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Successful Starting Event of the Network "Polymers in East Westpahlia-Lippe" Concerning the Role of the Universities between Industry and Economics
The Department of Polymer Engineering is the initiator of the network "Polymers in East Westpahlia-Lippe". On March 19th the starting event of the annual program took place. There were about 50 participants from the region East Westphalia-Lippe and the hosts were Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Moritzer and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner.
A student who decides to start a career in the field of engineering will leave the university with a bachelor or master degree. "The previous diploma degree was a blockbuster but will soon be part of the past", says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Moritzer, director of the department at the University of Paderborn. From this result a lot of diverse perspectives and challenges for all the lecturers and professors.
The Bologna process has a great impact not only on the KTP employees. They hope that most students continue the master career after their bachelor. "Then the students are well equipped to see beyond their own nose and are concentrating not only on the know-how of enterprises", said Moritzer.
The conference participants, international representatives and medium-sized and small company entrepreneurs from the region consider this as quite ambivalent: "Graduates who enter industry with a bachelor degree can earn a sufficient amount of money quite early. Under favourable conditions this can be as much as with a master degree, so why continue a university career?" opened Dr. Ronald Märtins of the MöllerTech GmbH from Bielefeld the discussion.
That the close cooperation between the university and the economy has a lot of advantages, is an issue of agreement on both sides. "We wish companies will open their doors for excursions and factory tours and we were able to improve our equipment because of the cooperation", informed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Barth of Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo. Above all, due to the cooperation with regional companies such as Phoenix-Contact or Weidmüller it is possible to offer interesting topics for final papers to the students and to strengthen the practical acquisition. "This calls for patience because we cannot create our perfect suitable graduate", concerning Barth.
Besides the topic of training, the presentations were about industrial production, which is done mainly by the KTP. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner explained different models, which can be taken into consideration concerning the cooperation between industry and university: for example, filling in an application of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMFB); or the public dead-financed bilateral collaboration or the individual order trend concerning concrete solutions for problems. "If the initiative is started by the industry and it is a long-term topical cooperation, for which we employ a scientific employee, the initiator gets the most profitable result. The more intensive and individual the cooperation, the more funds are needed", said Schöppner.
Annette Förster, manageress of the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Paderborn in contrast showed variants for different funding possibilites: "Our vision and that of the Düsseldorf Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Mittelstand und Energie is that North Rhine-Westphalia shall be the innovation country number one: this aim is quite clear. We focus on the increase of the economic growth and the innovation capability, particularly in middle-class economy. This safeguards and provides jobs."
A student who decides to start a career in the field of engineering will leave the university with a bachelor or master degree. "The previous diploma degree was a blockbuster but will soon be part of the past", says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Moritzer, director of the department at the University of Paderborn. From this result a lot of diverse perspectives and challenges for all the lecturers and professors.
The Bologna process has a great impact not only on the KTP employees. They hope that most students continue the master career after their bachelor. "Then the students are well equipped to see beyond their own nose and are concentrating not only on the know-how of enterprises", said Moritzer.
The conference participants, international representatives and medium-sized and small company entrepreneurs from the region consider this as quite ambivalent: "Graduates who enter industry with a bachelor degree can earn a sufficient amount of money quite early. Under favourable conditions this can be as much as with a master degree, so why continue a university career?" opened Dr. Ronald Märtins of the MöllerTech GmbH from Bielefeld the discussion.
That the close cooperation between the university and the economy has a lot of advantages, is an issue of agreement on both sides. "We wish companies will open their doors for excursions and factory tours and we were able to improve our equipment because of the cooperation", informed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Barth of Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo. Above all, due to the cooperation with regional companies such as Phoenix-Contact or Weidmüller it is possible to offer interesting topics for final papers to the students and to strengthen the practical acquisition. "This calls for patience because we cannot create our perfect suitable graduate", concerning Barth.
Besides the topic of training, the presentations were about industrial production, which is done mainly by the KTP. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner explained different models, which can be taken into consideration concerning the cooperation between industry and university: for example, filling in an application of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMFB); or the public dead-financed bilateral collaboration or the individual order trend concerning concrete solutions for problems. "If the initiative is started by the industry and it is a long-term topical cooperation, for which we employ a scientific employee, the initiator gets the most profitable result. The more intensive and individual the cooperation, the more funds are needed", said Schöppner.
Annette Förster, manageress of the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Paderborn in contrast showed variants for different funding possibilites: "Our vision and that of the Düsseldorf Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Mittelstand und Energie is that North Rhine-Westphalia shall be the innovation country number one: this aim is quite clear. We focus on the increase of the economic growth and the innovation capability, particularly in middle-class economy. This safeguards and provides jobs."
