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Fakultät 4 - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Fakultät 4 - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
Kackertstraße 9
D-52062 Aachen
Telephone: +49 241 809-5305
https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen
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Student body
Kackertstraße 9
D-52062 Aachen
Telephone: +49 241 809-5305
https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen
Department on the internet
Online application
Student body
Degree courses with details
- Mechanical Engineering (B.Sc.)
- Computational Engineering Science (B.Sc.)
- General Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Automation Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Automotive Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Computational Engineering Science (M.Sc.)
- Energy Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Product Development (M.Sc.)
- Automotive Engineering and Transportation (M.Sc.)
- Plastics and Textile Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Aerospace Technology (Mas)
- Production Engineering (M.Sc.)
- Simulation Sciences (M.Sc.)
- Process Engineering (M.Sc.)
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Basic information
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
2.0%
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
4.0%
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
11/14 points
Job market- and career-orientation
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
15.8%
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
33.6%
Research
- Third party funds per academic
407,600 €
- Doctorates per professor
4.2
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding the international orientation
The Mechanical Engineering Department has its own ‘international’ area dealing with internationalisation strategies, among other things. The faculty has its own international subject-specific advice service.
Special features regarding the equipment
A range of large equipment and machinery is installed at our institutes.
Special features regarding research activities
Faculty 4 takes a leading role in all fields of mechanical engineering. This is evidenced by a correspondingly high level of third-party funding.
Support for founders
Usually carried out directly by the relevant institutions.
Other special features
Full-time dean; Strong interdisciplinary orientation through concepts I³ and project centres; Close proximity to industry via the RWTH-Aachen campus (network of science and industry; Three Clusters of Excellence; Almost exclusively full-time employed doctoral students
Further information on research activities
Mechanical Engineering
Facts
- Total number of students at the department
8,290
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
2,360
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Digital teaching elements
- Research orientation
- Offers for career orientation
- Rooms
- Library
- IT-infrastructure
- Laboratories
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
587
Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Digital teaching elements
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Transition to Master's studies
- Research orientation
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
428
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Acronyms
(S) = Students' judgements
(F) = Facts
(P) = Professors' judgements
ME = Mechanical Engineering
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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the
CHE Center for Higher Education
