RWTH Aachen Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering

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RWTH Aachen University’s Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering is one of the university’s nine faculties. It has three sections: Raw Materials and Waste Disposal Technology, Metallurgy and Materials Technology, and Geoscience and Geology. The faculty was founded in 1880 and today has about 3,000 students. Degrees are awarded in Geoscience and Geology, Raw Materials and Waste Disposal Technology, and Metallurgy and Materials Technology.

When RWTH Aachen began in 1870 as Königlich Rheinisch Westphälische Polytechnische Schule zu Aachen, it established chairs for mining and metallurgy alongside other engineering fields, and included a chemistry laboratory. In the early 1900s the iron metallurgy chair became a leading technology center. After becoming a technical university, the fourth faculty formed as the Faculty of Mining, Chemistry and Metallurgy. The chemistry department stayed in that faculty until 1940, when it moved to the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The faculty was later renamed Mining, Metallurgy and Geosciences. RWTH Aachen was one of only three German technical universities to include mining and metallurgy, alongside Technische Universität Berlin and Clausthal University of Technology.