Cologne University of Applied Sciences

The Fachhochschule Köln - Cologne University of Applied Sciences ( FH Köln short ) has approximately 21,500 students, 75 courses and 430 professors (as of WS 2012/13 ), the largest university in Germany. With 44 percent, the students of engineering the largest share. The woman ratio is around 35 percent.

  • 4.1 Cologne Institute for Architectural Design ( CIAD )
  • 4.2 Köln International School of Design ( KISD )
  • 4.3 Cologne Game Lab
  • 5.1 Research priorities
  • 5.2 Other areas of expertise
  • 8.1 Campus Leverkusen
  • 8.2 Construction of the IWZ

History

The university was founded on 1 August 1971, making it one of the colleges of the first wave of foundations in Germany and among the first colleges in North Rhine -Westphalia. Founding rector was Johann Atrops. As was customary, existing training facilities to a FH were connected. These were:

  • National Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering Cologne I
  • National Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering Cologne II
  • National Engineering School of Civil Engineering Cologne
  • Cologne factory schools
  • Higher Technical School of Social Work Cologne
  • Higher business school of Cologne
  • Higher Technical School for Interpreters and Translators Cologne
  • German Insurance Academy Cologne
  • State Higher Vocational School of Photography Cologne

Some predecessor institutions can be traced back " Royal Provincial Industrial School " to the established 1833.

In 1983, nor the "Department Gummersbach " (today: "Campus Gummersbach " ) added. Originally founded in 1963 as the " National Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering ," the department since 1971, was a part of the University of Applied Sciences Siegen- Gummersbach (later University / Comprehensive University of Siegen, Siegen University today ).

On 3 April 1995, the College of Library and Documentation Science ( until 1982 " Librarian Training Institute of North Rhine -Westphalia ") was "Library and Documentation " incorporated as 22 Department ( now part of the " Faculty 03" ).

To the main building and the representative office of the Management in 1907 erected for the former Graduate School of Cologne building was determined that worked in the University of Cologne in 1919. This used the building until 1934. Thereafter here drew the district leadership of the Gaus Cologne -Aachen of the National Socialist German Workers Party. After the war had, inter alia, Lufthansa here until 1969 its Germany headquarters. The building is a historical monument since 1985.

At the entrance of the Fachhochschule Köln in Claudiusstraße (Campus South City, GWZ ) is since 2001 the monument names of the authors, a reminder of the book burning in May 1933 before the then University main building, with the name of the Nazis ostracized authors, with font iron in Basaltlavaquader are let and be, an idea of the art critic Walter Vitt.

Structure

Presidium

The University of Applied Sciences Cologne is headed by a predominantly full-time Bureau.

  • President: Christoph Seeßelberg
  • Vice President and President Vice President for Teaching and Learning: Sylvia Heuchemer
  • Vice President for Research and Knowledge Transfer: Klaus Becker
  • Vice President for Economic and personnel administration: Rüdiger Küchler

University Council

The University Council of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne was appointed on 30 January 2008 by Research Minister Andreas Pinkwart. It consists of six external personalities and two academics. The University Council advises the Bureau on strategic issues and shall exercise supervision over the management of. The members of the Board of Governors are appointed by the Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia for a period of five years. They carry out their work in an honorary capacity.

Members of the University Council of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne until the end of January 2013:

  • Achim Berg, corporate vice president, Mobile Communications Business & Marketing at Microsoft Corporation
  • Bernd Eckardt, Fachhochschule Köln, lawyer
  • Rudolf Hoscheid, Fachhochschule Köln, Professor of Building Materials and Building Materials
  • Matthias Jarke, Department of Information Systems RWTH Aachen University, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
  • Uwe Kotz, managing partner BPW Bergische axles KG, Wiehl
  • Bernhard Schareck, Chairman of the University Council, President of the General Association of German Insurers
  • Barbara Schock -Werner, Cologne Cathedral architect, director of the Fabric
  • Regula Stämpfli, political scientist and journalist

At the end of the regular five-year term of the University Council was new and a parity basis by a committee to Simone Fühles - Ubachim in January 2013 with women and men; his term of office begins on January 30, 2013.

Members of the new Higher Education Council are:

  • Brigitte Caster ( Architecture, University of Applied Sciences Cologne)
  • Helmut Heinen ( Managing Partner of Heinen Verlag GmbH and editor of the Cologne Rundschau, as well as President of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers )
  • Matthias Jarke (Department of Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology )
  • Ulrike Lubek (Director of the Regional Association of the Rhineland )
  • Simone Menne (Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG)
  • Joachim Metzner ( Vice President of IT structures and information for the German Rectors' Conference (HRK ) and Past-President of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne)
  • Rüland ( Secretary General of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) )
  • Dieter Steinkamp (Chairman of the Board of Rhein Energie AG )

Senate

The Senate is composed of members of the University ( professors, staff, students) and to assist the bureau in its duties. He comes in periodic, high school, public meetings.

Faculties

The basic organizational units of the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne are the eleven faculties with numerous institutes and no faculty assigned Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and subtropics. The faculties are headed by a faculty and a dean or deanery. The faculties currently offer a total of 70 courses.

Institute

The faculties in turn consist of institutions that were formed according to technical criteria and are each supported by a small, medium or large number of professors. There also needs dependent employees in research and teaching, technicians and other specialist staff are based. Each Institute is headed by a committee (Institute Board with director or director ). Especially the big banks - such as the Institute of computer science with almost 30 professors - are still usually divided in laboratories that represent single key areas of expertise and responsibility for appropriate teaching and research activities.

Administration and central institutions

The administration supports all areas of the university in fulfilling its responsibilities in research and teaching. Priority tasks are here about teaching and learning (eg, student office, enrollment, auditing ), research and knowledge transfer, communication and marketing, international affairs, quality management, human resources, finance, planning and controlling, legal affairs, safety and building management.

Central facilities complement the internal services of the university. These include the "Campus IT " for the provision of information technologies and services, various technical workshops as well as the high school library.

Faculties

The courses offered at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne is realized in the faculties. It offers a range of research activities are located. The faculties are first emerged in September 2002 from the former departments. At that time, ten faculties were formed, which in 2009 is an eleventh added:

  • Faculty of Applied Social Sciences ( F01)
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences ( F02 )
  • Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences ( F03 )
  • Faculty of Economics and Law ( F04)
  • Faculty of Architecture ( F05 )
  • Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering ( F06 )
  • Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical ( F07 )
  • Faculty of Automotive Systems and Production ( F08 )
  • Faculty of Engineering, Energy and Mechanical Systems ( F09 )
  • Faculty of computer science and engineering (F10 )
  • Faculty of Applied Sciences ( F11)
  • Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics ( ITT)

Other institutions and bodies

Cologne Institute for Architectural Design ( CIAD )

The Institute of Design is an institute within the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. The focus of the institute is on the experimental design, CAD / CAM, corporate architecture and design.

Köln International School of Design ( KISD )

KISD is an award-winning institution of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, which offers degree programs in the field of design.

Cologne Game Lab

In the Cologne Game Lab ( CGL), which is operated in cooperation with the International Film School Cologne, find education and training for the games industry, game developers and game design instead.

Research

Research priorities

In research and development, the university has set the following priorities:

  • Analysis, evaluation and treatment of pollution in sewers, sewage treatment plants and surface waters ( ANABEL )
  • Architectural conservation and documentation
  • Business Transactions in Mobile Environments ( BTME )
  • Corporate Architecture
  • Computational Services in Automation ( COSA )
  • Innovative Digital Signal Processing and Applications ( DISPA )
  • Excellence in Automotive Systems Engineering - Interdisciplinary vehicle system development
  • Intercultural competence through personal and organizational development
  • Medical Technology: RF and Laser Technology
  • Next Generation Services in Heterogeneous Network Infrastructures ( NEGSIT )
  • SmartBuilding
  • Software Quality
  • Social space management
  • Distributed and Mobile Applications
  • Cologne Centre for Research in Media Law
  • Effect of virtual worlds
  • Knowledge Management

Other areas of expertise

Other research areas and key areas of expertise:

  • Computational Intelligence, Optimization & Data Mining ( CIOP )
  • Research Communications
  • Integrated Water Resource Management
  • IT Security and IT Risk Management
  • Media technologies
  • Microsystem fabrication
  • Optical Technologies
  • Sustainable Technologies in Environmental and Production Processes

Locations

The Fachhochschule Köln distributed over four locations in three cities:

Cologne

13,868 students in the winter term 2006/ 07

  • Humanities Center ( GWZ ), Campus South City Addresses: Claudiusstraße 1, Ubierring 40 and 48 Ubierring Cologne Southtown
  • Faculties: F01, F02, F03, F04
  • The administrative headquarters of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne is located in Claudiusstraße.
  • Engineering Sciences ( IWZ ), Campus Deutz Address: Betz Straße 2, Köln -Deutz
  • Faculties: F05, F06, F07, F08, F09, ITT

Gummersbach

3,700 students in the winter term 2012/13

  • Campus Gummersbach (GM ) Address: Steinmueller Allee 1, Gummersbach
  • Faculty: F10

Leverkusen

Up to 500 students from the WS 2009/10

  • Campus Leverkusen (LEV ) Address: new city train: opladen, Leverkusen -Opladen
  • Faculty: F11
  • Campus Leverkusen currently under construction

Internationally

The International Office of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne offers a variety of exchange opportunities with 247 partner universities in 55 countries on all continents. Furthermore, the University of Applied Sciences Cologne one of seven members of the university network UAS7, whose goal is to represent seven leading German Universities of Applied Sciences International.

News

Campus Leverkusen

The University of Applied Sciences Cologne, the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and the city of Leverkusen have submitted an application for the construction of a new campus in Leverkusen at the NRW state government. This application has agreed that North Rhine-Westphalia Cabinet.

For the winter semester 2009/10 created 500 new study places in the study programs in technical and pharmaceutical chemistry. These courses were not previously offer the Fachhochschule Köln. The new campus is the city on the site of the new railway: opladen arise and should be purchased in the winter semester 2012/13. Until the completion of the study events in the campus Deutz ( IWZ ) and at Chempark Leverkusen take place.

Establishing Dean for the Faculty of Applied Sciences ( F11) Astrid Rehorek was ordered. It will build the new faculty.

Construction of the IWZ

The main building of the Engineering Sciences Center in Deutz is due to renovation. A renovation in the current study is operating according to the experience of the old building ( this was in the years 2005 to 2008 refurbished ) only with significant restrictions.

In addition, there are in NRW the problem of conversion of the baccalaureate from 13 to 12 years. This is expected to double the number of freshmen in 2013. These can not be included in the current rooms.

For this reason, at present, a new building was discussed on the former site of the Dom- brewery in the south of Cologne. This would be in the immediate vicinity of the Humanities Center, so that a single campus in Cologne would arise.

Ultimately, it was decided that the old main building of the Engineering Sciences Center in Deutz Although demolish, but to build new in close proximity to an even vacant land.

Awards / Ranking

In the CHE university ranking for business studies from the Faculty of Economics ( F04) landed in third place nationwide. According to a 2012 survey conducted among recruiters is business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne among the three best colleges in electrical engineering and computer science economy among the top five.

2009 FH was awarded in the competition for excellence in teaching, to the Donors' Association for German Science was awarded and the Standing Conference, among 108 universities for the implementation of their concept Educational Diversity with a million €. Here the students are provided individualized learning materials available on an online platform.

Others

Tuition and semester ticket

With the abolition of tuition fees in North Rhine -Westphalia University of Applied Sciences Cologne rises since the winter semester 2011/ 12, no more tuition fees. However, it is a semester fee of about 230 euros to pay. In this paper, the semester ticket is already included, which entitles you to unlimited rides on public transport throughout North Rhine -Westphalia. In addition, evening and weekend another person charged in the traffic group Rhine -Sieg ( VRS) are taken.

Known graduates

  • Baumgärtel Thomas ( b. 1960 ), artist
  • Jürgen Becker ( born 1959 ), comedian
  • Achim Berg (born 1964 ), corporate vice president, Mobile Communications Business & Marketing at Microsoft Corporation (until 2010 CEO of Microsoft Germany GmbH)
  • Herbert Funke and Philipp Will, founder of the car brand Young Engineers Sportscar
  • Heike Henkel (* 1964), high jumper
  • Markus Höffer - Mehlmer, (born 1958 ), comedian, writer and educationalist
  • Monika Piel ( b. 1951 ), director of the WDR
  • Nicolas Raeder, co-founder and team leader of Raeder Motorsport
  • Wolfgang Rudolph ( born 1944 ), TV presenter and pioneer of German computer journalism
  • Volker Saul ( born 1955 ), sculptor and painter
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