Technical University of Berlin
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The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU-Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany. It was founded in 1879 and has about 29,500 students, the TU Berlin is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. And it also has a high proportion of foreign students, with 20% in the Summer Semester 2005 - that is roughly 6,000 students.
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History
The TU Berlin was formed in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the preexisting Building Academy (established in 1799) and the Vocational Academy (est. 1829). Since 1916 it has included the former Mining Academy, which was founded in 1770. It was closed after World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name.
Campus
The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin. The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg. The seven faculties have some 29,500 students enrolled in more than 50 subjects. (8 Jun 2005) There are 6,721 people working at the university: e.g. 348 professors, 1,775 postgraduate researchers, and 2,148 personnel working in the administration, the workshops, and the central facilities. In addition there are 1,779 student assistants and 136 trainees. (March 2005)
Organization
Since April 4, 2005, the TU Berlin is divided into the following faculties:
- Humanities
- Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Process Sciences and Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
- Merge of former faculties of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture - Environment - Society"
- Merge with faculty 5 (see above)
- Economics and Management
Students
With nearly 30,000 students, the TU Berlin is Germany's largest technical university. It also holds the record of highest percentage of students from other countries—about 20%.
Faculty
As of 2003, ca. 7100 employees work at the TU Berlin, including about 360 professors and 1,820 scientific employees.
Noted alumni and professors
(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)
- August Borsig, businessman
- Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist
- Wernher von Braun (1912–1976), physicist (rocket science)
- Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineer
- Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the filter design of electronic filters
- Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography)
- Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist
- George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist
- Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to the system theory
- Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
- Erwin Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
- Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect
- Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
- Hermann W. Vogel (1834–1898) photo-chemist
- Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), physicist
- Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer
See also
Other Universities of Berlin:
External links
- Official Homepage
- Institut für Technische Akustik (Institute of Technical Acoustics)
- Institute of Aero- and Astronauticsde:Technische Universität Berlin
fr:Technische Universität Berlin ja:ベルリン工科大学 nb:Technische Universität Berlin