Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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| הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל | |
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| Established | 1924 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Peretz Lavie |
| Vice-Presidents | Paul Feigin, Moshe Sidi, Moshe Eizenberg, Zvi Kochavi |
| Students | ∼12,500 |
| Location | Haifa, Israel |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.technion.ac.il |
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is an institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technicum, it was founded in 1912.[1] The emphasis was on natural sciences, engineering and architecture, with a school of medicine added later. Two Nobel laureates teach there [2][3], Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell. The Technion's Faculty of Electrical Engineering has been ranked among the top fifteen electrical engineering departments in the world.[4] Its engineering/technology and computer sciences faculties have been ranked among the top forty in the world.[5]
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History
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The Technion was conceived in the early 1900s by the German-Jewish fund Ezrah, as a school of engineering and sciences, and the only higher learning institution, in then Ottoman Palestine — other than the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (founded 1907). The cornerstone was laid in 1912, but studies only began 12 years later, following an intense debate over the language of instruction. Ezrah deemed Modern Hebrew inappropriate for scientific instruction, and demanded that German be used instead. However, in the aftermath of World War I and the decline of Germany's influence as a European superpower, Hebrew was adopted.
The Technion opened in 1924, although the official opening ceremony took place in 1925. The first class had 16 students, majoring in civil engineering and architecture. In the 1930s, the Technion absorbed many Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany and neighboring countries. In 1953, it awarded its first PhD in electrical engineering. Until the establishment of a school of engineering at Ben Gurion University in the early 1970s, the Technion was the only institution in the country offering engineering degrees.
Academics
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is one of four state sponsored medical schools in Israel. It was founded in 1969 and is active in basic science research and preclinical medical training in anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, microbiology, physiology, and pharmacology. Other facilities on the Faculty of Medicine campus include teaching laboratories, a medical library, lecture halls, and seminar rooms. Academic programs are offered at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine leading to the Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees. The medical campus is located in the neighborhood of Bat Galim, adjacent to Rambam Hospital, the largest medical center in Northern Israel.
They have developed collaborative research and medical education programs with various institutions in medicine and bio-medical engineering including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Mayo Medical School.
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management at the Technion is the oldest such department in Israel. IE&M (Industrial engineering & Management) was launched as a Technion academic Department in 1958. The Department grew under the leadership of Pinchas Naor, who served as its founding Dean. Naor's vision was to combine Industrial engineering with Management by creating a large, inherently multidisciplinary unit covering a wide spectrum of activities, from applied engineering to mathematical modeling; from economics and behavioral sciences to operations research and statistics.
Notable academic achievements
- In 1982, Dan Shechtman discovered a Quasicrystal structure. This is a structure with a Symmetry in the order of 5 - A phenomenon considered impossible until then by the currently prevailing theories of Crystallography.
- In 2004, two Technion professors, Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell.
- Shulamit Labenberg, 37, was chosen by the Scientific American magazine as one of the leading scientists in 2006 for the discovery of a method to transplant skin in a way the body does not reject.
- In the 1970s, Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv developed the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm for compression. In 2007 and 1995 respectively, they won a Richard W. Hamming Medal for pioneering work in data compression and especially for developing the algorithm.
- Moussa Youdim developed Rasagiline, a drug used in early Parkinson's disease.
- More than 70% of the founders and managers in the Israeli high tech industry are Technion graduates. [6]
- A group of Technion graduates created PHP (versions 3 through 5), a web programming language installed on more than 80% of the web servers worldwide.
Youth programs
The Technion offers many after-school and summer enrichment courses for young people on subjects ranging from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.
Programs of study
The Technion offers undergraduate and graduate studies in Materials science, Electrical engineering, Civil, environmental engineering, Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Chemical engineering, Food engineering biotechnology, Agricultural engineering, Aerospace engineering, Industrial engineering, Computer science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Architecture and urban planning, Science education and technology education, and Medicine.
Notable faculty
- Eli Biham, cryptanalyst and cryptographer
- David Bohm, theoretical physicist and philosopher of the mind
- Yaakov Dori, President
- Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, recipients of the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
- Amos Horev, former President, former Chairman of Rafael; member of the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid
- Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, developers of the Lempel-Ziv (LZW) compression algorithm
- Liviu Librescu, hero of the Virginia Tech massacre
- Marcelle Machluf, biotechnology and food engineering
- Asher Peres, co-discoverer of quantum teleportation, awarded the 2004 Rothschild Prize in Physics
- Nathan Rosen, co-author with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky of physics paper about the EPR paradox in quantum mechanics
- Rachel Shalon, first woman engineer in Israel
- Dan Shechtman, first observer of quasicrystals
- David Knafo and Tagit Klimor, Architects, founders of Knafo Klimor Architects
Notable graduates
- Shai Agassi — IT entrepreneur, former Executive Board member of SAP AG and founder of Better Place
- Saul Amarel — pioneer in Artificial intelligence.[7]
- Itzhak Bentov — inventor and author
- Andrei Broder — captcha developer, Vice President of Yahoo, formerly vice president of AltaVista
- Yaron Brook — president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute
- Yossi Gross — Medical devices innovator and entrepreneur; founding partner of Rainbow Medical
- Andi Gutmans — developer of PHP and co-founder of Zend Technologies
- Uzi Landau — politician
- Daniel M. Lewin — co-founder and CTO of Akamai, holder of two Technion degrees, killed while resisting AA Flight 11 hijackers 9-11 Commission Report
- Udi Manber — search engine developer and vice president of Google, formerly vice president of Amazon.com
- Dov Moran — founder of M-Systems and InFone
- Yuval Neeman — physicist, discovered quark model
- Abe Peled — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDS Group plc, provider of technology solutions for the pay TV industry
- Avraham Shochat — politician
- Zeev Suraski — developer of PHP and co-founder of Zend Technologies
- Hanna Swaid - former mayor of Eilaboun, Knesset member
- Yossi Vardi — civil servant, entrepreneur
- Joseph Wang — electrochemist, world's most cited engineer and chemist, Professor at UC San Diego
- Avraham Yaski — architect, winner of 1982 Israel Prize for Architecture
- Zvi Zilker — mayor of Ashdod
- Zohar Zisapel — founder of RAD corporations
See also
- List of universities in Israel
- Science and technology in Israel
References
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1012505.html
- ↑ Prof. Aaron Ciechanover's Home Page
- ↑ Prof. Avram Hershko's Home Page
- ↑ Electrical Engineering Department, Technion - Israel institutes of Technology
- ↑ field
- ↑ http://pard.technion.ac.il/fastfacts/FramsFactsH.asp?myret=main
- ↑ Nagourney, Saul. "Saul Amarel, 74, an Innovator In the Artificial Intelligence Field", The New York Times, December 21, 2002. Accessed November 24, 2007.
External links
- Technion – Israel Institute Of Technology website
- Technion Foreign Medical Students Program
- Technion Admissions
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