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Mint kideAL
Conditions For
students in sCienCe
And enGineerinG
Mathematics, Informatics,
Natural sciences, and Technology
are the four MINT
areas. But MINT stands for
more – it promises stimulating,
future-oriented degree
programs with excellent career
prospects.
Whether developing cleanair
processes as a chemist,
biologist or environmental
engineer, or working on
earthquake-proof buildings
or modern traffic concepts
as a civil engineer, you will
be laying the foundations for
products that make life better,
safer, healthier and more
comfortable.
Study conditions in MINT sub-
jects are ideal: small groups,
highly motivated professors,
and exciting research projects
in which students can
also participate. Professional
prospects are excellent, with
almost every other company
in Germany looking for qualified
scientists and engineers.
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bACHeLor’s ProGrAM
in enGineerinG WitH
FACHHoCHsCHuLreiFe
Civil engineering, printing and
media engineering, electrical
engineering, mechanical
engineering, safety engineering,
and IT can all be studied
at UW with admission qualifications
for a University of Applied
Science. This is possible
thanks to a special course at
the Technical Academy Wuppertal
(TAW) which prepares
candidates for an examination
in mathematics, physics and
English. once successfully
past this hurdle, they can apply
for a place at UW.
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with Fachhochschulreife
stArtinG your studies –
don’t PAniC
Each winter semester at
UW starts with a ‘Welcome
Week’ to introduce UW freshers
to the university. After a
welcoming address by the
Rector, Prof. Dr. Lambert T.
Koch, the new students will,
in the course of the week,
get to know their own faculties
and departments as well
as the central organizational
units such as the library or information
and media center.
Help is also provided with the
complex task of working out
a personal course schedule,
and practical tips are offered
by students for students
about studying and living in
Wuppertal.
kWelcome Week brochure
available from September at
www.uni-wuppertal.de
doubLe sCHooL-
LeAVer yeArs
Due to the nationwide reduction
of time spent at high
school from 9 to 8 years, NRW
will face a double year of university
entrants in 2013. UW
looks forward to this and has
been taking steps for some
years to provide excellent conditions
for a larger number of
students.
Construction of a new lecture
hall center and other additions
to the premises has ensured
that students will have sufficient
room, and additional
places have been created on
both restricted entry and nonrestricted
degree programs.
Further professorships and
other teaching posts have been
established in many areas
so that students throughout
the university will have adequate
access to both teaching
and consultation.
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k Starting your studies
miCroCompUter from WUppertal
In distant California
Steve Jobs had just
brought out the Apple II, and
we were coming up to our
Abitur, the High School leaving
exam. It was 1977, and
we soon set about building
our first computer. Electrical
engineering was not yet an
area one could study at university
here, so we were left
to gather what knowledge we
could by dismantling radios,
TV sets and tape recorders,
and reading whatever manual
or textbook from the USA
we could get our hands on.
our first UW trained electrical
engineer came to us in 1986,
almost ten years after we had
started our company, Wiesemann
& Theis.
The help available today is far
more effective than it was
in the 70s, but the tasks are
a good deal more complex,
too. The people we take on in
our R&D department as a rule
have an engineering degree
behind them. But we have
also learned to put together
our own knowledge, and we
employ non-graduates alongside
graduates with great
success.
Take our microcomputer, for
example, which serves in the
widest sense as an interface
between two standard ports
or input-output terminals. In
its development we continuously
had to assimilate the
latest changes in computer
technology. We learned, and
are still learning, every day.
However much life is dicta-
ted by deadlines, we at W&T
believe that excellence takes
time. Mental processes of
learning, discovering and inventing
are a matter of loving
your work and giving yourself
to it, and that can only grow
with time.
Which is why we offer school
students a double opportunity:
our own DIY club, which
is open to all, and UW’s
Bergisch Schools Science
and Technology Program
(BeST), where budding young
engineers can concentrate
on a task and have the time
and facilities to bring it to a
conclusion. If you are still
looking for such a task, we
recommend that you come to
School Leavers‘ Day, another
event organized by UW, where
upper school students can
meet experts from the university
as well as from the world
of business and industry.
Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Theis
Wiesemann & Theis GmbH
Porschestr. 12
42279 Wuppertal
Tel. +49 (0)202 2680-0
E-mail info@wut.de
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