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Multifaceted and innovative: the HTW Berlin


Multifaceted and innovative: Specialist profile

Approximately 60 Bachelor`s and Master`s

degree study programmes in the fields of:

• Technology

• Business

• Computer science

• Cultural studies

• Design


Awards and prizes


Awards and prizes

Total E-Quality Science Award

Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education And Research

for the FHTW's special commitment to gender equality

Best Practice Hochschule 2001

“Best practice university” award from the CHE centre for university

development for reform efforts in the area of university

management

ReformFachhochschule

Award from the "Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft”

for training, consulting and service offers especially for business

start-ups, young entrepreneurs and middle-sized companies


Awards and prizes für HTW and its members (selection)

BruttoSozialPreis (national award)

Germany's largest creative and strategy award for non-profit marketing

Tiburtiuspreise (Tiburtius awards)

Award from the state of Berlin for the best theses and dissertations

Wilhelm-Lorch Award

Award for the best new talents in the textile and fashion industry

Best of Unpublished German Book Design

Competition held by the Frankfurt Book Fair

KTW Software Award for Women

Special prize for the promotion of the next generation of female IT experts


Awards and prizes (selection)

Lucky Strike Junior Design Award

The Raymond Loewy Foundation awards prizes to young designers

FIDICIN Medal from the Club for the History of Berlin

An award for the variety of research work on Berlin-historical subjects

Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Director Club New

York

Award for the creation of a new font

German Award for Monument Conservation

Award for the conservation of constructional heritage


Historical roots


Historical roots

1847 Founding of the vocational school for decomposition,

composition and design, later engineering school

for clothing technology, since 1990: Division of Clothing

Technology at the Berlin University of Engineering

1947 Founding of the Engineering School for Mechanical

Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering;

from 1988 the Berlin University of Engineering

1991 HTW Berlin in founding; integration of the Berlin University

of Engineering and acquisition of property from the

University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst


Historical roots

1994 Formation of the HTW Berlin as a legally independent

institution of higher learning

1996 Integration of the Telekom’s university of applied

sciences.

2004 Celebration of the 10th anniversary

2006 Relocation to the first building at the Wilhelminenhof

campus

2009 Renamed into HTW Berlin and Wilhelminenhof campus

opened


Mission statement, partners andcooperation partners


Cooperation partners

The HTW collaborates on a regional, national and global

basis with:

• corporations and banks

• universities, research institutes,

institutions for research funding

• technology and foundation centres

• museums, archives, cultural institutions

• educational institutions

• chambers and associations


Two locations in Berlin: Treskowallee campus and Wilhelminenhof campus


Two very attractive locations in the southeast of Berlin

-Treskowallee Campus

in Karlshorst

-Wilhelminenhof Campus

in Oberschöneweide


The HTW on Treskowallee campus


Wilhelminenhof campus


The departments and their study programmes


Departement 1 Engineering I

Electrical Engineering (B)

Telecommunications (B)

Information Technology/

Distributed Systems (B)

Information and Commu-

nication Technology (M)

Applied Automation (M)

Computer Engineering (B)

Microsystems Technology (B)

Environmental Engineering/

Regenerative Energies (B/M)

Building Energy and Building

Information Technology (B)

Systems Engineering (M)


Departement 2 Engineering II

Civil Engineering

(B/M)

Automotive Engineering (B/M)

Mechanical

Engineering (B/M)

Facility Management (B/M, with Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin)

Industrial Environmental

Computing (B/M)

Life Science Engineering

(B/M)

Mechanical Engineering(B/M)

Construction and Real Estate Management (M)


Departement 3 Business I

Business Administration

(B/M)

Real Estate Management(B)

Public Management (B)

Business Law (B)

Non Profit ManagementAnd Public Governance

International Business

International and Development Economics

Real Estate Management (M)

Industrial Sales and Innovations Management (M)

Finance, Accounting, CorporateLaw and Taxation (M)

Human Resources Management(M)


Departement 4 Business II

Applied Computer

Science (B/M)

Business Computing(B/M)

Computer Science andBusiness (B)

Business

Communication

Management (B/M)

Industrial Engineering and

Management (B/M)

Business Mathematics (B)

Media and Computing

Interaction Design/Game Design (B)

Financial Services Risk Management (M)


Departement 5 Design

Clothing Technology/

Fabric Processing (B/M)

Fashion Design (B/M)

Conservation and

Restoration/Field

Archaeology (B/M)

Communications Design

Museums Studies (B)

Museum Management and

Communication (M)

Geoarchaelogy and Field

Archaelogy (M)


Practice-oriented didactics

• Approximately 270 professors and 700 assistant lecturers

teach at the HTW Berlin.

• The professors all have academic qualifications—many have

earned a doctorate—and also have at least three years of

practical experience in private enterprises or administration.

• The assistant lecturers are qualified practitioners with

teaching experience.


Bachelor's degree study programmes

Admission requirements: Secondary school/high school with

subject-specific university

entrance

qualification, pre-study internship

if applicable

Duration of studies: 6 or 7 terms

Bachelor's thesis: approx. 8 weeks with final degree

(bachelor’s)


Master’s degree study programmes (consecutive)

Admission requirements: Bachelor's degree

Duration of studies: 3-4 terms

Master’s thesis: approx. 3-6 months

Degree: Master's in the respective

field of study


Master’s degree study programmes (postgraduate)

Admission requirements: University degree (e.g. German

"Diplom") from a university or

university of applied sciences,

professional experience

Duration of studies: 2–4 terms

Master’s thesis: approx. 3-6 months

Degree: Master’s


Distance learning and advanced training

Distance learning: correspondence study courses

MBA Corporate Management | Mechanical Engineering | Industrial Engineering and

Management | Mathematics Prep Course | Conservation and Restoration |

Postgraduate master’s degree programmes

MBA Corporate Management | MBA Real Estate Management | International and

Development Economics |

Advanced training

Around 60 different courses on offer for executives and skilled employees from

companies/administration, staff, lecturers and young academic professionals


Research for the future

• Around 100 different research and development projects in the

areas of technology, business, computing, culture and design

• Support of young academics through a postgraduate advance-

ment programme for doctoral candidates

• Cooperation with the Berlin-based patent agency ipal for the

exploitation of R&D efforts

• Cooperation with five affiliated institutes


Development of proceeds from third-party funding

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Year


Interdisciplinary competence centres

• Facility management

• Media & networks & mobile computing

• Human-machine communication

• World heritage – prevention – environmental analysis

• Teaching and learning technology

• International innovation and medium-sized enterprise research

• Sustainable power supply for buildings

• gameslab Berlin

• Banks and regional development

• Umberto Competence Centre


Infrastructure for interested business founders

• The start-up competence centre "Business Start-Ups and

Independent Entrepreneurship"

• Business start-up lab

• Business start-up centre for technical services


HTW Management


HTW Management

• University Board

• Board of Trustees

• Main administration office

• Academic Senate

• Departments

• Central units


The University Board (and its business units)

Professor Dr Michael Heine

Chairman of the University Board

Professor Hans-Herwig Atzorn

First Vice President, responsible for R&D, technology and knowledge

transfer, advanced training/distance learning etc.


The University Board (and its business units)

Professor Dr Klaus Semlinger

Vice President, responsible for study programmes and teaching etc.

Dr. Stephan Becker

Chancellor, responsible for business, financial and budget issues,

as well as legal matters etc.


The Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is the link between the

university and the state on one hand, and society

on the other hand.

External members: 8 independent experts

Internal members: 2 professors, 2 research associates

2 other staff members, 2 students


The central units (service providers at the university)

Library

1 central library, 1 branch library, around 350,000 volumes and

700 magazines, wide range of CD-ROM databases

Foreign languages

Courses in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Swedish,

Spanish, German (for foreigners), from everyday language use

to technical language and specialised terminology


Cooperation Centre for Applied Sciences

• Consulting and support for research and education

• Sponsoring information (regional, national, EU)

• Distance learning and part-time advanced training

• Technology transfer and promotion of innovation

• Promotion of business start-ups

• Procurement of research services

• Patent support

• Trade fair and event organisation

• Financial administration of third-party funding


Statistics


Number of students

5381

6457

7569

7838

8617

9588

9500

9686

1994/ 1995

1996/ 1997

1998/ 1999

2000/ 2001

2002/ 2003

2004/ 2005

2006/ 2007

2008/ 2009


Thanks for your interest!

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