The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany. It was founded in 1879 and has about 29,816 students, the TU Berlin is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. And it also has a high proportion of foreign students, with 20% in the Summer Semester 2005 - that is roughly 6,000 students.

History

The TU Berlin was formed in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the preexisting Building Academy (established in 1799) and the Vocational Academy (est. 1829). Since 1916 it has included the former Mining Academy, which was founded in 1770. It was closed after World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name.

Campus

The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin. The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg. The seven faculties have some 29,500 students enrolled in more than 50 subjects. (8 Jun 2005) There are 6,721 people working at the university: e.g. 319 professors, 1,832 postgraduate researchers, and 2,089 personnel working in the administration, the workshops, and the central facilities. In addition there are 1,803 student assistants and 161 trainees. (January 2006)

Organization

Since April 4, 2005, the TU Berlin is divided into the following faculties:

1. Humanities
2. Mathematics and Natural Sciences
3. Process Sciences and Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
5. Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
6. Merge of former faculties of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture - Environment - Society"
7. Merge with faculty 5 (see above)
8. Economics and Management

Students

With nearly 30,000 students, the TU Berlin is Germany's largest technical university. It also holds the record of highest percentage of students from other countries—about 20%.

Faculty

As of 2005, ca. 6721 employees work at the TU Berlin, including about 319 professors and 1,832 scientific employees.

Noted alumni and professors

(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)

• August Borsig, businessman
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist
• Wernher von Braun (1912–1976), physicist (rocket science)
• Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineer
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the filter design of electronic filters
• Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989), musicologist
• Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography)
• Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist
• Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist
• Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to the system theory
• Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
• Erwin Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
• Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope)
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect
• Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect and politician
• Hermann W. Vogel (1834–1898) photo-chemist
• Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), physicist
• Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer

See also

Other Universities of Berlin:

• Free University of Berlin
• Humboldt University of Berlin

External links

• Official Homepage (Deutsch)
• Official Homepage (English)
• Institut für Technische Akustik (Institute of Engineering Acoustics)
• Institute of Aero- and Astronautics

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