Our students learn and research in state-of-the-art laboratories, lecture halls and computer rooms, benefit from top international research on the part of our faculty, as well as interdisciplinary contacts with industry, and can draw on a wide offer of advisory and information services. Students are also supported in their career choices thanks to career events and good contacts with our alumni.

Option of an English-language Master’s degree programme on Lasers and Photonics; Numerous opportunities to study abroad; Double Bachelor’s degree with Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Approximately 5,000 square metres of ultra-modern laboratory space in a new faculty building. Special spaces – such as an acoustically reflection-free room, a large absorber hall, special laser laboratories and a cleanroom wing – are available for teaching and research. The equipment of lecture halls, seminar rooms and computer pools for students is state-of-the-art.

Our professors conduct research together with their teams and cover a wide range of topics in addition to the areas of plasma technology and sensor technology, for example in communications technology, power engineering and medical engineering. International top-level interdisciplinary research is carried out with industrial partners as well as in clusters of excellence, Collaborative Research Centres and research departments across faculties and universities. State-of-the-art laboratories and the short distances of a campus university permit the bundling of the various research competencies.

The WORLDFACTORY supports interested parties on their way to setting up their own companies with free advice, seminars, rooms and a taster workshop. www.worldfactory.de. In addition, engineering students have the opportunity to attend courses on business start-ups in the faculty of economics. Furthermore, the Internet Security sub-department offers the ‘Cube 5’ start-up service www.cube-five.de.

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