Degree programme with vocational and academic elements in Metallurgy and Metal Forming; international degree courses (ISE, Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's/Master's degree, Metallurgy and Metal Forming Bachelor's/Master's degree, Management and Technology of Water and Waste Water Master's degree); specialisations in General Mechanical Engineering, Energy and Process Engineering, Foundry Engineering, Mechatronics, Metalwork and Applications, Product Engineering, Naval and Offshore Engineering.

international degree courses (ISE, Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's/Master's degree, Metallurgy and Metal Forming Bachelor's/Master's degree, Management and Technology of Water and Waste Water Master's degree); Mercator Office in Malaysia, Support Center for (International) Engineering Students (SCIES). Double degree programmes including with the University of Bologna; Partnerships with universities worldwide; Staff exchange; Support for students who want to complete a semester, including in Southeast Asia (supported by staff in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta) and India (IITM)

Driving and ship simulators; Installations for additive manufacturing and injection moulding; Hydrogen filling stations, fuel cells and electrolyzers (ZBT), highly equipped laboratories and facilities for energy, process technology and metallurgy; Plastics engineering and metal processing; Motion analysis and medical technology (gait Laboratory); NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum facility for the production of nanoparticles

Automation of traffic systems incl. ship technology, energy conversion in the context of the energy transition (EU projects CO2: GA_847606; GA_101022831), additive manufacturing, special research area 445: Nanoparticles from the gas phase; Research Training Group 1240: Particle synthesis & colloidal processing; Affiliated institutes: (Application-oriented engineering Research); Institute of Energy & Environmental Technology e. V. (IUTA);; Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wasserforschung gGmbH (IWW); Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems (DST); Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik GmbH (ZBT)

The IDE (competence centre for innovation and start-ups) promotes innovation generation and university spin-offs; sbm (small business management) also has various offers relating to career self-employment; broad support for start-ups and innovative start-ups is provided by the Centre for Start-ups and Innopreneurship at UDE (GUIDE)

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering is a department within the Faculty of Engineering. In the range of compulsory elective subjects, this enables broad interdisciplinary training. Instruction cooperation in the Ruhr UAR University Alliance (mutual recognition of academic achievements); International and double-degree courses, cooperation with local companies such as Siemens Energy AG, e.g. in the focal area of turbomachinery in the international degree course