Attractive Universities: New Curricula in Natural Sciences and Engineering

Academic education of engineers and natural scientists has to be adapted to today's social and economic needs. One of the Galilea projects goals is to design and implement innovative study courses, which shall attract as many female as male students at Berlin University of Technology. In this article we describe the design and implementation of a new study course which tries to play a demonstrator role. The bachelor course of "natural sciences in the information society" was the first of the GALILEA courses to start in Winter Term 2007/08. The goals and innovations of this first new study course are illustrated in detail.