Fachbereich Maschinenbau at the Westfälische HS/Bocholt

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Basic information

Total number of students	140
Number of master degree students	10
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	10.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	10.0 %

Students in cooperative education	50
Extent of interlinking	5/10 points

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees
Graduations in appropriate time, master's

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	8/12 points
Contact with work environment, master's	no data
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	100.0 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	no data

Third party funds per professor	43.0
Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)	0

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Further degree courses of the department

none

Special features regarding teaching
High proportion of exercises and practicals; Combination with bionics, solutions from nature; Also considered from the perspective of cost-effectiveness through joint projects with industrial engineers.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Recognition of credits and examinations at foreign universities; Consideration given to the shifted semester timetable at foreign universities, e.g. in New Zealand, Australia.
Special features regarding the equipment
Practicals are less equipped with didactic systems, more with industry products, e.g. in the fields of Machine Tools, Robots and Drive Systems. In addition to many laboratories, two machine halls are also used, one in the university, one in the technology park next to the university.
Special features regarding research and development
The faculty has formed 2 internal institutes: The Mechatronics Institute Bocholt and the Bionics Institute Bocholt. The Mechatronics Institute emerged from the cooperation with the University of Twente/Netherlands approx. 12 years ago.
Other special features
The university is supported by a very active funding organisation. There is also the Otto-Spaleck Foundation to promote young academics. Interdisciplinary structure of the department with Mechatronics, Bionics and Industrial Engineering.
Further information on research activities
https://www.w-hs.de/forschungsinstitute/mechatronik-institut-bocholt/