Jade College
| Jade College | |
|---|---|
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| motto | Study better |
| founding | September 1, 2009 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Wilhelmshaven , Oldenburg , Elsfleth |
| state |
 Lower Saxony
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| country |
 Germany
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| president | Manfred Weisensee |
| Students | 7000 |
| Employee | about 650 |
| including professors | over 200 |
| Networks | DFH |
| Website | www.jade-hs.de |
The Jade College is a public college in the northwestern Lower Saxony with study sites in Wilhelmshaven , Oldenburg and Elsfleth . The university offers 37 bachelor 's and 13 master ' s courses in six faculties and has around 7,200 enrolled students and over 650 teachers and employees. Jade University sees itself as a modern university with a maritime focus and engineering and economics courses.
Manfred Weisensee has been President of Jade University since September 1, 2015 .
history
The Jade University was founded on September 1st, 2009. It emerged from the former University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven .
The foundation of the University on the recommendation of the structural commission "Future development of the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven" that the Lower Saxony state government a Defusion the only in 2000 merged FH Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven in the new universities Fachhochschule Wilhelmshaven / Oldenburg / Elsfleth and University of Applied Sciences Emden / Leer suggested.
In October 2009 the name "Jade Hochschule" was chosen for the new university. The term jade refers to the river Jade and is seen as a connecting element of the three study locations of the university. It is "catchy, internationally understandable, easy to pronounce in several languages and competitive" and has "a high recognition value".
All three study locations at the university - Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Elsfleth - have a long tradition in their respective training focuses. The nautical training in Elsfleth goes back to 1832. The largest nautical training facility in Germany is now located here. Engineers have been trained in Oldenburg since 1877. The original academy for business economists was founded in Wilhelmshaven in 1947.
University management
The founding president of Jade University was Elmar Schreiber, who previously worked at the University of Bremen . The term of office of the founding president ended on August 31, 2015. On September 1, 2015, Manfred Weisensee succeeded him in the position.
Departments
There are six departments with 50 courses at the three study locations . The departments are spread over the following study locations:
Wilhelmshaven
- Department of Engineering
- Electrical engineering (Bachelor, Bachelor dual, Master)
- Mechanical engineering (Bachelor, Bachelor dual, Master)
- Mechatronics (Bachelor, Bachelor dual)
- Medical technology (Bachelor, Bachelor dual)
- Marine Engineering (Bachelor)
- Renewable Energies (Online Bachelor)
- Department of Management, Information, Technology
- Management of digital media (master)
- Media Economics and Journalism (Bachelor)
- Business Informatics (Bachelor)
- Industrial engineering (Bachelor - also women-specific, online Bachelor, Master)
- Department of Economics
- Banking and Insurance Industry (Bachelor dual)
- Business Administration (Online Bachelor, Online Master)
- International Tourism Management (Bachelor)
- Strategic Management (Master)
- Tourism Industry (Bachelor, Online Bachelor)
- Economics (Bachelor)
- Business in the practice group (Bachelor dual)
Oldenburg
- Department of Architecture
- Architecture (Bachelor, Master)
- Department of Civil Engineering, Geoinformation, Health Technology
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Teaching unit construction
- Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
- Construction Information Technology (Bachelor)
- Facility Management and Real Estate Management (Master)
- Management and Engineering in Construction (Master)
- Industrial Engineering-Construction Industry (Bachelor)
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Geoinformation teaching unit
- Applied Geodesy (Bachelor)
- Geoinformatics (Bachelor)
- Geographic Information Science (Master)
- Industrial Engineering Geoinformation (Bachelor)
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Technology and Health for People Department
- Assistive Technology (Bachelor)
- Hearing Technology and Audiology (Bachelor)
- Public Health (Master)
Elsfleth
- Department of Maritime and Logistics
- International Maritime Management (Master)
- International Logistics Management (Bachelor)
- Maritime Management (Master)
- Nautical Science and Maritime Transport (Bachelor)
- Ship and port operations (Bachelor part-time, Bachelor dual)
- Maritime Transport and Port Management (Bachelor)
Family-friendly university
Since 2011, the Jade University has received several awards as a family-friendly university. The certificate is awarded by berufundfamilie gGmbH of the Hertie Foundation for a period of three years and is an offer to public institutions to improve the compatibility of work / study and family .
Distance between study locations
| As the crow flies in km | Elsfleth | Oldenburg | Wilhelmshaven |
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| Elsfleth | - | 21st | 42 |
| Oldenburg | 21st | - | 46 |
| Wilhelmshaven | 42 | 46 | - |
Well-known graduates
- Matthias Groote (* 1973), politician, Member of the European Parliament 2005 to 2016, District Administrator in the Leer district since 2016
- Wilfried Grunau (* 1958), geodesist, President of the Association of German Surveying Engineers (since 1993) and the Central Association of Engineering Associations (since 2014), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit (2011)
- Horst Werner Janssen (1933–2017), captain and shipowner, honorary citizen of Elsfleth , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Olaf Lies (* 1967), politician, Lower Saxony Minister for Economy, Labor and Transport (2013–2017) and for Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection (since 2017)
- Harald Lucht (1935–2020), geodesist, Senate councilor a. D. of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and honorary professor at the University of Bremen .
- Carola Rackete (* 1988), captain and activist
- Werner Rettig (* 1942), politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1986 to 1994
- Niels Stolberg (* 1960), entrepreneur, shipowner, founder of Beluga Shipping GmbH
Cooperations
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 .
See also
Web links
literature
- Jade University celebrates its fifth anniversary . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 11/2014, p. 72, DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2014, ISSN 0938-1643
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Internet presence of Jade University: Profile , accessed on October 21, 2019
- ↑ Network. List of universities in the DFH network. In: www.dfh-ufa.org. Franco-German University, accessed on October 5, 2019 .
- ^ Jade University: University management. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
- ^ Department of Jade University ( Memento of December 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at www.jade-hs.de, accessed on October 21, 2019.
- ↑ Press release of March 23, 2018
- ↑ Fraunhofer Vision partner. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .