The Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, (in German: Hochschule Darmstadt (h_da)) in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, plays a significant role among German Universities of Applied Sciences

Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

. It is internationally known for its outstanding achievements in the areas of engineering and computer science. Also, the selection criteria for this university are the toughest among the universities of applied sciences in Germany. The University has the highest number of industrial linkage programs, compared to the rest of the universities of applied sciences.

History

The roots of University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt goes back to1876 along with Technische Universität Darmstadt(the first electrical engineering chair and inventions fame), when both these Universities were an integrated entities, a need for a separate industry based research educational institution was felt in early 1930s, finally University of Applied sciences emerged as a separate industry based research educational institution in 1971 and is the largest University of Applied Sciences

Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

 in Hesse

Hesse

Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

 (German: Hessen) with about 11,000 students.

Outcomes and Revolution in education system of Germany

In 1971 when Hochschule Darmstadt, was established, other regions of the Hesse

Hesse

Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

,also felt the need of such industry based educational institutions .In later years a heavy number of Hochschule were established all across Germany.As a result of this,today the German industry's engineering workforce is propelled by students of the Hochschule.

Campus

The Main campus of the Hochschule Darmstadt lies at the Haardtring office, but, the campus is evenly distributed all across the city of Darmstadt at different locations.A cluster of Old and Modern university buildings are visible across the city of Darmstadt.

Departments

• Architecture
  Architecture
  Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
  
  
• Chemical Engineering
  Chemical engineering
  Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
  
  
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science
• Design
• Economics
• Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
  Information technology
  Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
  
  
• Mathematics and Science
• Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
  
  
• Media (including Information Science and Engineering
  Information science
  -Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
  
  )
• Plastics engineering
  Plastics engineering
  Plastics engineering encompasses the processing, design, development, and manufacture of plastics products. A plastic is a polymeric material that is in a semi-liquid state, having the property of plasticity and exhibiting flow. The nature of plastic materials poses unique challenges to an engineer...
  
  
• Social and Cultural Studies
• Social Education
• Mechatronics
  Mechatronics
  Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is...
  
  

Admission Procedure into Engineering Disciplines

The competition amongst the foreign as well as EU nationals for admission into Hochschule Darmstadt is quite high. There are a number of alternative admission criterion available for the students.The perspective students have to match any of the following criterion

• A valid GRE
  Graduate Record Examination
  The Graduate Record Examinations is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States, in other English-speaking countries and for English-taught graduate and business programs world-wide...
  
   score card at least 1200 out of 1600,and TOEFL or IELTS score card.
• Students from China have to show English proficiency certificate apart from GRE , TOEFL
• Students from India have to include a valid GATE
  Gate
  A gate is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or a moderately sized opening in a fence. Gates may prevent or control entry or exit, or they may be merely decorative. Other terms for gate include yett and port...
  
   score card at least 90 percentile.
• Industrial work experience of at least 6 months on an international project.

The above are true only in case of certain programs and is not a generic requirement.

University of Applied Sciences Ranking

Hochschule Darmstadt is a reputed institute and it has consistently ranked high on the DAAD

German Academic Exchange Service

The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....

 rankings list closely rivaled by Hochschule Karlsruhe. Maintaining its reputation in the specializations of Microelectronics

Microelectronics

Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...

 and Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...

, Hochschule Darmstadt has contributed to some of the major industrial developments in Germany, including REIS

Reis

-Surname:Reis is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a Christian devotional family name of the Middle Ages, probably due to the Portuguese name for the Biblical Magi, the Reis Magos . Sometimes the surname is dos Reis...

, Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi

The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...

 Robot modules.

Overall Ranking in Germany and Europe

Hochschule Darmstadt stands on number 3 after:(1.) Technische Universität München  and (2.)Technische Universität Darmstadt.Regarded as the top 30 institutes to study at the EU.

Overall World Ranking

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Research

Incorporated close ties with

• IIS Fraunhofers,
• Max-Planck Society
• EUA
  EUA
  EUA can stand for:* European University Association* End User Agreement* European Unit of Account* EU emission Allowance , see European Union Emission Trading Scheme* Portuguese, Spanish and French abbreviation of USA...
  
   European University Association

Industrial Linkages

• German Auto Industry Association
• Institut für Kunststofftechnik Darmstadt (ikd)
• Institut für Angewandte Informatik Darmstadt (aiDa)
• Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind (EFW)
• Zentrum für Advanced Learning, Medien und Simulation (IgDV) (ehemals Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung)
• Institut für Informationsrecht (i2r)
• Gesellschaft zur Förderung technischen Nachwuchses Darmstadt e. V. (GFTN)
• Arbeitsgruppe für Elektronische Mikrosysteme (µSYST)
• Sonderforschungsgruppe Institutionenanalyse (sofia)

International Presence

h_da boasts international exchange students drawn from more than 100 institutions abroad and is a leading producer of talent for high-tech firms.

Prominent Partner Institutes

• University of Massachusetts
  University of Massachusetts
  This article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...
  
   at Boston
• Ohio State University
  Ohio State University
  The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
  
  
• Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
  
  
• University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  
• California Polytechnic State University
  California Polytechnic State University
  California Polytechnic State University, or Cal Poly, is a public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. The university is one of two polytechnic campuses in the 23-member California State University system....
  
  Pomona
• Illinois Institute of Technology
  Illinois Institute of Technology
  Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
  
  

• Cork Institute of Technology
  Cork Institute of Technology
  Cork Institute of Technology , formerly the Regional Technical College, Cork, is an Institute of Technology in Ireland, located in Cork, Ireland opened in 1973. The institute has 17,000 students in art, business, engineering, music and science disciplines...
  
  

• University of Southampton
  University of Southampton
  The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
  
  
• University of Bristol
  University of Bristol
  The University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...
  
  

• National University of Singapore
  National University of Singapore
  The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
  
  
• University of Kyushu Japan.
• Université du Luxembourg
• Ulyanovsk State Technical University
• Moscow State University
  Moscow State University
  Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
  
  
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , popularly known as IIT Bombay or IITB, is a public research university located in Powai, Mumbai...
  
  
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is an autonomous engineering, technology and management oriented institute of higher education established by the government of India in 1951...
  
  

Notable Research Projects in Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Projekte im Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik

* IP-Qualität
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Gerdes

* Entwicklung von mikroprozessorgesteuerten Regelschaltungen für organische Leuchtdioden
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Gerdes

* Multiprozessorsystem zur massiv-parallelen digitalen Echtzeitkorrelation
von optischen Messdaten auf Basis von STERA SPARTAN FPGAs
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hoppe
Prof. Dr. Hermann Meuth

* Integrierte CMOS Bildsensorik
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hoppe

* JAVA Virtual Machine ASIC mit on-chip Multi Media Hardware
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hoppe

* Sensorennetzwerk aus bildgebenden Sensoren mit kinematischen Feiheitsgraden (proof of concept)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl Kleinmann

* Messsystem zur Ermittlung der Artefaktempfindlichkeit von Elektroden zur Ableitung elektrophysiologischer Signale bei mechnanischen Störungen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Peter Koch

* Netztraining im liberalisierten Strommarkt
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Metz

* Netztraining und effizienter Netzbetrieb
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Metz

* Integrierte Funktionsgeneratoren für die digitale Synthese
von hoch präzisen periodischen Signalen
Prof. Dr. Hermann Meuth

* Piezomotor-Ansteuerung für Avionik, Bionik und Robotik
Prof. Dr. Hermann Meuth

* Erprobung der Regelungsstruktur
Prof. Dr. Hermann Meuth

* Entwicklung eines MAXIMUMWÄCHTERS auf PC/SPS
Prof. Dr. August Reiner

* 2MN-Module für die multimediale netzbasierte HochschullehreELAT (ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING)
Prof. Dr. Horst Röder

* Adaptives Regelungsverfahren für Robotergelenke mit
nichtsteifem Getriebe
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weber
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Weber (M), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wiese

* Brennstoffzelle als Energieversorgung für
Rollstühle
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Schmidt-Walter

* Rekonfigurierbares digitales Filter für Audio/Videosignalverarbeitung
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schumann

* Ermittlung von Winkelgeschwindigkeiten
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* PPI-Kaskade-Antriebsregler
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* MinZy: Minimierung der Zykluszeit für
modellbasierte Roboterregelungen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* Reis-Steuerung RS 5
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* Erprobung der Regelungsstruktur
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* RoboGet: Adaptives Regelungsverfahren für Robotergelenke mit nichtsteifem Getriebe
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* Abtriebsregelung
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* ReDuS+ Anwenderorientierter Entwurf abtriebsseitiger Gelenkregelungen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Weber

* Hochdynamische, bidlgestützte Regelung von Industrierobotern für die Nahtverfolgung an flexiblen Objekten (HYBRINO)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Weigl-Seitz

* Hochfrequenzbeatmung von Frühgeborenen
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wiese

Institutes

• igdv – Zentrum für Advanced Learning, Medien und Simulation http://www.igdv.h-da.de
• Institute of Local Economics and Environmental Planning [IKU]