Events and offerings for Students

We welcome our international students, including ERASMUS Students with our Welcome Week and Faculty Day.

Welcome Week for International Students

• 5-8 September 2022 (For the detailed program please scroll down on the linked page.)
• 5-11 October 2022 (For the detailed program please scroll down on the linked page.) including Faculty Day on: 6 October 2022, 10 am German time, preliminary program see below

Faculty Day for International Students

On 6 October 2022 we offer you a diverse program to get to know our Faculty and Campus. Kindly note that all detailed information about your (Master´s) study program will take place at another day (see further below).

As the Corona-regulations have been eased, the welcome program will take place in presence on the Southern Campus of the Faculty of Engineering in Erlangen between Egerland street and Cauer street and for those who are not yet in Erlangen partly online as well.

IMPORTANT and MANDATORY for those who will join the events in personal presence:

• Just for our planning: please register for the day in personal presence by one of the following links as soon as possible preferably by 3 October :
  – in case you have already an FAU-IDM-account: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs4072514_join.html
  – in case you do not have an FAU-IDM-account so far: https://www.studon.fau.de/studon_register, Password: WsL8XPqGxV
  (Registration is not needed for online attendance only.)
• Please inform yourself about the current FAU Corona-regulations. You will definitely need:
  – FFP2 mask

Program (local time, CEST):

10-11 am  Welcome and information by the Faculty of Engineering, Cauerstr. 7-9, room H16, Zoom
Presentation Welcome to the Faculty of Engineering

11:15 am -12:15 am  Parallel time slots for the different departments or study programmes:
– Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP): Zoom, link will be sent directly to the students.
– Department Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBI, CEP, CEN) : Cauerstr. 4, room KS I and Zoom
– Department Computer Science  (programs AI, CE): No special event, meanwhile you may join department CBI or EEI.
– Department Computer Science  (programs Computer Science and MT): No special event, meanwhile you may join department MB.
– Department Electrical Engineering (EEI, ASC, ICT, CME): Cauerstr. 7-9, room H15
– Department Mechanical Engineering (ACES, IP, MB, WING, IP): Cauerstr. 7-9, room H16 and  Zoom
– Department Materials Science including Nanotechnology: Zoom only

12:30 am – 1:30 pm   Lunch in the dining hall (Mensa)

1:30-2:30 pm  Campus tour, meeting at the dining hall (Mensa), Virtual campus tour Faculty of Engineering

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm  Get together, meeting on the “red place” (Roter Platz) or in case of rain Foyer of EEI-building

Official welcome from FAU President, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, his colleagues from the Executive Board, and representatives from the cities of Erlangen, Nuremberg, and Fürth.

Details on the German website.

• Soft-skill-Seminars
• Career Start Counseling
• Seminar registration (German)

International Day 2022 – on 08 November 2022

With our second virtual ‘International Day’ we will offer many tips, expert lectures and firsthand information for your stay abroad.

The program will be available here at the end of September.

General information about the stay abroad can be found on the website International or in this presentation (German).

At the Faculty of Engineering we are proud of each and every one of our graduates. Normally twice a year we hold a graduation ceremony in the main lecture building at the south campus, or in summer on the ‘Rote Platz’.

The next graduation ceremony is scheduled to take place on:
Friday, February 3, 2023, 5 p.m.

You will receive the invitation with your graduation documents from the examination office. Registration will be possible in October at the earliest.

If you have any questions, please contact the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Engineering:

Martenstraße 5a, 91058 Erlangen
Tel.: 09131-85-27295
E-Mail: tf-anmeldung@fau.de

The highlight of the ceremony is the moment when the professors of our departments formally hand over congratulatory certificates personally to each of the graduates. The top students are also granted awards from industry.

But there ist more: Entertaining, witty speeches from leading figures from industry and top scientists and motivating performances from well-known artists such as the mentalist Harry Riegel, who regularly astounds millions of listeners with inexplicable experiments on radio, ensure that there is never a dull moment.

The official part of the ceremony is completed by some final words from graduates and the formal speech of the Dean before the more informal celebrations start, with plenty of opportunity to chat, enjoy the live music and have something to eat or drink. We hope that the ceremony is a memorable occasion for our graduates, who are standing at the threshold to their professional careers, and encourages them to remain in touch with our Faculty of Engineering for the rest of their lives.