Lucerne University of Applied Sciences

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
founding	1997
Sponsorship	state
place	Lucerne , Emmenbrücke , Horw , Rotkreuz
country	Switzerland
Rector	Markus Hodel
Students	6542 (2018)
Employee	1785 (2018)
including professors	761 (lecturers) (2018)
Networks	Swissuniversities
Website	www.hslu.ch

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences ( HSLU ) is a public college in the Swiss Lucerne . It was founded in 1997 under the name “Fachhochschule Zentralschweiz” (FHZ) and is the largest educational institution in Central Switzerland .

In 2018, 5,261 students attended a bachelor's degree and 1,281 a master’s degree and 4,408 students attended a continuing education program (as of October 15, 2018) at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. 459 projects were restarted in research and development in 2018.

history

The university was founded in 1997 under the name "Fachhochschule Zentralschweiz" (FHZ). It is based on the Federal University of Applied Sciences Act and the University of Applied Sciences Concordat of the six central Swiss cantons of Lucerne , Uri , Schwyz , Obwalden , Nidwalden and Zug . The Central Switzerland University of Applied Sciences has been operating under the name "University of Lucerne" since 2001, and since October 15, 2007, the five sub-schools of the Central Switzerland University of Applied Sciences have also appeared externally under the name of "University of Lucerne". Since it was founded, the departments of Technology & Architecture, Business and Design & Art have been sponsored by the Canton of Lucerne and the departments of Music and Social Work have been funded by foundations. In 2013, the entire university of applied sciences was placed under the same sponsorship of the six cantons.

Departments

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences is made up of six departments (previously referred to as partial schools ). Many of them can look back on a longer history than the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences itself. The Department of Computer Science , located in Rotkreuz in the canton of Zug , was founded in 2016. It emerged from the merger of the IT department of the Technology & Architecture department and the information systems department of the Economics department.

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

The Technology & Architecture department is located in Horw near Lucerne. The department goes back to the Evening Technical Center of Central Switzerland (ATI) founded in 1946 and the Central Switzerland Technical Center of Lucerne (ZTL) founded in 1958 . Before the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences was founded, this organizational unit was last called the University of Technology and Architecture (HTA). 1,875 students are enrolled in the Department of Technology & Architecture at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (as of 2018). Viktor Sigrist is the director. It comprises the nine institutes of architecture, interior design, civil engineering, building technology and energy, electrical engineering, mechanical and energy technology, innovation and technology management, medical technology, and natural sciences and humanities.

Nine bachelor's degree programs are offered, with six degree programs offering a choice between several fields of study:

• architecture
• Interior design
• Civil engineering. Fields of study: construction and structure, traffic and water, building envelope
• Building technology | Energy. Fields of study: heating-ventilation-air-conditioning-sanitary (HLKS), building electrical engineering (GEE)
• Electrical engineering and information technology. Fields of study: energy and drive systems, communications engineering / signal processing, technical informatics, mechatronics / automation / robotics
• Machine technology. Fields of study: energies, fluids & processes; Product development & mechatronics
• Industrial engineer | Innovation. Fields of study: Product Management and New Business Development, Operations Management, Sales and Marketing Management
• Medical technology
• Energy Systems Engineering. Fields of study: Energy Systems, Environmental Systems
• from 2020: Digital Construction and Digital Engineering

The offer also includes the two master’s courses in architecture and engineering .

further education

The Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture offers MAS / DAS / CAS study programs in, among other things, construction economics, industrial engineering, energy and sustainability in construction ( ENBau ), information and communication technology (ICT), IT network manager, design engineer, building management, software engineering on. The CAS project manager construction is the executive training of the Swiss construction industry. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is the seat of the ENBau office, a further training offer with the universities of applied sciences in Northwestern Switzerland, Bern, Zurich and Chur and the Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).

Competence centers

The Competence Centers of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts conduct applied research and offer various services in the following areas:

• Bioscience and Medical Engineering - Biomedical space research and technology
• Electronics - analog and digital electronics solutions
• Fluid mechanics and hydromachines - focus on flows
• Building envelope - construction, energy and architecture in harmony
• iHomeLab - think tank and research center for building intelligence
• Intelligent Sensors and Networks - real-time and highly reliable data and sensor networks
• Structural engineering - efficient and sustainable constructions
• Mechanical systems - holistic and efficient design of mechanical systems
• Thermal energy storage - research into heating and cooling
• Thermal energy systems and process engineering - research for the energy transition
• Typology and planning in architecture - transformation of buildings and quarters
• Center for Integral Building Technology - Energy-efficient construction
• Research group energy industry - economic solutions for the energy industry
• Research group interior design - planning and implementation of needs-based spaces

literature

• Beat Balmer et al. (Ed.): From Atis to University: Part-time engineering and architecture studies in Central Switzerland 1946–2009. Kriens-Luzern: VP Herzog, 2010, ISBN 978-3-033-02289-8

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences

2016 was the sixth Department computer science with location Red Cross in Canton train set. This department emerged from the IT department of the Technology & Architecture department and the Institute for Information Systems in the Economics department. The director is René Hüsler, the former director of the Technology & Architecture department.

education

The Lucerne School of Computer Science offers three courses:

• Digital ideation
• Computer science with the fields of Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing, Data Engineering & Data Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, Informatik PLUS, IT Operation & Security, Software Development - Mobile and Software Development - Web
• Business informatics with the courses Business Analyst, Data Engineering & Data Science, Digital Business, Human Computer Interaction Design, Informatik PLUS, IT Operation & Security

The offer also includes the two master’s courses in business informatics and engineering.

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

The economics department is located in Lucerne and Zug . Christine Böckelmann is the director.

The Lucerne School of Business offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with 8 fields of study:

• Controlling & Accounting
• Finance & Banking
• property
• Communication & Marketing
• Management & Law
• Public & Nonprofit Management
• Tourism & Mobility
• Value Network & Process Management

The Business Administration International Management & Economics course has been running since autumn 2008. The language of instruction is English.

Three master's programs with specializations (majors)

• Accounting, Finance & Banking
• International Management & Economics
• Tourism

The Higher Technical College for Tourism HFT is part of the Lucerne School of Business. She conducts a part-time, two-year diploma course.

further education

The Lucerne School of Business offers 1 Executive MBA, 24 Master of Advanced Studies MAS, 5 Diploma of Advanced Studies DAS, 50 Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS as well as other offers such as courses or preparatory courses.

Institutes

The four institutes are active in the areas of continuing education, applied research and development and services:

• Institute for Business and Regional Economics IBR
• Institute for Financial Services Zug IFZ
• Institute for Communication and Marketing IKM
• Institute for Tourism Industry ITW

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Social Work

The social work department is located in Lucerne. It was created in 1995 through the merger of the three higher technical schools evening school for social work ASL, higher technical school for social work HFS and higher technical school for sociocultural animation HFA. The founding history of the department goes back to 1918, when the Swiss Social Charitable Women's School was opened in Lucerne as the first Swiss educational institution for social work. Accordingly, the 100th anniversary was celebrated in 2018.

Dorothee Guggisberg is the director of the Lucerne School of Social Work. The Lucerne School of Social Work, with 135 employees, 800 students in training and around 1,800 students in further education (as of 2019), is one of the larger universities for social work. It is the only university in German-speaking Switzerland to offer a degree in sociocultural animation as part of its Bachelor's degree .

The Bachelor's degree in Social Work comprises the three fields of study social work, socioculture and social pedagogy.

In addition, the department offers the Master's degree in Social Work as well as various advanced training courses (Master of Advanced Studies MAS, Diploma of Advanced Studies DAS, Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS, specialist courses, specialist seminars):

• Work integration
• Disability and quality of life
• Education, upbringing and care
• Child, adult and victim protection
• Methods and procedures of social work
• Prevention and health
• Social Security
• Social Management , Social Policy and Generations
• Sociocultural community, urban and regional development

Contributions to the theory and practice of social work are published in our own interact publishing house .

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Founded in 1877, the Design & Art Department in Lucerne is the oldest art school in Switzerland . The well-known Nidwalden painter Johann Melchior Wyrsch proposed to the Lucerne Council in 1783 that a drawing school be founded, and in 1784 he began teaching. One of his successors as a drawing teacher, Seraphin Weingartner , developed a new school concept and in 1877 founded the Lucerne School of Applied Arts from the drawing school . After the Second World War, the profile of the arts and crafts schools in Switzerland changed, primarily due to the reception of the training methods developed at the Bauhaus . From 1972 the educational institution called itself Schule für Gestaltung and from 1984 training on the tertiary level was offered as a higher technical school for design (HFG). In 1988 the first diploma of this level was awarded in Lucerne. From 1995 the school received a new status as a college for design and art in the sense of a technical college.

The University of Design and Art has been part of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences since 2007. Gabriela Christen has been the director since March 1, 2010.

Course offer

• Design preliminary course

• Four Bachelor programs:
  • Visual communication with the fields of graphic design, illustration (fiction / nonfiction), camera arts, digital ideation
  • Product and industrial design with the fields of study: Design Management International, textile design, object design and XS jewelry
  • Art & Education: Art, Art and Education
  • Film: animation, video

• Three master's programs:
  • Master of Arts in Design; five possible specializations: graphic design, illustration, product design, service design and textiles
  • Master of Arts in Art; two possible specializations: "Art in Public Spheres" and "Art Teaching"
  • Master of Arts in Film; Specialization in animation and short motion

• Further education:
  • CAS Design Management
  • CAS Art Direction
  • CAS brand design
  • CAS / MAS cultural management

Lucerne University of Music

The Department of Music was created in 1999 under the name of the Lucerne School of Music through the merger of the Conservatory , the Academy for School and Church Music and the Lucerne Jazz School . The history of the department is closely linked to the Lucerne festival tradition . In addition to a strong tradition of church music, the department also has the most important training center for improvised music and contemporary jazz in Switzerland. Michael Kaufmann has been running the Lucerne School of Music since March 2011. The broad networking in the cultural environment is of great importance: Lucerne Festival Academy , Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Lucerne Theater . The practical artistic activity on the podium is an integral part of the course.

The range of training courses gives graduates a great deal of flexibility in combining subjects. The four Bachelor programs (Bachelor of Arts) are offered:

• Music in the profiles of classical or jazz with a focus on church music and music and movement as well as wind music direction, focus: improvisation, folk music, composition and conducting / school music
• Church music
• Music and movement
• Wind music directorate

There are also two Master’s degrees in Music and Music Education . Specializations are possible in the fields of study classical, jazz, folk music, church music, performance music theory, orchestra, chamber music, solo performance, interpretation in contemporary music, music and art performance, composition, conducting, church music as well as instrumental / vocal pedagogy, school music II and music theory.

Training, research and development

The extra-occupational postgraduate courses in the Department of Music conclude with a Diploma of Advanced Studies DAS or Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS . In close connection with training and music-making practice, projects are designed and implemented as part of research and development .

Web links

• Website of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members. In: www.swissuniversities.ch. swissuniversities, 2019, accessed on August 31, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Facts & Figures 2018 Facts and figures on the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, as of October 15, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} University of Applied Sciences Central Switzerland now under one roof ( memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), press release from November 8, 2012 on the website of the Central Switzerland Conference of Education Directors (BKZ), accessed on December 6, 2012
4. ↑ The HTA Luzern becomes the Lucerne School of Technology and Architecture (PDF; 32 kB), HTA Luzern media release of October 10, 2007, accessed on December 6, 2012
5. ↑ https://www.hslu.ch/de-ch/informatik/
6. ↑ Facts & Figures ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), brochure of the Lucerne School of Technology and Architecture, 2014
7. ↑ Bachelor | Technology & architecture, overview of courses. Retrieved January 27, 2020 (Swiss Standard German). 
8. ↑ 100-year anniversary: ​​The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts celebrates social work , on the HSLU website, accessed on November 4, 2019
9. ↑ About us: The university with future-oriented study concepts , on the HSLU website, accessed on November 4, 2019
10. ↑ Education in art and design with a rich tradition Information page on the history of the Lucerne School of Art and Design , accessed on May 18, 2010

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