ETH Zurich

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH Zurich short, is a technical and scientific university college in Zurich. It was founded in 1855 as " Federal Polytechnic » and is therefore often called Poly. Their buildings are spread over two locations, one in the center of the city of Zurich and the Hönggerberg site, outside the city center. It is one of the most prestigious universities in Europe and worldwide, see rankings.

The university is divided into 16 departments and offers 23 bachelor's and 41 master's degree programs at. Further studies for a doctorate in engineering, math and science area are available at numerous locations. Currently, nearly 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled. ETH Zurich employs about 10,000 people. Of the 449 professors, including 80 assistant professors, 56 (12.6%) are held by women. Associated with ETH are 21 Nobel Prize winners. President of ETH Zurich is currently (2013 ) the physicist Ralph Eichler; Rector is Lino Guzzella.

The ETH Zurich is part of the ETH Domain, the Institute of Technology in Zurich and the one in Lausanne and four other research institutions (Paul Scherrer Institute, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape [WSL ], Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research Institute [ Empa ] and includes Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control [ Eawag ] ).

  • 2.1 departments
  • 2.2 Executive Board
  • 3.1 Study Guide
  • 3.2 Special facilities
  • 3.3 Student organizations
  • 3.4 high school networks
  • 3.5 Support from the EU
  • 3.6 rankings

History

Initial phase

After a long debate in the fledgling state of Switzerland, whether in addition to the cantonal universities, a national, ' federal ' university, it should be set up to also, was born on February 7, 1854, the law on " federal polytechnical school in connection with a school for the higher education in the exact, political and humanistic sciences " adopted and the ETH Swiss Federal polytechnic School participated as on 16 October 1855 in Zurich on their operation. However, the offer was limited to purely technical subjects, as the Catholic rural cantons that their own universities talked, wanted to prevent an intellectual monopoly of the Protestant, urban cantons.

The new training center should have its own building, and so the city and the canton of Zurich wrote an architectural competition, in which, among other things, the two professors Ferdinand Stadler and Gottfried Semper in Zurich and Baden architect Joseph Caspar Jeuch involved. The German architect Semper, who also designed among other things named after him, the Dresden Opera, and finally won the competition and were the building 1858-1864 built according to his plans. In a wing of the building initially drew even a the existing Zurich University. Between 1915 and 1925 the main building of Semper built the leading architect of historicism in Zurich, Gustav Gull in order and changed the inner and outer shape of the building by a cross. Only the setting against the city south facade remained unchanged. Against the Raemistrasse the shape of the building with a new facade and show the characteristic dome was completed today.

In the so-called separation agreements in 1905 and 1908, the buildings of the University and ETH Zurich have been separated, and in 1911 the Polytechnic was " Ecole Polytechnique " renamed. This happened after a lengthy debate on reform, relaxed after the study plans something and the students were granted more freedom. Also, the ETH acquired in 1908 the right to award doctorates.

The Polytechnic grew rapidly, and each decade came a new building to: chemistry, physics, forestry, engineering laboratory.

Hönggerberg and "Science City"

Already in the 1950s it became clear that the ETH-Zentrum has too little space available. Even then, to be bought had numerous buildings in the neighborhood and converted flats for institutions ( partly they are still used today by the ETH). However, this strategy could not satisfy the needs of the university, so that the ETH in 1957 decided to look for a second location in Zurich. For discussion were areas on the Allmendfeld Fluntern, the Irschel, on the Adlisberg and at Hönggerberg. Only the latter turned out to be suitable, and planning for the Hönggerberg began in 1959. For the project, the renowned architect Albert Heinrich Steiner was recovered. Since the sixties there were additional buildings created, and since the beginning of the 21st century, the expansion project "Science City", under which you want to create, among other things student housing on campus at Hönggerberg running.

The reaction was rapid and by the end of the 70s the first stage with the buildings of Physics (HPH and HPP), molecular biology ( HPM HPK ... ) and the infrastructure has been completed. No longer under the direction of Steiner and sometimes even against his will was done in a second expansion phase (1972-1976) the construction of the building for Architecture and Building Sciences (HIL ) under the architect Max Ziegler and Erik Lanter. The third phase of development was initiated in 1988 with the announcement of the design competition for the master plan; competition was won by the architect Ben Huser in the further processing of 1989. Having the architect Mario Campi and Franco Pesina had won in 1990 the tender for the third stage (1996-2004 ), the project of Steiner was fought even before the Federal Court, but his case was in 1994 rejected. Thus the way was clear for the building of the departments chemistry and materials as well as pharmacy and microbiology (HCI ).

The Hönggerberg now houses the following departments: Architecture (D- ARCH), Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering ( D -BAUG ), Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D -CHAB ), Physics (D -PHYS ), Biology (D -BIOL ) and material Sciences (D- MATL ). He can be reached with the ITR bus lines 37, 80 and 69 and two shuttle buses directly from the Zurich main train station and from the main building.

The HPH - building on the Hönggerberg (Physics lecture halls )

The campus on the Hönggerberg

The HCI - building on the Hönggerberg (chemistry)

The HIL Building on the Hönggerberg ( teaching building construction)

Currently, the Hönggerberg site will be further developed within the project "Science City". The idea is to form a college campus, take place where research and living in the same area, but is also open to the public. By 2010, should be created for students on campus first apartments, was completed in 2008, the Information Science Lab and the sports center, which was opened in May 2009. The plan is still to build a Life Science Platform and the creation of an Academic guest house as increase in the previously 14-storey tower physics. The Information Science Lab was supported with 23 million francs of the entrepreneur Branco Weiss, and Zürcher Kantonalbank contributed CHF 12 million at the sports center. In December 2006, the Zurich City Council approved the master plan for the further planning development steps from Science City to almost unanimously. The special building regulations came into force in autumn 2007.

Energy Politically, Science City has set the target to reduce its CO2 emissions according to the guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol to implement in Science City, the idea of the 2000- watt society.

Organization and school leadership

Annually caused about 650 dissertations and over 1250 ( Master ) Diploma at ETH Zurich.

It started with the ETH 68 students in 1855, and since then, their number has steadily increased. Since 1968 the number of female students has increased significantly and was 31.2% in the autumn semester 2010. At present there are 40 undergraduate degree programs with 8100 students, 40 master's degree programs with 4200 students (master and diploma ), and enrolled 3500 students.

Departments

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The ETH Zurich is divided into 16 departments. The most recent Department, Health Sciences and Technology, was established in 2012 by the merging of the Kinesiology, Biomechanics, food sciences and neuroscience.

Architecture and Civil Engineering

  • Architecture (D- ARCH)
  • Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering ( D -BAUG )

Engineering

  • Biosystems (D -BSSE )
  • Computer science (D - INFK )
  • Information Technology and Electrical Engineering ( EE )
  • Materials Science (D - MATL )
  • Mechanical and Process Engineering (D -MAVT )

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

  • Biology ( D- BIOL )
  • Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D -CHAB )
  • Mathematics; joined the Department is the " Research Institute for Mathematics " (D -MATH )
  • Physics ( D -PHYS )

System-oriented Natural Sciences

  • Earth Sciences ( D- ERDW )
  • Health Sciences and Technology (D - HEST )
  • Environmental Systems Science (D - USYS ) (until 2011: Environmental Sciences (D -UWIS ) )

Management and Social Sciences

  • Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D -GESS )
  • Management, Technology and Economics (D -MTEC )

School management

The school management organized leadership, organizational structure and the ETH Zurich.

  • President Ralph Eichler
  • Rector: Lino Guzzella
  • Vice President for Research and Economic Relations: Roland Siegwart
  • Vice President for Human Resources and Infrastructure: Roman Boutellier
  • Vice President for Finance and Controlling: Robert Perich

Study conditions

Admission to ETH is done with a Swiss Matura without further conditions. Foreign students have of leaving school drop depends an entrance exam or direct.

The tuition fees at the ETH Zurich be 580 francs and 64 francs additional semester fees per semester. Not included are several additional expenses such as books, internships, field trips, etc. For financially disadvantaged students scholarships are available.

Courses of Study

At the ETH in scientific and technical subjects are mainly taught. The ETH knows no minor subjects, in all courses but courses are in the field of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences ( GESS ) to complete mandatory.

The Academic Sport Federation Zurich ( ASVZ ) offers a broad university sports facilities with more than 80 sports, from aerobics, climbing courses to yoga. The most important sports events are the SOLA relay race, which is carried out over a distance of 120 kilometers in the Zurich area, as well as the annual rowing match Uni- poly between the ETH and University of Zurich, which was held in 2008 for the 57th time. The ETH leads in the men still at 33 to 22, the University won the duel last but 17 times in a row. Twice had to be canceled the race.

Special facilities

  • Belong to ETH among others, the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, which, with nearly 7 million objects at the same time Switzerland's largest library. The Collegium Helveticum is a joint facility of the University and ETH Zurich and includes the Ludwik Fleck center, which houses the scientific legacy of the Polish scientist. In addition, there is a Collection of Prints and ETH, which performs several times a year exhibitions on various topics.
  • Is also located at the ETH, the CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre ), which supports a wide range of application areas and also receives orders from CERN.
  • The ETH Zurich Foundation is the bridge between the ETH Zurich and corporations, foundations, organizations and individuals. It provides the necessary extra traction to advance the ETH Zurich in their strategic efforts and to secure its global leadership. As the leading technology foundation in Switzerland supports the ETH Zurich Foundation targeted the ETH Zurich in achieving its objectives in teaching and research. For the partners access to great collaborations and visionary programs with the best university in Europe is possible. With these activities, the ETH Zurich Foundation wants to make progress possible and give the donors the effectiveness of its commitment to life. But it brings society, economy and science.
  • ETH juniors is a student company at the ETH Zurich, which was founded in 1997. On the one hand operates ETH juniors project consulting with students, and on the other hand conveys the organization contacts between companies and students ( under the Polyinterview and Polycocktails ). The company sees itself as a bridge between academia and professional life. ETH juniors is legally and financially independent of the ETH Zurich and is operated solely by students.

Student organizations

The students of the ETH Zurich are organized at the ETH ( VSETH ) in the Students' Association. This association under Swiss law represents a framework agreement by the students within and outside the university and unites in itself also subject specific professional associations that offer a wide range of events and services for students.

The doctoral candidates are in the union of the wizard, Scientific and Ph.D. students of the ETH Zurich ( AVETH ) organized.

University networks

The ETH works in various collaborations with other universities together. She is a founding member of the IDEA League, a strategic alliance of five leading technical universities in Europe, whose aim is to lead Europe back to the world class in technology and science. She is also a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, a consortium of 51 universities technically oriented, which promotes exchange programs and the students allows double degrees. In 2006, she also founded, with nine world-class research universities, the International Alliance of Research Universities.

Funding from the EU

The ETH has 84 ERC grants raised for basic research at the highest level, 586 million francs from the 7th Research Framework Programme of the EU were paid to the research location Zurich. After the Swiss Government in implementation of the popular initiative that has already been negotiated Persons Agreement with Croatia unsigned "Against mass immigration ", the EU suspended the negotiations on the 8th Framework Programme. ETH President Ralph Eichler said that if Switzerland could no longer participate in the EU's research framework programs, is that, " as if the FC Basel could no longer play in the Champions League ."

Rankings

In Shanghai Ranking 2013, the ETH finished in 20th place in the world ( the third in Europe and the first in mainland Europe ). ETH in 8th place in the category Natural Sciences and Mathematics world. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked the ETH in 2013 to 12th place worldwide and the fourth place among the European universities ( the first in continental Europe ). In the field of Engineering & Technology, she took in the Times ranking the 8th Place and in the area Physical Science the 11th Place. In the QS World University Rankings of the year 2013, the ETH total occupied the 12th place.

President of ETH Zurich

Famous people

Many famous engineers and scientists have taught or studied at the ETH Zurich. To stand according to official figures ETH 21 Nobel Prize winners in conjunction with the College:

  • Werner Arber, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1978, studied from 1949 to 1953 at the ETH
  • Georg Bednorz, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987, earned his doctorate at the ETH
  • Felix Bloch, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1952, studied 1924-1927 at the ETH
  • Peter Debye, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1936, was from 1920 to 1927 Professor of Physics
  • Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, studied from 1896 to 1900 at the ETH, was from 1912 to 1914 Professor of Theoretical Physics
  • Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1991, was from 1976 to 1998 Professor of Physical Chemistry
  • Charles Édouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920, studied and graduated at the ETH
  • Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918, was an assistant at ETH Professor Georg Lunge
  • Richard Kuhn, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1938, was from 1926 to 1929 professor for general and analytical chemistry
  • Karl Alexander Müller, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987, studied and graduated from 1946 to 1958 at the ETH
  • Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945, was from 1928 to 1958 Professor of Theoretical Physics
  • Vladimir Prelog, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1975, was from 1950 to 1976 Professor of Organic Chemistry
  • Tadeusz Reichstein, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1950, was from 1937 to 1938 as associate professor of special organic and physiological chemistry
  • Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986, studied from 1951 to 1955 at the ETH
  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, studied from 1865 to 1868 at the ETH
  • Lavoslav Ružička, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1939, was from 1929 to 1957 Professor of Chemistry
  • Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1953, was from 1912 to 1926 Professor of Chemistry
  • Otto Stern, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1943, was from 1913 to 1915 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry
  • Alfred Werner, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1913, was from 1892 to 1893 Associate Professor of Chemistry
  • Richard Willstätter, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915, was from 1905 to 1912 Professor of Chemistry
  • Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002, was from 1981 to 2003 Professor of Biophysics

Moreover received Niklaus Wirth, developers of several programming languages, 1984 Turing Award, the highest award in computer science, and the two ETH graduates Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron received the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious architecture prize. The mathematician Wendelin Werner is winner of the Fields Medal, considered the highest honor in mathematics. Other famous personalities in connection with the ETH Zurich are listed in the list of personalities of the ETH Zurich.

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