RWTH Aachen: Best Technical University in Germany
2009-06-08 08:03:42
文化交流 2009年9期
RWTH Aachen University is Germanys best university of technology. With roughly 31,000 students, it is also one of the largest higher education institutions in Germany. An RWTH Aachen degree is a guaranteed passport to a bright career future in Germany as well as in the rest of the world.
The secret of the success of RWTH Aachen is its perfect integration of education of science and technology with practice. Students are well prepared and oriented in the significance and influence of science and technology on the society.
Research makes RWTH Aachen stand out. Students of medicine and engineering students have joined hands and done brilliantly in research and development in the fields of mechanical cardiac valves, blood pumps, micro medical devices, surgical navigation system, and surgical robots. A system developed by RWTH students can set up real time audio and video communication between specialists at hospital and emergency paramedics at an emergency venue, thus bring about better emergency treatment under remote guidance and monitoring.
RWTH Aachen is a comprehensive university where industrial science and technology, natural science, medicine, literature and economics are taught and researched. It is also an international university. Lu Yongxiang, the current vice chairman of the National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China and the former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, studied for and attained a PhD degree at RWTH Aachen. Some teachers at Qinghua, Chinas most prominent technological university, have also studied there. At present, there are about 5,000 foreign students at RWTH Aachen, including 900 Chinese. One hundred and fifty-two of the 900 Chinese are studying for PhD degrees. China is about to sponsor 5,000 PhD candidates to study abroad. Fifty are scheduled for RWTH Aachen.
There are many foreign professors at RWTH Aachen, which is a proud tradition of RWTH Aachen. Professor Guo Baoyu is one of these foreign professors. Guo studied for a masters degree at RWTH Aachen in 1987 with a national scholarship of China. He later attained a PhD degree and since 2005, he has been a professor with the Department of Mathematics at RWTH Aachen.
RWTH Aachen set up an office in Beijing in 2006 for promoting wide and extensive exchanges and cooperation in education and research with its Chinese counterparts. RWTH Aachen has collaborated with Qinghua University to offer a dual masters degree program in both mechanical engineering and automobile engineering. The best graduates with a bachelors degree will be sent to each others campuses for a one-year program. They will have a dual degree if they pass the graduation examination. The students in this program use English in both Qinghua and RWTH Aachen. These students are popular with businesses in China and Germany. Similar programs are also jointly offered in partnerships between RWTH Aachen and China University of Science and between RWTH Aachen and Technology and Shanghai Tongji University. The programs are highly appreciated and valued by both German and Chinese students.
RWTH Aachen now has a blueprint for its future development. Experts at RWTH Aachen are planning to build an ambitious research and development project in an area of 550,000 square meters close to the campus. The new R&D; park will host 19 cooperation programs between RWTH Aachen University and industry. The programs aim to promote closer cooperation and exchanges. Enterprises can send their talents to RWTH Aachen for further studies and students at RWTH can find research subjects for their PhD studies. RWTH research institutes will have better opportunities to work on large projects and improve their research and development capabilities.
While intending to forge closer and more fruitful ties with business, RWTH Aachen emphasizes its independence. All the cooperation programs with businesses are operated on an independent level by the university. At present, RWTH Aachen takes interest in research and development projects in such fields as energy, biomedicine, production engineering, material science, IT and telecommunication. German-Chinese joint ventures are expected to take part in RWTH Aachen projects soon.
