Lightweight and Materials Engineering

Bachelor, Full Time

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Building the future!

Function, safety, lightweight, design, cost, durability and sustainability – the right choice of material is crucial for all products. Lightweight design and minimising material usage are essential when moving masses, given climate change and rising energy costs along with managing our limited resources. Understanding the interaction between materials – whether metals, composites, or plastics – their manufacturing processes, and part design is the basis for innovative solutions. This degree enables you to develop high-performance car-, aircraft- or spacestructures, sports equipment, durable and perfectly shaped consumer goods up to innovative environmentally friendly food packaging. Lightweight design and materials engineering make a decisive contribution to achieving climate, resource, and sustainability goals. This degree course offers a wide range of opportunities in a future-oriented industry. It combines innovation, technology, and sustainability.

Key Facts

  • Degree

    Bachelor of Science in Engineering

  • Mode Of Study

    Full Time

  • Language

    This unique program allows international students to start their studies in English while acquiring German language skills to start their professional career in the Austrian job market. Semesters 1–4 are taught in English. The program is taught in German from semester 5 onwards.

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  • Access Requirements

    High school leaving certificate or equivalent, English language certificate B2 (TOEFL, IELTS), CV, Letter of Motivation

  • Deadline for Applications

    Application for the year 2025/26 online until 30.06.2025

    Application deadline for Non-EU-Applicants: 31.05.2025. All applicants who can enter Austria without a visa can still apply.

    www.fh-ooe.at/application

  • Admission Process

    Online application, MS Teams interview with pre-selected candidates

  • Semester abroad

    Semesters abroad and internships are encouraged and actively supported

  • Costs

    Our university is publicly funded. Only a contribution to our running costs is collected from students: EUR 3.888,- for the first year

    EUR 726,- for every additional semester, reduced by 50% for EU citizens

Future career

Graduates are prepared to work in various roles, shaping ideas as product developers, fine-tuning the weight and durability as structural or simulation engineers, and realizing them in an industrial setting by developing and optimising manufacturing processes including tooling systems – always with the perfect material in mind. Internships, projects, and guest lecturers establish easy contact with our local as well as international industrial and research partners. The international-friendly bachelor’s degree program Lightweight & Materials Engineering offers the unique opportunity to acquire not only a cutting-edge engineering degree but also German language skills and opens employment opportunities in Europe and beyond.
Future career

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Study Focus

  • Lightweight design and simulation of lightweight structures
  • Material characterization and -selection
  • Processing and manufacturing technologies
  • Materials: metals, plastics, and composites
  • Sustainability, recycling, and bionics
  • Industry projects and laboratory practice
  • Flexible elective module
  • Two German-taught specializations in the higher semesters:
    • Lightweight Design & Composite-Materials and
    • Materials & Process Engineering

Curriculum

Enter the German-speaking job market

We get you covered! The degree program is taught in English during the first four semesters and switches to German from the 5th semester onwards. German language courses are an integral part of the curriculum to prepare you for the specializations and the professional internship in German.

This degree program offers you a broad technical education in and beyond the fields of lightweight design, materials and material processing. It provides an excellent entry into professional life through a strong focus on practical projects. You will acquire a versatile toolbox of methods and build up a broad knowledge base.

DI Sebastian Hamedinger BSc

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Contact

Head of Studies
Prof. DI Dr. Roland Hinterhölzl

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
School of Engineering
Stelzhamerstraße 23, 4600 Wels/Austria
+43 5 0804 43134 I sekretariat.lme@fh-ooe.at

Contact

Email sekretariat.lcw@fh-wels.at

Telephone +43 5 0804 43134

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