WIB21-510 P450-0282 wi3 2 V 2 U 5 5 yes English Exam WIB21-510 Industrial Engineering 5 mandatory course WINF-B23-160 Digital Business and IT 5 mandatory course WINF-B25-150 Digital Business and IT 5 mandatory course 60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation. Prof. Dr. Thomas Tinnefeld tti Corinna Huth chu After successfully completing this module, students will: • Be able to apply advanced reading comprehension techniques in order to read longer written texts in a foreign language with economic and technical content and to decode the points of view expressed therein - with regard to both global and detailed comprehension. • Have acquired business and technical vocabulary and be able to use it productively in their own spoken and written texts, including writing emails, letters of complaint, business reports and proposals. • Be able to deal in-depth with the intercultural characteristics of the target language countries and to apply the acquired intercultural awareness to a considerable range of concrete situations in encounters with representatives of these cultures and to implement them adequately in terms of communication. • Be able to intellectually analyze relevant spoken and written business English texts and independently understand concrete examples of these. The content includes: • Business-related skills relevant to working life, e.g: ◦ Business etiquette and business travel ◦ Intercultural communication ◦ Making telephone calls ◦ Behavior in meetings ◦ Preparation and negotiating • Technical matters, e.g: ◦ Linguistic behavior in production and operation ◦ Material technology ◦ Assessment of energy sources and their sustainability ◦ Technology and innovations • Writing skills: Creation of, for example: ◦ E-mail correspondence ◦ Letters of complaint ◦ Annual reports ◦ Minutes of meetings • Practicing presentation techniques • Teaching vocabulary for the above-mentioned areas • Expanding students" command of grammar and, if necessary, repeating areas where improvement is required • Partner work • Group work phases where students tackle specific tasks • Interactive, multimedia language lab • Short talks by the students • Using artificial intelligence as a learning partner Recommended literature will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Sun Jun 14 21:08:37 CEST 2026, CKEY=wbate, BKEY=wi3, CID=[?], LANGUAGE=en, DATE=14.06.2026