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Technical University of Denmark
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The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt). The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (then a professor at the University of Copenhagen) who also served as its principal until his death in 1851.
From 1933 the institution was officially known as Danmarks Tekniske Højskole (DTH), which usually was translated as the 'Technical University of Denmark'.
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The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt). The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (then a professor at the University of Copenhagen) who also served as its principal until his death in 1851.
From 1933 the institution was officially known as Danmarks Tekniske Højskole (DTH), which usually was translated as the 'Technical University of Denmark'. Finally on 1 April 1994, in connection with the joining of Danmarks Ingeniørakademi (DIA) and DTH, the Danish name was changed to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, in order to include the word 'University', thus giving rise to the acronym DTU by which the university is commonly known today.
On 1 January 2007 the university was merged with the following Danish research centers: Forskningscenter Risø, Danmarks Fødevareforskning, Danmarks Fiskeriundersøgelser (from 1 January 2008: National Institute for Aquatic Resources; DTU Aqua), Danmarks Rumcenter, and Danmarks Transport-Forskning.
In November 2007 the Times Higher Education Supplement put the university as number 130 in their ranking of the universities of the world.
The student union at DTU is the 161-year old .
Campus
The university is located on a plain known as Lundtoftesletten in the northeastern end of the city of Lyngby. The area was previously home to the airfield Lundtofte Flyveplads.
The campus is roughly divided in half by the road Anker Engelunds Vej going in the east-west direction, and, perpendicular to that, by two lengthy, collinear parking lots located on either side of it. The campus is thus divided into four parts, referred to as quadrants, numbered 1 through 4 in correspondence with the conventional numbering of quadrants in the Cartesian coordinate system with north upwards.
Departments
- Risø National Laboratory - Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy
- Department of Systems Biology
- BYG•DTU
- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis — chair Søren Brunak
- Center for Electron Nanoscopy (DTU Cen)
- Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CICT)
- Center for Traffic and Transport (CTT)
- DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering
- DANCHIP
- Department of Chemical Engineering (KT)
- Department of Chemistry (KEMI)
- Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management (IPL)
- Department of Mathematics (MAT)
- Department of Mechanical Engineering (DTU Mekanik)
- Department of Physics (FYSIK)
- National Institute for Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua)
- Environment & Resources DTU (ER)
- Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (DTU Informatics)
- Micro and Nanotechnology (MIC)
- The Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark (DTV)
- Department of Electrical Engineering (DTU Elektro)
Notable alumni and professors
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