Vienna University of Technology
Vienna University of Technology |
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Technische Universität Wien |
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Established |
1815 |
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Type |
Public university |
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Rector |
Sabine Seidler |
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Academic staff |
c. 3,300 (4,515 total) |
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Students |
27,923 (2013) |
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Location |
Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
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Campus |
Urban |
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Website |
www.tuwien.ac.at |
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The Vienna University of Technology (German: Technische Universität Wien) is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute", it currently has about 26,200 students (19% foreign students/30% women), eight faculties and about 4,000 staff members (1,800 academics). The university's teaching and research is focused on engineering and natural sciences.
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Library building of the Vienna University of Technology
Notable faculty and alumni
- Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics
- Ottó Titusz Bláthy ((1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer
- Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist
- Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect
- Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit
- Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer
- Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer
- Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician
- Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant
- Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine
- Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer
- Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer
- Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer
- Yordan Milanov (1867–1932), one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
- Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist
- Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz)
- Ferdinand Piëch (born 1937), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group
- Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer
- Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor
- Zvonimir Richtmann (1901–1941), Croatian physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist
- Peter Schattschneider (1950), Austrian physicist
- Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect
- Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect
- Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect
- Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991-2011
- Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview
- Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician
- Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow
- Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer
- Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist
- Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer
Sports
The University hosted the IFIUS World Interuniversity Games in October 2007.
Notes and references
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Coordinates: 48°11′56″N 16°22′12″E / 48.19889°N 16.37000°E / 48.19889; 16.37000