RWTH
Institute for Man-Machine Interaction (MMI)
RWTH Aachen University, established in 1870, is divided into 9 faculties. Approximately 35,831 students are enrolled in 126 courses of study. The number of foreign students (5,000) substantiates the university’s international orientation. Every year about 5,000 graduates and doctoral graduates leave the university. Approximately 480 professors as well as 4492 academic and 2346 non-academic colleagues work at RWTH. The university budget amounts to 748 million Euros of which about 314 million Euros are thirdparty expenditures. Moreover, special fields of research, 20 graduate colleges, among them 9 founded by the German Research Foundation, 16 affiliated institutes with strong industrial alignment illustrate the university’s considerable research potential. The Institute for Man-Machine Interaction (MMI) belongs to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and was founded in 2006 by its head Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Rossmann.