25 years of engineering sciences at the University of Bayreuth

In 1998, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bayreuth (UBT) commenced research and teaching operations and welcomed its first students in October 1998. When the ground-breaking ceremony for the FAN building was held in 1996, the building was designed for eleven chairs in engineering, materials science and environmental science, as well as 250 students in each of the two planned engineering degree programmes in materials science and environmental technology. Today, the faculty has 21 chairs, a further four professorships, seven Bachelor's and 14 Master's degree programmes and around 670 students spread across several buildings on campus. In 1998, the founding fathers also focussed on the interdisciplinarity typical of Bayreuth, the fusion of basic scientific knowledge with applied engineering knowledge. Hence the original name of the faculty: Until 2013, it was called the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences.

From the founding days of the faculty: Dr Bettina Alber-Laukant is now a Senior Academic Councillor and one of the first female students at the ING (bottom right).
Christoph Herpich, Vice President of the Upper Franconian Chamber of Crafts, was a guest at the faculty's ceremony. (top centre between University President Stefan Leible and Dean Stephan Tremmel) )
Prof Dr-Ing Stephan Tremmel, Chair of Engineering Design and CAD and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, welcomed the guests. (bottom left)
All photos (c) Stefan Dörfler

"For 25 years, we have not only been training engineers, but also making an internationally important contribution to research in promising technologies," says Dean Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Tremmel: The Bavarian Centre for Battery Technology is located at the University of Bayreuth, the Centre for Energy Technology is helping to shape the energy transition, and the faculty is researching environmentally friendly production and process technologies, new materials and biomaterials as well as calculation and simulation methods. The President of the University of Bayreuth, Prof. Dr Stefan Leible, emphasises: "This list could go on and on - all fields have one thing in common: they are at the cutting edge and provide answers to the big questions facing society."