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I spent the months of September-November 2008 as an automotive strategy intern with Management Engineers in Düsseldorf, Germany. My project focused on conducting research and developeding comprehensive studies on power electronics modules and energy storage systems in hybrid and electric vehicles for a major German automotive OEM.

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Mangement Engineers Corporate Profile:

MANAGEMENT ENGINEERS provides its clients with benefits that are measurably above average and
lasting. We are a consulting company that effects real change, because for us what is feasible takes
priority over what is visionary. Our consulting is based on a holistic perspective. We bank on
product-oriented growth strategies and aim at the systemic combination of four elementary factors of
competitiveness:

Innovative products,
Creative value adding,
Optimal supply chain,
Profitable market presence.

We are experts in lean management, and we know how to efficiently achieve entrepreneurial goals.
Larger companies, in particular, benefit from our proven expertise in implementing the success
factors of small and medium-sized businesses. As pragmatists we know: a stable increase in
profitability must be based on continuous development of the operative business and conceptual
extension of the product and service portfolio. Our consulting, therefore, comprises all levels of
operational practice: from strategy orientation via portfolio management and corporate finance right
through to operations.

As strategy and process consultants we work for well-known companies – from globally oriented
medium-sized companies right up to leading global groups. Three-quarters of our clients come from
the manufacturing industry. Therefore, the majority of our consultants also have an engineeringtechnical
education. Without exception they are knowledgeable industry insiders – well-connected
and with profound practical experience. We find most of our clients in the automotive and its
supplying industries, mechanical and plant engineering, energy supplies, chemicals and life sciences,
as well as in the electronics and electrical engineering industries. Financial service providers also
make use of our process and organisational know-how, as do logistics and trade companies.
We are regarded as a Hidden Champion who sets benchmarks for the consulting business on such
important criteria as know-how, experience, and implementation competence. Our performance
bond is Consulting to Completion. We not only provide productive impulses with an individual and
local fit, we also make ideas work and support them to the finish. In doing so, we bank on creativity
and passion as well as a culture of cooperation, in which everyone wins and in which everyone is
involved – particularly the employees of our clients.


MANAGEMENT ENGINEERS is wholly owned by its operatively responsible and active partners.
Being our own shareholders, we therefore also think and act as independent entrepreneurs. Since our
foundation in 1978, we have developed into one of the largest German-owned management
consulting companies. With a total of 144 consultants, today we generate worldwide a turnover of
€ 68m (2007). We have an on-site presence – with offices in Europe, North and South America, and
Asia.