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Basic information

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

10.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

10.0%

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

Third party funds per academic

167,100 €

Doctorates per professor

1.9

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Generous, modern practical facilities, close interdisciplinary integration with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the entire FAU; very good equipment; CIP computer rooms at 3 locations for students from the department.

Special features regarding the international orientation

The 2 Master's courses AOT and MAP (led by the Department of Materials Science, but 50% CBI share) are held entirely in English. Thanks to the close integration with excellence projects, they are far more international in nature than other degree courses. Work is currently ongoing to establish another Master's degree course held entirely in English.

Special features regarding the equipment

State-of-the-art labs with generous range of equipment for handling an extremely wide range of research. The close ties to one another and the inter-disciplinary research institutes creates a virtually complete installation that ranges from traditional research facilities to ultra-modern, project-specific test facilities and extensive measurement technology through to a high resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM).

Special features regarding research activities

The CBI Department completely covers the four building blocks (Technical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Process Engineering and Product Design and Thermal Fluid Dynamics; unique collaborations with the Engineering of Advanced Materials excellence cluster, the Graduate School of Optical Technologies, research institutes of the Fraunhofer Society (two in Erlangen), Max Planck, newly established research facilities (Energy Campus Nuremberg, Bavarian Hydrogen Campus), currently two Collaborative Research Centres and one Research Training Group, several major EU projects and a large number of other projects.

Support for founders

Professors have excellent expertise in this field, department spin-offs have won multiple awards (e.g. Hydrogeniums Technologies)

Other special features

The Academic Guidance Centre of the CBI is open daily for student counselling, transfer students, incoming and outgoing students, credit recognition and internships. Extremely good ranking for the FAU and in the field of Process Engineering in the 2021 "DFG-Förderatlas" report; two Leibnitz prizewinners teach and conduct research at the department; several ERC grants are being worked on in the CBI, including with the involvement of students; excellent career prospects for graduates

Further information on research activities

Website of the Student Council

online-application

Biotechnology

Facts

Total number of students at the department

210

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

60

Chemical Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

210

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

100

Environmental Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

420

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

200

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements

no data

Not specified
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies

no data

Not specified
Research orientation

no data

Not specified
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

18

Process Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

440

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

240

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies

no data

Not specified
Courses offered

no data

Not specified
Study organisation
Exam organisation

no data

Not specified
Digital teaching elements

no data

Not specified
Research orientation

no data

Not specified
Offers for career orientation
Rooms

no data

Not specified
Library
IT-infrastructure
Laboratories

no data

Not specified
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

19

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

35

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

BT = Biotechnology

CE = Chemical Engineering

EnvE = Environmental Engineering

PE = Process Engineering

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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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