Vienna University of Technology

Vienna University of Technology
Technische Universität Wien
Motto	Our mission is ″technology for people″. Through our research we ″develop scientific excellence″, through our teaching we „enhance comprehensive competence“.
Established	1815
Type	Public university
Rector	Sabine Seidler
Academic staff	~1,800 (4,078 total)
Students	26,218 (2011)
Location	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Campus	Urban
Website	www.tuwien.ac.at/en

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" (k. k. Polytechnisches Institut), it currently has about 26,200 students (19% foreign students/30% women), 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members (1,800 academic). The university's teaching and research is focused on engineering and natural science.

Notable faculty and alumni

• Siegfried Becher (1806 - 1873), professor of economics.
• Paul Eisler (1907 - 1992), inventor of the printed circuit.
• Hugo Ehrlich (1879 - 1936), known Croatian architect.
• Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab.
• Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903 - 1992), was an Austrian locomotive designer and engineer.
• Karl Gölsdorf (1861 - 1916), was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer.
• Viktor Kaplan (1900), inventor of the Kaplan turbine.
• Milutin Milanković (1879 – 1958), geophysicist and civil engineer.
• Yordan Milanov (1867 - 1932), was one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century.
• Hubert Petschnigg (1913 - 1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz).
• Zvonimir Richtmann (1901 - 1941), Croatian Jewish physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist
• Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview.
• Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow.
• Heinz Zemanek (1920), Austrian computer pioneer.
• Keivan Ghaffari (1962), Iranian Electronic Engineer,currently Head of one of the Core Section of Nokia Siemens Networks.

Sports

The University hosted the IFIUS World Interuniversity Games in October 2007.

References

• ERC Grants Austria

External links

• Official Homepage
• TU Wien on Youtube (English Playlist)
• TISS Information System (e.g. links to Publications Database)
• Curricula (Fields of Study and Courses)
• Continuing Education Center - TU Wien (MBA Programs, MSc Programs, Certified