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Vienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, the capital of Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" (k. k. Polytechnisches Institut), it currently has about 17,600 students (19% foreign students/30% women), 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members (1,800 academic).






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Vienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, the capital of Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" (k. k. Polytechnisches Institut), it currently has about 17,600 students (19% foreign students/30% women), 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members (1,800 academic). The university's teaching and research is focused on engineering
Engineering

Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....
 and natural science
Natural science

In science, the term natural science refers to a methodological naturalism approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or law of nature origin....
.

As of 2007, Vienna University of Technology ranks no. 166th of the world's top 200 universities by the Times Higher Education Supplement without making it onto the top 50 technology universities list.

Faculties and Institutes

  • Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation


  • Faculty of Physics


  • Faculty of Technical Chemistry


  • Faculty of Informatics


  • Faculty of Civil Engineering


  • Faculty of Architecture and Regional Planning


  • Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering


  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology


Famous alumni

  • Herbert Boeckl
  • Helmut Draxler
  • Max Fabiani
    Max Fabiani

    Max Fabiani, was a Slovenes-Italy art nouveau architect....
  • Ferdinand Fellner
    Ferdinand Fellner

    Ferdinand Fellner was an architect who along with Hermann Helmer designed several theaters and palaces across Europe in the late 19th century and early 20th century, including:...
  • Ludwig Greiner
    Ludwig Greiner

    Ludwig Greiner was an influential 19th-century forest and lumber industry management expert who improved the effectiveness of woodland valuation methods in the Kingdom of Hungary and trained a whole new generation of foresters in a comprehensive approach to the management of natural resources....
  • Viktor Kaplan
    Viktor Kaplan

    Viktor Kaplan was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine....
  • Milutin Milankovic
    Milutin Milankovic

    Milutin Milankovic , was a Serbian civil engineering and geophysics, best known for his theory of ice ages, relating variations of the Earth's orbit and long-term climate change, now known as Milankovitch cycles....
  • Richard von Mises
  • Boris Nemsic
    Boris Nemsic

    Boris Nem?ic is the Chief Executive Officer of Telekom Austria....
  • Roland Rainer
    Roland Rainer

    Roland Rainer was an Austrian architect.Born in Klagenfurt, Roland Rainer decided to become an architect when he was 18, so he studied at the Vienna University of Technology....
  • Hans Sedlmayr
  • Vladimir Šubic
    Vladimir Šubic

    Vladimir ?ubic, was a Slovenes architect. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He designed many buildings, most notably of Neboticnik in Ljubljana, which was the tallest building in Yugoslavia upon its completion....
  • Ivan Vurnik
    Ivan Vurnik

    Ivan Vurnik, was a Slovenes architect. Together with Jo?e Plecnik and Max Fabiani, Vurnik is considered the initiator of Slovenian modernist architecture....
  • Antoni Wiwulski
    Antoni Wiwulski

    Antoni Wiwulski was a Poland architect and sculptor.He was born February 20, 1877 in Totma near Vologda in Imperial Russia. He graduated from two of the most prestigious art and architecture universities of the epoch: the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna....
  • Heinz Zemanek
    Heinz Zemanek

    Heinz Zemanek is an Austrian computer pioneer, known primarily for building the first computer working entirely on transistors, called Mail?fterl, in 1955....
  • Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród
    Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród

    Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigr?d , commonly referred to as Julian Zachariewicz, was a Poland architect and Renovation, father of Alfred Zachariewicz....


Sports


The University hosted the IFIUS
IFIUS

IFIUS is a Federation whose main objective is to organise the yearly World Interuniversity Games - in which students from different Universities and Colleges worldwide compete in different sport competitions....
 World Interuniversity Games in October 2007.

External links

  • Information System (e.g. links to Publications Database)
  • (Fields of Study and Courses)
  • (MBA Programs, MSc Programs, Certified Programs)
  • Top Industrial Managers for Europe
    Top Industrial Managers for Europe

    Top Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities.It promotes graduate student exchanges and double degrees throughout Europe....
     (TIME) network for student mobility.


See also