Examination Regulations, Transitional Regulations & Module Handbooks

If you registered for one of our Bachelor's degree programmes before 2018/19 and have not yet switched to a new Examination Regulations, you must complete your studies by 31.08.2023! If you do not complete your degree by this date, you will be transferred "ex officio" to the current Examination Regulations. This may lead to an extension of your degree programme.

Find out in good time using the Examination Regulations, the cancellation and transitional regulations and plan carefully whether the remaining four examination periods (July 2022, September 2022, February/March 2023, July 2023) are sufficient. If in doubt, speak to the relevant programme director.

An application to change to a newer Examination Regulations for the same degree programme can be submitted at any time. Processing takes place between the examination periods so that you can usually register for the next examination period in the new PO. The following also applies:
You can voluntarily switch from an expiring PO to the currently valid PO at any time, provided there is a cancellation regulation for the expiring PO.

In both cases:

• Please send informal applications (with student ID number and current degree programme/PO) to the Examinations Office only.
• If you have submitted an application to the PA chairperson and have not yet received a reply, please resubmit the application to the Examinations Office.
• Please understand that a PO change is a labour-intensive matter and in the current situation can only be processed with priority in very urgent cases.

In order to limit the flood of enquiries on the subject of PO changes, here is the essence of the cancellation regulations and transitional rules.

1. Nobody MUST switch to the new PO. Exception: you do not complete the programme by August 2023. Then the compulsory transfer will take place.
2. Dates for the expiry of courses and lectures and examinations can be found in the cancellation regulations.
3. There are equivalent replacement modules for subjects/examinations that are no longer offered (see transition rules)
4. Examination credits are generously credited to each other. Nobody has to change because of practical training.
5. If you want to change to the new PO despite the 1st - 4th, please explain the individual advantages of the new PO for you. Please note that the administrative effort is high and may take some time depending on the availability of staff in the Examinations Office.

The cancellation regulations of the "old" Examination Regulations can be found in the download area of FH Aachen under the respective Examination Regulations. Further rules, especially for the mutual recognition of module achievements from the old and new PO, can be found in the download area of FB 8.

• Change of PO 2012-2014 in the Bachelor's degree programme Industrial Engineering B.Sc.
  Rules for the transition from the 2012 Examination Regulations to the 2014 Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme Industrial Engineering in the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics (FB 8) and Business (FB 7)
• Change of PO 2018 in the Bachelor's degree programme Mechanical Engineering B.Eng.
  Rules for the transition from the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme "Mechanical Engineering" of 08 August 2012, last amended by the Amendment Regulations of 27. October 2017 to the Examination Regulations of 06 June 2018
  One line is added to the table of correspondences for Mechanical Engineering:
  Old PO: 85102 Plastics Engineering; New PO: 8420318 Materials Science 2; Decision: Meeting of the FBR on 07.04.2022
• Change of PO 2018 in theBachelor's degree programme Mechatronics B.Eng.
  Rules for the transition from the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme "Mechatronics" of 8 August 2012, last amended by the Amendment Regulations of 8 February 2017 to the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programmes "Mechatronics", "Mechatronics (part-time)", "Dual study programme Mechatronics (DIMech)" of 16 May 2018
• Change ofPO 2018 in the Bachelor's degree programme Rail Vehicle Technology B.Eng.
  Rules for the transition from the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme "Rail Vehicle Technology" of 16 August 2012, last amended by the Amendment Regulations of 27 October 2017, to the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programmes "Rail Vehicle Technology", "Rail Vehicle Technology (part-time)" and "Dual study programme Rail Vehicle Technology (DIRail)" of 16 May 2018
• Change of PO 2018 in the Bachelor's degree programme Industrial Engineering B.Sc.
  Rules for the transition from the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme "Industrial Engineering" dated 23 October 2009, last amended by the Amendment Regulations dated 8 February 2017, to the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's degree programme Industrial Engineering dated 28 June 2018

Change of PO 2014-2019 in the degree programme:

• Master's Product Development in Mechanical Engineering M.Eng.
  Rules for the transition from the Master's degree programme Product Development in Mechanical Engineering in accordance with the Examination Regulations of 18 December 2014 to the Master's degree programme Product Development in Mechanical Engineering in accordance with the Examination Regulations of 26 February 2019
• Industrial Engineering M.Sc.
  Rules for the transition from the four-semester to the three-semester Master's degree programme in Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics 01.07.2015
• Master's Mechatronics M.Sc.
  Rules for the transition from the four-semester Master's degree programme in Mechatronics (start of studies before winter semester 2015/16) to the three- and four-semester Master's degree programme in Mechatronics (start of studies from winter semester 2015/16) in the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Aerospace Engineering 02.12.2016
• Product Development M.Eng.
  Rules for the transition from the four-semester Master's degree programme in Product Development to the three-semester Master's degree programme in Product Development in Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics 02.07.2015