Clausthal University of Technology
The Clausthal University of Technology (German: Technische Universität Clausthal) is an institute of technology (Technische Universität) in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany. The public university has about 90 professors, 420 scientific employees, and in winter 2010 approximately 3,569 students.
The Department of Computational Intelligence is hosting the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest.
History
The academy of the local Hanoverian mining authority was established in 1775 at Clausthal in the Harz mountain range with its centuries-long history of mining in the Upper Harz (most notably at the Rammelsberg). Initially a school for pitmen and smelter workers, it was raised to the status of a mining college by the Westphalian minister Count Hans von Bülow in 1810. In 1864, at the behest of King George V of Hanover, the spin-off of a mining academy (Bergakademie) was founded.
Both institutions remained under joint administration after the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, until in 1906 the academy was separated as an autonomous educational establishment directly subordinate to the Prussian government represented by a curator. It was one of only two mining academies in Prussian, the other being the mining college in Berlin established in 1770, a predecessor of the Berlin Institute of Technology.
After World War II, the academy passed under the authority of the West German state of Lower Saxony, it was renamed Technische Hochschule in 1966 and Technische Universität in 1968.
Organization
- The Faculty of Natural and Materials Sciences
- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
- Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
- Institute of Metallurgy
- Institute of Non-Metallic Materials
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Institute of Physics and Physical Technologies
- Institute of Polymer Materials and Plastics Engineering
- Institute of Technical Chemistry
- Institute of Theoretical Physics
- Laser Application Centre
- The Faculty of Energy and Economic Sciences
- Institute of Electrical Power Engineering
- Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology
- Institute of Environmental Sciences
- Institute of Geology and Paleontology
- Institute of Geophysics
- Institute of Geotechnical Engineering and Mine Surveying
- Institute of German and International Mining and Energy Law
- Institute of Management and Economics
- Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing and Dumping Technology
- Institute of Mineralogy and Mineral Resources
- Institute of Mining
- Institute of Petroleum Engineering
- The Faculty of Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering
- Institute of Applied Mechanics
- Institute of Chemical Engineering
- Institute of Computer Sciences
- Institute of Electrical Information Technology
- Institute of Mass Transfer
- Institute of Mathematics
- Institute of Mechanical Engineering
- Institute of Particle Technology
- Institute of Plant Engineering and Fatigue Analysis
- Institute of Process and Production Control Technology
- Institute of Tribology and Energy Conversion Machinery
- Institute of Welding and Machining
- The Interdisciplinary Research Facilities
- Centre for Information Technology
- Centre for Polymers
- Centre for Simulation Technology
- DFG Research Centre "Fertigen in Feinblech"
- European Graduate School "Microstructural Control in Free-Radical Polymerization"
- Forum Clausthal
- Laser Application Centre
Notable faculty and alumni
- Friedrich Adolph Roemer (1809–1869), geologist
- John O. Meusebach (1812–1897), bureaucrat, American farmer and politician
- Wilhelm Haarmann (1847–1931), chemist
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), theoretical physicist
- Wilhelm Biltz (1877–1943), chemist
- Paul Ramdohr (1890–1985), mineralogist
- Josef Goubeau (1901–1990), chemist
- Paul Dahlke (1904–1984), actor
- Ekkehard Schulz (born 1941), businessman
- Wan Gang (born 1952), automotive engineer and politician
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