Interviews with female students and graduates of the part-time Master's degree program in Industrial Production Management at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel and its Management School about their successful path into technical professions.
Women are successful in STEM professions, they feel comfortable in technical professions, which are still considered a male domain, and today they receive support from companies and superiors, who are still mostly men. In the past, their fathers were often beloved role models and encouragers, and later school uncovered the talents of female students.
This is shown by a survey of just under a dozen women studying the part-time Master's degree course in Industrial Production Management (IPM) at UNIKIMS, the Management School of the University of Kassel, under the academic direction of Professor Dr.-Ing.
However, the female engineers interviewed explain that the public perception does not reflect the multifaceted diversity of technical professions, in which a great deal of social competence is required. For most of the women interviewed, however, it is crucial that parents encourage their children to discover their own talents and strengthen their confidence in themselves and their own abilities. The female engineers would like more women to publicly acknowledge their success in technical professions.
Many of the female students and graduates surveyed have held management positions in well-known companies from the start of their careers or have been prepared for them. With the extra-occupational Master's program, they would like to advance even further in their companies. Prof. Dr. Sigrid Wenzel is convinced that the gap between those who have creative, social and process skills and those who do not will widen. She tells her students: "Shape the digital transformation! I see the digital transformation as an opportunity, because it is changing the world of work in favor of all employees, so that we have many more opportunities to reconcile work and family life and to thrive in both areas. We must seize this opportunity!" The part-time Master's degree course in IPM enables students to understand and manage industrial processes and systems holistically across planning domains and levels as well as across value creation networks. The aim is to systematically improve products and services and adapt companies to changes in the market. Information technology enables collaboration between processes and those involved in them and creates the basis for concrete decisions.
Invitation to the online information event
UNIKIMS cordially invites all prospective students and decision-makers to the online information event on October 26. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigrid Wenzel will present the degree program and answer questions.Interested parties can registerat www.unikims.de/ipm .
