Technology for PeopleVienna University of Technology at a Glance

History | Alumni | Research Teaching | Mobility | Organisation | Location Beyond Technology | Facts & Figures

Overview

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

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Mobility

Organisation• Management

• Faculties/Institutes

Location

Beyond Technology

Facts & Figures

History

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

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Alumni 1/2

Richard ZsigmondyNobel laureate Chemistry

Franz Viehböck(astronaut)

Electrical Engineering

Luis Trenker(alpinist)

Architecture

Gebrüder Strauss(composers)

Josef – Civil Engineering

Johann – Business Administration

Rudolph Steiner(antroposopher)

Teacher training:

Mathematics and Science

Christian Doppler(Doppler-Effect)

Physics, Mathematics4

Alumni 2/2

Herbert Boeckl(painter)

Architecture

Viktor Kaplan(Kaplan-Turbine)

Mechanical Engineering

Boris Nemsic(manager)

Electrical Engineering

Fritz Lang(film director)

Civil Engineering

Susanna Zapreva(manager)

Electrical Engineering

Ingeborg

Hochmair-Desoyer(researcher)

Electrical Engineering5

Research

Five Research Focus Points:

• Computational Science and Engineering

• Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies

• Materials and Matter

• Information and Communication Technology

• Energy and Environment

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Research

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, 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 7FWF = Austrian Science Fund; FFG = Austrian Research Promotion Agency

Research

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 1/2

• Anthropogenic Resources: 2012-2019

• Application Oriented Coating Developement: 2011-2018

• Early stages of precipitation: 2007 – 2014

• Ferroic materials: 2008 – 2014

• Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility: 2009 – 2016

• Mechanistic and physiological Methods for more productive Bioprocesses: 2013-2020

• Model based calibration methods: 2010 – 2016

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Research

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 2/2

• Photopolymers in digital and reconstructive Dentistry: 2012-2019

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

• Reliability issues in microelectronics: 2010 – 2016

• Thermoelektrizität: 2013-2020

• Zukünftige magnetische Sensoren und Materialien: 2013-2020

• Modellbasierte Prozessregelung in der Stahlindustrie: 2014-2020

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Research

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 1/2

TU Vienna:

• AB-Tec Applied Bioscience Technology

• Catalysis Materials and Technology

• Computational Perception

• Energy Systems 2030

• Energiebewusste Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung

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• Mathematical Logic in Computer Science

• Vienna Graduate School on Computational Materials Science

• Adaptive Distributed Systems

• Environmental Informatics

• Molecular and Elemental Imaging in Bioscience

• Urbanes Energie- und Mobilitätssystem

Research

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 Technology11

Research

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 )

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Research

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

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Research

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

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Cooperation | COMET Programmes 1/2

Research

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K-Projects:• AAHM R2P - Alpine Airborne Hydromapping

• AdvAluE - Advanced Aluminium Applications within ECO Transport

• ECV - Embedded Computer Vision

• FFT - Future Farm Technology

• GSG - Green Storage Grid

• HFA-TiMBER - Timber in Material, Building and Environmental Research

• JOIN4+ - Network of Excellence for Joining Technologies JOIN 4+

• Micromat - Reliability and Lifetime of Material Interconnects in Electronics

• MPPF - Multifunctional Plug & Play Facade

• PAC - Process Analytical Chemistry - Data Acquisition and Data Processing

• PolyComp - Functional Polymer Composites

• ProDSS - Integrated Decision Support Systems for Industrial Processes

• Softnet II - Competence Network in Next Generation Software Engineering

• ZPT - K-Project non-destructive Testing and Tomography

Cooperation | COMET Programmes

Research

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)

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Research

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EU Framework Programme

Research

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Third Party Funds Development

Source: Intellectual Capital Report 2005 – 2013, Controlling

Research

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

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Research

Awards & Grants 2/2

• ERC-Grants

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• Christian Hellmich, MICROBONE – Multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, with links to biology and medicine

• Arno Rauschenbeutel, Nanofiber Quantum Networks

• Jörg Schmiedmayer, Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Relaxation in Many Body Quantum Systems (Acronym: QuantumRelax)

• Thorsten Schumm, Nuclear Atomic Clock

• Franz Schuster, Isoperimetric Inequality

• Siegfried Selberherr, Modeling Silicon Spintronics

• Stefan Szeider, The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems

• 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

• Karsten Held, Ab initio Dynamical Vertex Approximation

• Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Bio-Materialforschung

Teaching

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Teaching at TU Vienna

The education offered by the TU Vienna is rewarded by high international and domestic recognition. The chances for graduates for getting an attractive employment are very prosperous. The high demand for graduates of the TU Vienna from economy and industry,governmental as well as research institutions are manifest evidence for this.

Wide Range of Studies

The TU Vienna offers 18 bachelor-, 31 master- and 3 doctoral programmes.Since October 1, 2006, the study programmes have been taught as bachelor and master programmes, according to the Bologna process.

Teaching

ArchitectureArchitecture (033 243)

Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Management of

Infrastructure (033 265)

Electrical Engineering and Information

TechnologyElectrical Engineering and Information

Technology (033 235)

Computer SciencesMedia Informatics (033 532)

Medical Informatics (033 533)

Software & Information Engineering (033 534)

Computer Engineering (033 535)

Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering (033 245)

Regional Planning and DevelopmentRegional Planning and Development (033 240)

Technical ChemistryTechnical Chemistry (033 290)

Technical MathematicsTechnical Mathematics (033 201)

Statistics and Mathematics in Economics (033 203)

Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (033 205)

Technical PhysicsTechnical Physics (033 261)

Chemical and Process EngineeringChemical and Process Engineering (033 273)

Surveying and GeoinformationGeodesy and Geomatics Engineering (033 221)

Business InformaticsBusiness Informatics (033 526)

Mechanical Engineering - EconomicsMechanical Engineering - Management (033 282)

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Studies | Bachelor Programmes

Teaching

ArchitectureArchitecture (066 443)

Building Science and Technology (066 444)

Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering - Structural Engineering (066 465)

Civil Engineering - Building Management

and Geoengineering (066 466)

Civil Engineering - Infrastructure Planning

and Management (066 467)

Electrical EngineeringEnergy Engineering (066 435)

Automation Technology (066 436)

Telecommunication (066 437)

Computer Technology (066 438)

Microelectronics (066 439)

Across facultiesMaterials Sciences (066 434)

Biomedical Engineering (066 453)

Computer SciencesComputational Intelligence (066 931)

Visual Computing (066 932)

Information & Knowledge Management (066 933)

Media Informatics (066 935)

Medical Informatics (066 936)

Software Engineering & Internet Computing (066 937)

Computer Engineering (066 938)

Didactic for Informatics (E 066 950)

European Masters Program in Computational

Logic (066 011)

Materials SciencesMaterials Sciences (066 434)

Regional PlanningRegional Planning and Development (066 440)

Chemical and Process EngineeringChemical and Process Engineering (066 473)

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Studies | Master Programmes 1/2

Programm code in parentheses

Teaching

Technical ChemistryTechnical 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 MathematicsTechnical Mathematics (066 394)

Statistics & Mathematics in Economics (066 395)

Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (066 405)

Technical PhysicsPhysical Energy and Measurement Engineering

(066 460)

Technical Physics (066 461)

Surveying and GeoinformationSurvey and Land Registration (066 462)

Geodesy and Geophysics (066 463)

Geomatics Engineering and Cartography (066 464)

International Programm Cartography (066 200)

Business InformaticsBusiness Informatics (066 926)

Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering (066 445)

Mechanical Engineering - EconomicsMechanical Engineering – Management (066 482)

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Studies | Master Programmes 2/2

Programm code in parentheses

Teaching

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.“)

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Studies | Doctoral Programmes

Teaching

Programme absolute

Architecture 1,125

Civil Engineering 479

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

440

Informatics 754

Mechanical Engineering 400

Regional Planning and Development 253

Technical Chemistry 334

First Admissions: Bachelor Programmes 1/2

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Teaching

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Programme absolute

Technical Mathematics 374

Technical Physics 187

Chemical and Process Engineering 153

Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering

98

Business Informatics 139

Mechanical Engineering - Economics

403

Winter term 2013/14, source: https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/statistik/public_lehre/inskriptionen_pro_studienrichtung

First Admissions: Bachelor Programmes 2/2

Mobility

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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)

International cooperations and mobility

Partner universities The TU Vienna has bilateral agreements with more than 80 universities around the world.

Membership in academic networks:

•ASEA-Uninet (Southeast Asia)

•Eurasia-Pacific Uninet (China, Central Asia, Russia)

•ATHENS (Advanced Technology Higher Education Network)

•4 x TU (TU Bratislava, TU Budapest, TU Prag, TU Vienna)

•Technical Universities of European Capitals

Mobility

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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)

• Joint Study (Mobility of students: USA, CAN, Australia, Latin America, Russia, Southeast Asia)

• CEEPUS (Mobility of students and teaching staff: East and Southeast Europe)

International Study Programmes:

• European Masters Programme in Computational Logic (Erasmus Mundus)

• Double-, Joint-Degrees: Ecoles Centrales, INSA Lyon, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Politecnico di Milano, UACG Sofia, Tongji University, Shanghai

• Master Programmes taught in English: Biomedical Engineering, Building Science and Technology

• TUW-Summer University

Organisation

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 :

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from left to right: Adalbert Prechtl (Vice Rector for Academic Affairs), Sabine Seidler (Rector), Johannes Fröhlich (Vice Rector for Research), Anna Steiger (Vice Rector for Human Resources and Gender, Paul Jankowitsch (Vice Rector for Finance)

Organisation

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

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Organisation

Faculty Bachelor + Master Programmes

Institutes

Architecture and Planning 1 + 2 6

Civil Engineering 1 + 1 8

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

1 + 4 9

Informatics 4 + 8 7

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 1 + 1 9

Mathematics and Geoinformation 4 + 5 5

Physics 1 + 2 4

Technical Chemistry 1 + 2 4

(interdisciplinary) 0 + 2 -

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Faculties

Location

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Beyond Technology

TU Orchester Since1984, international concert tours.

TU BallVienna‘s oldest ball (originally called "Technikerkränzchen" in 1815)

takes place in Vienna Hofburg, every last Thursday in January.

TU-Forum Topics with up to date, divisive content and technical background.

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TUW Racing Team Students design and build a racing car and take part in international formula-student competitions.

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Facts & Figures 1/2

Finances*

315 Mio. € turnover

231 Mio. € balance sheet total

Rooms

> 9.000 rooms

290,000 m² total area

Staff**

3,279 scientific staff

thereof 137 professors

1,255 non-scientific staff

4,528 total staff

35Sources: * Balance of Accounts 2012 ** Intellectual Capital Report 2012

Facts & Figures 2/2

Library*

1,4 Mio. book stocks

> 3,8 Mio. Web-Server/Access to library services(virtual visits)

Students**

27,923

thereof 27.2% women

Alumni**

2,399 first and second degrees

thereof 1,188 bachelor programmes

thereof 757 master programmes

thereof 205 diploma programmes

thereof 249 doctoral programmes

36Sources: * Library (2013), ** Intellectual Capital Report 2013