University of Stuttgart

The University of Stuttgart is a state university in Stuttgart and maintains an interdisciplinary oriented profile with a focus on the engineering sciences, culture and science. It is divided into ten departments.

The University of Stuttgart is a member of TU9 German Institutes of Technology eV and is one of the nine leading technical universities in Germany.

The sooner settled in the town center technical and scientific institutions were relocated since the 1960s, largely on the campus in Stuttgart- Vaihingen, the humanities, and the study of architecture remained the main railway station in the center position. The university operates a number of research institutes, some of them together with the Fraunhofer and Max Planck Institutes.

  • 6.1 Alumni Network
  • 6.2 Materials Testing and Research
  • 7.1 Zukunftsoffensive
  • 7.2 External evaluation
  • 7.3 Excellence Initiative
  • 8.1 Known teachers (selection)
  • 8.2 Known graduates ( selection)
  • 8.3 Academic honorary citizen
  • 8.4 Honorary Senators (selection)

History

The establishment of a university in nearby Tübingen in 1477 by Eberhard as the former Counts of Württemberg- Urach and later Duke of Württemberg resulted in the beard first to the fact that no other university was set up in Stuttgart. It was also the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, unlike, for example, the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( originally Ingolstadt, then Landshut ) relocated despite change of residence not later to Stuttgart.

There was then already at the end of the 18th century in Stuttgart for a few years a university, founded in 1770 as the High School Karl in 1781 the status of university. Under Duke Ludwig Eugen them in 1794 but dissolved again. The Karlsschule trained especially for lawyers nationwide sovereign tasks and practitioners for the Württemberg army. One of the most famous students was Friedrich Schiller, who was trained from 1773 at the Charles school for a military doctor.

The university today goes back to the founding of the United Art, Real and Vocational School in 1829. They thus celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2004. According to the increasing importance of the engineering sciences and related academisation of the studies it was the 1876 Institute of Technology. Since 1882 the subject of instruction officially existing electrical owes Werner von Siemens ( 1816-1892 ). She received in 1900 and the doctoral degrees in technical disciplines. The development of non-technical disciplines at Stuttgart in 1967 led to the renaming in University of Stuttgart.

Most of the campus is now in Stuttgart -Vaihingen, where in 1959 the first buildings were purchased and to date more than 100 hectares of forest Pfaff for building the natural and engineering sciences were cleared. On rightful place in the center of Stuttgart, the humanities and social sciences, and the architecture are to be found. In addition to these two " main parts " of the University, there is a "side center " at Azenberg and other " extensions " that are distributed in the city, but their number decreases over time.

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Faculties

Two thirds of all institutes and research facilities are now housed on campus in Vaihingen. The local area has been established as a university campus. The partially scattered institutions in the area of ​​the city center it says in the description of Kollegiengebäude KI and KII: they mark the " gateway " to the 1956-65 newly formed University district on the garden.

  • Faculty 1: Architecture and Urban Planning ( downtown campus )
  • Faculty 2: Civil and Environmental Engineering ( largely Campus Vaihingen )
  • Faculty 3: Chemistry ( largely Campus Vaihingen )
  • Faculty 4: Energy Technology, Process Engineering and Biological Engineering (largely Campus Vaihingen )
  • Faculty 5: computer science, electrical engineering and information technology (Campus Vaihingen )
  • Faculty 6: Aerospace, Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy (mostly Vaihingen campus )
  • Faculty 7: design, manufacturing and vehicle technology (mostly Vaihingen campus )
  • Faculty 8: Mathematics and physics (Campus Vaihingen )
  • Faculty 9: Faculty of Humanities ( downtown campus )
  • Faculty 10: Economic and social sciences (mostly downtown campus )

Courses

We have a wide range of bachelor's and master's degree programs as well as teacher training courses from the engineering sciences, natural sciences (including mathematics), the language and cultural sciences and the Economic and Social Sciences ( see list of courses at the University of Stuttgart). Overall, these are - as of August 2013-59 bachelor's, 64 master's and 19 teacher training courses. 13 of the Master's programs are entirely or partly in English, three combined German and French speaking. Since 2007, the University of Stuttgart offers under the umbrella term master: Online continuing education courses at. These are aimed at undergraduate and graduate degree graduates with at least two years of professional experience and can be studied part-time by the blended learning concept. Currently, the Master: online degree programs Physics, Integrated Gerontology and Logistics Management offered.

Research institutions

From the DFG-funded projects and facilities

A more detailed listing of currently funded by the DFG projects and facilities at the University of Stuttgart can be found in the list of DFG Funding of the University of Stuttgart. Funding is currently

  • Two postgraduate programs
  • Two graduate schools
  • Two Collaborative Research Centres
  • Two priority programs
  • Eleven research groups
  • Three transregional programs
  • The Cluster of Excellence Simulation Technology ( SimTech )

High Performance Computing Center

At the University of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart is Stuttgart (HLRS ), one of three federal supercomputing centers. It houses among others an NEC Nehalem cluster, and other computer cluster, including a Cray XE6 with 1.045 petaflops, called " Hermit ". This is ( of Feb. 2012) in the second of three construction phases and will in future be able to provide higher performance .. The HLRS cooperates in the High Performance Computing Center of Competence Baden- Württemberg with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It also works with numerous universities except research installations for Foreign customers in the operating company hww together with the company T-Systems Solutions for Research GmbH and Porsche.

In addition, the HLRS operates its own research in the areas of high performance computing, visualization and modeling and simulation, which are also represented in the teaching. In 1997, the HLRS has coupled together with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for the first time two computers between Europe and the U.S. to a computer network. 1999, it was by the U.S. National Science Foundation ( NSF) awarded for this and other work in the field of distributed supercomputing. 2003 won the HLRS HPC Challenge of Supercomputing '03.

University Library

The Stuttgart University Library has its headquarters since its founding in 1829 in the city center of Stuttgart. Shortage of space led to an expansion of the university zone in Stuttgart- Vaihingen since 1957. For this reason, the UB split in two since 1973. Meanwhile, most of the scientific and engineering resources in the branch of the University Library in Stuttgart- Vaihingen is located. Architecture and humanities as well as the economic and social sciences remained in urban centers. The library acts as a classical university library for engineering and natural sciences. For students in the humanities and social sciences, this function takes the complementary Wurttemberg State Library.

Other Facilities

Since 1972, the university is a donation in the possession of the observatory Pfaffenwald, which is located on campus in Vaihingen.

Alumni Network

Since 2002, the University of Stuttgart has established a central alumni network, which is aimed at graduates, students and university members, partners and supporters of the University of Stuttgart. " Alumnius " is the central equivalent to the numerous alumni clubs and booster clubs of the University of Stuttgart and networked national and international members from all disciplines and subject areas.

Materials Testing and Research

The university is one of the Materials Testing Institute University of Stuttgart. It emerged from the State Materials Testing Institute Stuttgart and the Research and Material Testing Institute for Civil Engineering ( Otto Graf-Institut ) ( FMPA ) on 1 July 2003.

The material testing laboratory was assigned in Württemberg since 1884 the then Polytechnic of Stuttgart and is responsible for the areas of civil and mechanical engineering. In 1930, a separation of the two areas into two divisions and the renaming of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in State Materials Testing Institute. The Department of Civil Engineering in 1936 renamed the Institute of Archaeology and materials testing of civil engineering and received in 1952 the name of Government Research and Material Testing Institute for Construction and was spun off from the university. In 1980 it was renamed the Research and Material Testing Institute of Baden- Württemberg ( Otto -Graf- Institute) and the association with the Chemical- Technical Testing Institute ( departments Stuttgart and Karlsruhe). 2000 then the Otto -Graf- Institute was incorporates under the name of Research and Material Testing Institute for Civil Engineering, Otto- Graf-Institut again in the university and in 2003 was the amalgamation of The State Materials Testing Institute University of Stuttgart, Research and Material Testing Institute for Construction for Materials Testing and Research University of Stuttgart (MPA Stuttgart, Otto- Graf-Institut ( FMPA ) ).

Recent Developments

Zukunftsoffensive

Student protests in the summer of 2003 against the planned by the university management " Zukunftsoffensive the University of Stuttgart " (including abolition of the humanities teacher training courses, and some professors ) led to the amendment, in February 2005, it was finally decided that teacher education programs do not initially touching, yet the Institute of Geography were and Geology closed.

Also according to a report in the Stuttgarter Zeitung on 3 June 2009 by the Rector planned reclassification of 25 professorships, of which 10 are in the humanities, was also due to massive resistance, not implemented. However, have been restated the Education ( vocational education ) and teacher training (business teacher). Were further developed in the humanities, as with the Master's program knowledge cultures (from WS 2010/2011) and the Foundation Chair of " effective history of technology". With this professorship, the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung aims to promote the study of the interactions between science, technology, society and culture in historical perspective.

External Evaluation

To further promote the reorientation of research and teaching, the University of Stuttgart commissioned in May 2011, a seven-member external structure Commission to explore the development potential of the University and to derive structure recommendations. The Commission was staffed with experts from universities at home and abroad, non-university research institutions and the economy, reflected in equal parts the natural and engineering sciences as well as humanities and social sciences. It was chaired by the literary scholar and former Rector of the University of Konstanz, Prof. Gerhart of Graevenitz.

Excellence Initiative

Within the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state " Simulation Technology" ( SimTech ) and the Graduate School " Advanced Manufacturing Engineering" ( GSaME ) were at the University of Stuttgart from November 2007, the Cluster of Excellence funded, both also of the renewal application was successful.

Personalities and alumni

A number of known or famous people who studied or taught at the University of Stuttgart and was honored by the university itself. Some of these are listed below, more can be found in the list of known personalities of the University of Stuttgart.

Known teachers (selection)

  • Hermann Fehling (1811-1885), was appointed in 1839 to Liebig's proposal to the chair of chemistry at the Polytechnic School.
  • Julius Carl von Bach (1847-1931), 1878-1922 Professor of steam engines, boilers, machinery elements and theory of elasticity. From 1899 Materials Testing Institute (MPA ) and engineering laboratory.
  • Theodor Fischer (1862-1938), co-founder of the Stuttgart School
  • Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867-1944), 1912-1935 Professor of Mathematics in Stuttgart. Involved in the development of the Runge- Kutta method in numerical analysis as well as the set of Kutta - Joukowski and the Kutta - Zhukovsky transformation in the fluid dynamics.
  • Paul Bonatz (1877-1956), representative of the Stuttgart School
  • Otto Graf (1881-1956), Civil Engineering ( Building Materials and Construction Materials Testing )
  • Heinz Wetzel (1882-1945), architect and town planner
  • Paul Schmitthenner (1884-1972), architect
  • Hans Doelle (1893-1980), legal scholar
  • Kate Hamburger (1896-1992), literary scholar
  • Eugen Sänger (1905-1964), space pioneer, pioneer of the Space Shuttle
  • Georg sailors (1906-1978), German agricultural scientist, engineer, inventor and writer
  • Golo Mann (1909-1994), 1960-1964 Chair of Political Science
  • Fritz Leonhardt (1909-1999), 1957-1974 Professor of Concrete Structures, 1967-1969 also rector.
  • John Argyris (1913-2004), co-founder of the finite element method.
  • Frei Otto ( born 1925 ), founded in 1964, the Institute for Lightweight Structures (IL ) and 1969 the Collaborative Research Centre 64 Long-span tensile structures by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
  • Jörg Schlaich ( born 1934 ), a civil engineer from 1974 to 2000 Director of the Institute of Concrete / Construction and Design II
  • Eckart Olshausen (* 1938), 1976-2008 Professor of Ancient History
  • Ernst knife Schmid ( * 1945), Spaceman, a professor at the Institute of Space Systems
  • Werner Sobek (* 1953), Civil Engineering and Architecture, Director of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design

Known graduates ( selection)

  • Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), German engineer and designer
  • Max Eyth (1836-1906), engineer and writer
  • Hermann Losch (1863-1935), German clergyman, university professor, economist and non-fiction author
  • Ulrich Bez ( b. 1943 ), German entrepreneur and engineer.
  • Alfred Cramer (1872-1938), German architect and Herzoglicher Baurat in Gotha
  • Karl Maybach (1879-1960), German engineer
  • Alfred Kärcher (1901-1959), German engineer and founder of Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
  • George Laub (1906-1986), architect and town planner
  • Günter Behnisch (1922-2010), German architect
  • Berthold Leibinger (* 1930), Chairman of Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG, a pioneer in the development of machine tools with numerical control system
  • Karl Schlecht (* 1932), German engineer. Inventor of the first automatic concrete cleaning machine. Founder of Putzmeister AG
  • Jörg Schlaich (* 1934), German Civil
  • Ulf Merbold (* 1941), German physicist and astronaut
  • Jürgen Weber ( born 1941 ), CEO Lufthansa
  • Martin Winterkorn ( born 1947 ), CEO of Volkswagen AG
  • Ernst Becker (* 1955), German scientist and inventor

Academic honorary citizen

  • Suzanne Mubarak, ( born 1941 ), wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (since 2004)
  • Manfred Rommel (1928-2013), Lord Mayor (since 2005)
  • Richard von Weizsäcker, (* 1920), former Federal President (since 1995)

Honorary Senators (selection)

  • Helga Breuninger Breuninger Foundation
  • Artur Fischer
  • Rüdiger Grube, CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG, since 2013
  • Dieter Hundt, Managing Partner, Allgaier Werke GmbH
  • Berthold Leibinger, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Trumpf GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
  • Reinhold Würth, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Würth Group Künzelsau
  • Walther reins, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Landesgirokasse
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