Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is made up of four departments, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, and Mechanical and Process Engineering. Together they cover a unique breadth of research themes and provide teaching at the highest level. The numerous Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes with an international orientation on offer here currently attract some 10,000 young people from 100 countries. This and the 80 departmental chairs and institutes combine to make the Faculty one of the largest in Germany.

Supported by seven affiliated and collaborating institutes, the Faculty quickly and efficiently translates the results of its research with partners in business and industry into practice. It is not only for this reason that Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen has an excellent reputation worldwide. It occupies leading positions in nanotechnology and in combustion research, conducts top-level research in automotive engineering, ­energy, environmental process engineering and solid state electronics, as well as in the optimisation of communications, radio and radar systems, energy grids, optoelectronics and interactive ­media systems. Ship Technology and Ocean Engineering is emerging within the Faculty as one of the largest university institutes of its kind in Germany. Industrial Engineering produces ­graduates with a multitude of skills at the interface between engineering and management, ­particularly for the automotive industry, while Civil Engineering holds leading positions in the CHE ranking. Cognitive scientists and psychol­ogists also belong to the Faculty of Engineering at the UDE: Because humans control devices and programme machines, no matter what technical advances are made, human-machine interaction continues to be an important part of research. It is also worth mentioning the proportion of women in the Faculty, which at 24% is unusually high. This reflects targeted information and events for female high school students.