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Geoscience, Department
Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik
Lochnerstr. 4-20
D-52056 Aachen
Telephone: +49 241 809-6219
https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen
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Student body
Lochnerstr. 4-20
D-52056 Aachen
Telephone: +49 241 809-6219
https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen
Department on the internet
Online application
Student body
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
970
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
380
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
not specified
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
not specified
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
10/14 points
Job market- and career-orientation
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
no data
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
no data
Research
- Publications per academic
3.4
- Citations per publication
3.8
- Third party funds per academic
124,000 €
- Doctorates per professor
1.2
- Research reputation
32.6%
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Laboratory internships
- Excursions
- Research orientation
- Offers for career orientation
- Support for stays abroad
- Rooms
- Library
- IT-infrastructure
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
19
Further information provided by the department
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norwegen; Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italien; Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Indien; Universitat de Barcelona, Spanien; Université Grenoble Alpes, Frankreich; University of Arizona, USA; Univerzita Karlova v Prag, Tschechien; Universidade de São Paulo, Brasilien; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Universidad de Granada, Spanien
Special features regarding the equipment
Currently the only device in Germany for "Quantitative Evaluation of Minerals by Scanning Electron Microscopy" (QEMSCAN®); cryo-electron microscope for fluid specimens to temperatures of -150°C; scientific operation of neutron single-crystal diffractometer HEiDi and POLI at the Research Neutron Source FRM II in Munich; environmental chemistry and petrophysical laboratories; high-resolution LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) for geoscience measuring; extensive field measuring equipment in all disciplines and PC laboratories with modern simulation tools.
Special features regarding research activities
Profiling in the field of "Geo resources"; extensive expertise in the field of Modelling and Simulation, combined with the Engineering disciplines; one of the strongest research university groupings in Western Europe in the Geoscience-related aspects of energy research; strong emphasis on natural gas and oil, coal and geothermal energy and CO2 storage; research on the use of subterranean areas and georisks with strong links to the Engineering Sciences
Further information on research activities
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Acronyms
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(F) = Facts
(P) = Professors' judgements
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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the
CHE Center for Higher Education
