Fakultät für Technik at the HS Pforzheim

Bereich Informationstechnik

HS Pforzheim

Tiefenbronnerstraße 65
75175 Pforzheim
Phone: +49 723 128-6117

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Basic information

Total number of students	160
Number of master degree students	no master programme
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	5.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	no master programme

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	72.7 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's

Job market- and career-orientation

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

Research

Third party funds per professor	22.3
Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)	3

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.0
Support in studies	2.0
Courses offered	2.2
Study organisation
Exams	2.0
Digital teaching elements	2.4
Laboratory internships
Job market preparation	2.1
Support during practical semester
Rooms	2.0
Library	2.0
IT-infrastructure	1.8
Overall study situation	2.1

Degree courses with details

Electrical and Electronic Engineering/Information Engineering (B.Eng.)

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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About studying Electrical / Information Engineering in Germany

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Interdisciplinary approach; Extensive support during the initial phase of studies; Subject-specific student advice; personal contact with professors and instructors, including outside the lectures and laboratories; Very high practical relevance; Transfer of research results to the field of teaching; very good contacts with regional and international companies in industry; Studi-Cockpit for students (students can view their academic achievements online in a Cockpit); Active course design through small groups in advanced studies; Many learning units alongside lectures (tutorials, exercises, laboratories)
Special features regarding the international orientation
EMIG (Engineers made in Germany) Summer School, USA excursions to Silicon Valley, professorial advice and working group for studies for foreigners (practical semester, degree course, thesis)
Special features regarding the equipment
new technology building with excellent IT infrastructure (Ethernet, WiFi) opened in 2015; Very well-equipped PC pools, teaching laboratories and project laboratories; Own electrical engineering workshop for the support of student work; Various subject-specific databases available online in the library, with German and English E-Books; Alfaview as a teleteaching platform
Special features regarding research and development
(Interdisciplinary) research projects are carried out in close cooperation with industry; The consecutive Master´s degree course in Embedded Systems and the Master's degree course in Information Systems offer particularly qualified graduates the opportunity for further academic qualification; There is the possibility of doing a PhD at the Promotionskolleg college, which is run together with the University of Tübingen
Support for founders
GründerWERK offers founders of start-ups professional advice and various curricular and extracurricular formats of entrepreneurship education. It nurtures and invigorates a strong internal (e.g. with HEED – Institute for Human Engineering & Empathic Design Pforzheim, INEC – Institute for Industrial Ecology and the Steinbeis Innovation Centre for Business Development) and an external start-up network, including the start-up ecosystem Nordschwarzwald.
Other special features
small group sizes; Subject-specific student advice; Professors are very easy to reach; Outstanding equipment; Innovative didactic concepts; Guided and open-ended projects; Interdisciplinary projects with other departments (Design, Economics & Law); Very good industrial contacts to local and international companies
Further information on research activities
https://www.hs-pforzheim.de/forschung/institute/institut_fuer_smart_systems_und_services_ios3
Further information about study entry phase
https://engineeringpf.hs-pforzheim.de/studieninteressierte/angebote_fuer_schuelerinnen