Research Field

ArchIDA houses 26 institutes from eight different faculties and covers various research fields, such as Architecture and Urban Planning, Civil- and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering, Aerospace and Engineering Geodesy, Energy, Process and Bio-Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Management, Economics and Social Sciences and Chemistry.

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Architecture and Urban Planning

The focus of the program is on designing as a creative process for solving complex social challenges on the basis of an open discourse on aesthetic concepts, technical innovations and the significance of ecological and economic questions. The development of an integrated understanding of design requires fundamental knowledge and the ability to work in interdisciplinary cooperation, acquired in close connection with research and practice. 

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Civil- and Environmental Engineering

Civil and environmental engineers are in charge of designing both the build and natural environments. Civil and Environmental Engineers use resources and produce durable goods, which have to be operated and maintained over long periods of time, as well as renewed at the end of their life cycle.

Civil Engineering involves important responsibilities and aspects in the technical implementation and the use of the designed and constructed facilities such as human health, environmental impacts, aesthetics, economics of construction and life cycle assessments. Last but not least, Civil and Environmental engineering is characterized by its broad and diverse fields, as well as by its interdisciplinary collaboration with other engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, as well as natural scientists, legal experts, and economists.

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Engineering Design,
Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering consists of the faculties of energy technology, construction and production engineering, process engineering and technical cybernetics. The new structure is the key to a successful competitive environment. The mechanical engineering faculties hold the enormous research and training potential of 40 university institutes. The large number of institutes forms the backbone of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research and future-oriented engineering training at the highest level. The faculty's diversified structure generates strength and innovation to successfully compete with universities and industry.

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Aerospace and Engineering Geodesy

The faculty is in an internationally outstanding position because of the way it connects fundamental aviation technologies, space travel, and geodesy. It is nationally the only aviation and aerospace engineering faculty at a public university; the combination with geodesy is also nationally unique. Its strong focus on teaching fundamental principles, combined with targeted, practice-oriented areas of specialization, creates a distinctive profile that counts as a mark of quality in Stuttgart’s research and industry sectors.

The approximately 2000 students of aerospace engineering and geodesy also learn about the interdisciplinary research areas of aviation technology, aircraft development, propulsion systems, avionics, spacecraft ascent and re-entry, satellite technology, and earth observation. The theses developed in these areas cover a wide range of topics, including mission analysis, flight control, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, material development, structural development, construction design, system development, and the operation and combustion of air-breathing propulsion systems

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Energy, Process and Bio-Engineering

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Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

The departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering cover the entire spectrum of information and communication technologies, with additional emphasis on automation, sustainable energy and electromobility. We are very committed to collaborative research and teaching, and follow a strong interdisciplinary approach.

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Management, Economics and Social Sciences

The faculty's task is to achieve advances in knowledge in the economic and social sciences that take account of this increasing social complexity. In this context, the research activities focus on the University of Stuttgart's central research priorities "Complex Systems and Communication" and "Modelling and Simulation Technology", as well as on the resulting priorities "Mobility" and "Design of Sustainable Habitats", Research objects such as companies, markets, national economies, political and educational organisations as well as sports organisations can be understood as social systems in which people are involved in a communicative way in the form of psychological and biological systems. The description, explanation and target-oriented control of these complex social, psychological and biological systems is the common core of the faculty's research. Depending on the problem, the research activities are carried out in the form of individual research as well as interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborative research.

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Chemistry

In order take the sustainability and environmental compatibility into account the research foci in chemistry have changed during the last years. The enormous importance of chemistry in economy, i.e. energy supply, development of new materials, pharmaceutical research and biotechnology, is unambiguous.

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