Technical University of Berlin

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Technical University of Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin

Established	1770
Type	Public University
President	Prof. Dr. Kurt Kutzler
Staff	6.772 Professors: 329 Scientific Assistants: 1890
Students	27.890
Location	Berlin, Germany
Website	www.tu-berlin.de

South Side of the Main Building

Areaway of the Main Building

The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany. It was founded in 1879 and has about 27,800 students (2006/07). The TU Berlin is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. It also has a high proportion of foreign students, with 20% in the Summer Semester 2005, roughly 6,000 students.

[edit] History

The TU Berlin was formed in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the preexisting Building Academy (established in 1799) and the Vocational Academy (est. 1829). Since 1916 it has included the former Mining Academy, which was founded in 1770. It was closed after World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name.

[edit] Campus

The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin. The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg. The seven faculties have some 29,500 students enrolled in more than 50 subjects (8 June 2005).

[edit] Organization

Since April 4, 2005, the TU Berlin is divided into the following faculties:

1. Humanities
2. Mathematics and Natural Sciences
3. Process Sciences and Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
5. Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
6. Merge of former faculties of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture - Environment - Society"
7. Merge with faculty 5 (see above)
8. Economics and Management

[edit] Students

With nearly 30,000 students, the TU Berlin is one of Germany's largest technical universities. It also holds the record of highest percentage of students from other countries—about 20%.

[edit] Faculty and staff

There are 6,721 people working at the university: 319 professors, 1,832 postgraduate researchers, and 2,089 personnel working in the administration, the workshops, and the central facilities. In addition there are 1,803 student assistants and 161 trainees (January 2006).

[edit] Library

Entrance of the main library of the Technical University of Berlin and of the Berlin University of the Arts

The new common main library of the Technical University of Berlin and of the Berlin University of the Arts was opened in 2004. The library building was sponsored by Volkswagen and is named Volkswagen Library. All former 17 libraries of the Technical University of Berlin and of the nearby University of the Arts were merged into the new library.

[edit] Noted alumni and professors

(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)

• August Borsig, businessman
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1931
• Wernher von Braun (1912–1976), physicist (rocket science)
• Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineering
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the filter design of electronic filters
• Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989), musicologist
• Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography), Nobel prize winner 1971
• Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1918
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1925
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1943
• Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to system theory
• Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect
• Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
• Erwin Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
• Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989
• Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope), Nobel prize winner 1986
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect
• Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, politician, Minister for Armaments during the Third Reich, war criminal
• Hermann W. Vogel (1834–1898) photo-chemist
• Eugene Wigner (1902–1995),physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel prize winner 1963
• Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer

[edit] See also

Other Universities of Berlin:

• Free University of Berlin
• Humboldt University of Berlin

[edit] External links

• Official Homepage (Deutsch)
• Official Homepage (English)
• Institut für Technische Akustik (Institute of Acoustics Engineering)
• Institute of Aero- and Astronautics