HECTOR School Testimonials

You want to get an impression of the HECTOR School directly from our students and alumni? Find some testimonial voices here.

Interested in testimonial voices for specific Master Programs? Choose the program:

Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE)
Energy Engineering and Management (EEM)
Financial Engineering (FE)
Green Mobility Engineering (GME)
Management of Product Development (MPD)
Production and Operations Management (POM)
Service Management and Engineering (SME)

Testimonials on Embedded Systems Engineering

"For me it was the short and effective way to get relationship overview between the development areas of embedded systems and disciplines surrounding them, e.g. financial activities, methods, constraints and opportunities, Marketing regarding customer behaviour and Price-Product-Promotion-Place aspects, and Management of different resources during development. Also the view in the future activities regarding new technologies and contacts to key persons (Professors) on one of the elite Universities in Germany are the factors they will help me in the future work in my decision making process."

Armed Zenuni/HECTOR School Intake 2007
Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co. KG

"The unique HECTOR school concept with the 10 intensive modules opened for me the chance to do the executive master program combined with my current job. The perfect mixture between the management - and the technical modules guarantees the success of the program and the deep insight into these areas."

Stephan Konrad/HECTOR School Intake 2007
Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co. KG

Testimonials on Energy Engineering and Management

First HECTOR School students of the Master Program "Energy Engineering & Management" will finish their studies in 2013.

Testimonials on Financial Engineering

"Nowadays Banking needs knowledge on high sophisticated and very actual level. In my opinion the HECTOR School Master program Financial Engineering is a very recommendable way if one wants to manage present and future challenges in the overall banking sector sucessfully. The new and state of the art methods in risk management taught in the specific modules are a great help in my everyday practical work."

Phillip Schultheiß/HECTOR School Intake 2005
BBBank eG

"HECTOR School is the school of life. You rise coping with the challenges and each module is the next step of your progress."

Ekaterina N. Sereda/HECTOR School Intake 2007
RWE Supply & Trading

"Most updated knowledge is taught in HECTOR School with very good organization and service. I also recommend this program to potential candidates.... The HECTOR program favourably transfers profound management insight and state-of-art engineering skills to the field of finance - the two components of this transition are the exceptional faculty and the bright peer students from the most renowned firms."

Jiadi Shen/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Aareal Bank AG

"The Program is well-organized. I think, I really learnt a lot. I believe, the Master Program will be helpful to one's professional life. Especially Financial Engineering is a hot topic these days in China."

Chenjia Yu/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Commerzbank AG

Testimonials on Green Mobility Engineering

First HECTOR School students of the Master Program "Green Mobility Engineering" will finish their studies in July 2012.

Testimonials on Management of Product Development

"The HECTOR School Master Program Management of Product Development provides:

Excellent lectures from different faculties providing inside into new fields of research and technology
Opens up mind for new aspects/technologies/perspectives
Provides basis to better understand thinking in different departments of companies
Provides valuable insights into management issues not addressed during first study
Shows up elements to be considered during product development
Learning from other participants: "sharing of knowledge"
Very much oriented to applicability in day-to-day business
Good mixture of theory and practical work"

Markus Gauder/HECTOR School Intake 2005
ABB AG

"For me it was a great experience and a challenge to master this study. The HECTOR School Master Program Management of Product Development gave me a comprehensive understanding about todays's product development challenges. In addition, Business and Management basics courses expanded the knowledge needed for my professional work. In the Master specific courses, I picked up a lot of new ideas and approaches, which are helpful in my job. My opinon is that this program was a very good professional development."

Thomas Kiefer/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Thales Group

"HECTOR School offers very good Master specific moduls featuring a huge contribution to everyday managerial duties. The taught methods are a great advancement in my working style. Fields of work, like Intellectual Property and Human Ressources gave an interesting and needed insight into these areas."

Thorsten Möllert/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Behr GmbH & Co. KG

"A demanding and challenging program. Opens your mind and enables you for further tasks."

Alexander Müller/HECTOR School Intake 2007
Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co. KG

"This program contributed enormously to my personal and professional development. Especially, throughout the time I was concentrating on my thesis, I have gained experience in numerous pratices and felt that I have developed an analytical way of solving problems. Executive Master Programs of the HECTOR School equips students with the most up to date knowledge and pratices from the relevant discipline. What amazed me most were the close interaction between the professors and students as well as close interaction between HECTOR School staff and industry ... It's not exaggerated if I would describe this program as one of the milestones in my life."

Dr. Edda Özden/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

"The concept of the Hector School fits perfect for an executive master program with regard to continue working in the current job. We covered a lot of interesting and applicable topics in the 10 moduls. Within the moduls we were able to build a great network, although it was quite exausting to continue the job and to study in the master program."

Ralf Pompl/HECTOR School Intake 2007
BMW Group

“Was worth to do it [...]. Overall the HECTOR School Master Program Management of Product Development delivers interesting content with valuable impulses for personal development.”

Frank Schneider/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Thales Group

"At the HECTOR School you will get the opportunity to wotk together both with highly motivated and business experienced students and outstanding professors and lecturers. The mixture of theory and its application in case studies and small group works is a very efficient way to boost your career."

Alexander Schwarz/HECTOR School Intake 2007
BMW Group

Testimonials on Production and Operations Management

"The concept of the HECTOR School integrates business administration and engineering skills directly on a company’s major fields of demand such as logistics, finance or product development."

Sascha Berger/HECTOR School Intake 2005
ThyssenKrupp Technologies

“Now more than ever, we recognize that our economy is truly global. The challenges before us, will not be overcome utilizing thinking of the past. Companies which prevail in today’s business climate, will be those rich in new ways of management thinking, and ideas.HECTOR School embodies international and cultural reach – aligned to our global marketplace, as well as, combines theory with practice – resulting in a new way of management thinking, and techniques to foster excellence.HECTOR School taught me how to think differently as a manager, and provided me with tools to support current and future successes of my company.”

David J. Judge/HECTOR School Intake 2007
MAG Industrial Automation Systems

"It is a challenging program, but you will hardly anywhere get in so close interaction with the professors as at HECTOR School."

Dr. Jochen Oelert/HECTOR School Intake 2005
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG

"In my case, this program was part of my development career process agreed between me and my company. So, the expectations were very strongly focused on management training and deeper knowledge in logistics and production issues."

Sonja Correia Santos/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Robert Bosch GmbH

“I learned lots of new things and also it was a challenging study. I gained lots of new ways and systems that are going to help me in my job.”

Ibrahim Shawish/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Nuqul Group

Testimonials on Service Management Engineering

"HECTOR School offers a perfect supplement to one's professional development and very good prospects for social networking. Hector school management provides the necessary framework to appreciate this experience."

Mathias Mangold / HECTOR School Intake 2005
BASF IT Services GmbH

"With the convergence of telecommunications and IP technology and the ever-increasing share of IT in most business activities, co-ordinating and managing the strategic dimension of as well as the operational interface with the technical side proved to be increasingly difficult.The IE programme was exactly what I was looking for. I very much valued the Engineering modules, because they catapulted my knowledge to the forefront 'of it all' by covering a variety of relevant ICT/IT topics giving me a comprehensive overview and enough details to understand how everything works and fits together. And I found the management modules most stimulating as they provided me with a much-needed refresher and update on the latest approaches in a field that will continue to be my core strength."

Andrea Löhnert/HECTOR School Intake 2007
Telecom Namibia Ltd.

"The Information Engineering program is an excellent synergy of the disciplines informatics, business administration and international law. Clos collaboration with lectures and applied studies in small groups with students from several industries supported me to share knowledge and bring state of the art expertise into my business. Thanks to the well organized program and compact lecture sessions I was able to manage my studies beside my job successfully. In summary, the Master Program in Information Engineering of the Hector School was an enrichment in both, my expert knowledge and professional career."

Oliver Gündling/HECTOR School Intake 2005
Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG