University of Paderborn

The University of Paderborn in Paderborn, Germany, is a university founded in 1972 in North Rhine -Westphalia.

  • 5.1 Warburger road
  • 5.2 Fürstenallee

Overview

The University of Paderborn is a campus university with about 19,400 students (as of winter semester 2013/2014 ) and thus belongs to the mid-sized universities in Germany. There are partnerships with universities around the world. The University of Paderborn has 196 professors, 1,196 academic staff and 720 non-academic staff (including trainees). It offers 60 degree programs.

In its founding studied 2,500 students at the University of Paderborn. This number has risen to approximately 18,550 today, which especially in the winter semester 2011/12 the number increased by approximately 2,000 students of 15,228. For double Abiturjahrgang in WS 2013/14 there were around 3,400 students, which means an increase of about three percent compared to the previous year.

The central theme "The University of the Information Society" following, the research focus is on the one hand in the fields of computer science, economics, engineering and mathematics, and on the other side in the humanities and social sciences ( above all in English, Medieval History and German ).

Of particular importance is the subject computer science, the CHE / part Time in the overall assessment of the first three faculties in Germany in the university ranking 2006. The economy of computer science at the University of Paderborn was named one of the CHE Ranking 2005 also the foremost group. In the same ranking of 2005, which specialized English language and literature / English is on one of the first places. Just finished the university in the German Research Foundation (DFG ) 2006 Funding Ranking in electrical engineering, computer science, systems engineering a placement in the top field. The University of Paderborn could plan to research external funding with 37.6 million euros in 2010. Because of the great demand for places from all over Germany and Europe 43 courses with a numerus clausus (NC) were occupied since the winter semester 2006/2007 at the University of Paderborn, which in individual subjects gets too big in part because of the numerous applicants.

In addition to the many offerings by the university itself and the chairs of the student groups often offer numerous additional activities.

History

The on August 1, 1972 re-established as a Polytechnic University of Paderborn, which included several polytechnic departments adjacent to the University, was founded in 2002 exclusive university. When it was founded in 1972 as a modern university, they could look back on a long academic tradition through its predecessor institutions in Paderborn.

Already for the 8th century can prove a Carolingian cathedral school. In 1614, Dietrich IV von Fürstenberg founded a university in Paderborn, the oldest in Westphalia. Here taught some years Friedrich Spee of Langenfeld, who became famous for his efforts against the persecution of witches with his Cautio criminalis. The university is on today in the form of the Faculty of Theology.

The founding in 1972 as a Comprehensive University School was a merger of the College of Education Westphalia -Lippe ( PH) and in particular the Fachhochschule Southeast Westphalia, in which public engineering schools Paderborn, Hoexter, Meschede and Soest and the Higher business school Paderborn and Soest School of Engineering were summarized for farming. It was initiated by the Council Mrs Ellen rust, the PH Institute Director Helmar Gunter Frank and the Paderborn computer pioneer Heinz Nixdorf. Nixdorf this helped the University to become an international focus of research in computer science.

In 1790, the Normal School was founded in Paderborn for teacher education. In December 1946, the Educational Academy for Teacher Training in Paderborn, in a College of Education (PH ) was converted in 1962 was born. This was established in 1965 to one of the five departments of the College of Education Westphalia -Lippe.

The Engineering School of Civil Engineering in Hoexter went back to the built in 1864 in Hoexter Baugewerkschule. She was the first of its kind in Prussia. In 1963, the School of Engineering Paderborn was prepared with the subjects of engineering and process engineering and electrical engineering. The same subjects also provided the engineering school in Soest, which was founded in 1964 with an office in Meschede, at. Already in 1968, the site in Meschede as company technical school became independent.

The existing from the beginning connection between Heinz Nixdorf and the University of Paderborn in 1987 found expression in the establishment of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute ( HNI ). This interdisciplinary research institute is one of the central research facilities of the University.

The number of students increased from 4,400 in the beginning of the winter semester 1972/73 rapidly. Although the former polytechnic departments in Hoexter, Meschede and Soest have now been merged into independent universities, the number of students in the winter semester 2012/13 has risen to around 18,500.

The university has produced several winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG ) in the last years. Worldwide attention was aroused the report submitted by the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu at the University of Paderborn in April 2002, evidence of Catalan'schen Guess who's on the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan ( 1814-1894 ) declining. The latter formulated in 1844 the assumption that only the two powers, and by the value 1 differ.

From scientific importance is also attached to the German Studies at the University of Paderborn Institute for the Study of the famous Princely Library of Corvey in Hoexter, has worked in the August Heinrich Hoffmann von Faller life.

Of international importance as the is based at the University of Paderborn coordinating body (including a research professor ) for the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In October 2004, she received the negative price Big Brother Award in the category " Regional" for their camera surveillance in lecture halls and computer labs.

On 25 April 2007, the University of Paderborn chose the first university of North Rhine -Westphalia, according to the University Freedom Act a University Council. This consists of Hubertus Benteler, Herbert Hanselmann ( dSPACE GmbH), Gertrud Hohler ( journalist, political and business consultant ), Jutta Lange Bacher Liebgott ( University of Paderborn ), Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide ( University of Paderborn ), Winfried Schulze ( Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich), Leena Suhl ( University of Paderborn ), and Klaus Töpfer ( Federal Environment Minister D., Director of the UN Environment Programme ret. ).

The Innovation Prize of North Rhine Westphalia was awarded in 2008 in the Innovation category at the two Paderborn Professors Reinhold Noé and Ulrich Rückert on the basis of their research on optical communications.

Faculties

  • I Faculty of Arts and Humanities philosophy
  • History
  • Geography
  • Religion and Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Psychology
  • Language and Literature
  • Art
  • Music
  • Shaping
  • Media Studies
  • II Faculty of Economics Department of management
  • Department of Taxation, Accounting and Finance
  • Department of Economics computer science
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Business Education
  • Department of law
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences III Department of Physics
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Sports and Health
  • IV Department of Mechanical Engineering Institute of Mechatronics and Design Technology
  • Institute of Process and Materials Engineering
  • Institute for Energy and Process Engineering
  • Institute of Polymer Technology
  • V Department of Electrical Engineering, computer science and mathematics Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Facilities and Institutions

The University in various organizational forms central scientific institutions, central operating units, Collaborative, Research Training and Research Units of the German Research Foundation (DFG ), other graduate schools and programs, an institute, Fraunhofer Institute, joint ventures, collaborations with other universities, interdisciplinary forums and other institutions formed.

Central Scientific Centers

  • Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics ( CeOPP )
  • Heinz Nixdorf Institute ( HNI )
  • Institute of Polymer Materials and Processes (PMP )
  • Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies ( KET )
  • Musicology Detmold / Paderborn
  • Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Engineering (PACE )
  • Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation ( PaSCo )
  • Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2 )
  • Centre for Educational Research and Teacher Education ( PLAZ )

Central operating units

Central operating units of the University are the University Library Paderborn, Center for Information and Media Technologies ( IMT ) and the central student counseling.

University Library

The University Library (UB ) has the task to provide the research, teaching and studying at the University of Paderborn with scientific literature and information. For this purpose, it builds local information on stocks, provides access to the world's existing relevant for college information, ensures rapid accessibility and delivery of required documents and supporting, through consulting and training expertise to the use of information and electronic publishing.

The UB is one of the best in Germany. In the national library ranking library index for Scientific Libraries ( BIX -WB ) reaches for years very good seats. One of the top places of all university libraries in Germany they occupied respect of its holding of electronic media. She is also known for its long opening hours and lending.

Center for Information and Media Technologies

The Center for Information and Media Technologies ( IMT) has the task to permit the use of media and media systems, including communications and data processing infrastructure in research, teaching, study, scientific training and management at the University of technology and organization and provide support. The IMT includes the areas of information technology, media technology, training ( doIT ) and notebook Café ( NBC).

Located at the entrance of the University Library Notebook Café provides students with support around PC and notebook. The team of doIT organizes training courses, inter alia, internet safety, as well as numerous programs (software).

The media technology serves, inter alia, the media technology equipment of lecture halls and seminar rooms. In addition, students have the opportunity to make movies, cut them and set to music. Cameras, editing suites, etc. represents the IMT available. Also radio broadcasts can be realized. Thus, inter alia, the student campus radio L' UniCo and the Radical Audio Pool are supported.

The field of information technology provides, inter alia, ensure that students and staff of the University of over 10,000 computers access to the Internet ( Web, e- mail etc.). The campus-wide wireless network coverage is expanded with more than 200 access points.

Special research areas, research groups and Fraunhofer Institutes

Following the DFG Collaborative Research Centres are established at the University of Paderborn:

  • SFB 614 - Self-optimizing systems of mechanical engineering
  • SFB 901 - On The Fly Computing
  • SFB / TR TRR 30 - Process-integrated manufacturing of functionally graded structures based on coupled thermo-mechanical phenomena

In addition, the research group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG) is located with the label dynamics of electron transfer processes of transition metal centers in biological and bioinorganic systems at the University of Paderborn.

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Fraunhofer supports the department Advanced System Engineering (ASE ) and the Fraunhofer Project Group Mechatronic Systems Design at the University of Paderborn.

Graduate colleges, graduate schools and programs

The following DFG research training groups are established at the University of Paderborn:

  • Automatisms - Emerging Structures processes in information technology, media and culture
  • Micro-and Nanostructures in Optoelectronics and Photonics
  • Scientific Computing: application-oriented modeling and algorithm development

Furthermore the following graduate schools and programs

  • Graduate School Applied Science Network: GSANS
  • International Graduate School "Dynamic Intelligent Systems "
  • Marie Curie Initial Training Network: SCALUS
  • Cloister and the world in the Middle Ages
  • Individual development: skills development and diagnostics in vocational education
  • Islamic Theology

An Institute, other institutions and interdisciplinary forums

To investigate the princely library Corvey Corvey the Institute was founded for book and library history as an institute.

Exist at other institutions of the University:

  • DoIT - Training for beginners
  • Insight! - Peer Mentoring for Graduates
  • Family Friendly University
  • Women shaping the information society
  • High school choir unison
  • University Teaching and Learning
  • High school orchestra
  • Institute of Talent Research in Music ( IBFM )
  • Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Middle Ages and their continuing effect ( IEMAN )
  • Jean Monnet Chair
  • Jenny Aloni archive
  • Centre of Excellence University Teaching Mathematics
  • Competence center letter
  • Mentoring for doctoral
  • RailCab - New Rail Technology Paderborn ( NBP)
  • Room of Silence
  • Studio Theatre at the University of Paderborn
  • Tutoring program Cultural Studies
  • UNESCO Centre of Excellence
  • University Archives
  • Society for History at the University of Paderborn
  • Centre for Gender Studies in Teaching and Research ( ZG)
  • Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies ( Zekk )
  • Center for Language Teaching ( ZfS )

The University of Paderborn runs the interdisciplinary Forums cultural phenomenon labor and the Environment Forum Human Environmental Technology (MUT ).

Joint ventures with companies

With partners, inter alia, from the economy, the following projects were launched:

  • C -LAB Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory - the innovation workshop of Atos and University of Paderborn
  • DMRC - A consortium of Blue Production, Boeing, EOS Electro Optical Systems, Evonik Industries, Siemens, SLM Solutions, Stratasys, Stükerjürgen Aerospace Composites, Wilhelm iron Huth precision mold and the University of Paderborn
  • It's OWL - BMBF top cluster Intelligent Technical Systems OstWestfalenLippe
  • L -LAB - Research project light, public-private partnership of the company Hella and the University of Paderborn
  • S-lab - Software Quality Lab - Competence Center for Software Quality at the University of Paderborn with Capgemini, dSPACE, Hella, HJP Consulting, Orga Systems, Safran Morpho, s & n, UNITY, Wincor Nixdorf

Cooperation with universities and institutions

The university cooperates with the following universities and institutions:

  • Chinese- German Technical Faculty Qingdao
  • Detmold Academy of Music
  • Faculty of Theology Paderborn
  • Association for the Promotion of Innovation and Technology Transfer Association ( FIT), winner of the Westphalian Environment Centre ( WUZ )
  • Zukunftsmeile Fürstenallee
  • Joint Graduate School and the Institute for Industrial Information Technology of the University of East Westphalia -Lippe, Lemgo

Campus

Warburger road

The main part of the University is located in Paderborn between the road and the Warburg Pohlweg.

The oldest buildings date back to the time of the state school of engineering and with the letter P (P1- P7) respectively.

The Paderborn University but was essentially planned together with other universities in NRW, so find yourself a similar style and in part the same building modules even at the Universities of Dortmund, Duisburg- Essen, Siegen and Wuppertal. The core of this building is a square, labeled clockwise A to D. At the corners are followed by other, outwardly facing building, E, H and J. The name of the building derives support of her position on imaginary concentric circles from. The building I came later than link building to building N (the former FEoLL ) added.

Relatively new is the building W, which is followed by the RailCab test site. In January 2006 a new building was completed in P8. The building F (Heinz Nixdorf Institute ) is not located on campus. In the winter semester of 2007, the new auditorium G was completed with about 420 seats beyond.

There are also various special buildings such as the library (BI ), the refectory (ME ) and the main lecture hall (AM).

The building, completed in 2011 K- connects on the northeast by the J- building and provides since winter semester 2010 /11 additional laboratory space for chemistry students are available. The fiscally configured as an extension building O building was near the Südring on the former site of the Campus Hotels (west of RailCab site) completed in 2012.

Our goal - to provide an integrated Wohn-/Lern-Konzept part of the student union, which is aimed primarily at student loan recipients - in addition to the creation of additional units. As another special, subject-related building the West Extension of the northwest building on 17 December 2009 was completed. The total of 2.8 million euro increase in the cultivation hall northwest of the Dean of Chemistry offers from the middle of the winter semester 2009/10 approximately 90 students in three classrooms space, 40 offices are scientific researchers available. The modular design provides for the connection of the new hall to the northwest to be finished, located east K building front through a passage tunnel across the core area of ​​the building part J.

In addition to the winter semester 2010/ 11, four tents (Z1 -Z4 ) were built north of the main lecture hall; they should catch a part of the emerging shortage of space temporarily. They offered each course and 80 students were like a normal conference room equipped.

Fürstenallee

Another site of the University is at the Prince Avenue in Paderborn. There, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the C -LAB are housed in the former buildings of Nixdorf Computer Headquarters. Furthermore, the Computer Museum of Paderborn is housed there with the Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum.

Ranking

The University of Paderborn is in surveys and rankings ( rankings ) in the field of computer science, as well as in English ( teacher ) always good to very good places. In the CHE university ranking of 2006, which was published in TIME - study guide, the areas of computer science and English reached ( Magisterium ) front seats.

A ranking of TIME sees the business faculty as well as the field of economic computer science in the middle or the bottom group. Also recorded a CHE ranking the Business Administration Master in Paderborn as a taillight in Germany.

The area of ​​computer science economy could reach for the third time in a row the top group, and this in all categories. In 2008, the Bachelor 's and Master's courses in business computer science in the CHE ranking once again made good. The Handelsblatt a comprehensive study carried out in the field of Business Administration and is classified here are some professors at the University of Paderborn in the top 100 or 200 MBAs in Germany. In the rankings of the mirror and the star the University of Paderborn achieved very good courses in these areas. Just finished the university in the German Research Foundation (DFG ) 2006 Funding Ranking in electrical engineering, computer science, systems engineering a placement in the top field. This also applies to the number of DFG approvals per scientists in the engineering sciences. The machinery is in fourth place out of all the German engineering faculties according to a classification of the magazine " career".

Students studying

Unique in Germany, the University of Paderborn in chemistry the best 45 students in a multi-week and free intensive summer course in acquiring knowledge of chemistry experiments and lectures. An appropriate certificate will be recognized at a later studied chemistry at the University of Paderborn first semester, so that then can be studied in Paderborn from the second semester chemistry immediately.

Access to college entrance

According to § 49, paragraph 10 of the Higher Education Act freedom of NRW is free to the North Rhine- Westphalian universities, in their examination regulations from certain requirements at enrollment, such as the general higher education, in sight. At the University of Paderborn is studying in certain priority science and technology and at the same time the license-free programs made ​​possible with technical college. For this purpose at least average college entrance and the passage through an aptitude test is required, which is to determine a general education at university level. The aptitude test skills in German, English and Mathematics are tested in writing, and found a professional competence.

In the winter semester 2013/14 the admission in the following courses was possible:

  • Chemistry ( Bachelor)
  • Computer Engineering ( Bachelor)
  • Electrical Engineering ( Bachelor)
  • Computer science (Bachelor)
  • Mathematics ( Bachelor)
  • Physics ( Bachelor)
  • Industrial Mathematics, Major Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)
  • Industrial Mathematics, specializing in electrical engineering (Bachelor)
  • Economic computer science, specializing in electrical engineering (Bachelor)

Student self-administration

The student body of the University of Paderborn offers like most student bodies to their members advice and service offerings, such as free legal advice from lawyers or counseling for student financial assistance. Furthermore, the student body runs the student council Copy Service, which is a pressure and offers with about 40 devices the students copying system largely in self-service, in the university and the library. The General Student Committee ( student council ) of the University annually organizes the student council summer festival, to which in recent years regularly more than 10,000 visitors came and so is one of the largest Unifestivals Germany. In addition to student and local bands played there groups such as Wir sind Helden, Silbermond, Fettes Brot, Gentleman, Culcha Candela or July.

The student parliament at the University of Paderborn consists of 29 seats and is elected annually in a personalized list choice. Voters vote for a person doing a list; the distribution of seats in parliament is calculated from the ratio of votes for the lists, the order of candidates from each list according to their votes. The shops of the student body are performed by the Student Union, (among others in the areas of higher education policy, the press, finance, culture, and social, anti-fascism ) currently consists of 12 speakers.

Special

As part of the transition to the new central organization, information and Platform for Action freshmen were equipped with a netbook in the winter semester 2009/2010.

Every 3 years is awarded by the University of Paderborn of Margaret Schrader Prize for Literature.

The University of Paderborn has with the domain uni- paderborn.de since March 1988 one of the first 6 registered DE domains.

Since November 2009 the Paderborn Campus Radio L' UniCo sends in the urban area of Paderborn on the FM frequency 89.4 MHz.

On 29 October 2009 it was due to non-transparent information policy on the part of university leadership to massive student protests. They first erwirkten the public and laying an intended only for the press conference, then in the evening took place in the main auditorium for more than 1,000 students and teachers. The comments were followed by detailed and emotional discussions between managers and students.

The university operates the Chinese- German Technical Faculty together with the Qingdao University of Science and Technology.

Residences

The student Paderborn plant includes three residence facilities that are located in close proximity to the university campus. The three dormitory facilities are located in Vogeliusweg, in Mersinweg and Peter- Hille-Weg. They comprise a total of 1123 residential places. On Pohlweg two new residence halls for a total of 194 students were recognized in 2010 and 2012 in the immediate vicinity campus built by a private investor.

Freeman

As an honorary citizen can people be excellent, which are associated with the school in a special way ( the University of belonging usually not ). By the year 2011, the following persons were appointed as honorary citizens:

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