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Overview

200 years of forward-thinking

History

Alumni

Research • Focus Points

• Cooperations

• Infrastructure

• EU Framework Programme

• Awards & Grants

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Teaching •Bachelor Programmes

•Master Programmes

•Doctoral Programmes

•Facts

Mobility

Organisation•Management

•Faculties

Location

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Facts & Figures

200th anniversary

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200 years of forward-thinking

In 2015, the TU Wien will be celebrating its 200th anniversary. Founded as ‘k. k. polytechnisches Institut’ (‘Imperial and Royal Polytechnical Institute’), TU Wien is a center for research, teaching and learning under the banner of progress. Throughout the past two centuries, researchers at TU Wien have made a lasting contribution to shaping the future of Austria and Europe.

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

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Among the most famous of graduates from TU Wien are Christian Doppler (Doppler effect, [1]), Joseph Loschmidt (Loschmidt constant), architect Otto Wagner, Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry Richard Zsigmondy [2], Viktor Kaplan (Kaplan turbine, [3]), Alexander Meissner (vacuum tube amplifier), computer pioneer Heinz Zemanek (first complete transistorised computer in Europe, known as “Mailüfterl”, [4]), Gottfried Ungerböck (trellis modulation) as well as composers Josef and Johann Strauß [5], author Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando and the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner.

Alumni 2/2

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Successful alumni from more recent times include Franz Viehböck (first Austrian astronaut, [1]), Wolfgang Anzengruber (CEO of Verbund, [2]), Susanna Zapreva (CEO of Wien Energie, [3]), Theresia Vogel (CEO of Austrian Federal government climate and energy funding, [4]), Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer (cochlea implants, [5]), Manfred Matzinger-Leopold (Director of Austrian Mint) and Judith Engel (Project Manager for the Vienna Central Station Rail Infrastructure, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG ).

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Pictures: © [1] ESA, [2] Verbund, [3] Wien Energie/Ian Ehm, [4] Klimafonds/Ringhofer, [5] CC 3.0

Research

Five Research Focus Points:

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Computational Science and Engineering

Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies

Materials and Matter

Information and Communication Technology

Energy and Environment

Additional Fields of Research:

www.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/schwerpunkte/additional_fields

Research

Cooperation | Overview

• On campus • Cooperation & research 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 8FWF = Austrian Science Fund; FFG = Austrian Research Promotion Agency

Research

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 1/2

• Anthropogenic Resources

• Application Oriented Coating Developement

• Early stages of precipitation

• Ferroic materials

• Interfaces in Metal-Supported Electrochemical Energy Converters

• Mechanistic and physiological Methods for more productive Bioprocesses

• Model based calibration methods

9Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 2/2

• Photopolymers in digital and reconstructive Dentistry

• Software engineering integration for flexible automation systems

• Reliability issues in microelectronics

• Thermoelectricity

• Magnetic sensors and manterials

• Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility

10Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 1/2

TU Wien:

• Catalysis Materials and Technology

• Vienna Graduate School on Computational Materials Science

• Adaptive Distributed Systems

• Environmental Informatics

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• MEIBio Molecular and Elemental Imaging in Bioscience

• EWARD Energiebewusste Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung

• CPPS (Cyber-Physical Production Systems)

Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 2/2

FWF:

• Dissipation and Dispersion in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations SolidFun – Buildings Solids for Functions

• CoQus – Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems

• Water provision systems

• Logic methods in informatics

• Particles and Interactions

• NanoCell

Specials:

• Vienna PhD School of Informatics

• URBEM

• Research Laboratory Raum 12Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

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 )

13Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

Cooperation | Special Research Areas (SFB) sponsored by the FWF:

•InfraRed Optical Nanostructures – IRON

•Next Lite

•Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics

•FoQus – Foundations and Applications of Quantum Science

•FOXSI – Functional Oxide Surface and Interfaces

•Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory

•Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease

•Quasi Monte Carlo

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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

• 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

• RCPE - Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH

• SBA 2 - Secure Business Austria 2

• VRVis - Visualization, Rendering and Visual Analysis Research Center

• Wood COMET – Centre of Excellence for Wood Composite Materials and Wood Chemstry

• ASSIC – ASSIC Austrian Smart Systems Integration Research Center

• SCCH – Software Competence Center Hagenberg

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Cooperation | COMET Programmes 1/2

Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

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K-Projects:• AEDA – Advanced Engineering Design Automation

• Amoree – Aluminium and Magnesium Processing Optimisation with Special Respect to Resource and Energy Efficiency

• DEXHELPP - Decison Support for Health Policy and Planning: Methods, Models and Technologies based on existing health care data

• imPACts – Industrial Methods for Process Analytical Chemistry – From Measurement Technologies to Information Systems

• JOIN – Network of Excellence for Metal JOINing

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

• AAHM R2P - Alpine Airborne Hydromapping

• GSG – GreenStorageGrid

• PolyComp – Functional Polymer Composites

• AdvAluE – Advanced Aluminium Applications within ECO Transport

• FFT – Future Farm Technology

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

• Micromat – Reliability of Material Interconnects in Electronics

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

• ProDSS – Integrated Decision Support Systems for Industrial Processes

• Softnet II – Softnet Austria II – Competence Network in Next Generation Software Engineering

Cooperation | COMET Programmes 2/2

Source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Research

Infrastructure

• Analytical Instrumentation Center (AIC)

• Center for Micro- and Nanostructures (ZMNS)

• Low Temperature Facilities

• NMR-Spectroscopy Center

• TRIGA Mark-II (Reactor)

• USTEM - Center for Electron Microscopy

• VSC - Vienna Scientific Cluster, High Performance Computing

• X-ray Center

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Research

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EU Framework Programme

Research

Awards & Grants 1/2

• Winners of the Wittgenstein-Award

• 2013: Ulrike Diebold - Applied Physics, Oxide Surfaces [1]

• 2006: Jörg Schmiedmayer – Atomic physics, quantum optics, miniaturisation / chip technology [2]

• 2002: Ferenc Krausz – Quantum optics: ultra fast processes, strong field phenomena [3]

• 1998: Georg Gottlob – Information systems and artificial intelligence [4]

• 1997: Erich Gornik – Semiconductor nanoelectronics [5]

19Pictures: © [1] Matthias Heisler, [2] Bernd Euring, [3] P. Spiola

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Research

Awards & Grants 2/2

• 14 ERC-Grantees

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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 Wien

The education offered by the TU Wien 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 Wien from economy and industry,governmental as well as research institutions are manifest evidence for this.

Wide Range of Studies

The TU Wien offers 18 bachelor-, 32 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 and Visual Computing (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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Bachelor Programmes

Teaching

ArchitectureArchitecture (066 443)

Building Science and Technology (066 444)

Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering (066 505)

Electrical EngineeringEnergy Engineering and

Automation Technology (066 506)

Telecommunication (066 507)

Microelectronics and Photonics (066 508)

Computer Technology (066 438)

Across facultiesMaterials Sciences (066 434)

Biomedical Engineering (066 453)

Computer SciencesComputational Intelligence (066 931)

Visual Computing (066 932)

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)

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Master Programmes 1/2

Programm code in parentheses

Teaching

Chemical and Process EngineeringChemical and Process Engineering (066 473)

Technical ChemistryTechnical Chemistry (066 490)

Chemistry and Technology of Materials (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 GeoinformationGeodesy and Geomatics Engineering (066 421)

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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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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Doctoral Programmes

Teaching

Programme absolute

Architecture 6,031

Civil Engineering 2,389

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

2,663

Informatics 5,675

Mechanical Engineering 2,174

Regional Planning and Development 1,218

Technical Chemistry 1,484

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Teaching

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Programme absolute

Technical Mathematics 1,434

Technical Physics 1,893

Technical Chemistry 691

Surveying and Geoinformation 413

Business Informatics 1,076

Mechanical Engineering - Economics

2,034

Winter term 2014/15, source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

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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)

•GE3 (Global Education for European Engineers and Entrepreneurs)

International cooperations and mobility

Partner universities The TU Wien has bilateral agreements with more than 70 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 Wien)

•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

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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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Vice Rector for Research and Innovation Johannes Fröhlich, Vice Rector for Infrastructure Josef Eberhardsteiner, Rector Sabine Seidler, Vice Rector for Human Resources and Gender Anna Steiger, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Kurt Matyas (from left to right)

Picture: © Raimund Appel

Organisation

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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

Faculties

Architecture and Planning

Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Informatics

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Mathematics and Geoinformation

Physics

Technical Chemistry

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Location

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culTUre

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.

Akademische Bläserphilharmonie WienWind orchestra with its headquarters at the TU Wien

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TU Choir Since 2012, focus on pop music.

TU Chor: © Peter Häring|CC BY 3.0 AT

culTUre

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.

TU Wien Space Team Students share their interest in aerospace engineering. They design, create and lift their own rockets.

Physikmobil The goal of Bernhard Weingartner´s “Physikmobil” is to arouse enthusiasm for science and technology in the public sphere.

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Finances*

332 Mio. € turnover

254 Mio. € balance sheet total

Rooms

> 9.000 rooms

290,000 m² total area

Staff**

3,347 scientific staff

thereof 140 professors

1,292 non-scientific staff

4,639 total staff

36Sources: * Balance of Accounts 2014 ** Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014

Facts & Figures 2/2

Library*

1,4 Mio. book stocks

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

Students**

29,002

thereof 28% women

Alumni**

2.608 first and second degrees

thereof 1,125 bachelor programmes

thereof 950 master programmes

thereof 154 diploma programmes

thereof 279 doctoral programmes

37Sources: * Library (2014), ** Knowledge Balance Sheets 2014