Department of Economics and Business Engineering

Research and teaching in the Department of Economics and Business Engineering at Karlsruhe is distinguished by interdisciplinary networked tasks and a focus on current developments. The faculty is the largest training centre for graduate industrial engineers in Germany. The interdisciplinary course in industrial engineering with business studies has characteristics that are typical for the Universität Karlsruhe (TH): it is geared towards quantitative problems and is therefore strongly method-orientated; it also includes applied computer science. Working in an interdisciplinary network, perhaps taking both economic and technical aspects into account at the same time, is essential for the design, manufacture and marketing of products.

Interdisciplinary research

Despite the large number of resources devoted to teaching at the institutes, research is still very much a priority. The interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Market Engineering” recently founded bridges the gap between education and research. The program is devoted to designing institutions, services, systems and social models for electronic markets while taking into account all of the economic, technology-based and legal aspects.

The main fields of research include:

Finance and capital market research
Marketing and market research
Mapping work processes using computer science
Information management
Production and materials flow management
Ergonomics
Sustainable construction
Traffic prediction and transport network planning
System dynamics and innovation
Optimization, resource management and risk management
Actuarial science and applied risk science
Welfare economics
Experimental economic research

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Department of Economics and Business Engineering