Author: Dirk Riehle

Most of our courses are graded following a simple pattern as described below. (If a link from a module description in UnivIS led you to this page then that module will be graded according to these rules.) Most courses require contributions in class as well as work outside of class (self-study...

Category: 3.1 Teaching Information

Nailing your Thesis (NYT) is our research lab course, where we teach what science is, how to perform research, and how to publish it. Below, please find the overview course syllabus. Part I: Introduction Introduction Research Example Paper Example Research Questions Homework Sched...

Category: 3.3.B NYT

FAU's TechFak ranks in the top three of German engineering schools and falls into the 101-150 bracket world-wide. From: FAU News, http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/meldungen/web/2012/36.shtml Die FAU gehört in Deutschland zu den Top 3 Universitäten im Bereich Ingenieurswissenschaften, Tec...

Category: 7.2 Faculty

Within my short time of being a professor at a German engineering university, I've raked up quite a number of requests from folks to become an "external Ph.D. student" of mine. In the German system, this is someone who is enrolled in the Ph.D. program but not funded by the university, i.e. is self-s...