RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University, whose formal German name is Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, is a public research university in the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1870 as the first Prussian technical university and ranked 104th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.0亚琛工业大学（RWTH Aachen University，德文全称 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen）是位于德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州亚琛市的公立研究型大学，1870 年作为普鲁士第一所技术大学创办，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第一百零四名，总分 68.0 分。

It teaches 44,382 students in the winter term of 2025/26, of whom 15,811 are international students from 141 countries, and it is one of eleven German universities of excellence, holding three excellence clusters under its current funding round学校 2025/26 冬季学期在校生 44,382 人，其中 15,811 名国际学生来自 141 个国家；它是德国十一所卓越大学之一，在当前资助周期内拥有三个卓越集群。

The university's motto, Mens agitat molem, meaning that the mind moves the mass, is carved on a stone in its chemistry laboratory, and five Nobel laureates are connected with it, four of them as professors学校校训「Mens agitat molem」（心灵推动物质）镌刻在其化学实验室的一块石头上；与该校相关的诺贝尔奖得主共有五位，其中四位以教授身份任职于此。

History

• The Aachener Verein zur Beförderung der Arbeitsamkeit, the society that became the university's chief source of money and ideas, was founded in 1825, and on 25 January 1858 the Prussian prince Frederick William, later the German emperor, received 5,000 thalers from the Aachen and Munich Fire Insurance Company and decided in March to spend it on the first Prussian technical university in the Rhine Province亚琛促进勤劳协会成立于 1825 年，是学校主要的资金与理念来源；1858 年 1 月 25 日，普鲁士亲王腓特烈·威廉（后来的德皇）收到亚琛慕尼黑火灾保险公司捐赠的 5,000 塔勒，并于 3 月决定以此款在莱茵省创办第一所普鲁士技术大学。

• Aachen, Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Koblenz competed for the new institution, and its supporters included the politicians Friedrich von Kühlwetter and Leopold Scheibler as well as the industrialists Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann, Johann Friedrich Pastor and Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever, who ran the Rhenania chemical works at Stolberg亚琛、科隆、波昂、杜塞尔多夫与科布伦茨为新校选址展开竞争；学校推动者中既有 Friedrich von Kühlwetter 与 Leopold Scheibler 等政界人物，也有实业家 Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann、Johann Friedrich Pastor 与斯托尔贝格的 Rhenania 化工厂厂长 Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever。

• The site was fixed at Aachen by an agreement signed by the king on 14 November 1863, the foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1865, and the school opened on 10 October 1870, in the opening months of the Franco-Prussian War, with 201 students and lecturers enrolled in the academic year 1870/711863 年 11 月 14 日国王签署协议，正式将校址定在亚琛；1865 年 5 月 15 日奠基石安放；1870 年 10 月 10 日正值普法战争爆发之际学校开学，1870/71 学年共有 201 名学生与旁听生注册。

• Its statutory name in 1870 was the Königliche Rheinisch-Westphälische Polytechnische Schule zu Aachen, its statutes were modelled on those of the Vienna Polytechnic, and it opened with nine departments, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, pharmacy, civil engineering, surveying, mechanical engineering and metallurgy, with mining and electrical engineering added later, under its first director August von Kaven1870 年学校的法定名称为「Königliche Rheinisch-Westphälische Polytechnische Schule zu Aachen」，章程仿照维也纳理工学校，开设数学、物理、化学、生物、药学、土木工程、测量、机械工程与冶金九个系，采矿与电气工程随后增设；首任馆长为奥古斯特·冯·卡文。

• The school was the first in Germany to make electrical telegraphy a regular subject in 1875, and in 1879 it had 46 professors, lecturers and assistants serving 605 students1875 年，学校成为德国第一所把「电讯」列为常规科目的技术学校；1879 年，学校拥有 46 名教授、讲师与助教，服务于 605 名学生。

• In 1880 it was renamed a Technische Hochschule, adopted the office of rector and gained the right to grant habilitation, and in 1899, at the centenary of the Berlin Technische Hochschule, Kaiser Wilhelm II conferred on the Prussian technical colleges the independent right to award the doctorate in engineering, the machine tool laboratory being established that year with Hugo Junkers as its first director1880 年学校更名为 Technische Hochschule，设立校长制并取得授予habilitation 资格的权力；1899 年柏林技术大学百年庆典上，威廉二世皇帝授予普鲁士技术高等学校独立授予工程博士学位的权力，同年设立机床实验室，由胡戈·容克斯出任首任主任。

• The first Prussian regulation on doctoral degrees took effect in 1902, introducing the Diplom-Ingenieur degree, and the first two women entered in the winter term of 1909/10首部普鲁士博士学位条例于 1902 年生效，Dipl.-Ing. 学位由此引入；1909/10 冬季学期，首批两名女生入学。

• From 1933 the university was subjected to the Gleichschaltung of Nazi Germany, with Jewish and those regarded as communist professors systematically persecuted and driven out from September 1933 and students affected from 1937, and vacant chairs being filled largely by members or sympathisers of the National Socialist party, though the resistance of staff and students was relatively weak自 1933 年起学校遭到纳粹德国的一体化改造，犹太教授与被视为共产主义者的教授自 1933 年 9 月起遭系统性迫害并被逐出，学生则自 1937 年起受到波及，空缺讲席多由纳粹党党员或同情者填补；不过师生的反抗相对微弱。

• Classes were suspended for about a year during the Second World War because the city lay close to the Dutch and Belgian frontier, and on 21 October 1944 Aachen surrendered with more than seventy per cent of the university buildings destroyed or severely damaged因城市邻近荷兰与比利时边境，学校在二战期间停课约一年；1944 年 10 月 21 日亚琛投降时，校舍七成以上被毁或严重受损。

• Teaching resumed in January 1946 with some 250 students, an Essen branch was established the same year and a Wuppertal branch in 1948, and during the 1950s professors dismissed for their association with the Nazi regime returned in large numbers and numerous new institutes were founded学校于 1946 年 1 月复课，约 250 名学生返校，同年设立埃森分部，1948 年设立伍珀塔尔分部；二十世纪五十年代，因纳粹关联被解职的教授大批返校，学校新设大量研究所。

• The site grew from 33,000 square metres before the war to 88,000 square metres in the early 1960s, when the university became Germany's largest technical university with more than ten thousand students, electrical engineering separated from mechanical engineering in 1961, and a faculty of arts and humanities was founded in 1965 and a faculty of medicine in 1966, turning a purely technical school into a comprehensive university校地面积从战前的 33,000 平方米扩展到二十世纪六十年代初的 88,000 平方米；1961 年电气工程自机械工程中独立，1965 年设立人文学院、1966 年设立医学院，学校由此从纯粹的技术院校转变为综合性大学。

• A former Schutzstaffel officer, Hans Schwerte, was elected president in 1970, and his Nazi past was made public only in 1995 by the university's own historians, and in 1984 Aachen opened AGIT, the first technology transfer centre in Europe前党卫队军官汉斯·施韦尔特于 1970 年当选校长，其纳粹背景直到 1995 年才由学校自己的校史学者公开揭露；1984 年，亚琛开办 AGIT，是欧洲首家技术转移中心。

• The university was selected as one of nine German universities of excellence on 19 October 2007 under the concept RWTH 2020 Meeting Global Challenges, receiving 180 million euros over 2007 to 2011, and it was selected again in the second round of 2012 and in the third round of 2019 with the concept Knowledge, Impact, Networks, when third-party funding reached 427 million euros, the highest of any German university2007 年 10 月 19 日，学校以「RWTH 2020：Meeting Global Challenges」为未来概念入选九所德国卓越大学之列，2007 至 2011 年共获 1.8 亿欧元资助；2012 年第二轮与 2019 年第三轮（概念为「Knowledge, Impact, Networks」）再次入选，2019 年第三方资金达 4.27 亿欧元，居德国高校之首。

• Under its current funding round it holds three clusters of excellence, CARE for climate-neutral and resource-efficient construction, the integrated fuel and chemical science centre, and Matter and Light for Quantum Computing, the last run with the University of Cologne as coordinating institution together with the University of Bonn and the Jülich research centre在当前资助周期内，学校拥有三个卓越集群：聚焦气候中和与资源高效建造的 CARE、综合燃料与化学科学中心，以及 Matter and Light for Quantum Computing，后者由科隆大学作为协调单位，与波恩大学及于利希研究中心共建。

Academics

• The university is organised into ten faculties, namely mathematics and natural sciences, architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, georesources and materials engineering, electrical engineering and information technology, arts and humanities, business and economics, computer science and medicine, with the faculty of computer science rebuilt in 2025 after having been abolished in 1989学校下设十个学院，即数学与自然科学、建筑、土木工程、机械工程、地球资源与材料工程、电气工程与信息技术、人文、商业与经济、计算机科学与医学；其中计算机科学学院曾于 1989 年撤销，2025 年重建。

• As of 1 December 2025 it counted 570 professors and 260 institutes, with 6,205 further academic staff including external appointments, 2,943 non-academic staff and 419 trainees截至 2025 年 12 月 1 日，学校拥有 570 名教授与 260 个研究所，另有含外聘在内的其他学术人员 6,205 人、非学术人员 2,943 人与培训人员 419 人。

• In the winter term of 2025/26 it taught 44,382 students, including 15,811 international students from 141 countries, took in 5,699 students in its first bachelor's cohort and 2,941 in its first master's cohort, and graduated 7,458 students across the 2025 academic year2025/26 冬季学期学校在校生 44,382 人，其中国际学生 15,811 人、来自 141 个国家；首届本科新生 5,699 人、首届硕士新生 2,941 人，2025 学年共毕业 7,458 人。

• Its 2025 budget totals 1.264 billion euros of which 523 million comes from external sources, and its research structure comprises fourteen collaborative research centres, of which seven it leads, and thirty-four research training programmes including ten funded by the German Research Foundation学校 2025 年总预算为 12.64 亿欧元，其中外部资金 5.23 亿欧元；科研结构包括十四个协同研究中心（其中七个由学校牵头）与三十四个博士培养项目（含十个由德国研究基金会资助）。

• In the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of Academic Universities it was ranked across thirty-two subjects, its best being medical technology at forty-eighth, followed by energy science and engineering and metallurgical engineering in the fifty-one to seventy-five band and mechanical engineering in the seventy-six to one-hundred band在软科 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，学校共有三十二个学科上榜，最佳为医学技术的全球第四十八位，其次是能源科学与工程、冶金工程的第五十一至七十五位，以及机械工程的第七十六至一百位。

• The Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, founded in 2007 with the Jülich research centre, comprises five divisions covering brain, fitness, high-performance computing, energy and fusion, and the AICES graduate school, established under the first excellence programme, has forty-seven principal investigators drawn from eight academic departments and works with the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research学校与于利希研究中心于 2007 年共同组建的 JARA 联合研究联盟下设五个分部，涵盖脑科学、健体、高性能计算、能源与聚变；卓越计划第一条线设立的研究生院 AICES 拥有 47 位首席研究员，跨八个学术部门，并与马克斯·普朗克铁研究所合作。

• It belongs to the TU9, IDEA League, ALMA, CESAER of which it is a founding member, the TIME association for top industrial managers and the EuroTech Universities Alliance, and it charges the tuition fees permitted by state law from the summer term of 2004 until the state of North Rhine-Westphalia abolished them in 2011, replacing the lost income with 19 million euros学校是 TU9、IDEA League、ALMA、CESAER（创始成员）、TIME 顶级工业经理人协会与欧洲科技大学联盟成员；学校自 2004 年夏季学期起依州法收取学费，直至 2011 年冬季学期北威州废除该项收费，并以 1,900 万欧元弥补原有的学费收入。

• The semester contribution fee was 303.49 euros in the summer term of 2024, made up of a social fee of 108 euros, a students' union contribution of 13.18 euros and a transport charge of 182.31 euros covering the German semester ticket and the Arriva service to Sønderborg in southern Jutland2024 年夏季学期的学期缴费为 303.49 欧元，其中包括学联社会费 108 欧元、学生会费 13.18 欧元，以及覆盖德国学期交通票与 Arriva 开往南日德兰森讷堡线路的交通费 182.31 欧元。

• It is one of the very few universities in Europe that kept the old title Technische Hochschule together with the right to award doctorates and habilitations, a distinction now shared only with the ETH Zurich in the German-speaking world在欧洲，能保留 Technische Hochschule 旧称并同时保有博士学位与habilitation授予权的大学寥寥无几；在德语区，如今只有苏黎世联邦理工与它共享这一称号。

• Its strength is mechanical engineering, which the QS subject tables placed first in Germany, eighth in Europe and twenty-third in the world in 2025, while chemical engineering ranked first in Germany in the 2022 Shanghai Ranking and the Times Higher Education placed it thirty-sixth worldwide in engineering in 2025学校的优势是机械工程，QS 2025 年学科榜将其列为德国第一、欧洲第八、世界第二十三；化学工程在软科 2022 年排名中居德国第一，泰晤士高等教育 2025 年亦将学校工程学科列全球第三十六位。

Campus

• The main campus lies in the centre of Aachen at Templergraben, with the main building, the SuperC student centre and the Käärm hall about five hundred metres from the city centre and the Audimax and main dining hall a further two hundred metres inward主校区位于亚琛市中心 Templergraben 一带，主楼、SuperC 学生服务中心与 Käärm 厅距市中心约五百米，Audimax 与主食堂再向内约二百米。

• The university has two core areas, the city centre and the Melaten district, together with Campus West, and covers 620 acres, or 250 hectares学校有市中心与 Melaten 区两大核心区，另有 Campus West，占地 620 英亩，合 250 公顷。

• The CARL, the Central Auditorium for Research and Learning, opened in 2017 and holds 4,000 students, replacing the Audimax as the largest lecture hall on the campus, and its name commemorates Charlemagne, who made Aachen an imperial capital中央报告厅 CARL 于 2017 年开放，可容纳 4,000 名学生，取代 Audimax 成为校内最大的报告厅；其名称纪念曾以亚琛为帝国都城的查理曼。

• The SuperC student service centre opened in 2008, and the RWTH Aachen Campus research park at Melaten and Campus West has 800,000 square metres of developable land, sixteen thematic research clusters of which seven are complete, and 455 companiesSuperC 学生服务中心于 2008 年开放；位于 Melaten 与 Campus West 的亚琛研究园区有 80 万平方米可开发面积，建有十六个主题研究集群（其中七个已建成），入驻企业 455 家。

• The university hospital, the Universitätsklinikum Aachen, is described as the largest hospital building in Europe, and a teaching reactor of 0.1 watt thermal power went into operation at Burtscheid on 22 September 1965, was shut down in 2002 and decommissioned in 2008亚琛大学医院被称为欧洲最大的医院建筑；1965 年 9 月 22 日，一座热功率 0.1 瓦的教学用核反应堆在 Burtscheid 投运，2002 年停堆、2008 年退役。

• It runs a branch in Essen established in 1946, has research facilities at Jülich, holds property in the Austrian Kleinwalsertal jointly with the University of Stuttgart, and signed an agreement in December 2006 to build a private German university in Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman学校运营着 1946 年设立的埃森分部，在于利希设有研究设施，与斯图加特大学共有奥地利小瓦尔察尔的房产，并于 2006 年 12 月签约在阿曼马斯喀特共建一所私立德国工业大学。

• The seminar fee history includes the introduction of tuition of up to 500 euros per term from 2004, made universal for new students from the winter term of 2006/07 and for all students from the summer term of 2007, before the state abolished it in 2011学校学费沿革包括：自 2004 年起每学期最高收取 500 欧元，2006/07 冬季学期起对全体新生征收、2007 年夏季学期起对全体学生征收，直至 2011 年由州政府废除。

• The main campus is within walking distance of the city centre, and the Melaten district is home to a cluster of Fraunhofer institutes, including the Institute for Laser Technology, the Institute for Production Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology主校区步行可达市中心；Melaten 区则是弗劳恩霍夫研究所群的所在地，包括激光技术研究所、生产技术研究所与弗劳恩霍夫应用信息技术研究所等。

Reputation

• The university placed 104th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.0, having ranked 99th in 2025 and 105th in 2026, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2027 placed it 90th in the world with an overall score of 67.7 and a perfect industry income score of 100.0学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列全球第一百零四名，总分 68.0 分，此前 2025 年为第九十九位、2026 年为第一百零五位；在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中列全球第九十位，总分 67.7 分，其中产业收入项获满分 100.0。

• Shanghai Ranking placed it in the 201 to 300 band in 2026, and the Times Higher Education placed its engineering subject thirty-sixth in the world in 2025, while the QS subject tables put mechanical engineering first in Germany and twenty-third in the world软科 2026 年排名将学校列入全球第二百零一至三百区间；泰晤士高等教育 2025 年将其工程学科列全球第三十六位；QS 学科榜则将机械工程列为德国第一、世界第二十三。

• According to OpenAlex, scholars affiliated with the university have published more than 222,000 works that have attracted over 20 million citations.据 OpenAlex 数据，与亚琛工业大学相关的学者已发表成果逾 22.2 万篇，累计被引超过 2,000 万次。

• Philipp Lenard shared the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics, Wilhelm Wien the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics and Johannes Stark the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics as professors of the university, Karl Ziegler shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a professor, and Peter Debye, who took his degree in electrical engineering here, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry作为学校教授，菲利普·勒纳德分享了 1905 年诺贝尔物理学奖，威尔海姆·维恩分享 1911 年诺贝尔物理学奖，约翰内斯·施塔克分享 1919 年诺贝尔物理学奖，卡尔·齐格勒以教授身份分享 1963 年诺贝尔化学奖；而在此取得电气工程学位的彼得·德拜则分享了 1936 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Its German standing is longstanding, with the newspapers Wirtschaftswoche and Handelsblatt long placing it among the top three in the country for mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering and computer science, and in 2009 both papers ranked it first in Germany in mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering and computer science学校在德国国内地位由来已久，《经济周刊》与《商报》长期将其机械、电气与工业工程及计算机科学列入德国前三；2009 年两家报纸均将学校在机械、电气与工业工程及计算机科学四科列为德国第一。

• It has been selected for the German universities of excellence programme in 2007, 2012 and 2019, and its third-round award of 427 million euros in third-party funding in 2019 was the largest of any university in Germany学校于 2007 年、2012 年与 2019 年三次入选德国卓越大学计划，2019 年第三轮获批的 4.27 亿欧元第三方资金为德国各高校之最。

• Its graduates are prominent in industry leadership, with the university ranking second in 2018 and first among German institutions in 2019 by the number of graduates sitting on the boards of DAX companies, and its engineering graduates are recruited each year at a career fair in Aachen that draws more than five thousand students学校毕业生在产业界担任要职的比例突出：2018 年与 2019 年，学校按校友在 DAX 企业董事会任职人数计算，分别位居德国高校第二与第一；每年在亚琛举办的招聘会吸引五千余名学生，工程专业毕业生多在此时被企业招募。

• It is a member of the TU9 association of Germany's nine leading technical universities, was a founding member of CESAER and is a member of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, and it was the first German technical university to be founded under Prussian rule in 1870学校是德国九所顶尖工业大学组成的 TU9 联盟成员、CESAER 创始成员与欧洲科技大学联盟成员；它也是普鲁士统治时期德国创办的第一所技术大学，始建于 1870 年。

• Within Germany the economics newspapers Wirtschaftswoche and Handelsblatt have long placed it among the leading universities for mechanical and electrical engineering, and the university's own figures record external funding of 523 million euros in 2025 against a total budget of 1.264 billion在德国国内，《经济周刊》与《商报》长期将学校列为机械与电气工程领域的顶尖大学；学校自身数据显示，2025 年外部资金达 5.23 亿欧元，而同期总预算为 12.64 亿欧元。

• Its three current clusters of excellence sit in climate-neutral construction, integrated fuel and chemical science and quantum computing, and the university describes its three research priorities as Energy, Earth and Materials, Life and Medicine, and Digital, each with a professorship devoted to it学校当前三个卓越集群分别聚焦气候中和建造、综合燃料与化学科学以及量子计算；学校将三大研究重点表述为能源、地球与材料，生命与医学，以及数字化，并为每一重点设置专门讲席。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Latin Mens agitat molem, translated as the mind moves the mass, which was printed in its prospectus of 1871 and is carved on a stone in the chemistry laboratory学校校训为拉丁语「Mens agitat molem」，意为「心灵推动物质」，该句印在 1871 年的招生简章上，并镌刻于化学实验室的一块石头。

• The university has no official song and no fixed foundation day, though it has marked round anniversaries such as its hundred and fiftieth years, and it operates no British-style college system, the faculty student associations being organised instead as eighteen Fachschaften while Aachen as a whole has more than thirty-five student associations学校没有正式校歌，也没有固定的校庆日，尽管曾举办一百五十周年等纪念活动；学校不设英式学院制，院系学生组织以十八个 Fachschaften 的形式存在，而亚琛全市则有三十五个以上学生联谊会。

• Every November the university's film society screens Feuerzangenbowle in several halls for an audience of about six thousand, with public and private banquets held on the day, and the annual Lousberglauf sends students running a circuit of some 5,555 metres around the Lousberg hill每年十一月，学校电影社在多个礼堂放映《Feuerzangenbowle》，观众约六千人，当天还会举行公开与私人宴会；年度的 Lousberglauf 跑步则绕 Lousberg 山约 5,555 米一周。

• The ice hockey university cup for the faculties of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and medicine dates from 1988, and the bonding career fair, at which more than five thousand students attend each year, began in 1987面向机械、电气与医学院系的冰球大学锦标赛始办于 1988 年；而每年吸引五千余名学生的 bonding 企业招聘会则始于 1987 年。

• Students run several competition teams, including the Team Sonnenwagen Aachen, founded at the end of 2015 which first entered the World Solar Challenge in Australia in 2017, the Formula Student team Ecurie Aix, founded in 1999, and the Space Team Aachen学生运营多支竞赛队伍，包括 2015 年底成立、2017 年首度赴澳大利亚参加太阳能车赛的 Team Sonnenwagen Aachen，1999 年成立的 Formula Student 车队 Ecurie Aix，以及 Space Team Aachen。

• The university maintains the Königshügel sports centre with a gymnasium, fitness room, ball courts, tennis courts, volleyball courts and a Finnish running track, as well as a swimming pool at the former site of the faculty of education in the Ahornstraße and a water sports base at Wildenhof in the Eifel学校运营 Königshügel 体育中心，内设体操馆、健身房、球场、网球场、排球场与芬兰式跑道；此外在 Ahornstraße 原教育学院址设有游泳池，并在埃菲尔山区的 Wildenhof 设有水上运动基地。

• The main campus is a five-minute walk from the centre of Aachen, and the university appointed an anti-Semitism commissioner in 2024, Dominik Groß, with the president Ulrich Rüdiger, reflecting a long negotiation that began with a general student assembly in 1981 and produced the university's first women's officer in 1991主校区距亚琛市中心步行约五分钟；学校于 2024 年设立反反犹主义校级专员，由多米尼克·格罗斯担任，由校长乌尔里希·吕迪格任命——这一安排源自一场始于 1981 年学生全体大会、并最终于 1991 年产生学校首位女性事务专员的长期协商。

• Among its traditions the university also holds the Wissenschaftsnacht in the second Friday of November and the Galaball dance in the Eurogress, and the physics faculty's aviation group FVA has flown the university's own aircraft学校其他传统还包括每年十一月第二个周五举行的「科学之夜」，以及在 Eurogress 会展中心举办的 Galaball 舞会；物理学院的飞行科学协会 FVA 还曾驾机飞行。

• Its students publish through the AStA, the general students' committee, and a number of specialist societies including AISA for students from India, GATS for students from Thailand, the Pakistan Student Association and MexAS, while the SKY Campus Aachen initiative works on student mental health学校学生通过全体学生委员会 AStA 发行刊物，另有多个专业社团，包括面向印度学生的 AISA、面向泰国学生的 GATS、巴基斯坦学生协会与 MexAS 等；SKY Campus Aachen 倡议则关注学生心理健康。

Notable people

• August von Kaven, a railway engineer, was the first director of the school when it opened in 1870, and the text of his opening address has been used by the university as a standard historical source铁路工程师奥古斯特·冯·卡文是学校 1870 年开学时的首任馆长，他开学典礼讲话的文本被学校用作标准史料。

• Hugo Junkers, an industrialist, became the first director of the machine tool laboratory in 1899, and the interdisciplinary style he established is identified by the university as a root of the success of its later excellence applications, with the airline bearing his name used to illustrate the motto from idea to product实业家胡戈·容克斯于 1899 年出任机床实验室首任主任，他所确立的跨学科风格被学校视为后来卓越计划成功申报的根源；以他名字命名的航空公司还被学校用来说明「从理念到产品」这一校训理念。

• The private committee that promoted the school in the late 1850s included Friedrich von Kühlwetter, who became a Prussian statesman, the businessman Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann, the commercial court president Johann Arnold Bischoff, the privy commercial councillor Leopold Scheibler, the yarn manufacturer Johann Friedrich Pastor and Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever, who ran the Rhenania chemical works十九世纪五十年代末推动建校的私立委员会成员包括后来成为普鲁士政治家的 Friedrich von Kühlwetter、实业家 Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann、商事庭庭长 Johann Arnold Bischoff、枢密商务顾问 Leopold Scheibler、纱厂主 Johann Friedrich Pastor 与 Rhenania 化工厂厂长 Friedrich Wilhelm Hasenclever。

• Peter Debye, who took his degree in electrical engineering at the university, shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the study of the structure of molecules through his dipole moment, and the Debye model and Debye relaxation bear his name在亚琛工业大学取得电气工程学位的彼得·德拜，因以偶极矩研究分子结构方面的贡献分享 1936 年诺贝尔化学奖；德拜模型与德拜松弛即以他命名。

• Karl Ziegler shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers, as a professor of the university, while Philipp Lenard shared the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics, Wilhelm Wien the 1911 and Johannes Stark the 1919 also as professors作为学校教授，卡尔·齐格勒因在高分子化学与技术领域的发现分享 1963 年诺贝尔化学奖；菲利普·勒纳德分享 1905 年诺贝尔物理学奖，威尔海姆·维恩分享 1911 年奖，约翰内斯·施塔克分享 1919 年奖，两人同样以学校教授身份获奖。

• B. J. Habibie, who became the third president of Indonesia, and Necmettin Erbakan, who served as prime minister of Turkey, are alumni of the university, and Karlheinz Kaske, chairman of Siemens from 1982 to 1991, studied there后来成为印尼第三任总统的 B.J. 哈比耶、曾任土耳其总理的内奇梅丁·埃尔巴坎都是该校校友；1982 年至 1991 年任西门子董事会主席的卡尔海因茨·卡斯凯也曾在此求学。

• Wendelin Wiedeking, who was chief executive of Porsche from 1993 to 2009, and Harald Krüger, chairman of the supervisory board of the BMW Group, both took doctorates from the university, and Ulla Schmidt served as federal minister of education1993 年至 2009 年任保时捷首席执行官、温德林·维丁克，以及宝马集团监事会主席哈拉尔德·克吕格，均在此取得博士学位；乌拉·施密特则曾任德国联邦教育部长。

• Mariam al-Mheiri, who became the United Arab Emirates minister of climate change and sustainability, and Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who served as foreign minister of Afghanistan, are alumni, the latter having completed a doctorate后来出任阿联酋气候变化与可持续发展部长的玛丽亚姆·梅海里，以及曾任阿富汗外交部长、在此取得博士学位的兰金·达德法尔·斯潘塔，都是该校校友。

• Lu Yongxiang, who headed both the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is an honorary citizen of the university, a distinction conferred on people associated with it rather than on graduates, since he holds no degree from the institution曾先后主持中国工程院与中国科学院工作的路甬祥，是学校的荣誉市民；这一称号授予的是与学校有关联的人士，而非毕业生，因为他并未在此取得学位。

• Hans Schwerte, elected president in 1970, had served as an officer in the Schutzstaffel under the name Hans Ernst Schneider, and the Nazi past of this former SS officer was only made public by historians at the university in 19951970 年当选校长的汉斯·施韦尔特曾以 Hans Ernst Schneider 之名在党卫队任职；这位前党卫队军官的纳粹历史，直到 1995 年才由学校的历史学者公开。

• The university has conferred honorary doctorates on figures including Carlo Rubbia and Samuel Chao Chung Ting, both Nobel physicists in 2004, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, Nobel physicists in 2007, and the chemist Richard R. Schrock in 2013学校曾授予多位荣誉博士学位，包括 2004 年的诺贝尔物理学家卡洛·鲁比亚与丁肇中，2007 年的诺贝尔物理学家阿尔贝·费尔与彼得·格林贝格，以及 2013 年的化学家理查德·施罗克。

• Matthias Maurer, an astronaut who studied for his doctorate at the university, and Dorothea Wagner, who served as chair of the German Science Council, both took their doctorates here, and the process technology professor Wolfgang Marquardt won the Leibniz Prize宇航员马蒂亚斯·毛雷尔与曾任德国科学委员会主席的计算机科学家多萝西娅·瓦格纳都在此取得博士学位；过程技术教授沃尔夫冈·马夸尔特则获得过莱布尼茨奖。