STUDY INFORMATION FOR 2024/2025/1 AUTUMN SEMESTER | Faculty of Engineering

1. REGISTRATION / DEREGISTRATION DEADLINES ON NEPTUN:

Please kindly note that after 22 September 2024 course registration is not possible:

Students no longer have the opportunity to submit late course registration requests to be registered for courses after the deadline. However, in exceptional cases, you may request to have a registered course deleted or modified (e.g. changing the seminar of a registered subject) until the end of the 3rd week of the study period (27 September). In this case, you also have to pay a registration fee.

Please also note the "Class schedule planner" (a function on Neptun with which students can plan their timetable in advance) does not show your official and finalized course selection. Courses which are added to the "Class schedule planner" are not registered yet.
Please do not forget that classes start on the week of 9 September. Absences count from this week onwards.

2. INFORMATION ON SELECTING COURSES ON NEPTUN:
On Neptun you can have a look at the registration/subject registration periods under „Information”, then „Periods” (Please choose: 2024/25/1).
Students register on Neptun on their own under Administration, then Enrollment/Registration, Choose 2024/25/1, Enroll, Term status: Active or Passive. Registration is obligatory, passive status must be registered as well. (In the case of students starting their very first semester, the status will be set by the colleagues at the Coordinating Center.) If a student has unpaid items on Neptun or he/she has pending tuition fees, selecting active/passive student status and course selection is disabled.
In case you have any kind of Neptun technical problem relating to subject registration, please contact your faculty administrator from the International Office, Faculty of Engineering via email by providing your Neptun-code and full name. He/she will remove the technical failure so that you can complete the subject registration on your own. Contact details (International Office, Faculty of Engineering)

Subject registration on Neptun: under “Subjects”, then “Register for subjects”. When registering, term 2024/25/1 should be selected. Note: On the right there is a drop down menu where the curriculum or the stream can be selected on Neptun. Some courses are available if the curriculum in question is selected (e.g. Mechanical Eng. BSc 2017), others are available if the stream in question (e.g. Operation and Maintenance Specialization) is chosen. Please do not forget to register for both lecture and practice/seminar if both of them are available. Please always read the "note" and "description" fields on Neptun which contain essential technical information about the course. For example, a course can have more than one group. Some groups are meant for Civil Eng. BSc students, others are meant for Mechanical Eng. or Mechatronic Eng. BSc students (to avoid timetable conflict/clash). If the subjects do not appear in your timetable on Neptun for some reason, please check the time and venue of the class under “Subjects”, “Registered subjects”, then click on the “Subject name”.

If you need to take an exam course or a comprehensive exam, please sign up for it in the subject registration period (on Neptun under "Register for subjects") so that you can register for an exam date in the exam period. Later on (during the study period or the examination period) it will not be possible to register for an exam course or a comprehensive exam. In case you want to take an exam course but it is not available on Neptun, please contact the course instructor or the administrative assistant from the department. (An exam course does not have scheduled classes. It is an opportunity for students who have already obtained the signature in a course ending with an exam grade. Students can take the exam in the particular exam course in the examination period. The grade for the next unit can only be submitted on Neptun if the grade has previously been submitted for the exam course/prerequisite course.)

Also, in general, if a course is supposed to be available on Neptun but it is not (e.g courses from curricula before 2017), please get in touch with your administrative officer from Faculty of Engineering, International Office without delay in the subject registration period. You might be required to fill out a request form so that you can be registered for the given course.

In case you have obtained the signature previously in a course and intend to take the next unit which is built upon it, please get in touch with your administrator from the International Office, Faculty of Engineering and ask him/her to help you with subject registration.

In this case, please note that according to the Rules and Regulations of the University of Debrecen, "Same-semester registration for courses building upon each other is possible if the student obtained the semester signature of the prerequisite courses in an earlier semester. Examination requirements of courses need to be completed in the sequence designated in the prerequisites, and failing to do so will result in the Education Committee destroying achieved results."

For more information on the exam period, please click here.

Note: If you started the Civil Eng. BSc program in 2017/18/1 for instance, then generally speaking the 2017 curriculum of Civil Engineering BSc applies to you. To make sure, please check your own curriculum on Neptun under "Subjects", "Register for subjects", "Curriculums".
At our faculty, some courses are available only in the autumn semester (semester 1, 3, 5, 7), others only in the spring semester (semester 2, 4, 6, 8).

When registering for courses, please take into account the prerequisites. Only those courses may be registered whose prerequisites have been fulfilled. If, due to Neptun technical problem or administrative failure, you are able to register for a course without having completed the prerequisite course(s) before, the administrator has the right to delete your course registration on Neptun.
Regarding the system of prerequisites, please see page 89 article 6 section 7 in the Rules and Regulations.
Timetables will shortly appear here:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/296

For the time being please check Neptun for timetable information.

3. USEFUL LINKS:
Neptun user guide: http://neptun.unideb.hu/download/studentweb_en.pdf
How to pay via Neptun: http://neptun.unideb.hu/ (under „Belépés/Log in”, „Hallgatói/Student”, under Downloadable documents after switching the language to English)
University of Debrecen: http://edu.unideb.hu/index.php
Academic calendar: http://eng.unideb.hu/node/285
Curricula: http://eng.unideb.hu/document_storage
Guide for finding lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories in the Faculty of Engineering: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/297
Guidelines for conformity: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/334
Rules and Regulations: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/306

More links: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/279

4. OPTIONAL COURSES
Depending on your training program the completion of a certain number of credit points of optional courses is required for graduation.
Therefore, please follow the link below and read detailed information on optional courses here:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/290

5. FOR THE ATTENTION OF STUDENTS WHO WANT TO TRANSFER COURSES:
In this case a credit transfer request form is to be filled out (electronically, no hand-written forms are accepted, course codes and course titles are to be copied from the particular curriculum in Microsoft Excel) and submitted in printed version along with a copy of the transcript of records and course descriptions.
Please note that you may submit only one transfer request during your studies.

Details:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/286
For Engineering Management MSc students:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/460

Deadline for submitting credit transfer request forms in 2024/25/1: 20 September 2024

Please register for the course/s on Neptun which you think will be transferred for you. In case course is rejected, you will have to complete it. If it is accepted,you will be deregistered from the normal course and the transferred course will be registered on Neptun by the administrators of the International Office (Faculty of Engineering) after the credit transfer request form has been approved. Transfer students can transfer no more than 60% of the total credits of the particular program and are expected to complete at least 40% of the total credits of the particular program at the University of Debrecen.
Please note the student status shall expire within the program duration if you cannot obtain an average of 10 credit points in the last two active semesters. Under particular circumstances transfer students' individual cases might be reconsidered.

6. PART-TIME STUDENTS:
Erasmus students: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/418
Visiting students: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/419

7. FOR THE ATTENTION OF MSC STUDENTS: PRE-MASTERS COURSES
Please find detailed information on pre-masters courses here:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/275

8. PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Should you have any problems relating to PE registration (subject code on Neptun: SI-003, Subject registration on Neptun under “All other subjects in the institution”), please turn to Ms Erika Lovas (email: lovas.erika@sport.unideb.hu ) via email or in person during the subject registration period for PE in the Coordinating Institute for Sports Sciences (4032, Debrecen Mórizs Zsigmond körút 22. Lajos Markusovszky Dormitory III, room 1, Auguszta):
Office hours: Monday through Thursday: 9.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m., Friday: 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. (noon)

In case you sign up for Unifit Fitness through Neptun, please find detailed information here: https://www.stadionunifit.hu/egyetemi-testneveles/?lang=en

Taking the course Physical Education is necessary for graduation:
For BSc students: 2 semesters of PE
For MSc students: 1 semester of PE

Completing Physical Education is one of the outcome requirements of all training programs. Further information on Physical Education:
https://eng.unideb.hu/node/299

9. WORK AND FIRE SAFETY COURSE
First-year students must complete the online course called Work and Fire Safety Training in the first semester of their studies so that later on the laboratory practical classes can be completed without any difficulties.

Subject registration on Neptun under  Subjects > Register for subject > Subject from curriculum

Subject name: Work and Fire Safety Training
Subject code: Munkavedelem
Course code: ENGLISH

BSc: registration and completion are necessary for graduation
MSc: registration and completion are necessary only if BSc diploma has been awarded outside of the University of Debrecen

Completion: online
Link: https://munkavedelem.unideb.hu/1_eves_eng.htm
Login: Neptun ID plus password
Please read the material until the end to get the signature on Neptun for the completion of the course.
Information on Work and Fire Safety on our homepage: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/291

10. INTERNSHIP (THIS SECTION APPLIES PRIMARILY IN THE SPRING SEMESTER)
Please check your own curriculum regarding the internsip (whether it is mandatory or not, in which semester you are supposed to take it, in which semester you are required to sign up for the course on Neptun). It is highly recommended to start seeking internship places in time.
Please read the detailed description of the internship below (depending on your training program). Also, a list of possible companies where students have already completed their internship can be found below.

Civil Eng. BSc and Urban Systems Engineering MSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/293
Mechanical Eng. BSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/en/node/304
Mechatronics Eng. BSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/343
Professional Pilot BSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/411
Engineering Management MSc: Industrial Internship | Department of Engineering Management and Enterprise (unideb.hu)
Mechanical Eng. MSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/364
Mechatronical Eng. MSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/344
Environmental Engineering MSc: https://eng.unideb.hu/node/437

Students not participating in the Stipendium Scholarship Program might apply for Erasmus traineeship. Details here: https://eng.unideb.hu/en/outgoing-students

11. REQUESTING TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDS AND CERTIFICATE OF STUDENT STATUS

If you need the Transcript of Records or the Certificate of Student Status, please request it from the Coordinating Center for International Education. See who to contact below:

New students enrolled in their first semester at the University of Debrecen
Tuition fee-paying students: Ms. Noémi Tóth (toth.noemi@edu.unideb.hu) or Ms. Kata Fekete (fekete.kata@edu.unideb.hu)
BSc Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders: Ms. Annamária Rácz (annamaria@edu.unideb.hu)
MSc Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders: Ms. Lilla Almási-Fónai (fonai.lilla@edu.unideb.hu)

Rest of students
Tuition fee-paying students: Mr. Ádám Losonczi (adam@edu.unideb.hu) or Mr. Norbert Balogh (balogh.norbert@edu.unideb.hu)
Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders: Mr. Norbert Tanki (tanki.norbert@edu.unideb.hu)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
Please check your Neptun messages and emails on a daily basis because they are the primary means of communication at the university.
Please ensure that your email address on Neptun (under “My data”, “Contact information”, “Email addresses”) is up to date. Update it if necessary because most Neptun messages (sent by lecturers, administrators) are automatically forwarded to the email address given on Neptun.

Automatic Neptun messages (grade modifications, exam date announcement, subject/course registration) are not necessarily forwarded to your email address. On Neptun under "Messages" (menu bar on the left), please select "Settings", then "Message Forwarding". Here you can select what type of Neptun messages (e.g. messages concerning exam grade registration, or subject/course registration) you wish to be forwarded to your email address.

Please also check your personal data on Neptun (e.g. first name, family name, mother’s name, country of birth, place of birth, etc...) under “My data”, “Personal information”. Should something be missing or wrong, please contact the Coordinating Centre for International Education.

Kind regards,
International Office, Faculty of Engineering