Dortmund University
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| Established | 1968 |
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| Rector | Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker |
| Faculty | 3,451 |
| Students | 21,643 (as of November 15, 2004) |
| Location | Dortmund, Germany |
| Website | www.uni-dortmund.de |
Dortmund University (German: Universität Dortmund) is a university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 20,000 students, and over 3,000 staff. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe.
In 2006, Dortmund University hosts the 11th Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) RoboWorld Cup. The university's robot soccer team, the Dortmund Droids, is run by faculty and students within lab projects of the local computer science department. The team became vice world champion in the RoboWorld Cup 2002 and finished third in 2003.
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[edit] History
Dortmund University was founded in 1968, during the decline of the industrial industry in the Ruhr region. Its establishment was seen as an important move in the economic change (Strukturwandel) from heavy industry to technology. The University's main areas of research are the natural sciences, engineering, pedagogy/teacher training in a wide spectrum of subjects, special education, and journalism. Dortmund University was originally designed to be a technical university, but in 1980, it merged with the adjacent Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr that housed mostly humanities.
[edit] Campuses
Following the Zeitgeist of the late 1960s in Germany, the university was built "auf der grünen Wiese" (on the meadows) about 2 miles outside of downtown Dortmund. It consists of two campuses, North and South, which since 1984 have been linked by an automated hanging monorail system, the H-Bahn, that crosses the quaint nature reserve in between the campuses in a height of about 50 feet. One of the most prominent buildings in the university is the Mathetower (Mathematics Tower), which houses the faculty of Mathematics.
[edit] Departments and Faculties
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering (BCE)
- Department of Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
- Department of Spatial Planning
- Department of Civil Engineering/Architecture
- Department of Economics/Business and Industrial Sociology
- Department of Pedagogy and Sociology
- Department of Special Education/Rehabilitation Sciences
- Department of Social Sciences, Philosophy und Theology
- Department of Cultural Studies
- Department of Art- und Sport Sciences
[edit] Student Life
Dortmund University students can use their student ID as semester-long ticket within the VRR public transport network covering more than 3,000 square miles of the Ruhr area megalopolis. The university has a student radio station called eldoradio* which can be listened to also via livestream (link: see below).
[edit] Department of Computer Science
The first point of registration for .de-domains was at the Dortmund University Department of Computer Science.
The first .de-domain (currently the most popular ccTLD in terms of number of registrations) was www.uni-dortmund.de
[edit] Partner Universities
- מכללת בית ברל (Beit Berl College), Doar Beit Berl, Israel
- Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestinian Territories
- Budapesti Mûszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
- Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
- Chungnam National University (충남대학교), Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学), Dalian, People's Republic of China
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
- Hoseo University (호서대학교), Asan, Republic of Korea
- Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
- Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
- National University of Taiwan (國立台灣大學), Taipei, Taiwan
- Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA
- Politechnika Szczecińska, Szczecin, Poland
- Ростовский государственный университет (Rostov State University), Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Sulaimani, Kani Askan, Iraq
- Tohoku University (東北大学), Sendai, Japan
- Tongji University (同济大学), Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- University of Dohuk, Dohuk, Iraq
- University of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon, Philippines
- University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学), Xi'an, People's Republic of China
- Within the Erasmus programme:
- Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
- Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy, Italy
- Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden
- Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Miskolci Egyetem, Miskolc, Hungary
- Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Universiteit Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prague, Czech Republic
- As member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities:
- Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Joensuun Yliopisto, Joensuu, Finland
- Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany, Germany
- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France
- Universiteit Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom
- Within the Network of Euroregional Universities:
- Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany
- Universiteit Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Cooperations with other German universities:
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
- Universität Witten-Herdecke, Witten
- Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
- Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
- Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal
- Technische Universität München, Munich
- Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
- Universität Siegen, Siegen
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
- Universität Kassel, Kassel
- Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
- Universität Rostock, Rostock
- Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
[edit] Honorary doctorates
Former president of Germany, Johannes Rau was awarded an honorary degree from the university in 2004.
