Mainz University of Applied Sciences
| Mainz University of Applied Sciences | |
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| founding | Emerging from the Electoral Painting and Sculpture Academy founded in 1757 and the Grand Ducal State Building Trade School in Darmstadt founded in 1876 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Mainz |
| state |
 Rhineland-Palatinate
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| country |
 Germany
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| president | Susanne Weissman |
| Students | 5538 WiSe 2017/2018 |
| Employee | 410 |
| including professors | 148 |
| Networks | DFH |
| Website | www.hs-mainz.de |
The Mainz University is a university of applied sciences in the country Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 2017 the name was Fachhochschule Mainz. Together with the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Catholic University, it is one of the three public universities in the state capital Mainz . Mainz University of Applied Sciences is spread across five locations . It cooperates with more than 600 companies within the framework of courses that integrate vocational and training and maintains partnerships with around 90 universities worldwide with special exchange programs.
history
The Mainz University of Applied Sciences is fundamentally part of the long tradition of two teaching institutions from the Electoral Mainz and the Grand Ducal Darmstadt. On the one hand, the craftsmen's drawing school founded in Mainz in 1841 (renamed in 1894 as art and trade school , in 1933 renamed as state school for arts and crafts , dissolved in 1939), whose origins lie in the electoral painting and sculpture academy founded in 1757 . On the other hand, the Grand Ducal State Building Trade School , founded in Darmstadt in 1876 , which was renamed the State Building School in 1933 and relocated from Darmstadt to Mainz in 1936 as the Adolf Hitler Building School, together with the teaching staff. In February 1945 the Adolf Hitler Building School was destroyed in an air raid.
After the Second World War, the State Building School and State Art School were ceremoniously reopened on October 3, 1946 in the Auditorium Maximum of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Since 1955 the State Building and State Art School with its two main departments has been housed in a new building at Holzstrasse 36. In 1957 the state building school was renamed the state engineering school for construction and surveying in Mainz . In 1959, the renaming of the following Landeskunstschule in the State Werkkunstschule Mainz . In 1963 the extension buildings and new facilities at the Holzstrasse location were moved into.
With economics, another branch of education developed at the end of the 1960s; In 1964 the higher business school for the Rheinhessen region started operations. The foundation stone for the University of Applied Sciences of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate was laid on June 1, 1970 with the passing of the University of Applied Sciences Act. In 1971, the State Engineering School and Werkkunstschule Mainz was transferred to the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences .
On September 1, 1996, the new University of Applied Sciences Act came into force, which regulated the division of the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences into seven independent universities. The Mainz University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1996 as an independent institution with three departments (technology department, design department, economics department).
On September 1, 2014, the Mainz University of Applied Sciences changed its name to Mainz University of Applied Sciences. It still has the status of a technical college.
The range of courses includes bachelor's and master's degree courses in the classic form (full-time) as well as dual or part-time courses that integrate work. In addition, the university offers numerous further education master’s courses for working people.
Teaching and Research
Subject areas and courses
The range of courses is divided into three subject areas:
- Technology department: architecture , civil engineering , construction and real estate management / facilities management, industrial engineering (construction) as well as geoinformatics and surveying
- Design department: communication design , interior design , media design / time-based media
- Business department: business administration , international business, business law , business informatics, media, IT & management
Research and technology transfer
Research in the fields of technology, design and economics is bundled at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences. The areas of "information technology and communication" as well as "materials and materials in architecture, civil engineering and design" were defined as research priorities. The Mainz University of Applied Sciences relies on interdisciplinarity, targeted merging of individually operating research areas and close interlinking of research and teaching. Applied research projects are carried out in cooperation with cooperation partners from science, business and public institutions. This ranges from practical final theses and doctoral theses to third-party funded projects in research and development.
Seven research institutes and other work areas are active within the departments and the main research areas. Institutes:
- i3mainz - Institute for Spatial Information and Measurement Technology
- iS-mainz - Institute for Innovative Structures
- AI MAINZ - Architecture Institute of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences
- idg - Institut Designlabor Gutenberg
- img - Institute for Media Design
- ifams - Institute for Applied Management in Social Science
- iuh - Institute for Entrepreneurial Action
Main focus of work:
- Official building material test center
- Light laboratory
- Research group on municipal and environmental economics
- Research group business informatics
- Market research laboratory
- Virtual studio
Alliances / cooperations
The university has been a member of the Mainz Science Alliance since 2008. In 2015, the Mainz University of Applied Sciences founded the Mainz Center for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies (mainzed) together with five other academic institutions .
The university is a partner of the Fraunhofer Vision Alliance , an amalgamation of institutions of the Fraunhofer Society on the subject of image processing and machine vision .
The Research and Transfer department is also available as a contact for questions about cooperation between science and industry.
Locations
Mainz University of Applied Sciences is divided into five locations:
Location Campus Lucy-Hillebrand -Straße 2 49 ° 59 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 42 ″ E
- Department of Economics
- iuh - Institute for Entrepreneurship
- IFAMS - Institute for Applied Management in the Social Economy
- Faculty of technology - teaching unit geoinformatics and surveying
- i3mainz - Institute for Spatial Information and Measurement Technology
- Central Administration
Location Holzstrasse 36 49 ° 59 ′ 50 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ E
- Faculty of technology - teaching units architecture and civil engineering
- AI MAINZ - Architecture Institute of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences
- iS-mainz - Institute of Innovative Structures
- Design faculty - teaching units interior design and communication design
- Gutenberg design laboratory
Location Wallstrasse 11
- Design department - teaching unit media design / time-based media
- img - Institute for Media Design
Location Holzhofstraße 8 (partly communication design course, partly architecture course, partly interior design course)
Location Rheinstraße (master building of the teaching units interior design, communication design)
Structural development
Due to the fact that the Mainz University of Applied Sciences is spread over several locations widely spread across the city, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has been striving for a new building for a long time. In the summer semester of 2009, the Central Administration, the Economics Department, the Geoinformatics and Surveying Unit and the Institute for Spatial Information and Measurement Technology (i3mainz) moved into the long-planned new building complex in Lucy-Hillebrand-Straße.
The new location ( 49 ° 59 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 42 ″ E ) is far to the west of the city, separated from Johannes Gutenberg University by Koblenzer Straße. There is a dormitory (“K 3”) for 500 students in the immediate vicinity. The Holzstrasse and Wallstrasse locations will continue to exist for the time being.
Overall, the new building at Mainz University of Applied Sciences has been received positively by both students and teaching staff. However, there is also criticism. The space allocation plan for the first construction phase dates from the 1990s. The new construction phase is already fully occupied with the current number of students. Gerhard Muth, who was elected the new President of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences in November 2006, therefore named the revision of the second construction phase as a focus of his term of office.
Criticism of the planned 2nd and 3rd construction phase
In recent years there has been increasing criticism of the planning of a 2nd and 3rd construction phase at the same location. It was originally planned to include all other departments, teaching units and institutes of the university. However, the planned 1,600 m² student workplaces were postponed to a possible third construction phase without a deadline. The design department stated that moving to a second construction phase without student workplaces would not guarantee teaching and in this case he would prefer a smaller second construction phase only for the technology department.
The technology department, which is affected by the move to the same extent as the design department, has a positive view of the move to the second construction phase. The faculty council, the elected body of professors, staff and students, always gave constructive and critical support to the new building. The technology department is currently in the process of harmonizing the architecture and civil engineering teaching units that were approved years ago and are still binding today with current requirements. The business department also emphatically supports the timely construction of the next construction phase, as urgently needed student jobs are being realized there.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mainz University of Applied Sciences (accessed on April 26, 2018)
- ↑ Mainz University of Applied Sciences (accessed on April 26, 2018)
- ↑ Network. List of universities in the DFH network. In: www.dfh-ufa.org. Franco-German University, accessed on October 4, 2019 .
- ↑ International (accessed September 23, 2015)
- ^ State Building and State Art School - Mainz 1955. Commemorative publication on the occasion of the inauguration of the new building of the State Building and State Art School in Mainz on March 19, 1955.
- ↑ Commemorative publication on the occasion of the inauguration of the extension buildings and new facilities of the State Engineering School and the State Craft School Mainz on April 4, 1963.
- ^ Andreas Greulich: From the electoral academy to the UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2002, ISBN 3-933257-87-5 , p. 67 .
- ↑ Mainz University of Applied Sciences becomes Mainz University of Applied Sciences - metropolnews.info ( Memento of the original dated September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ § 1 Paragraph 3 No. 5 of the Rhineland-Palatinate University Act.
- ↑ Degree programs - hs-mainz.de
- ↑ hs-mainz.de
- ↑ Mainz Science Alliance [1]
- ↑ Fraunhofer Vision partner. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung of November 8, 2013, statement by the deans from the Faculty of Technology and Economics
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 48 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 44 ″ E