Universities
Bild: UniversitiesAcademically educated personnel are employed in all micro and nanotechnology sector companies. Whether the companies are at the research and development stage or are already involved in serial production: engineers and highly qualified specialists are employed in most of the key positions.
The demand for academically qualified experts in micro and nanotechnology will continue to be high in future. This leads to good prospects for those university graduates who qualified in pure micro and nanotechnology subjects. Numerous graduates from technical or scientific courses of study thus also gain access to this cross-sectional sector.
One of the characteristics of micro and nanotechnology is the multitude of existing regional links between universities and companies. That is why companies often employ student assistants and interns in order to get the new generation interested in their company and to achieve closer ties. Joint research projects also increase the level of networking between universities and companies. Contacts made in this way open up good chances for graduates to gain a foothold in companies.
At the location of Dortmund there is a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses at the Dortmund University of Technology and the University of Applied Science which have close links to micro and nanotechnology. Above all the electrotechnology courses at both universities have major course components in the field of micro and nanotechnology. There is an overview of this in the infobox.
