The
Technische Universität München (
TUM; sometimes translated as
Technical University Munich) is a research university with campuses in
MunichMunich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg...
, Garching, and
WeihenstephanWeihenstephan is a small city near Freising north of Munich, Germany and belongs to Freising district.Weihenstephan is known for:...
.
TUM is among the highest acclaimed universities in Germany, producing several Nobel Laureates including
Gerhard ErtlGerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany...
who in 2007 received the
Nobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
.
- 1868 University founded by King Ludwig II .
- 1877 Awarded the designation ‘Technische Hochschule’.
- 1901 Granted the right to award doctorates.
- 1902 Approval of the election of the Principal by the teaching staff.
- 1930 Integration of the College of Agriculture and Brewing in Weihenstephan.
- 1949–1954: Reconstruction of the main building of the Technische Universität by Robert Vorhoelzer
'Robert Vorhoelzer was a German architect.Bavarian architect Robert Vorhoelzer belongs to the classical modernist school of architecture that is otherwise rather underrepresented in Bavaria. Most of his works were build when Vorhoelzer was Oberbaurat of the Bavarian postal administration...
after WWII.
The
Technische Universität München (
TUM; sometimes translated as
Technical University Munich) is a research university with campuses in
MunichMunich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg...
, Garching, and
WeihenstephanWeihenstephan is a small city near Freising north of Munich, Germany and belongs to Freising district.Weihenstephan is known for:...
.
TUM is among the highest acclaimed universities in Germany, producing several Nobel Laureates including
Gerhard ErtlGerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany...
who in 2007 received the
Nobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
.
History
- 1868 University founded by King Ludwig II .
- 1877 Awarded the designation ‘Technische Hochschule’.
- 1901 Granted the right to award doctorates.
- 1902 Approval of the election of the Principal by the teaching staff.
- 1930 Integration of the College of Agriculture and Brewing in Weihenstephan.
- 1949–1954: Reconstruction of the main building of the Technische Universität by Robert Vorhoelzer
'Robert Vorhoelzer was a German architect.Bavarian architect Robert Vorhoelzer belongs to the classical modernist school of architecture that is otherwise rather underrepresented in Bavaria. Most of his works were build when Vorhoelzer was Oberbaurat of the Bavarian postal administration...
after WWII. Construction of a new administrational building and library.
- 1957 Given the status of a ‘public legal body’.
- 1958 Research Reactor Munich (FRM), Garching officially assigned to the TH München.
- 1967 Establishment of a faculty of medicine
- 1970 Renamed to ‘Technische Universität München’.
- 2000 Establishment of Weihenstephan Science Centre for Life & Food Sciences, Land Use and Environment (WZW) belonging to the TUM.
- 2002 The German Institute of Science and Technology founded in Singapore.
- 2004 Official opening of Forschungsreaktor München II
The Forschungsreaktor München II is the leading German research reactor. It serves as neutron source , and is officially named "Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz") in honor of the physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz who had conducted a highly successful research program at FRM I.- Overview...
, a leading neutron sourceNeutron source is a general term referring to a variety of devices that emit neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons...
, on March 2.
Campuses
The TUM, like many German universities, is a “no campus” university. However, with further expansion plans for the Garching site, more and more departments are to be placed into new buildings in Garching. The Garching campus, unlike the downtown area, is set up more like a traditional “quadrangle” style campus with a large grouping of buildings. At the moment, university buildings are spread over four main and several minor locations:
- Main campus in downtown Munich
Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg...
- Garching (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, …), complete with an on-campus General Electric Company
The General Electric Company, or GE , is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. In 2009, Forbes ranked GE as the world's largest company...
facility
- Weihenstephan
Weihenstephan is a small city near Freising north of Munich, Germany and belongs to Freising district.Weihenstephan is known for:...
(Center for Life and Food Science)
- Hospital “Klinikum Rechts der Isar” (Medicine), Munich
Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg...
TUM Extended Board of Management
The Extended Board of Management advises the Executive Board of Management and assists in discharging its duties. Alongside the Chief Executives (President, Chancellor, Vice Presidents), it consists of the Department Deans, the Speaker for the Central Scientific Institutions and the Speaker for the Deans of Studies.
TUM Supervisory Board
The TUM Supervisory Board is the TUM's monitoring body and steering committee, comprising the members of the Senate and the External University Council. The External University Council comprises eight high-ranking representatives from the fields of science, culture, industry and politics.
Current members include:
- Susanne Klatten
Susanne Klatten is the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt. As of 2009, she is the richest woman in Germany and the 35th richest person in the world.-Education:...
, Member of the Supervisory Board, AltanaAltana AG is a German chemical company based in Wesel. It develops, produces and distributes special products for coatings manufacturers, paint and plastics processing. It has laboratories, manufacturing and sales subsidiaries in more than 15 countries worldwide.Since 1977, Altana has been listed...
, BMW AG
Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee, or ‘Kuratorium’, consists of up to 15 high-ranking persons from industry, culture and politics who support, advise and sponsor the Technische Universität in the public domain.
Current members include:
- Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Board of Directors, EADS
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. is a large European aerospace corporation, formed by the merger on 10 July 2000 of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG of Germany, Aérospatiale-Matra of France, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA of Spain...
- Henning Kagemann, CEO, SAP AG
SAP AG is a multinational software development and consulting corporation, which provides enterprise software applications and support to businesses of all sizes globally...
- Christian Ude
Christian Ude is the current mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party.Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the football club TSV 1860 München....
, Mayor of Munich
- Stefan Vilsmeier, Chairman of the Board, BrainLAB AG
- Angelika Niebler
Angelika Niebler is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party...
, Member of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is the English name for a person who has been elected to the European Parliament, one of the European Union's two legislative bodies. MEPs are the European Union's equivalents of a country's national legislators in either the lower house or unicameral...
- Hildegund Holzheid, Former President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court
- Edeltraud Böhm-Amtmann, Principal of the Bavarian delegation to the EU
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 Member States, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community...
Students
Currently TUM has approx. 21,600 students in undergraduate and graduate programs of which 3,700 are foreign students.
Faculty
TUM has 395 professors, 4,160 academic and 2,801 non-academic staff.
TUM is divided into 12 departments:
- Architecture
- Business Administration
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering and Surveying
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Informatics (Computer Science)
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medicine, including the university hospital “Rechts der Isar”
- Physics
- Sports Science
- Weihenstephan Center for Life and Food Science
- Education
Subject ranking among top German universities
TUM is highly ranked by
DAADThe German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
on the subject-specific ranking system, in which, universities are shown in alphabetical order in ranking groups (Top Group, Middle Group, Final Group or Not Ranked). The best universities concerning a certain subfield, are found in Top Group; while the worst ones lie in Final Group. Generally, two to four universities are in Top Group.
Subject
- Architecture (top)
- Biochemistry (no info)
- Biology (middle)
- Business Administration (top)
- Business Computing (not ranked)
- Chemistry (top)
- Civil Engineering (top)
- Computer Science (top)
- Electrical and Information Engineering (top)
- Food Chemistry (no info)
- Geoscience (top)
- Human Medicine (middle)
- Mathematics (top)
- Mechanical Engineering (top)
- Physics (top)
- Process and Chemical Engineering (top)
Research
TUM features a strong, characteristic profile in the fields of Science and Engineering. Alongside the traditional key areas addressed by technical universities, powerful links have been also established with the life sciences, ranging from nutrition and food sciences, biotechnology and bioinformatics to medicine. Much of its innovative research and teaching has emerged from collaborations between the disciplines.
Nobel Prize
- 1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland
Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele...
(faculty 1913-21), Chemistry
- 1929 Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
(student), Literature
- 1930 Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.-Early years:...
(faculty 1921-1945), Chemistry
- 1961 Rudolf L. Mößbauer, Physics (“Mößbauer effect”)
- 1964 Feodor Lynen, Medicine or Physiology
- 1964 Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch was a German American biochemist. Bloch received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.-Biography:Bloch was born in Neisse in the German Empire's Prussian Province of...
, Medicine or Physiology
- 1972 John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory , the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity....
, Physics
- 1973 Ernst Otto Fischer
Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry....
, Chemistry (Sandwich complexes)
- 1985 Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing, born June 28, 1943 in Schroda is a German physicist. For his discovery of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....
, Physics (Quantum-Hall effect)
- 1986 Ernst Ruska
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.Ruska was born in Heidelberg...
, Physics (electron microscopeAn electron microscope is a type of microscope, a scientific instrument which is used to magnify things on a fine scale. That uses a particle beam of electrons to illuminate a specimen and create a highly-magnified image...
)
- 1987 Karl Alexander Müller
Karl Alexander Müller is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Johannes Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials.-Biography:...
, Physics
- 1988 Johann Deisenhofer
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.Deisenhofer earned his...
, Chemistry
- 1988 Robert Huber
Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. He was educated at the Humanistische Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960...
, Chemistry
- 1989 Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work....
, Physics (ion trapAn ion trap is a combination of electric or magnetic fields that captures ions in a region of a vacuum system or tube. Ion traps have a number of scientific uses such as trapping ions while the ion's quantum state is manipulated and mass spectrometery...
)
- 1991 Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist.Erwin Neher studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US...
, Medicine or Physiology
- 2007 Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany...
, Chemistry
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2001 Arthur Konnerth — Neurophysiology
- 1997 Jean Karen Gregory — Materials Science
- 1997 Ernst Mayr — Computer Science
- 1995 Gerhard Hirzinger — Computer Science
- 1994 Manfred Broy
Manfred Broy is a German computer scientist.Broy is a professor in the Institut für Informatik at the Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.- Selected books :...
— Computer Science
- 1991 Karl-Heinz Hoffmann — Applied Mathematics
- 1989 Joachim Milberg — Production Technology, Mechanical Engineering
- 1987 Gerhard Abstreiter — Semiconductor Physics
- 1987 Wolfgang A. Herrmann — Inorganic Chemistry
- 1987 Hubert Schmidbaur — Inorganic Chemistry
Partnerships
TUM's first spin-off is the German Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), located in Singapore (together with
National University of SingaporeThe National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
and
Nanyang Technological UniversityNanyang Technological University is a major research university in Singapore. The university's main 200-hectare garden campus, known as the Yunnan Garden campus, is in the south-western part of the island. It houses Singapore's largest on-campus residence infrastructure including 16 halls of...
).
TUM has currently over 130 international partnerships, among them:
- École Centrale Paris
École Centrale Paris is a renowned French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special...
, TU Eindhoven, Technical University of DenmarkThe Technical University of Denmark was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' . The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted who also served as its principal until his death in 1851...
, Technical University of Vienna,
- MIT, Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States...
, University of IllinoisThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public research university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois system....
, Cornell UniversityCornell University is a private university located in Ithaca, New York, USA, that is a member of the Ivy League.Cornell counts more than 255,000 living alumni, 28 Rhodes Scholars and 41 Nobel laureates affiliated with the university as faculty or students...
, University of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. The main campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol...
, Georgia Tech
- National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is a public university located in Hong Kong. Established in 1991 under Hong Kong Law Chapter 1141 , it is one of the nine universities in Hong Kong.Professor Tony F. Chan is the current president of HKUST...
, Tsinghua UniversityTsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name “Tsinghua Xuetang”. The school was renamed the "Tsinghua School" in 1912. The university section was founded in 1925 and the name “National Tsinghua...
, University of TokyoThe , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano...
,
- University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria...
, Indian Institute of Technology DelhiThe Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi , commonly known as IIT-Delhi or IIT-D , is a major college of engineering in Delhi, India...
, Sirindhorn International Institute of TechnologySirindhorn International Institute of Technology is a semi-autonomous institute of technology established in 1992 within Thammasat University. It is located in Pathum Thani, Thailand...
, and many others.
TUM is also a partner of LAOTSE, an international network for student and senior lecturers among leading European and Asian universities, as well as a member of the
TIMETop Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities....
network (
Top Industrial Managers for EuropeTop Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities....
).
See also
External links