Tutoring programme for Bachelor first-year students
Supervised study groups for an optimal start to your studies (start in the winter semester)
[last updated on 01 September 2025, 1 pm]
Dear first-semester students,
Your optimal support during the introductory phase of your studies is very important to us, which is why exercises and tutorials (= self-calculation exercises) with a small number of participants are offered for you in many courses during the first two semesters. Small group sizes and fixed study groups should help you to find your feet. The places in these study groups, with whom you will attend the exercises and tutorials in your first two semesters of study, will be allocated together with the Mechanical Engineering Student Council and the Industrial Engineering and Management Group (HG Wing) at the beginning of the orientation phase , which will take place from 6 October 2025 (one week before the start of lectures). Please keep the orientation week free!
In addition to putting together a suitable study group for you, we will help you with the organisational aspects of starting your studies. You will be guided step by step and, should any problems arise, referred to the relevant departments. We will then arrange an individual follow-up appointment to catch up on the organisational part with you, so that hopefully you can all start your studies well prepared! You will also get to know new people who may be just as expectant and perhaps a little uncertain as you are about starting this new phase of your life - the student representatives from the Mechanical Engineering Student Council and the HG Wing university group will help you with their respective linked programmes.
We would therefore strongly recommend that you take part in the introductory events during the orientation phase. In order not to leave you alone with the course content, we have developed a concept for your start as a first semester student that enables you to attend small group events such as tutorials and exercises on campus with your familiar study group. Different learning group timetables have been developed for you. Please decide on one in advance, taking into account your individual time preferences and coordinating with future fellow students (e.g. carpooling), so that you are registered together in the same study group. It is part of the concept to maintain the selected group in the current semester (i.e. not to change or jump between the different learning group dates) in order to provide you with a constant learning environment. Please understand this!
Lerngruppenauswahl und -zuteilung
Um eine für Sie passende Lerngruppe zusammenzustellen, wählen bitte ab Donnerstag, den 02.10.2025 18 Uhr die Erstsemester im Bachelor-Studiengang…
- … Nachhaltiger Maschinenbau (kurz: Ba. MB) eine der Lerngruppen MB1 bis MB3 über deren gemeinsamen Stundenplan. Die zur Auswahl stehenden Stundenpläne finden Sie hier, Sie treffen Ihre Wahl mit dem hier verlinkten Tool* bis spätestens Mo. 06.10.2025 um 17:30 Uhr.
- … Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen mit Maschinenbau (kurz: Ba. WIng MB) eine der Lerngruppen W1 bis W3 über deren gemeinsamen Stundenplan. Die zur Auswahl stehenden Stundenpläne finden Sie hier, die Wahl erfolgt mit dem hier verlinkten Tool* bis spätestens Di. 07.10.2025 um 21 Uhr.
- … Chemieingenieurwesen (kurz: Ba. CIW) die Lerngruppe CIW über deren gemeinsamen Stundenplan, den Sie hier finden, mit dem hier verlinkten DFN-Tool*. Die Wahl ist bis Mo. 06.10.2025 um 17:30 Uhr freigeschaltet.
Sprechen Sie sich dazu bitte vorab mit Freunden/Fahrgemeinschaften ab! Mit diesem gewählten Stundenplan legen Sie Ihre gemeinsamen Kleingruppentermine für das Wintersemester 2025/26 zusammen mit Ihrer Erstsemester-Lerngruppe fest. Im Anschluss erfahren Sie per E-Mail (daher bitte Ihre korrekte E-Mailadresse angeben, die Sie regelmäßig abrufen!) den Termin und Treffpunkt für Ihre angeleitete Lehrveranstaltungs-Anmeldung in PAUL** zusammen mit Ihrer Lerngruppe.
*) Das verwendete DFN-Tool ist ein Terminplanungstool vergleichbar mit Doodle, im Unterschied dazu jedoch nicht kommerziell, sodass Sie keine Angst um Ihre Daten haben müssen.
**) Paderborner Assistenzsystem für Universität und Lehre
When is what planned?
- Apply for a Uni-Account today at the latest, activation takes 24 hours!
Please make sure you create a Uni-Account for computer access before the start of the actual orientation phase programme. This is absolutely necessary for your registration for lectures, where we want to support you on Wednesday and Friday, and later exam registrations as well as access to the digital O-phase programme. You can find out how to do this on the ZIM user administration help pages, please follow the instructions. If it is not possible to register, e.g. because you have not yet received a transaction number (TAN), please contact ZIM by email to ensure that you can register quickly.
- With the help of an online tool, the final learning group composition and appointment allocation for the group-based course registration will take place on the following Wednesday and presumably Friday or Monday (see below for the day). (The DFN tool used is a scheduling tool comparable to Doodle, but unlike Doodle it is not commercial, so you do not have to worry about your data). Please coordinate with friends/carpools in advance! With this selected timetable, you and your first-semester study group will set your joint small group dates in presence on campus for the winter semester 2024/25. You will then receive an email (so please enter your correct email address, which you will check regularly!) with the date and meeting point for your guided course registration together with your learning group. In order to put together a suitable learning group for you, please select from approx. [last year it was Fri 27.09.2025 6 pm]:
- First semester Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (short: Ba. MB) by Mon. 06.10.2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the latest one of the learning groups MB1 to MB3 via their common timetable (the timetables available for selection can be found soon here [currently you can find the previous year's selection here for orientation; will be updated when the tutor allocation is finalised]) with the tool linked here.
- First semester students Bachelor Industrial Engineering with Mechanical Engineering (short: Ba. WIng MB) by Tue 07.10.2025 at 9 p.m. at the latest one of the learning groups W1 to W3 via their common timetable (the timetables available for selection can be found soon here [currently you can find the previous year's selection here]) using the tool linked here.
- First semester students Bachelor Chemical Engineering (short: Ba. CIW) by Mon. 06.10.2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the latest the learning group CIW via their common timetable, which you will find soon here [currently you can find the previous year's selection here] , using the DFN tool linked here.
- First semester Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (short: Ba. MB) by Mon. 06.10.2025 at 5:30 p.m. at the latest one of the learning groups MB1 to MB3 via their common timetable (the timetables available for selection can be found soon here [currently you can find the previous year's selection here for orientation; will be updated when the tutor allocation is finalised]) with the tool linked here.
- 9 a.m. central Welcome Event of the first semester students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering by the Dean of Studies Mechanical Engineering in lecture hall L1,
- approx. 10:15 a.m. Presentation of the tutorial programme
- approx. 10:45 a.m. Welcome by the MB/HG Wing student council and tour of the university in small (teamer) groups
- from today: view useful content on starting your studies, including our tutoring programme in the specially created online learning offer in PANDA Z.EXT.00093 Studienstart-Begleitung im Maschinenbau Jahrgang 2024/25, which also offers us the opportunity to exchange ideas.
Prerequisite: Your university account is activated, you know your user name and password to log in there.
- For Ba. MB first-semester students: course registrations take place in PAUL (Paderborn University Assistance System for Teaching and Learning); you will receive the specific dates by e-mail according to your pre-selected timetable.
- For Ba. CIW first-semester students: course registration takes place in PAUL. You will receive the specific date by e-mail.
Your O-week programme on campus starts in lecture hall L2 (see map of the university, building marked with the letter "L", with lecture hall L2 on the ground floor).
