TU Wien

TU Wien, also known as the Vienna University of Technology, is a public research university in Vienna, Austria.
The university's teaching and research are focused on engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. It currently has about 28,100 students (29% women), eight faculties, and about 5,000 staff members (3,800 academics).
History
The institution was founded in 1815 by Emperor Francis I of Austria as the k.k. Polytechnische Institut (Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute). The first rector was Johann Joseph von Prechtl. It was renamed the Technische Hochschule (College of Technology) in 1872. When it began granting doctoral and higher degrees in 1975, it was renamed the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology).
Academic reputation
As a university of technology, TU Wien covers a wide spectrum of scientific concepts from abstract pure research and the fundamental principles of science to applied technological research and partnership with industry.
TU Wien is ranked #192 by the QS World University Ranking, #406 by the Center of World University Rankings, and it is positioned among the best 401-500 higher education institutions globally by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The computer science department has been consistently ranked among the top 100 in the world by the QS World University Ranking and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings respectively.
Organization
TU Wien has eight faculties led by deans: Architecture and Planning, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Mathematics and Geoinformation, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Physics.
The university is led by the Rector and four Vice Rectors (responsible for Research, Academic Affairs, Finance as well as Human Resources and Gender). The Senate has 26 members. The University Council, consisting of seven members, acts as a supervisory board.
Research
Development work in almost all areas of technology is encouraged by the interaction between basic research and the different fields of engineering sciences at TU Wien. Also, the framework of cooperative projects with other universities, research institutes and business sector partners is established by the research section of TU Wien. TU Wien has sharpened its research profile by defining competence fields and setting up interdisciplinary collaboration centres, and clearer outlines will be developed.
Research focus points of TU Wien are introduced as computational science and engineering, quantum physics and quantum technologies, materials and matter, information and communication technology and energy and environment.
The EU Research Support (EURS) provides services at TU Wien and informs both researchers and administrative staff in preparing and carrying out EU research projects.
Notable faculty and alumni
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer
Alexander Meissner (1883 – 1958), Austrian engineer and physicist, co-inventor of the Electronic oscillator
Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor
Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer
Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect
Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist
Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician
Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect
Elfriede Tungl (1922-1981) civil engineer, first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in civil engineering, in 1973 became the first female associate professor at TU Wien.
Ernst Hiesmayr (1920-2006), architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna
Ferdinand Piëch (1937-2019), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group
Franz Pitzinger (1858–1933), Constructor General of the Austrian Navy
Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow
Günter Blöschl (born 1961), Austrian hydrologist
Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist
Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer
Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician
Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer
Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer
Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz)
Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect
Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect
Ina Wagner (born 1946), Austrian physicist, sociologist, professor of computer science 1987 – 2011, TU's second ever female professor
Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant
Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview
Jörg Streli (1940–2019), Austrian architect
Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer
Leon Kellner, grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist
Marie-Therese Hohenberg, Austrian architect (born 1972)
Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer
Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer
Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer
Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit
Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture
Peter Schattschneider (1950), Austrian physicist
Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991 to 2011
Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher
Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect
Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics
Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor of physics
Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab
Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine
Vinzenz Bronzin (1872-1970), Italian mathematics professor, and pioneering finance theorist
Yordan Milanov (1867–1932), one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Zvonimir Richtmann (1901–1941), Croatian physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist
Library
The TU Wien Bibliothek, the university library, was founded in 1815. The main library building was designed by the architects Justus Dahinden and partners. Completed in 1987, it features owl sculptures by the Swiss artist Bruno Weber. The main library has six floors of open access areas and reading rooms, with around 700 study desks.
Sports
The university hosted the IFIUS World Interuniversity Games in October 2007.
See also
TU Austria
Notes and references
External links
Continuing Education Center – TU Wien (MBA programs, MSc programs, certified)
Curricula (fields of study and courses)
TISS Information System (e.g. links to Publications Database)
TU Wien on Youtube (English playlist)
Universities and colleges in Vienna
Educational institutions established in 1815
Engineering universities and colleges in Austria
1815 establishments in the Austrian Empire