RWTH Aachen Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering

The faculty was found in 1880 and produced several notable individuals, including Friedrich Robert Helmert.

The following degrees are awarded in Geoscience and Geography, Raw Materials and Waste Disposal Technology, or Metallurgy and Materials Technology: Already with the establishment of the RWTH Aachen as the Königlich Rheinisch Westphälische Polytechnische Schule zu Aachen on October 10, 1870, the chairs for mining and metallurgy were set up beside the fields of building construction, hydraulic construction as well as road and railway construction.

[1] Around the turn of the 20th century, the chair of metallurgy of iron (German: Eisenhüttenwesen) developed to a center of leading technology.

[2] After the transformation of the institution into a technical university, the fourth faculty was formed as the Faculty of Mining, Chemistry and Metallurgy (German: Fakultät für Bergbau, Chemie und Hüttenkunde).

[5] The RWTH Aachen University was one of the only three technological institutions in Germany, the others being Technische Universität Berlin and Clausthal University of Technology, featuring the disciplines of mining and metallurgy.