200 years of forward-thinking

200 years of forward-thinking

• 200 years of forward-thinking

• History

• Alumni

• Research

• Focus Points

• Cooperations

• Infrastructure

• EU Framework Programme

• Third Party Funds Development

• Awards & Grants

1815: Founded as „k. k. polytechnisches Institut"

• 1815: Founded as „k. k. polytechnisches Institut"

• 1865: First reform

• restructuring, implementation of faculties, concentration on technological disciplines)

• 1872: Renamed to „k. k. Technische Hochschule" (TH) new organisational statute (lasts until 1945)

• 1902: First doctorates awarded

• 1919: Admission for women

• 1975: Renamed to „Technische Universität" (TU)

• 1999: Implementation of University Act ´93

• 2004: Autonomy through University Act ´02

• 2006: Decision to remain at the current city location

• 2011: First female Rector

Five Research Focus Points:

• Five Research Focus Points:

• Computational Science and Engineering

• Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies

• Materials and Matter

• Information and Communication Technology

• Energy and Environment

Cooperation | Overview

• Cooperation | Overview

• On campus

• Cooperation & research centres connecting faculties
• TU doctoral programmes

• With Austrian universities

• TU Austria (Graz University of Technology, University of Leoben)
• Vienna Scientific Cluster (University of Vienna, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Graz University of Technology, University of Leoben, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

• Bi- und multilateral

• Christian Doppler-Labors
• FWF doctoral programmes
• National research networks of the FWF
• Special research fields of the FWF
• COMET programmes of the FFG

• Economy

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 1/2

• Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 1/2

• Anthropogenic Resources

• Application Oriented Coating Developement

• Early stages of precipitation

• Ferroic materials

• Interfaces in Metal-Supported Electrochemical Energy Converters

• Mechanistic and physiological Methods for more productive Bioprocesses

• Model based calibration methods

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 2/2

• Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 2/2

• Modellbasierte Prozessregelung in der Stahlindustrie

• Photopolymers in digital and reconstructive Dentistry

• Reliability issues in microelectronics

• Software engineering integration for flexible automation systems

• Thermoelektrizität

• Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility

• Zukünftige magnetische Sensoren und Materialien

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 1/2

• Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 1/2

• TU Vienna:

• Catalysis Materials and Technology

• Vienna Graduate School on Computational Materials Science

• Adaptive Distributed Systems

• Environmental Informatics

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 2/2

• Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 2/2

• FWF:

• Complex Quantum Systems

• Dissipation und Dispersion in Differentialgleichungen

• Solid Fun - Funktionelle Festkörper

• Wasserwirtschaftliche Systeme

• Particles and Interactions

• NanoCell - Nano-Analytics of Cellular Systems

• Logische Methoden in der Informatik

• Specials:

• Vienna PhD School of Informatics

• WIT - Women in Technology

Cooperation | National Research Networks (NFN) sponsored by the FWF:

• Cooperation | National Research Networks (NFN) sponsored by the FWF:

• Analytic Combinatorics and Probabilistic Number Theory

• Industrial Geometry

• High Performance Bulk Nanostructured Materials

• Nanoscience on Surfaces

• Rigorous Systems Engineering

• Signal and Information Processing in Science and Engineering (sub-project with the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna )

Cooperation | Special Research Areas (SFB) sponsored by the FWF:

• Cooperation | Special Research Areas (SFB) sponsored by the FWF:

• Algorithmische und enumerative Kombinatorik

• FoQuS - Foundations and Applications of Quantum Science

• FOXSI - Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces

• IR-ON – Nanostructures for Infrared Photonics

• Next Lite - Next Generation Light Synthesis and Interaction

• Transmembrane transporters in health and disease

• ViCoM - Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory

• Quasi Monte Carlo Methods Theory and Applications

K2-Centres:

• K2-Centres:

• ACIB - Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology

• K2-Mobility - K2-Mobility SVT sustainable vehicle technologies

• MPPE - Integrated Research in Materials, Processing and Product Engineering

• XTribology - Excellence Center of Tribology

• K1-Centres:

• ACMIT - Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology

• Bioenergy 2020+

• CEST Centre of Excellence in Electrochemical Surface Technoloy and Materials

• CTR - Carinthian Tech Research - Competence Center for Advanced Sensor Technologies

• FTW - Competence Center for Information and Communication Technologies

• K1-MET - Competence Center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development

• PCCL-K1 - Competence Center in Polymer Engineering and Science

• SBA 2 - Secure Business Austria 2

• RCPE - Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH

• VRVis - Visualization, Rendering and Visual Analysis Research Center

• Wood COMET – Centre of Excellence for Wood Composite Materials and Wood Chemstry

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure

• NMR-Spectroscopy Center

• X-ray Center

• Analytical Instrumentation Center

• Low Temperature Facilities

• TRIGA Mark-II (Reactor)

• USTEM (Center for Electron Microscopy)

• VSC - Vienna Scientific Cluster, High Performance Computing

• ZMNS (Center for Micro- and Nanostructures)

Awards & Grants 1/2

• Awards & Grants 1/2

• Winners of the Wittgenstein-Award

• 1997: Erich Gornik – Semiconductor nanoelectronics
• 1998: Georg Gottlob – Information systems and artificial intelligence
• 1998: Walter Schachermayer – Stochastic processes in actuarial mathematics
• 2002: Ferenc Krausz – Quantum optics: ultra fast processes, strong field phenomena
• 2006: Jörg Schmiedmayer – Atomic physics, quantum optics, miniaturisation / chip technology
• 2013: Ulrike Diebold - Applied Physics, Oxide Surfaces

Awards & Grants 2/2

• Awards & Grants 2/2

• ERC-Grants

Architecture

• Architecture

• Architecture (033 243)

• Civil Engineering

• Civil Engineering and Management of

• Infrastructure (033 265)

• Electrical Engineering and Information

• Technology

• Electrical Engineering and Information

• Technology (033 235)

• Computer Sciences

• Media Informatics and Visual Computing (033 532)

• Medical Informatics (033 533)

• Software & Information Engineering (033 534)

• Computer Engineering (033 535)

• Mechanical Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering (033 245)

• Regional Planning and Development

• Regional Planning and Development (033 240)

Architecture

• Architecture

• Architecture (066 443)

• Building Science and Technology (066 444)

• Civil Engineering

• Civil Engineering (066 505)

• Electrical Engineering

• Energy Engineering and

• Automation Technology (066 506)

• Telecommunication (066 507)

• Microelectronics and Photonics (066 508)

• Computer Technology (066 438)

• Across faculties

• Materials Sciences (066 434)

• Biomedical Engineering (066 453)

Chemical and Process Engineering

• Chemical and Process Engineering

• Chemical and Process Engineering (066 473)

• Technical Chemistry

• Technical Chemistry (066 490)

• Chemistry and Technology of Materials (066 658)

• Technical Mathematics

• Technical Mathematics (066 394)

• Statistics & Mathematics in Economics (066 395)

• Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (066 405)

• Technical Physics

• Physical Energy and Measurement Engineering (066 460)

• Technical Physics (066 461)

After finishing a master programme (or a similar degree) there is the possibility of a doctoral programme:

• After finishing a master programme (or a similar degree) there is the possibility of a doctoral programme:

• Doctoral Programme in Technical Sciences („Dr. techn.“)

• Doctoral Programme in Natural Sciences („Dr. rer.nat.“)

• Doctoral Programme in Social and Economic Sciences („Dr. rer.soc.oec.“)

Membership in international associations:

• Membership in international associations:

• EUA (European University Association)

• SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education)

• CESAER (Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education)

• IACEE (International Association for Continuing Engineering Education)

• TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe)

• GE4 (Global Education for European Engineers and Entrepreneurs)

Membership in international subject-specific academic networks:

• Membership in international subject-specific academic networks:

• EUPEN (European Physics Education Network)

• ECTN (European Chemistry Thematic Network)

• LE:NOTRE (Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture)

• Mobility and scholarship programmes:

• ERASMUS (Mobility of students and teaching staff: EEA-countries, 250 bilateral agreements )

• ERASMUS Mundus (Mobility of students, graduate students, teaching staff: Russia)

Management 1/2

• Management 1/2

• The University is led by the Rector and four Vice Rectors responsible for Research, Academic Affairs, Finance as well as HR and Gender :

Management 2/2

• Management 2/2

• The Senate is the supreme collegial board, which consists of 26 members – professors, representatives of the mid-level faculty, non-scientific staff and students.

• The University Council consists of seven members from economy and science. It acts as a supervisory board:

• Dr. Dr.h.c. Veit SORGER (Chairman)

• Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sabine HERLITSCHKA, MBA

• Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Manfred BROY

• Senatorin h.c.mult. Mag. Monika FEHRER

• Em.O.Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Peter SCHUSTER

• Mag. Herbert TUMPEL

• Dr. Gabriele ZUNA-KRATKY