The document describes the MOOC@TU9 online course offered by the TU9 alliance of leading technology universities in Germany. The 9-week course, taught in English, provides an overview of engineering disciplines and studies in Germany. It includes weekly live sessions featuring professors from TU9 universities covering topics like civil, digital, and mechanical engineering. Participants can join individual weeks or the full course for no charge. The goal is to inform international students about opportunities for engineering studies in Germany.

1. Objectives
The online course has been designed for national and international students who would like to further their studies in
engineering science at a German university.
The course is a mixture of marketing, self-assessment and academic advising:
■■ presenting the quality, the diversity and the different perspectives of engineering science studies at TU9 Universities
■■ giving initial insights into graduate courses of study
■■ sharing knowledgeable insights into the central issues, content, structures and working methods of the various
engineering science disciplines
■■ facilitating the opportunity to get to know fellow students
■■ establishing a common workflow and evaluating values for TU9 coproduced MOOCs
TU9 German Institutes of Technology e. V. www.tu9.de
The TU9 Universities are offering an interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for all those
interested in studying engineering in Germany. Meet renowned TU9 professors and discover
recent developments in German engineering!
Start of the courSe: October 20, 2014
Duration: 9 weeks
Language of inStruction: English
requirementS:
none, basic knowledge from undergraduate studies in STEM-subjects is recommended
mooc@tu9 contentS:
▪ Start-up
▪ Civil Engineering
▪ Digital Engineering
▪ Mechanical Engineering
▪ Electrical Engineering
▪ Material Engineering
▪ Future Building
▪ Mobility
▪ Robotics
▪ Aerospace
You can either participate in the whole programme or join for individual topics only.
regiSter now!
Register for MOOC@TU9 at www.tu9.de/mooc
contact uS: mooc@tu9.de
tu9 is the alliance of leading institutes of technology in germany:
RWTH Aachen University, TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Leibniz Universität
Hannover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München, and University of Stuttgart.
More than 250,000 students, or ten percent of all German students, are registered at TU9 Universities.
In Germany roughly 50 percent of all engineers with university degrees come from TU9 Universities;
some 51 percent of the doctorates in engineering are awarded at TU9 Universities.
The TU9 Universities offer more than 130 master’s courses held in English.
©TUBraunschweig/MarekKruszewski
Discover Excellence in Engineering and the
Natural Sciences – Made in Germanymooc@tu9
TU9 German Institutes of Technology e. V. www.tu9.de
The TU9 Universities are offering an interactive Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for all those
interested in studying engineering in Germany. Meet renowned TU9 professors and discover
recent developments in German engineering!
Start of the courSe: October 20, 2014
Duration: 9 weeks
Language of inStruction: English
requirementS:
none, basic knowledge from undergraduate studies in STEM-subjects is recommended
mooc@tu9 contentS:
▪ Start-up
▪ Civil Engineering
▪ Digital Engineering
▪ Mechanical Engineering
▪ Electrical Engineering
▪ Material Engineering
▪ Future Building
▪ Mobility
▪ Robotics
▪ Aerospace
You can either participate in the whole programme or join for individual topics only.
regiSter now!
Register for MOOC@TU9 at www.tu9.de/mooc
contact uS: mooc@tu9.de
tu9 is the alliance of leading institutes of technology in germany:
RWTH Aachen University, TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Leibniz Universität
Hannover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München, and University of Stuttgart.
More than 250,000 students, or ten percent of all German students, are registered at TU9 Universities.
In Germany roughly 50 percent of all engineers with university degrees come from TU9 Universities;
some 51 percent of the doctorates in engineering are awarded at TU9 Universities.
The TU9 Universities offer more than 130 master’s courses held in English.
©TUBraunschweig/MarekKruszewski
Discover Excellence in Engineering and the
Natural Sciences – Made in Germanymooc@tu9
General information
MOOC@TU9 is a joint project of the alliance of the 9 leading Institutes of Technology in Germany (TU9).
Topic: German Engineering
Title: “Discover Excellence in Engineering and the Natural Sciences – Made in Germany. Discover TU9!”.
Format: Lecture series; Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Duration: Oct 20 - Dec 21 2014 (nine weeks)
Language: English
Requirements: none; basic knowledge for undergraduate studies in STEM-subjects is recommended
Participating
■■ Open
-- Everybody who is interested can participate in the course.
-- The participation is at no charge.
-- You may attend the live sessions and access course materials without registration.
-- Participation in individual course weeks is possible./Da die einzelnen Wochenthemen nicht aufeinander aufbauen,
ist die Teilnahme sowohl am ganzen MOOC als auch nur bei einzelnen Themen möglich.
■■ Online
-- Wordpress, Youtube, Magma
■■ Course
-- You have to be registered, if you want to join in the discussion in the forum or to hand in weekly tasks.
-- You can get an official statement of accomplishment if you complete at least five of the 19 weekly tasks.
-- Because of the fact that in the course information on further study programs in engineering science are presented
basic Bachelor skills are needed.
Monday Tuesday–Friday Saturday Sunday
■■ Interactive live session with 2-3
professors and their topics
■■ An accompanying chat
■■ Interview, lecture, video
■■ Presentation of 2-3 weekly tasks
■■ Work on the weekly task
■■ Discussion in the forum
■■ Submission of weekly
tasks
■■ Weekly evaluation
■■ Final Blogpost on the
week
■■ Solutions to the
weekly tasks
Topics
Each course week renowned professors of engi-
neering science at TU9 universities present their
subjects to the participants. There are nine diffe-
rent main topics:
Didactics
Technologies
Start-up
Modelsin Civil
Engineering
DigitalEngineering
Modelsin mechanical
andElectrical
Engineering
Modelsin Material
Engineering
Future Building
Mobility
Robots
Aerospace
switch streams in
Hangout on Air
play prerecorded
materials
director
coordination,
youtube control,
initiates hangout
on air and publishes
link to live-stream
on course page
hostvideo server
(Wirecast)
professor at
location A
professor
location B
all elements can be at different
locations, in our case:
• central coordination and video
server at the University Hannover
• studio with moderator at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• two or more professors from at
least two additional locations
Google Hangout on Air
Live Stream
IRC chat for
audience questions
Streaming with Google Hangout on Air
internal coordination between the locations during the
live-event with Skype:
• technical issues
• timing, e.g. when is the next appearance from whom
• backchannel from IRC moderation to moderator
relaying questions
supply of the recording
(YouTube channel)
alternative supply for countries
with no access to
YouTube (e.g. China)
Embedding of video on course page.
Breaking down the the 1h30m video in smaller parts:
Special embed code allows embedding for a
targeted viewing of slices,
e.g. like one interview or the weekly task.
Behind the scenes Public
live afterwards
embedded in course page
IRC moderation
moderation
Contact
MOOC@TU9 online
Homepage: http://www.tu9.de/mooc
Course site: http://mooc.tu9.de
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MOOCTU9 and #discoverTU9
E-Mail: mooc@tu9.de
About TU9
TU9 is the alliance of leading Institutes of Technology in Germany. Together, the member
universities stand for excellence in research and teaching in engineering and the natu-
ral sciences.
TU9 – Alliance of leading of Institutes of Technology in Germany
The TU9 Universities offer a broad range of courses. The traditional emphasis is on sci-
ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Currently, the TU9 Universities
offer over 900 undergraduate and graduate study courses of which over 130 are Eng-
lish-language master’s courses.