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	c. 3,300 (4,515 total)
Students	27,923 (2013)
Location	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Campus	Urban
Website	www.tuwien.ac.at

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.

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
• 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.

External links

• Official website
• 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)