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History

• History

• Alumni

• Research

• Focus Points

• Cooperations

• Infrastructure

• EU Framework Programme

• Third Party Funds Development

• Awards & Grants

• Studies

• Bachelor Programmes

• Master Programmes

• Teacher Trainings

• Doctoral Programmes

• First Admissions

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 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)

• 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

• Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors

• Early stages of precipitation: 2007 - 2014

• Ferroic materials: 2008 - 2014

• Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility: 2009 - 2016

• Model based calibration methods: 2010 - 2016

• Portfolio risk management: 2006 - 2012

• Software engineering integration for flexible automation systems: 2010 - 2016

• Reliability issues in microelectronics: 2010 - 2016

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes

• Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes

• TU Vienna:

• AB-Tec Applied Bioscience Technology

• Computational Perception

• Energy Systems 2030

• Functional Matter

• FWF:

• Complex Quantum Systems

• Computational Materials Science

• Models of differential equation in research and technology

• Water Ressource Systems

• Building Solids for Function (SolidFun)

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

• 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:

• FoQuS - Foundations and Applications of Quantum Science

• FOXSI - Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces

• IR-ON – Nanostructures for Infrared Photonics

• ViCoM - Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory

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

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure

• DMQT (Designed Matter & Quantum Technologies)

• MCC (Materials Characterization Center)

• X-ray Center
• Surface Analytics Science Center
• USTEM (Center for Electron Microscopy)

• RES (Robust Embedded Systems)

• Low Temperature Facilities

• TRIGA Mark-II (Reactor)

• Vienna Scientific Cluster (High Performance Computing)

• ZMNS (Center for Micro- and Nanostructures)

Awards & Grants

• Awards & Grants

• 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

Awards & Grants

• Awards & Grants

• ERC-Grants

• Andrius Baltuska, Cycle-Sculpted Strong Field Optics
• Günter Blöschl, Deciphering River Flood Change
• Silke Bühler-Paschen, Quantum Criticality – The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales (Quantum Puzzle)
• Ulrike Diebold, Oxide Surfaces – Microscopic Processes and Phenomena at Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
• Georg Gottlob, Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology
• Christian Hellmich, MICROBONE – Multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, with links to biology and medicine
• Thorsten Schumm, Nuclear Atomic Clock
• Siegfried Selberherr, Modeling Silicon Spintronics
• Stefan Szeider, The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems

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 (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 - Structural Engineering (066 465)

• Civil Engineering - Building Management

• and Geoengineering (066 466)

• Civil Engineering - Infrastructure Planning

• and Management (066 467)

• Electrical Engineering

• Energy Engineering (066 435)

• Automation Technology (066 436)

• Telecommunication (066 437)

• Computer Technology (066 438)

• Microelectronics (066 439)

• Across faculties

• Materials Sciences (066 434)

• Biomedical Engineering (066 453)

Technical Chemistry

• Technical Chemistry

• Technical Chemistry – Synthesis (066 491)

• Technical Chemistry - Materials Technology and Materials Analytics (066 492)

• Technical Chemistry - Materials Chemistry

• (066 493)

• Technical Chemistry - Chemical Process Engineering (066 494)

• Technical Chemistry - Biotechnology and Bio-analytics (066 495)

• Biotechnology and Bioanalytics (066 658)

• Technical Mathematics

• Technical Mathematics (066 394)

• Statistics & Mathematics in Economics (066 395)

• Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (066 405)

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:

• Dkfm. Dr. Siegfried SELLITSCH (Chairman)

• DI Dr.h.c. Albert HOCHLEITNER

• DI Othmar PÜHRINGER

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Rita KAYSSER-PYZALLA

• Dr. Hannelore SEXL

• Dr. Veit SORGER

• Dr. Gabriele ZUNA-KRATKY