Extensive range of project-based teaching, e.g. "Formula Student" (independent design of a vehicle with electric drive); Extensive range of excursions; Interdisciplinary courses in close collaboration with professorships in project management, quality management, occupational and organisational psychology and human-machine systems engineering

Student project "Formula Student" (independent design of a vehicle with electric drive); Extensive range of excursions; Interdisciplinary courses in close collaboration with professorships in project management, quality management, occupational and organisational psychology and human-machine systems engineering

50 institutionalised contacts and partnerships with international universities and research institutes. This includes 14 Erasmus+ agreements. Contractual ties to: National University of Colombia Bogotá in Colombia, Szczecin University of Technology in Poland, Kasetsart University, Thailand, University of Maryland – Baltimore County UMBC in USA. International visiting academics, supervision of theses abroad, English-language work placements, international research projects, participation in international research projects and working groups, international expert reports.

Mg/Al cold-chamber die-casting cell, 2-component injection moulding machine, X-ray diffractometer, laser material deposit welding device, scanning electron microscope, CAVE, robot systems, µPlant model factory, stereoscope. Large projection system; Modelling computer, material flow system, wind tunnel, particle image velocimetry, robotic laser beam welding cells, magnetic pulse and friction stir welding machines, µCT scanner, impact pendulum, drive test benches; Computational Engineering teaching centre; Multi-signal far-field microscope, laser laboratory; Hydrogen laboratory; applied for: Focused Ion Beam Microscope (FIB)

Research focuses: Biologisation of technology; Decarbonisation and resource efficiency; Digital transformation of products and processes; Reliability of processes, structures and functions; Academic centres of the University of Kassel: Centre for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), Kassel Institute for Sustainability; Competence Centre for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (CliMA), Plastics Application Centre UNIpace, Research Centre for Information Technology Design (ITeG). Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE in Kassel

The University of Kassel offers an orientation course called plusMINT (plusSTEM), which allows students to seamlessly switch between 10 different technical and scientific specialisations without changing their degree programme. Advantage: No loss of entitlement under the Federal Students Assistance Act (BAföG) and no reduction in the maximum funding period.