The Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) is part of RWTH Aachen University and comprises a staff of more than 350 employees. In cooperation with famous partners from industry and science worldwide, we address all questions with regard to the automobile, and many more topics in automotive context. We create and develop new ideas for innovative components and systems, which are often integrated in vehicle prototypes. The scientific employees are supported by the employees of workshops, administration, IT and PR/Media.

With regard to the scientific education we lead the Automotive Engineering program at RWTH Aachen University. Already during the studies, student workers can be actively integrated in running projects. For excellent graduates ika offers positions for scientists which allow PhD studies in 10 different fields of research.

We also regularly offer non-scientific positions and are furthermore an active training centre. In cooperation with IHK Aachen we continuously offering job trainings in German.

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Vocations & Dual Course of Study

Here you will find an overview of all the vocations at ika: (All vacations are held in german.)

In case you are interested in a job training, please refer to the website of RWTH Divison 8.4 - Vocational & Further Training, which also describes the application process.

Some employees are honoraray working for the boards of examiniers.