Interested to offer traineeships to students

The University of Applied Sciences of Rosenheim is one of the leading institutions for education and training of wood engineers in Germany. More than seventy years of experience are the background for successful training and education of wood engineers from Rosenheim. Actually approximately 1000 students are under a 4-years training for their diploma degree. The first opportunity for practical experience is an internship of 18 weeks within the 6th semester as a part of the curriculum. Rosenheim trainees have been employed all over the world with excellent reputations.

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Benefits for companies

• Extending personnel capacities with low costs and no risk for a limited but useful period of time
• Solving of special problems
• Getting up to date technical input
• Getting acquaintance to the student for eventually long term employment
• Having one person working on one problem

Importance of a practical traineeship

The student has to be trained on the job. The assignment is based on engineering operations to be solved by working in companies.

Expectations on a host company

• Clear tasks to be done during the traineeship by the student
• Supervising instructor should be nominated
• Payment of food and lodging for the student
• Further allowances can be regulated individually

Areas of employment for Wood Engineers

Due to the general scope of the studies and the possibility of specialising in various tracks, wood engineers are able to work in a wide variety of areas in the timber industry and its suppliers. Our recent graduates now work in the following areas

• Furniture production (e.g. Office and home furniture, kitchens and bathroom furniture)
• Sawmills
• Veneer production and processing
• Plywood- Fibreboard and Chipboard production
• Laminated timber production
• Interior Engineering firms
• Timber frame and prefab companies and their suppliers
• Window, Door, Flooring, Staircase production
• Suppliers for the car industry (Interior)
• Suppliers for the aeronautical industry (Interior)
• Caravan production and furnishing
• Shipyards (passenger cabins and Interior)
• Timber yards
• Paper and Fibre industry
• IT and Consulting
• Engineering works for the production of woodworking machinery
• Research and lecturing

Additionally wood engineers are employed in the public sector as well as engineering offices and professional trade associations/organizations.