Career start for dual system students

At Siemens Professional Education (SPE), young people attain their bachelor degree within 50 months – including the chamber of industry and commerce certificate

34 students, amongst them eight women, have started their vocational education and training in the dual study courses at Siemens Professional Education (SPE) in Regensburg. This model combines a technical job specification with a technical-natural scientific engineering study course and the resultant bachelor degree; by now it has proven extremely successful and enjoys increased demand on part of customers and co-operation partners of the SPE.

Four different study course programmes are currently offered in co-operation with the Technical University Regensburg. These range from the Bachelor of Engineering in the specialist fields of mechatronics, machine construction and electrical engineering and information technology to the Bachelor of Science in micro systems technology. However, all study course programmes have the common denominator of the basic occupation being either that of electronics technician in the field of operating technology, or that of mechatronics technician.

The first milestone on the path to the successful completion of the study programme was a one-week kick-off event in the vicinity of Selb. The aim of this workshop was not only to get to know each other, but also to prompt this diversified group of G8 school graduates to form teams depending on their respective faculty and enterprise.

Team building measures and individual experiential education tasks, which the students had to solve, provided an important basis in this process. The highlight of the event was the organisation of a joint evening including the executives from the various enterprises, who arrived specifically for this purpose. The participants attend individual vocational training sequences and projects, before taking up their studies at the Technical University Regensburg at the beginning of the next winter semester.