With more than 2000 students,150 professors and 63 professorships the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University is one of the biggest faculties of mechanical engineering in Europe.
Research at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is on the one hand characterized by concentrating on core areas and on the other by interdisciplinarity.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is involved in eight collaborative research centers at RWTH Aachen University and in three cases provides the spokesperson.