Application-oriented content; Interdisciplinary culture; Small practical and exercise groups; Equal distribution of contents between business administration, engineering and cross-curricular knowledge; Generalist education. E-learning with Moodle as the central electronic communication platform for students among themselves and between students and lecturers, with chats, blogs and teaching materials. Study programmes are also offered as an integrated campus and distance education (training-integrated/career-integrated).

The international orientation is promoted by a wide range of foreign languages for students, international workshops and worldwide excursions, as well as an English-language course offering. In Industrial Engineering degree programme, students in the 6th study semester based on a learning agreement, a semester abroad can be completed at a freely selectable partner university. The international courses offer the opportunity to spend a year abroad at a partner university

IPS Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (Portugal); RUAS Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Niederlande); Fontys Universität Venlo (Niederlande); Universitat Valencia (Spanien); UCLL Leuven/Limburg (Belgien); XAMK South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Finnland); UDLAP (Mexiko); UADY (Mexiko); TEC de Monterrey (Mexiko); NYIT New York Institute of Technlogy (USA)

Well-equipped computer labs and computer clusters, SAP lab, legal databases, e.g. beck-online, Wolters-Kluwer / economics: Business Source Ultimate from EBSCO, Carve Out for project management / engineering: Simulation and planning system Autodesk Inventor and Fusion (including standard part databases), simulation of machining processes with ExLSWOP, robot simulation with Ciros Robotic, simulation of pneumatic systems with Festo FluidSim. A number of content-related video libraries are available, such as: Programme instructions and presentation of technical workflows and production examples

Research in the area of product and production process maturity measurement in early development phases, digitalisation in quality management and cost-benefit-optimised quality management. Business Administration: 2020 EXIST potentials; Business start-up grant; Since 2020 FH-Preneur: Internal, cross-location initiative for the sustainable promotion of company founders / 2017-2020 Start-up innovation lab in South Westphalia (ERDF); Business model research; Economics: Entrepreneurship

From the initial idea to the start-up; The start-up initiative "Fhpreneur" accompanies students in the start-up process and offers them a holistic concept with bundled expertise. Furthermore, the start-up camp/incubator helps students by involving regional companies, start-ups, etc. in the start-up process at an early stage. Successful start-ups (alumni) form a supportive ecosystem together with partners from industry. The continuously expanding community lives by the guiding principle of "give and take" and thus creates result-oriented added value.

Sustainability: External speakers on current topics, e.g. as part of the Hagen University Talks. In the winter semester 2022, on the topic of Energy & Buildings and Energy Savings in cooperation with the consumer organisation. The faculty appoints a Sustainability Officer and has a Sustainability Working Group and its own sustainability lab. Lecture series on sustainability and renewable energy; Lectures on Female Entrepreneurship as part of “FH-Preneur”. The Faculty Equality Officer is involved in all important committees/bodies of the faculty