Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology

This Master's programme presents an interdisciplinary education; focusing mainly on the world's leading textile machinery manufacturers in Germany and the processing of textile high performance materials for technical applications. The objective is to produce graduates who understands the field of expertise in its complexity, are acquainted with highly innovative fields of research, and can apply the acquired specialised knowledge in a future professional occupation in research, industry, teaching or international cooperation. Our graduates are qualified for technical executive functions in the textile and clothing industry, spin companies developing technical textiles and textile products (machinery and automobile construction, membrane development, architecture, medical products, etc.) as well as in research and education. However, graduates also work in classical textile and clothing industries. The main focus of the subject-specific modules is on resource-efficient technologies for the manufacture of new technical and textile-based products and innovative textile machine developments. These include the study areas of nonwovens for medical and hygienic applications, textile recycling, filter materials, geotextiles, lightweight construction, personal and property protection, and smart textiles. The programme provides students with a first professional university degree education in the fields of mechanical engineering, textile mechanical engineering, textile engineering, textile technology, textile-based product development, ready-made textile product technologies, textile chemistry and textile finishing, and textile recycling. The curriculum also allows for individual in-depth study and setting of priorities within the framework of the "research internship" module and the elective modules as well as during the Master's thesis. This Master's degree qualifies our students with excellent results worldwide to enter a PhD programme.  Our programme is research-oriented with extremely high practical relevance. Our study programme is characterised by a very good supervision ratio between teachers and students. The excellent infrastructure with state-of-the-art machinery and plant technology as well as testing technology along the entire value chain is almost unique in the field in Germany and worldwide. Students are offered the financially supported opportunity to attend national and international conferences and trade fairs. This is supported by the fact that the institute is embedded in an efficient international network of the textile field. Due to the excellent conditions for studying in this programme, an extremely high success rate of students with DAAD scholarships has been achieved so far. ITM conducts two to three online seminars, focusing on curriculum and application procedures for prospective students. Contact your local DAAD office to ascertain the dates of the online seminars. The curriculum includes a total of 15 modules, consisting of 12 compulsory modules and 12 elective modules from which three modules must be selected. The 12 elective modules include specific contents on complex textile constructions, design of technical textiles, machines and technologies for the production and finishing of technical textiles, functionalisation and boundary layer design of textile surfaces, textile finishing, fibre-based implants and biomaterials, tissue engineering, 2D/3D CAE technologies for the development of textile constructions and textile products, machines and technologies for the production of nonwovens and for textile recycling, design, construction and adjustment of textile and finishing machines. The basic modules in Mathematics, Computer Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Technical Mechanics, Machine Elements/Design, and Mechanisms and Ergonomics/Management impart the mathematical, scientific, business as well as engineering-relevant basics for the field of textile and clothing technology. During the mandatory