Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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The Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway - NTNU ( Bokmål: Norges teknisk - naturvitenskapelige universitet, Nynorsk: Noregs teknisk - naturvitskaplege universitet ), located in Trondheim is the second largest university in Norway. The NTNU has the primary responsibility for technological research and teaching in Norway. In addition to the science and engineering faculties, there are faculties of medicine, architecture, humanities, social sciences and business. Currently, 22,000 students study at NTNU. About half are technical-scientific students. The University employs 4,800 staff, of which 2,500 academic staff and 555 professors.

  • 3.1 Institute
  • 3.2 Cooperations

History

The history of NTNU goes back to the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society, which was founded under the name " Det Trondhiemske Selskab " in 1760.

1900 has decided the Norwegian Parliament, modeled on the German technical universities, the establishment of the Technical University of Norway. Ten years later, 1910, the Norwegian Institute of Technology was opened. Thus the history of NTNU as a training institution has begun.

The Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Norway was established in 1996 through a merger of several Norwegian universities.

Organization

Faculties

NTNU has a total of 7 faculties and 53 institutes:

  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering
  • Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology
  • Faculty of Natural Science and Technology
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics

The university offers more than 30 international master studies in English.

Campus

NTNU has multiple campuses that are distributed in Trondheim. The two largest of these are Gløshaugen and Dragvoll. Gløshaugen is the old NTH ( Norwegian Institute of Technology ). All technical and scientific faculties are located there. In Dragvoll are the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Research

Institute

The NTNU has three of the 13 so-called " centers of excellence in research " in Norway, which were started as part of an initiative by the Norwegian Research Council in 2003 to raise the research on a top international level.

  • Centre for quantifiable Quality of Service ( Q2s )
  • Centre for Ships and Ocean Structure ( CESOS )
  • Centre for Biology of Memory (CDM )

2007, the " Centre for Biology of Memory" and the " Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience". A great appreciation that have been typically get top American universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ). NTNU is the third European University, which has received a Kavli Institute.

Cooperations

  • The NTNU has a close cooperation with SINTEF, one of Europe's largest independent research institutes, and St. Olav's University Hospital.
  • The NTNU participates in the NordicFiveTech, a collaboration between five Nordic technical universities: Chalmers University of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Helsinki University of Technology and Technical University of Denmark. They offer to collaborate on a Nordic M.Sc degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering.
  • In addition to the Nordic cooperation NTNU also has many partners in the United States, Europe and Asia (mainly Japan, China and Singapore). A collaboration of great importance is the collaboration with the MIT in the field of energy research. The Faculty of Social Sciences has also initiated a collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley ( UC Berkeley ). In each semester to 50 students can attend a Studienaufhalt at UC Berkeley.
  • The NTNU has a research collaboration with about 200 universities around the world and supported the weather service yr.no with data.

Personalities and alumni

  • Lars Onsager (1903-1976), completed in 1925, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968
  • Ivar Giaever (* 1929), completed in 1952, Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
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