The international Master's degree course in Computational Engineering has been offered at the faculty since 2000 - with great and still growing success and interest on the part of prospective students from all over the world. Now there was a change in the course direction.

With a focus on computer-aided mechanics and numerical simulations and its own coordination team within the faculty, the Master's course has been playing a pioneering role both in terms of subject and organization. It has served a role model for other international degree courses - both within the faculty (e.g. Sub Surface Engineering) and outside of it at the RUB. With the establishment of a sister course at the then newly founded Vietnamese German University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2009) and a series of unforgettable, multi-day excursions to Berlin and Hamburg, last Wednesday, 15th January 2025 marked another milestone in the history of the course: Due to his retirement, the long-time course director Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Hackl and former holder of the 'Chair of Mechanics - Materials Theory' handed over the course direction into the hands of his successor Prof.'in Dr.- Ing. Johanna Waimann. We are delighted to welcome her as the new “CompEng boss” with immediate effect!