Dates and Facts

 

Today the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering with its now 63 institutes and chairs in Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and its approx. 2000 new enrollees (winter semester 2010/11) is one of the largest faculties of Mechanical Engineering in Europe. Furthermore, it is very interdisciplinary and offers many qualification possibilities for national and international students.

 

With 4 Bachelor and 14 Master programs, the whole width of certificates and academic degree is offered, e.g. in 2011:

863	Graduates
155	Dissertations
2	Habilitations

 

 

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering counts approx. 1050 academic staff, approx. 575 non-academic staff as well as approx. 900 student and academic workers (19 hours annual equivalent).   

The more than 10,000 students enrolled in the different degree programs of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the summer semester 2012 are faced with the large number of 150 teachers of the academic non-professorial teaching staff, 18 associate professors, 345 lecturers from the industry, 13 adjunct professors as well as six honorary professors – on top of the 63 full or secondary professors.

 

Significance of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering within RWTH Aachen University

33% of third party funds of RWTH Aachen University are raised by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

The total revenue of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering amounts to about € 261 million. It is faced with a basic funding of € 91 million by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In other words: Almost two thirds of the funds spent were raised externally.

In an annually published research report the diversity and productive efficiency of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is made transparent in compact form.