Career prospects
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With a bachelor’s degree in Vocational Education in Metalworking and Electrical Engineering, you’ll lay the foundation for exciting careers in vocational education and in the field. Right after earning your bachelor’s degree, you can teach at extracurricular educational institutions or take on training roles at companies.
Typical workplaces include:
- Vocational schools and technical colleges
- Companies in the metal and electrical industries (training and instruction of apprentices)
- Extracurricular educational institutions and continuing education centers
- Specialized departments within companies for training and qualification programs
Teaching and education sector
If you’re aiming for a traditional teaching career at vocational schools, this typically involves earning a Master of Education degree, followed by a teaching internship (Referendariat), which concludes with the second state examination. Afterward, you’ll be fully qualified to teach at vocational schools—and will thus be on par with teachers at high schools. Vocational schools offer you an exciting and secure career path where you can both impart technical knowledge and design your own projects.
Companies in the metal and electrical industries
Here, you will mentor apprentices on the job, plan training programs, and ensure that practical technical knowledge is imparted. You will support employees through training and professional development programs, design practice-oriented learning content, and help ensure that vocational training runs smoothly and efficiently.
Extracurricular educational institutions and training centers
You will conduct seminars, continuing education programs, or training courses for various target groups and develop training concepts, such as for vocational certification or technical continuing education.
Specialized Departments in Companies
You will conduct training sessions, coaching sessions, or qualification programs for employees—for example, on new technologies, occupational safety, or digital manufacturing methods. In doing so, you will combine technical expertise with pedagogical methods.
Your Areas of Focus
In the Metal Technology track, you’ll learn how to provide hands-on support to apprentices in metalworking and manufacturing trades . Typical areas include machining, welding, mechanical engineering, and production planning. You’ll work alongside trainees in workshops and production facilities, plan projects such as the manufacture of components or machine parts, and ensure that practical technical knowledge is imparted. Topics such as workplace safety, quality control, and process optimization are also part of the role.
The Electrical Engineering track focuses on teaching electrical and electronic systems in a practical manner. You’ll support apprentices in fields such as industrialelectronics, automation technology, and energy and building technology. Typical work locations include laboratories, production halls, control rooms, and smart factory environments. You plan hands-on exercises, demonstrate how circuits are built or machines are programmed, and ensure that theory and practice are closely integrated.
Both specializations prepare you to combine technical expertise with pedagogical methods, design practical learning processes, and provide targeted support for people’s professional development.
Postgraduate Master's program
The self-reflection tool (SRT) offers student teachers at the University of Kassel the opportunity to take a targeted and anonymous look at their study situation. They can deal online with various dimensions relevant to their studies (e.g. "Motivation" or "My challenges") and receive scientifically sound feedback on the information provided. In addition, this offer from the project "Studying to become a teacher, reflecting on success" (LASER) and the core study program shows a wide range of advice and support services at the University of Kassel.
You can find the online self-test and further information here.
If you have doubts about your chosen degree course but are sure that you would like to continue studying, the scientifically based Study Interest Test (SIT) can be helpful for further study orientation and selection. This self-test helps you to find a course of study in line with your personal interests and inclinations and can serve as a starting point for further study guidance at the university.
Further information can be found here.
There are short and scientifically based questionnaires for students studying for a teaching degree that can help them to visualize the central dimensions of the teaching profession, reflect on personal requirements and receive suggestions in the area of skills development if they have doubts about their studies.
Questions on personal interests in connection with the teaching profession can be found here.
Questions if you are unsure about your choice of teaching subjects can be found here.
Questions for students with practical school experience can be found here.
Further information and self-assessments for the teaching profession can be found here.
The University of Münster has developed a self-test for procrastination that deals with procrastination behavior, depression and attention problems. It can be evaluated anonymously and provides individual feedback as to whether or not procrastination can be said to exist according to the information provided.