[9] The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the TH OWL is one of the strongest research faculties at German universities.

[10][11][12][13] Due to third-party funds acquired, which are often based on cooperation with companies from the region, some professorships at the university have a large staff of research assistants.

Because of its location in the heart of the German Mittelstand and its research strength in the profile areas, the TH OWL sees itself as a partner of medium-sized businesses and society.

Together with other actors from science and industry, special infrastructures for research and research-based technology and knowledge transfer have been created at the Innovation Campus in Lemgo in recent years.

As a registered association the CIIT is an independent research and transfer centre that aims to shape industrial automation technologies.

CIIT, together with the university institute inIT and the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, forms one of the three regional centres of the leading edge technology cluster "Intelligent Technical Systems Ostwestfalen-Lippe (it's OWL)", which prevailed as the BMBF's excellence cluster in the third round of funding at the beginning of 2012.

[18] The aim of the facility is to establish a manufacturer-independent real-world production environment as a research and demonstration center in the area of Industry 4.0 and Work 4.0.

IoT - Smart City Living lab Lemgo Digital Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, in cooperation with the TH OWL and other partners, has been operating the living lab Lemgo Digital as a reference platform for the application of IoT technologies in medium-sized cities since the beginning of 2018.

The participation of citizens and other users in the entire innovation process is an important goal of this initiative, which is financially supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

[19][20] SmartFoodTechnologyOWL The successful development in the field of ICT-based automation is to be continued by bringing together industry 4.0 competencies, and food technology know-how from the university and partners.

Existing areas are to be upgraded, new places with a high quality of life are to be created and further research facilities and companies are to be established.

On the Innovation Campus Lemgo, the Landesverband Lippe offers more than 300 partially furnished apartments in several student residences.

[23] The Innovation Campus Lemgo can be reached by public transportion services via different bus lines or with the RB73 (Bielefeld-Lage-Lemgo) of the Eurobahn at the train stop Lemgo-Lüttfeld.

In addition, there are various offers for financial and content support as well as the possibility of networking internally and externally with other doctoral students - for example through series of events, further education measures and an annual graduate celebration.

[26] The Electrical Engineering study programme at the TH OWL has already received several awards and is one of the best Bachelor's courses of its kind in Germany.

The master's degree programs Information technology and Electrical Engineering have taken a top position nationwide in the 2022 CHE ranking for master's degree programs [29] In the CHE Ranking 2024/2025, the bachelor study programme of Computer Engineering is in the top group in 16 of 18 categories and has the most research funding per professorship in Germany.