN ISO 9000 family, ...)

Accounting (External accounting, Essence, tasks and basic concepts of accounting, Legal framework of accounting and annual financial statements, Stocktaking, inventory, components of the annual financial statements, Double-entry accounting technique, Recognition and measurement regulations in the HGB Internal accounting, Fundamentals of internal accounting, ...), 
Financial mathematical basics Investment (Introduction to Corporate Finance, Fundamentals of investment policy and investment appraisal procedures, Utility analyses, Practical examples for assessing the advantageousness of investments, Return and risk on financial investments),
Financing (Financing and entrepreneurial objective, Systematisation of the types of financing, Significant features of equity, debt and mezzanine financing, Significance, ways and limits of internal corporate financing).

Changing market dynamics and their influence on modern companies, Basics of systems theory (structure, delimitation and mechanisms of action), Platform Industry 4.0, Basis for modern process and system design, Basics of process and system planning, Classical approach to process and system planning based on MES, Modern approaches to process and system planning based on CPS, Industry 4.0 Use Case.

Basic skills (percentages, handle fractions and transpose formulas), Mathematics of finance: simple and compound interest, future value and present value of an annuity, amortization schedules, Economic functions (supply and demand analysis, total revenue and profit, production and average functions), Differentiation and its economic applications: marginal functions, elasticity and optimization problems, Partial differentiation (constrained and unconstrained optimization problems to maximize profit or minimize cost), Matrices (basic operations, matrix inversion, input output analysis and the Leontief Model), Linear programming: graphical solutions and applications.

Production and logistics concepts, basic understanding of engineering, fundamentals of production and logistics, the factory, the production system, the process, planning & control of production and logistics: including location, factory, company, procurement, production, sales, finance, capacity, production planning and control, Lean Production (concept, principle), selected methods & instruments, including 5A/S, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Kaizen/KVP.

Theoretical basics of the worked topic, Application of selected course-related methods, Transfer of the concepts to a selected practical problem or a selected practical position, Critical reflection and discussion of the results, on their applicability and on the underlying theoretical approaches used.

Measurement and units of measurement, Kinematics, Dynamics, Simple movements, Energy and momentum, Friction, Mechanics of the rigid body, Mechanical properties of substances, Flow and properties of fluids, Optics, Electricity, Thermodynamics, Gases, States of aggregation, Reaction kinetics.

Basic understanding of engineering, Computer Science, Materials science and materials engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Technical thermodynamics, Automatisation technology, Measurement technology and sensors, Actuators, Control and regulation technology, Automation (case study).

Object of knowledge and goals of business informatics ,Paradigms of Business Informatics, Classification of types of business information systems, Information technology, Communication protocols and networks, Internet, Services, Web, Databases and management systems, Components and architecture Data models - IT security, Information systems development, Basics of software engineering, Information technology basics of operational information systems, Information systems management, Service management according to ITIL, Operational business process support, E-business and e-commerce, Management support, Collaboration systems, Digital transformation.

For the qualitative methods option: 
Interview Technique (Basics of qualitative reserach, Qualitative interviews, incl. interview guideline, interviewer requirements, and types of questions, Qualitative sampling, Methods for the evaluation of interviews), Content analysis (Data management and organization of qualitative data, Transcription, Computer-based qualitative content analysis, Basics and procedure of qualitative content analysis, Quality criteria of qualitative content analysis, Research report and documentation

For the quantitative methods option:
Questionnaire technique (Types of questions and scales), Questionnaire structure (Pretest), Online surveys, Coding and analyses of questionnaires, Statistics, Statistics using R.

 The direct current theory, The electric field E and the capacitor C, The magnetic field B and the coil L, The alternating current theory, Electrical machines, The measurement and control technology, The digital technology.

Machine elements (Calculation of the load-bearing capacity of simple components, Fasteners and other selected machine elements, form-fitting (pins, fitting screws, rivets), force-fitting
(Screws), materially (welding, soldering, bonding), Other), Production engineering (Manufacturing processes: including forming, shaping, cutting, joining, coating, generative processes, Working principles, machine tools, tools and devices, Automation technology).

Focus on digitisation and digital transformation, Theses on digitalisation and digital transformation, Opportunities and risks of the digital transformation, Technological foundations of the digital transformation, Business models and business model development, Representation of business models with Business Model Canvas, Business model development, Business model innovation, Digital business models, Management of the digital transformation, Evolutionary innovation vs. disruption, Strategies of digital transformation, Process models of digital transformation, Success factors of the digital transformation, Controlling the digital transformation.

Problem analysis and problem definition, Selecting suitable theoretical approaches towards problem solution, Identifying the framework conditions of the problem solution, Conceptualizing and implementing the problem solution, Critical reflection of the interface between theory and practice, Documentation of the theoretical reasoning, methodology and results.