University of Düsseldorf

University of Düsseldorf
founding	1971
Sponsorship	MKW NRW (state)
place	Dusseldorf
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
country	Germany
President	Edeltraud Vomberg
Students	10,660 winter semester 2017/18
Employee	approx. 775
including professors	187
Website	www.hs-duesseldorf.de

HSD - Building 5 - Department of Electrical and Information Technology / Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering

The Hochschule Düsseldorf ( HSD ) - until May 2015 Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (FH D) - is a state college with a new campus in Düsseldorf- Derendorf . The HSD emerged in 1971 from various training centers.

Old logo by Helmut Schmidt-Rhen, 1978–2015

Former cattle hall (before renovation, conversion and conversion) on the new campus of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

Former cattle hall (after renovation, conversion and conversion) with the old slaughterhouse memorial site (in the foreground)

Departments

The Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences is divided into seven departments:

• Department of Architecture (Peter Behrens School of Arts) ,
• Department of Design (Peter Behrens School of Arts) ,
• Department of Electrical and Information Technology ,
• Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ,
• Department of Media ,
• Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies and
• Department of Economics .

Various courses of study are offered in the individual departments.

The Department of Architecture offers bachelor and master courses in architecture and interior design , with the bachelor course dealing with interior design and architecture in one and the master course dealing with both areas separately.

In the Design Department, 26 professors and around 60 other employees conduct two bachelor's degree programs, one of which deals with communication design with a major in graphic design and one with product design with a major in jewelry design. Building on this, there are two consecutive Master’s degree programs and one Master’s degree in Exhibition Design, carried out jointly by the Architecture and Design departments. Since the winter semester 2013/14 there has been a bachelor's degree in Retail Design, which offers interdisciplinary training in the areas of design, communication and marketing that is specifically geared to the needs of the retail industry.

Since May 2015, the two creative departments of Architecture and Design have been operating under the umbrella brand Peter Behrens School of Arts (the Department of Architecture had been called the Peter Behrens School of Architecture since 2005), whereby the fundamental organizational independence of the departments remains. The name of this umbrella brand is a tribute to the industrial designer Peter Behrens , who worked at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1907 .

There is a master’s degree and three bachelor’s degree programs in the electrical engineering and information technology department. The master’s course can be studied in the specializations of automation technology, communications and information technology, electrical energy technology and microelectronics and ends with a Master of Science. The current Bachelor's degree ends with a Bachelor of Engineering and offers the electrical engineering and information technology, dual electrical and information technology and electrical engineering industrial engineering courses (since 2009). The electrical and information technology and electrical and information technology dual courses of study contain the specialist modules automation technology, electrical energy technology, microelectronics, information technology or communications technology. All electrical engineering courses are accredited by ASIIN (2003) and later by AQAS (2009).

Since the summer semester of 2016, there have been five bachelor's degrees in the mechanical and process engineering department (energy and environmental technology, product development, production technology, environment and process engineering, and industrial engineering). The department also offers three master’s degree courses: international industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and simulation and experimental technology.

The media department offers three bachelor's degrees in media informatics , media technology and sound and image. The media informatics master’s degree is offered with a focus on “virtual environments” and “multimedia systems and applications”.

The largest department, social and cultural sciences, organizes two master’s courses in culture , aesthetics and media as well as empowerment studies and a bachelor’s degree in social work / social pedagogy and a bachelor’s degree in childhood and family education. The Department of Business and Economics offers four Bachelor of Arts courses: the Bachelor Communication and Multimedia Management, the Bachelor Business Administration as well as the Bachelor International Management and the Bachelor Taxation Dual. In addition, Master of Arts courses in International Management as well as communication, multimedia and market management and a Master of Science course in Business Analytics are offered. In addition, there is a master’s degree in taxation, which is carried out in cooperation with the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences.

history

Like the other universities of applied sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences came into being in the course of the reforms in the education system in the Federal Republic of Germany that began in the late 1960s. In 1971, the Düsseldorf State Engineering School , the Architecture and Interior Design group of the Krefeld Werkkunstschule , the higher technical school for social work , the Peter Behrens Werkkunstschule Düsseldorf , the higher technical school for social pedagogy and the Düsseldorf branch of the higher business school Mönchengladbach were integrated into the FH D.

Under its founding rector, Professor Hans Albert Klüfer, the FH D began teaching with 120 professors and around 2,200 students. The seven departments were still housed in different locations. As early as 1981 the number of technical college students had risen to 5,500 and ten years later it exceeded the 10,000 mark for the first time.

This strong growth quickly led to space bottlenecks. That is why in 1976 the departments of social work and social education - the predecessors of the department of social and cultural studies that had existed since 2003 - moved into a new building on the campus of today's Heinrich Heine University . The Economics department followed a year later. It was only in 1983 that the departments of architecture and design could be adequately accommodated in modern rooms. 1,100 students moved into the new building on Georg-Glock-Straße, which is also equipped with a cafeteria for 350 people and a library on the ground floor.

The microelectronics course set up in the winter semester 1991/92 and the microsystem technology course were initially housed in the vocational training center on Hammfelddamm in Neuss , but were relocated to a new building on Kennedydamm (near Georg-Glock-Straße) in 2003.

At the end of 2000, the media department was set up with the audio and video technology course, which arose from the audio engineering course that had previously existed in the electrical engineering department , and the media technology course. The audio engineering course was already unique in the Federal Republic of Germany due to its interdisciplinary structure in cooperation with the neighboring Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf , which guarantees both technical and musical training.

In 2008/9 planning began for the new Derendorf campus on the old site of the slaughterhouse and the Schlösser brewery in the Derendorf district. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2012.

The topping-out ceremony took place on June 30, 2014 at the Derendorf campus.

On May 1, 2015, the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences was renamed Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD) . In the run-up to the renaming, there were numerous discussions that led to a total of four votes in the Senate. Only the fourth vote brought the 2/3 majority required for the name change. The name change is justified with an international adaptation and the trend towards standardization of all universities. It goes hand in hand with a new corporate design (conversion of Helmut Schmidt-Rhen's concept, which has existed since 1978, to a new appearance with the HSD sans font ) and a new website.

At the end of 2015, the administration first moved into the new Derendorf campus. The departments followed at intervals. In the summer semester of 2016, the departments of media, economics, and social and cultural studies moved in. Electrical & Information Technology and Mechanical & Process Engineering followed in the 2016/17 winter semester.

For the 2018/19 winter semester, the Architecture & Design departments also moved in with some delay.

move

The two locations are to be merged in the course of a new university building by the Construction and Real Estate Company NRW (BLB NRW). The abolition of compulsory military service and the switch to Abitur after grade 12 led to an increased demand for study places in 2013. The new campus on the old slaughterhouse and cattle yard at the Düsseldorf-Derendorf stop in the Derendorf district is being built according to plans by Nickl & Partner Architekten AG. The university library and campus IT will be integrated into historical existing buildings. The opening was planned for summer 2015, but due to construction delays, the opening was postponed by a few months. The project hit the headlines through investigations into corruption at BLB NRW. Shortly before an initially planned partial opening, it was reported in autumn 2014 that the new campus, which is planned for around 7,000 students, was far too small to accommodate all 9,000 enrolled students.

In 2016, the first five buildings on the new campus were moved into. Building 6, in which the architecture and design departments are to move in, has been under construction since May 2016.

Building 1: IT campus, university library

The university library and the IT campus are located in Building 1, the former cattle hall. The historic building envelope was revised for this purpose. In the northern three-aisled hall, the IT campus has moved into a house-in-house construction. The university library of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences is located in the southern hall with reading rooms on the ground floor and basement. Group and office rooms were created on the upper floor in the former hay store.

Building 2: University management, central administration, canteen, cafeteria, SSC

The university management and the central administration have moved into building 2. On the first floor there is a cafeteria as well as the Student Support Center (SSC), which consists of study offices, the central student advisory service, the international office, the family office, the barrier-free study office and the student service points.

Building 3: Faculties of Social and Cultural Studies, Economics

Building 3 forms the south-eastern end of the campus and marks the corner of Münsterstrasse / Toulouser Alle. The five-story building houses the social and cultural sciences and economics departments, equipped with lecture halls, seminar rooms, PC pools as well as work and control rooms. The General Student Committee (AStA) uses office and meeting rooms on the ground floor.

Building 4: Media department

Building 4 is located between Münsterstrasse and the central campus square. The media department is on the upper floors. There are four multi-storey studios for media technology, the so-called studio clusters for sound, video and virtual reality. On the ground floor there are various smaller lecture halls and the Audimax, which can accommodate around 500 people.

Building 5: Electrical engineering & information technology, mechanical engineering & process engineering departments

Building 5 houses both the electrical & information technology department and the mechanical engineering & process engineering department. The ground floor is equipped with machine halls, workshops, a technical center and a high-voltage hall. Physical-technical, chemical and electrical laboratories were installed on the upper floor. The roof can be used for experimental measurements.

Building 6: Architecture, Design departments

This is where the architecture and design departments find their premises as the Peter Behrens School of Arts. A special feature of the building is the large, stair-shaped forum inside.

Building 7: ZWEK

The former horse hall is expected to be expanded by the 2018/19 winter semester. This is where the Center for Further Education and Competence Development (ZWEK) moves in.

tuition fee

On March 22, 2007, the Senate voted eleven to seven against the introduction of tuition fees . At the initiative of the Rectorate, despite the expiry of April 1st (deadline for introducing tuition fees for the winter semester), this vote was repeated on April 24th 2007, but the old voting ratio remained.

Graduates and professors (selection)

• Josef Hermann Bernhard (* 1925), professor of electrical engineering and computer science
• Eva Brenner (* 1976), interior designer and television presenter
• Tobi Dahmen (* 1971), comic book author and illustrator
• Niklaus Fritschi (* 1945), Professor of Architecture
• Fons Matthias Hickmann (* 1966), designer, typographer, professor
• Juan Pablo Molestina (* 1955), professor of building theory and design, dean of the architecture department
• Fritz Hilpert , sound engineer and musician ( Kraftwerk )
• Hans Hoischen († 2002), professor of mechanical engineering
• Bodo Hombach (* 1952), politician ( SPD )
• Christian Jendreiko (* 1969), experimental artist and professor for design and strategies of digital communication
• Klaus Kammerichs (* 1933), photographer and sculptor
• Hans Albert Klüfer , founding rector of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, professor in the field of mechanical engineering and its long-term dean
• Bruno Knuppertz (†), professor in the electrical engineering department and its long-time dean
• Renate Künast (* 1955), social worker, later politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), Minister of Agriculture in the Schröder I and Schröder II cabinets
• Hans-Georg Lenzen (1921–2014), 1971 prorector of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and professor of graphic design
• Uwe Loesch (* 1943), designer, typographer, professor
• Reinhard Müller (* 1953), architect, urban planner, EUREF Campus Berlin
• Sven Pagel (* 1973), professor from 2004 to 2013
• Ronald Pofalla (* 1959), former Secretary General of the CDU and former Minister of the Chancellery in the Merkel II cabinet . Today board member for economics, law and regulation at Deutsche Bahn AG and DB Mobility Logistics AG.
• Karl Schwister (* 1954), German chemist, editor and author
• Ansgar Maria van Treeck (* 1957), photographer
• Kurt Ziehmer (1944–2002), architect and designer, lecturer at the FH for architecture from 1977 to 1981
• Rainer Zimmermann (* 1956), Professor of Strategy, Design and Communication since 2005

Web links

Commons : Hochschule Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• University of Düsseldorf
• Student representation at the FH Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ FH Düsseldorf, Welcome to the Peter Behrens School of Architecture
2. ↑ Birgit Lohmann: Degree courses in the FB EI at the HSD. July 3, 2018, accessed May 3, 2019 . 
3. ^ Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Bachelor of Arts "Childhood Education and Family Education"
5. ↑ https://wiwi.hs-duesseldorf.de/studium/studiengaenge/
6. ^ History of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved July 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Everything remains new - Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences becomes Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . Article dated May 1, 2015, accessed May 11, 2015
8. ↑ Achim Schaffrinna: FH D becomes HSD - New Corporate Design for University of Düsseldorf . Article from May 8, 2015 in the portal designtagebuch.de , accessed on May 10, 2015
9. ↑ Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences - New Derendorf Campus (PDF)
10. ^ Düsseldorf projects in the SU scandal
11. ↑ Semlha Ünlü: New university of applied sciences too small for 9000 students . Article from November 1, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on November 2, 2014
12. ↑ First-semester brochure. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 49.2 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 26.3"  E