TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in

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, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recognition in teaching as well as in research, and it is a highly esteemed partner of innovation-oriented enterprises. It currently has about 28,100 students (29% women), eight faculties and about 5,000 staff members (3,800 academics). The university's teaching and research is focused on

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

, and

natural science Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

History

The institution was founded in 1815 by Emperor Francis I of Austria as the '' k.k. Polytechnische Institut'' (Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute). The first rector was

Johann Joseph von Prechtl Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl (16 November 1778, Bischofsheim, Grand-Dukal Würzburg (today's) Lower Franconia 28 October 1854, Wieden No. 54 (today's Paniglgasse, 4th district of Vienna)) was a German-born Austrian (since 1802) technologis ...

. It was renamed the ''Technische Hochschule'' (College of Technology) in 1872. When it began granting doctoral and higher degrees in 1975, it was renamed the ''Technische Universität Wien'' (Vienna University of Technology).

Academic reputation

As a university of technology, TU Wien covers a wide spectrum of scientific concepts from abstract pure research and the fundamental principles of science to applied technological research and partnership with industry. TU Wien is ranked #192 by the

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, #406 by the Center of World University Rankings, and it is positioned among the best 401-500 higher education institutions globally by the

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. The computer science department has been consistently ranked among the top 100 in the world by the QS World University Ranking and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings respectively.

Organization

TU Wien has eight faculties led by deans: Architecture and Planning, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Mathematics and Geoinformation, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Physics. The University is led by the Rector and four Vice Rectors (responsible for Research, Academic Affairs, Finance as well as Human Resources and Gender). The Senate has 26 members. The University Council, consisting of seven members, acts as a supervisory board.

Research

Development work in almost all areas of technology is encouraged by the interaction between basic research and the different fields of engineering sciences at TU Wien. Also, the framework of cooperative projects with other universities, research institutes and business sector partners is established by the research section of TU Wien. TU Wien has sharpened its research profile by defining competence fields and setting up interdisciplinary collaboration centres, and clearer outlines will be developed. Research focus points of TU Wien are introduced as computational science and engineering, quantum physics and quantum technologies, materials and matter, information and communication technology and energy and environment. The EU Research Support (EURS) provides services at TU Wien and informs both researchers and administrative staff in preparing and carrying out EU research projects.

Notable faculty and alumni

Plus-Energie-Bürohochhaus TU Getreidemarkt

Freihaus - Vienna University of Technology

Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (7 September 1903 – 11 February 1992) was an Austrian locomotive designer and engineer. Giesl-Gieslingen was born in 1903 in Trient, Tirol, and studied at the Technical College in Vienna. In 1924 he published a technical ...

(1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer *

Alexander Meissner Alexander Meissner (in German: Alexander Meißner) (September 14, 1883 – January 3, 1958) was an Austrian engineer and physicist. He was born in Vienna and died in Berlin. His field of interest was: antenna design, amplification and detection ...

(1883 – 1958), Austrian engineer and physicist, co-inventor of the

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(1911–1993), designer of the

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Benno Mengele Benno Mengele (11 December 1898 in Zwettl, Lower Austria – 15 September 1971 in Vienna) was an Austrian electrical engineer. Mengele studied from 1918 to 1923 at the Vienna University of Technology and worked from 1922 at the Austrian Siemens-S ...

(1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer *

Camillo Sitte Camillo Sitte (17 April 1843 – 16 November 1903) was an Austrian architect, painter and urban theorist whose work influenced urban planning and land use regulation. Today, Sitte is best remembered for his 1889 book, ''City Planning According to ...

(1843-1903), Austrian architect * Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist *

Edmund Hlawka Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting profes ...

(1916-2009), Austrian mathematician *

Edo Šen Edo Šen (born Edo Schön; 1877–1949) was a Croatian Jews in Croatia, Jewish architect notable for creating the foundation of the modern Croatian architecture. Early life Šen was born in Zagreb on 10 March 1877. After high school gradua ...

(1877–1949), Croatian architect * Elfriede Tungl (1922-1981) civil engineer, first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in civil engineering, in 1973 became the first female associate professor at TU Wien. *

Ernst Hiesmayr Ernst Hiesmayr (11 July 1920 in Innsbruck – 6 August 2006 in Bregenz) was an Austrian architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna. Life As a student in his high school years Ernst Hiesmayr already worked on cons ...

(1920-2006), architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna *

Ferdinand Piëch Ferdinand Karl Piëch (; 17 April 1937 – 25 August 2019) was an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the executive board (''Vorstandsvorsitzender'') of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of th ...

(1937-2019), Austrian

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, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group *

Franz Pitzinger Franz Pitzinger (22 May 1858, Enzersdorf an der Fischa – 10 October 1933, Hofstetten-Grünau) was a naval architect in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Austria-Hungary. Naval career He studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna Uni ...

(1858–1933), Constructor General of the Austrian Navy *

Gottfried Ungerboeck Gottfried Ungerboeck (born 15 March 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian communications engineer. Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree (with emphasis on telecommunications) from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from th ...

(1940), inventor of

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, IBM Fellow *

Günter Blöschl Professor Günter Blöschl (born 11 July 1961) is an Austrian hydrologist, engineer and academic. In 2020, Blöschl was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering for international leadership in the prediction and management o ...

(born 1961), Austrian hydrologist *

Hannspeter Winter Hannspeter Winter (born in Wels on 22 August 1941; died in Vienna on 8 November 2006) was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on hollow atoms and held a full professorship at the TU Wien. He won the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science a ...

(1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist *

Heinz Zemanek Heinz Zemanek (actually ''Heinrich Josef Zemanek'') (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. Th ...

(1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer *

Hellmuth Stachel Hellmuth Stachel (born October 6, 1942 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian mathematician, a Professor of Geometry at the Technical University of Vienna, who is known due to his contributions to geometry, kinematics and computer-aided design. Biogr ...

(born 1942), Austrian mathematician * Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer *

Hermann Knoflacher Hermann Knoflacher (born 21 September 1940 in Villach) is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology. Life and teachings Knoflacher completed degrees ...

(born 1940), Austrian engineer *

Hubert Petschnigg Hubert Petschnigg (31 October 1913 – 15 September 1997) was an Austrian architect. Life Petschnigg was born in Klagenfurt, and went to school in Villach. In 1934 he began to study architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, where he e ...

(1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz) * Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect *

Ignaz Sowinski Ignaz Stanislaus Sowinski ( pl, Ignacy Stanisław Sowiński; 1858–1917) was a Polish architect and journalist who was active in Galicia from the middle of the 1880s and until the outbreak of World War I. Life Sowinski was born in Kraków ...

(1858–1917), architect *

Ina Wagner Ina Wagner (born 1946) is an Austrian physicist, computer scientist and social scientist. She is an emeritus professor of computer science at TU Wien (Vienna), where she was active from 1987 until 2011. Wagner completed a doctorate in nuclear phys ...

(born 1946), Austrian physicist, sociologist, professor of computer science 1987 – 2011, TU's second ever female professor *

Ingeborg Hochmair Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer (born 1953) is an Austrian electrical engineer and the CEO and CTO of hearing implant company MED-EL. Dr Hochmair and her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair co-created the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear i ...

(born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel

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Irfan Skiljan In Islam, ‘Irfan (Arabic/ Persian/Urdu: ; tr, İrfan), literally ‘knowledge, awareness, wisdom’, is gnosis. Islamic mysticism can be considered as a vast range that engulfs theoretical and practical and conventional mysticism, but the c ...

, author of the image viewer software

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* Jörg Streli (1940–2019), Austrian architect *

Karl Gölsdorf Karl Gölsdorf (8 June 1861 – 18 March 1916) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. Early life Karl Gölsdorf was born on 8 June 1861 in Vienna, the son of Louis Adolf Gölsdorf. Even as a schoolboy he was introduced to locomotive ...

(1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer *

Leon Kellner Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again f ...

, grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist * Marie-Therese Hohenberg, Austrian architect (born 1972) *

Milan Vidmar Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, Chess theory, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugu ...

(1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer *

Milutin Milanković Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milankovitch; sr-Cyrl, Милутин Миланковић ; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of ...

(1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer * Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer *

Paul Eisler Paul Eisler (1907 – 26 October 1992, London) was an Austrian inventor born in Vienna. Among his innovations were the printed circuit board. In 2012, ''Printed Circuit Design & Fab'' magazine named its Hall of Fame after Eisler. Early life and e ...

(1907–1992), inventor of the

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Paul Schneider-Esleben Paul Maximilian Heinrich Schneider von Esleben (28 August 1915 – 19 May 2005), known as Paul Schneider-Esleben, was a German architect. Early life Paul Schneider-Esleben was born in 1915 in Düsseldorf to Elisabeth and Franz Schneider-Esleben, ...

(1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture *

Peter Schattschneider Peter Schattschneider (born 1950 in Vienna) is an Austrian physicist and science-fiction writer, a retired professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics and a staff member of the USTEM special unit of the Vienna University of Technology. His ...

(1950), Austrian physicist *

Peter Skalicky Peter Skalicky (born 25 April 1941 in Berlin, Germany) is the former rector of TU Wien, Austria. After taking his A-levels in Vienna, he studied physics at TU Wien. He wrote his PhD thesis on Röntgen topography. In 1973 he became an associate ...

(born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991-2011 *

Richard von Mises Richard Edler von Mises (; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon ...

(1883–1953), scientist *

Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a ...

(1861-1925), Austrian philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher * Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect *

Siegfried Becher Siegfried Becher (28 February 1806 – 4 March 1873) was an Austrian political economist, Biography Becher was born in Planá (Bohemia). He studied at Prague and Vienna. In 1831, he entered government service. He was appointed professor at the ...

(1806–1873), professor of economics * Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor of physics *

Tillman Gerngross Tillman Gerngross (born November 15, 1963) is an Austro-American scientist. He is a professor of bioengineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and an adjunct professor in the departments of biology and chemistry at Dar ...

, Professor of Engineering at

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, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab *

Viktor Kaplan Viktor Kaplan (27 November 1876 – 23 August 1934) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Life Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria into a railroad worker's family. He graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895 ...

(1876–1934), inventor of the

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Vinzenz Bronzin Vinzenz Bronzin (1872 in Rovigno – 1970 in Trieste) was an Italian mathematics professor, known today for an early ("rediscovered") option pricing formula, similar to, and predating, the Black–Scholes 1973 formula; he also provided a formula ...

(1872-1970), Italian mathematics professor, and pioneering finance theorist *

Yordan Milanov Yordan Milanov ( bg, Йордан Миланов; 1867–1932) was a Bulgarian architect. Milanov was one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Zvonimir Richtmann Zvonimir Richtmann (22 November 19019 July 1941) was a Croatian-Jewish physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist who was killed during World War II by Ustaše. Biography Richtmann was born on 22 November 1901 in Zagreb, where he achieved ...

(1901–1941),

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n physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist Wien, Karlskirche und TU

Library

The TU Wien Bibliothek, the university library, was founded in 1815. The main library building was designed by the architects

Justus Dahinden Justus Dahinden (18 May 1925 - 11 April 2020) was a Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture. Life Dahinden was born in Zürich. From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich (ETHZ), graduating in 1956 with his PhD ...

, , , , and partners. Completed in 1987, it features owl sculptures by the Swiss artist

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. The main library has six floors of open access areas and reading rooms, with around 700 study desks.

Sports

The University hosted the

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in October 2007.

Notes and references

External links

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Continuing Education Center – TU Wien
(MBA programs, MSc programs, certified)
Curricula
(fields of study and courses)
TISS
Information System (e.g. links to Publications Database)
TU Wien on Youtube
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