Vienna University of Technology
The Vienna University of Technology ( TU Wien short ) is the technical university in the Austrian capital Vienna.
History
Today's Technical University was founded in 1815 as Imperial Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Francis I of Austria with the aim to train engineers for the military mining and civil engineers. The first director was Johann Joseph von Prechtl. On November 6, 1815, the kk polytechnic institute was opened, taken the lectures the following day. 1818 was able to move into the newly built building on Karlsplatz, the Institute.
In 1975, the Technical College was renamed University of Technology.
Faculties
The Vienna University of Technology is divided into eight faculties:
- Faculty of Architecture and Planning
- Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
- Faculty of computer science
- Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Chemistry
By the end of 2003, the faculties of computer science, mathematics and Geoinformation, Technical Physics and Chemistry in the Faculty (TNF ) Natural Sciences and Engineering goods - from 2001 to 2003 as the Faculty of natural sciences and computer science (TNI ) - combined.
Courses of Study
The study program comprises a total of 53 different studies (18 bachelor's, 31 master's, a Magisterium and 3 doctoral studies). Since the winter semester 2006, all studies, with the exception of teacher training studies, in accordance with the Europe-wide Bologna Architecture ( Bachelor-Master - Doctorate) are offered. In April 2012 it was decided from the winter semester 2012/13 to remove four of the five offered teacher training programs.
In addition, the Vienna University of Technology offers a number of training courses:
- MBA Programs: Executive MBA Mergers & Acquisitions ( FIBAA accreditation ); General Management MBA ( FIBAA accreditation ); Professional MBA Automotive Industry ( FIBAA accreditation ); Professional MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation ( FIBAA accreditation ); Professional MBA Facility Management ( FIBAA & CEPI accreditation );
- MSc programs: Economics; Engineering Management; Environmental Technology & International Affairs; Real Estate Management & Valuation ( RICS & CEPI accreditation ); Renewable Energy in Central & Eastern Europe;
- TU College: OCT Real Estate Estate Management (CEPI accreditation ); OCT Sustainable Building; ULG Management for Engineers; ULG Industrial Engineering ( TU- WIFI-College ); TU- WIFI -Energy College; several special seminars
Restrictions on admission
By the summer semester in 2012, there has been at TU Vienna no restrictions on access. From winter semester 2013, the Faculty of computer science restricts access to the courses of the first year to 420 seats. These limits are decided by the Dean Gerald Steinhardt, the Faculty of computer science, due to the budgetary situation at the TU Vienna.
Building
Most of the buildings of the Vienna University of Technology are located in the city center of Vienna on Karlsplatz, in the 4th district of Vienna, in the vicinity of many important cultural monuments (Karlskirche, Wien Museum, Musikverein, Artists' House, Secession ). Due to the renovation need of some institutions, the high rents in the center of Vienna and the lack of space in the buildings, the relocation of individual institutions or the whole university to the suburbs was considered but abandoned due to lack of consensus among staff and students.
The four major locations are as follows:
- Karlsplatz: The historic main building, which also houses the administration is housed.
- Grain Market: Here the Institute of Chemistry (Chemistry skyscraper ) and mechanical engineering are housed; see genius Directorate building.
- Gusshausstraße / Favorites road
- Free House grounds
Other locations are:
- Atomic Institute
- Aspanggründe ( Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Dept. of Building Materials, building physics and fire protection)
Partnerships, equity interests
2010 was founded by the Technical Universities of Vienna in cooperation with the Technical University of Graz and the University of Leoben, the association " TU Austria ". This cooperation represents 43,000 students, 440 million euros in total assets and 8,600 employees.
- Scientific partner of the Polymer Competence Center Leoben
- Company share (5%) at the Materials Center Leoben
Personalities and alumni
- Alfred Berroth (1892-1978), German Geodetic
- Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860-1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer
- Boeckl Herbert (1894-1966), Austrian painter
- Rupert Boeck (1845-1899), an Austrian engineer (mechanical ), 1892/93 Rector
- Adam Castle (1797-1882), Austrian mathematician
- Peter Cerwenka ( * 1942 ), Austrian transport expert
- Herbert Demel ( born 1953 ), Austrian manager
- Helmut Draxler ( * 1950 ), Austrian manager
- Christian Andreas Doppler (1803-1853), Austrian physicist
- Friedrich Ignaz Edler von Emperger (1862-1942), Austrian Civil
- Gustav Feichtinger ( * 1940 ), Austrian mathematician economy ( Operations Research )
- Ferdinand Fellner J. (1847-1916), Austrian architect
- Ernst Fiala ( b. 1928 ), Austrian automobile designer
- Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002), Austrian physicist
- Roland Gareis ( born 1948 ), Austrian economist
- Adolph Giesl - Gieslingen (1903-1992), Austrian engineer
- Karl Gölsdorf (1861-1916), Austrian engineer
- Peter M. Gruber ( born 1941 ), Austrian mathematician
- Hans Haider ( Manager) ( b. 1942 ), Austrian manager
- Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician
- Eduard Hütter (1880-1967), Austrian architect and stage designer
- Rudolf Inzinger (1907-1980), Austrian mathematician
- Carl Junker (1827-1882), Austrian engineer
- Can August (1871-1937), Austrian electrical engineer
- Viktor Kaplan (1876-1934), Austrian engineer
- Hermann Knoflacher (* 1940), Austrian engineer
- Josef Kozeny (1889-1967), Austrian physicist
- Wolfgang Kummer (1935-2007), Austrian physicist
- Paul Ludwik (1878-1934), Austrian scientist ( Materials Engineering )
- Herbert Mang (* 1942), Austrian engineer
- Johann Marihart (* 1950 ), Austrian manager
- Karl Mayr Eder (1856-1935), Austrian architect
- Alexander Meissner (1883-1958), German physicist and engineer
- Mestler Ludwig (1891-1959), an Austrian engineer and artist
- Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958), Yugoslav astrophysicist
- Richard von Mises (1883-1953), Austrian mathematician
- Boris NEMSIC ( * 1957 ), Austrian manager
- Richard Neutra (1892-1970), Austrian- American architect
- Josef Neuwirth (1855-1934), Austrian art historian
- Joseph A. Nossek ( * 1947 ), Austrian scientists
- Heinz Oberhummer ( * 1941 ), Austrian physicist and satirist
- Oerley Leopold (1878-1936), an Austrian engineer, in 1927/28 Rector
- Karl Pichelmayer (1868-1914), electrical engineer
- John Pötzl (1930-1993), Austrian physicist and electrical engineer
- Johann Joseph von Prechtl (1778-1854), German engineer
- Wolf D. Prix ( * 1942 ), Austrian architect
- Roland Rainer (1910-2004), Austrian architect
- Ferdinand Redtenbacher (1809-1863), Austrian engineer
- Johann Řihošek (1869-1956), Austrian engineer
- Francis of Rziha (1831-1897), Austrian engineer, railway and tunnel builders
- Walter Schachermayer (* 1950 ), Austrian mathematician financial
- Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984), Austrian art historian
- Put Friedrich (1837-1907) Austrian officials and architect
- Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect
- Peter Skalicky ( * 1941 ), longtime rector of the Vienna University of Technology
- Irfan Skiljan (* 1973), originally from Bosnia, now living in Austria, programmer of the popular image viewer IrfanView
- Otto Soyka (1882-1955), Austrian writer
- Hellmuth Stachel ( born 1942 ), Austrian mathematician
- Josef Strauss (1827-1870), Austrian architect and composer
- Rudolf Taschner ( born 1953 ), Austrian mathematician, founder of math.space
- Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer
- Adalbert of Waltenhofen (1828-1914), Austrian physicist and electrical engineer
- Hanns Peter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian physicist
- Heinz Zemanek ( * 1920 ), Austrian computer pioneer
Campus and Student Life
The building of the Vienna University of Technology are not integrated into a single campus, but there are three key areas. At the Karlsplatz in Vienna's 4th district houses the administration and the Main Library and Institute Building (main building: civil engineering, architecture, free house: Mathematics, Physics). Also in the 4th district is located in the Gußhausstraße a center for electrical engineering, computer science right then also institutes are housed in the Favorites road. In the 6th District, there is another mini- campus of the chemistry building (chemistry skyscraper, genius building, new building, corner building and Lehàrtrakt ), the Engineering Institute and the Auditorium Maximum ( lecture hall ) contains.
In addition, there are several spatially outsourced Institute, also operates in the 2nd district together with other universities, a research reactor. In 2012, to be spent on the renovation of the fuel rods of the reactor with a power of 250 kW, an amount in the tens of millions. This investment is in the public highly controversial and led to an extensive parliamentary inquiry the Greens spokeswoman Eva Glawischnig - Piesczek.
In the vicinity of the TU are many shops and also places that are specifically geared towards students, emerged. Student Housing in TU- close contrast, there is hardly any.
In early 2006, discussed a relocation of the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna Aspern and an associated new building as a closed campus university. In June, however, the Rector district decided ( after an extensive online debate with the staff and the students) for a compression at the existing location in Vienna's 4th rather than a relocation.
In the spring of 2012, Public Profile known for an article in the weekly magazine that the Vienna University of Technology is in acute financial difficulties.
Others
- The Rector team has existed since October 1, 2011 from Sabine Seidler ( Rector ), Johannes Fröhlich ( Vice Chancellor for Research ) Adalbert Prechtl (Vice Rector for Academic Affairs), Anna Steiger (Vice Rector for Personnel and gender ), and Paul Jankowitsch (Vice Chancellor of Finance ).
- Under the main building are still the remains of Antonio Vivaldi ( on the former Spitaller God Sacker before Kärntnertor ) buried.
- The university awarded the Holocaust deniers Walter Lüftl 2009 "Golden engineer diploma " for " special scientific merit " and an " outstanding professional work " (according to statute). After protests declared by the then Rector Peter Skalicky, faculty (meaning Civil Engineering) have explicitly consented. Award presenter of the event on December 11, 2009 in Vienna was for civil engineers Andreas Kolbitsch. A commission then used recanted the ceremony. Elfriede Jelinek wrote against honoring an essay In the realm of the past, in which she portrays, among other things, under what difficulties her father, Frederick Jelinek, was able to purchase at this same university graduate and performs his destiny as a " half- Jew " (after Globke criteria ) back.
- 2011, the Technical University of Vienna from the search engine "Microsoft Academic Search " was ranked one hundred institutions in the field of computer science among the best.