Project Details
Projekt
GSC 81: International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE)
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24184165
Technische Universität München (TUM) has demonstrated its commitment to a structured graduate education according to international standards at an early stage by introducing eleven predominantly multidisciplinary English language Master's courses in science and engineering.
These highly successful programmes have been, or will be supplemented in the near future by thematic Research Training Groups financed through the university's own budget, from government, foundations and private third-party sponsors.
The motivational idea behind the TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) is to better bridge the gap between the intellectual and operational cultures of science and engineering. Accordingly, interdisciplinary research projects will be given priority support and the accompanying training programme aligned with this objective. The graduate school will also implement structural measures for the creation of future international Master's programmes and Research Training Groups.
Along with its commitment to scientific excellence, IGSSE is dedicated to the broadening of its transdisciplinary horizons, as well as the cultivation of entrepreneurship and scientific risk taking.
Within the framework of a modern technical university, teaching content will be integrated which encourages intellectual, cultural and socio-scientific considerations. Young scientists and engineers will thereby not only be encouraged to develop the results of their scientific competence into marketable products. On the contrary, the generation of researchers who graduate from IGSSE will be trained to generate added value for society from their wealth of ideas be it in industry, academia or other areas of professional life.
Special emphasis will be placed on international cooperation, including a mandatory research term of at least three months for each member at a collaborating institution abroad. IGSSE not only wants to address young scientists with full-time research projects typically lasting three years, but also researchers in their first professional positions as university research assistants, who usually gain their doctorate within the space of four to five years.
Particular importance is attached to gender mainstreaming and family-friendly measures across IGSSE. Besides the sponsoring from the Excellence Initiative, IGSSE can also count on firm support from industry, foundations and private donations, thus providing extra funds for PhD research fellowships.
These highly successful programmes have been, or will be supplemented in the near future by thematic Research Training Groups financed through the university's own budget, from government, foundations and private third-party sponsors.
The motivational idea behind the TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) is to better bridge the gap between the intellectual and operational cultures of science and engineering. Accordingly, interdisciplinary research projects will be given priority support and the accompanying training programme aligned with this objective. The graduate school will also implement structural measures for the creation of future international Master's programmes and Research Training Groups.
Along with its commitment to scientific excellence, IGSSE is dedicated to the broadening of its transdisciplinary horizons, as well as the cultivation of entrepreneurship and scientific risk taking.
Within the framework of a modern technical university, teaching content will be integrated which encourages intellectual, cultural and socio-scientific considerations. Young scientists and engineers will thereby not only be encouraged to develop the results of their scientific competence into marketable products. On the contrary, the generation of researchers who graduate from IGSSE will be trained to generate added value for society from their wealth of ideas be it in industry, academia or other areas of professional life.
Special emphasis will be placed on international cooperation, including a mandatory research term of at least three months for each member at a collaborating institution abroad. IGSSE not only wants to address young scientists with full-time research projects typically lasting three years, but also researchers in their first professional positions as university research assistants, who usually gain their doctorate within the space of four to five years.
Particular importance is attached to gender mainstreaming and family-friendly measures across IGSSE. Besides the sponsoring from the Excellence Initiative, IGSSE can also count on firm support from industry, foundations and private donations, thus providing extra funds for PhD research fellowships.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Spokespersons
Professor Dr. Ernst Rank, from 11/2006 until 12/2016; Professorin Dr. Barbara Wohlmuth
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Richard Bamler; Professor Dr. Andreas Bausch; Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Bletzinger; Professor Dr. Johannes Buchner; Professor Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz; Professor Dr. Rainer Burgkart; Professor Dr. Hendrik Dietz; Professor Dr. Jonathan J. Finley; Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael W. Gee; Professor Dr. Jürgen Geist; Professor Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann; Professorin Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Gerhard Kramer; Professorin Dr. Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser; Professor Dr. Paolo Lugli; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Liqiu Meng; Professorin Dr. Annette Menzel; Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Rutschmann; Professorin Dr. Miriam Schulte; Professor Dr. Markus Schwaiger; Professorin Dr. Tina Seidel; Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang A. Wall; Professor Dr.-Ing. Dirk Weuster-Botz
