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Overview History Alumni Research Focus Points Cooperations Infrastructure EU Framework Programme Awards & Grants Teaching Bachelor Programmes Master Programmes Doctoral Programmes Facts 2 Mobility Organisation Management Faculties Location culTUre TU live Facts & Figures

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 ´ : Autonomy through University Act ´ : Decision to remain at the current city location 2011: First female Rector 2015:200-year-anniversary 3

History years TU Wien: years of forward-thinking In 2015, the TU Wien celebrated its 200 th 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.

Alumni 1/2 5 [1] [3] [5] [4][2] 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 6 Successful alumni from more recent times include Franz Viehböck (first Austrian astronaut, [1]), Wolfgang Anzengruber (CEO of Verbund, [2]), Susanna Zapreva (CEO of Stadtwerke Hannover AG, [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 ). [1][2][3][4][5] Pictures: © [1] ESA, [2] Verbund, [3] enercity, [4] Klimafonds/Ringhofer, [5] CC 3.0

Research Five Research Focus Points: 7 Computational Science and Engineering Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies Materials and Matter Information and Communication Technology Energy and Environment Additional Fields of Research:

Research Cooperation | Overview 1/2 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) 8

Research Cooperation | Overview 2/2 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 Laura Bassi Center Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Economy 9 FWF = Austrian Science Fund; FFG = Austrian Research Promotion Agency

Research Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 1/2 Anthropogenic Resources Application Oriented Coating Development Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility Metal-supported Electrochemical Energy Converters Mechanistic and physiological Methods for more productive Bioprocesses Model based calibration methods Photopolymers in digital and reconstructive Dentistry Software engineering integration for flexible automation systems 10

Research Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors 2/2 Reliability issues in microelectronics Thermoelectricity Magnetic sensors and manterials Model-Based Process Control in the Steel Industry Lifespan and reliability of interfaces in complex multi-layered structures in electronics High Performance TCAD Precision technology for automated in-line measurement Interfaces in Metal-Supported Electrochemical Energy Converters Dependable Wireless Connectivity for the Society in Motion 11

Research Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 1/2 TU Wien: Catalysis Materials and Technology Vienna Graduate School on Computational Materials Science Adaptive Distributed Systems Environmental Informatics 12 MEIBio Molecular and Elemental Imaging in Bioscience EWARD Energiebewusste Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung URBEM Urban Energy and Mobility Systems CPPS (Cyber-Physical Production Systems) Computational Design

Research Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes 2/2 FWF: CoQuS - Complex Quantum Systems Dissipation and Dispersion in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations SolidFun – Buildings Solids for Functions Water provision systems Particles and Interactions NanoCell - Nano-Analytics of Cellular Systems Logic methods in informatics Specials: Vienna PhD School of Informatics Research Laboratory Raum 13

Research Cooperation | National Research Network (NFN) sponsored by the FWF: Rigorous Systems Engineering (RiSE) 14

Research Cooperation | Special Research Areas (SFB) sponsored by the FWF: Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics FoQus – Foundations and Applications of Quantum Science FOXSI – Functional Oxide Surface and Interfaces IR-ON – InfraRed Optical Nanostructures Next Lite – Next Generation Light Synthesis and Interaction Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease ViCoM - Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory Quasi Monte Carlo Methods Theory and Applications 15

Research K2-Centres: ACIB - Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology V2C2 - Virtual Vehicle Competence Center 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 CEST Centre of Excellence in Electrochemical Surface Technoloy and Materials ASSIC/CTR - Carinthian Tech Research - Competence Center for Advanced Sensor Technologies K1-MET - Competence Center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development PCCL-K1 - Competence Center in Polymer Engineering and Science 16 Cooperation | COMET Programmes 1/3

Research 17 K1-Centres: RCPE - Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering SCCH - Software Competence Center Hagenberg 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 K-Projects: AAHM R2P - Alpine Airborne Hydromapping Amoree - Aluminium and magnesium processing optimization with special respect to resource and energy efficiency AEDA - Advanced Engineering Design Automation DEXHELPP - Decison Support for Health Policy and Planning: Methods, Models and Technologies based on existing health care data Cooperation | COMET Programmes 2/3

Research 18 K-Projects: GSG - Green Storage Grid JOIN4+ - Network of Excellence for Joining Technologies PAC - Process Analytical Chemistry - Data Acquisition and Data Processing PolyComp - Functional Polymer Composites ZPT - K-Project non-destructive Testing and Tomography Cooperation | COMET Programmes 3/3

Research 19 Cooperation | Laura Bassi Center CVAST - Center for Visual Analytics Science and Technology

Research 20 Cooperation | Ludwig Boltzmann Institute LBI for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology

Research Infrastructure X-ray Center (XRC) Analytical Instrumentation Center (AIC) NMR-Spectroscopy Center TRIGA Mark-II (Reactor) Center for Micro- and Nanostructures (ZMNS) VSC - Vienna Scientific Cluster, High Performance Computing USTEM - Center for Electron Microscopy Low Temperature Facilities 21

Research Awards & Grants 1/3 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] 22 Pictures: © [1] Matthias Heisler, [2] Bernd Euring, [3] P. Spiola [1][2][3][4][5]

Research Awards & Grants 2/3 15 ERC-Grantees 23 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 Christian Hellmich, MICROBONE – Multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, with links to biology and medicine Laura Kovacs, Symbolic Computation and Automated Reasoning for Program Analysis

Research Awards & Grants 3/3 15 ERC-Grantees 24 Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Laser-engineered Biomimetic Matrices with Embedded Cells 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

Teaching 25 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 Architecture Architecture ( ) Civil Engineering Civil Engineering and Management of Infrastructure ( ) Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Electrical Engineering and Information Technology ( ) Computer Sciences Media Informatics and Visual Computing ( ) Medical Informatics ( ) Software & Information Engineering ( ) Computer Engineering ( ) Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering ( ) Regional Planning and Development Regional Planning and Development ( ) Technical Chemistry Technical Chemistry ( ) Technical Mathematics Technical Mathematics ( ) Statistics and Mathematics in Economics ( ) Financial and Actuarial Mathematics ( ) Technical Physics Technical Physics ( ) Chemical and Process Engineering Chemical and Process Engineering ( ) Surveying and Geoinformation Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering ( ) Business Informatics Business Informatics ( ) Mechanical Engineering - Economics Mechanical Engineering - Management ( ) 26 Programm code in parentheses Bachelor Programmes

Teaching Architecture Architecture ( ) Building Science and Technology ( ) Civil Engineering Civil Engineering ( ) Infrastructural Management ( ) Electrical Engineering Energy Systems and Automation Technology ( ) Telecommunications ( ) Microelectronics and Photonics ( ) Embedded Systems ( ) Across faculties Materials Sciences ( ) Biomedical Engineering ( ) Computer Sciences Double degree programme "Computational Logic Erasmus-Mundus)" ( ) Computational Intelligence ( ) Visual Computing ( ) Media Informatics ( ) Medical Informatics ( ) Software Engineering & Internet Computing ( ) Computer Engineering ( ) Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering ( ) Regional Planning Regional Planning and Development ( ) 27 Master Programmes 1/2 Programm code in parentheses

Teaching Technical Chemistry Technical Chemistry ( ) Chemistry and Technology of Materials ( ) Technical Mathematics Technical Mathematics ( ) Statistics & Mathematics in Economics ( ) Financial and Actuarial Mathematics ( ) Technical Physics Physical Energy and Measurement Engineering ( ) Technical Physics ( ) Chemical and Process Engineering Chemical and Process Engineering ( ) Surveying and Geoinformation Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering ( ) International Programm Cartography ( ) Business Informatics Business Informatics ( ) Mechanical Engineering - Economics Mechanical Engineering – Management ( ) 28 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.“) 29 Doctoral Programmes

Teaching Programmeabsolute Architecture Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Informatics5,675 Mechanical Engineering2,174 Regional Planning and Development1,218 Technical Chemistry1,484 Students 1/2 30 Winter term 2015/16, source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2015 Programmeabsolut Architecture5,892 Biomedical Engineering325 Business informatics1,051 Civil Engineering2,400 Computational Logic8 Computer Sciences Management (discontinued) 18 Economics – Mechanical Engineering 2,066 Electrical Engineering2,696 Individual Studies30 Informatics5,674

Teaching 31 Winter term 2015/16, source: Knowledge Balance Sheets 2015 Students 2/2 Programmeabsolut Material Science78 Mechanical Engineering2,210 Process Engineering694 Regional Planning1,216 Surveying and Geoinformation366 Teacher Trainings308 Technical Chemistry 1,515 Technical Mathematics1,469 Technical Physics1,903

Mobility 32 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 33 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 Management 1/2 The University is led by the Rector and four Vice Rectors responsible for Research, Academic Affairs, Finance as well as HR and Gender: 34 Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Kurt Matyas, Vice Rector for Human Resources and Gender Anna Steiger, Rector Sabine Seidler, Vice Rector for Infrastructure Josef Eberhardsteiner, Vice Rector for Research and Innovation Johannes Fröhlich (from left to right) Picture: © Raimund Appel

Organisation Management 2/2 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: 35 Gabriele Zuna-Kratky, Manfred Broy, Monika Fehrer, Veit Sorger (Chairman), Sabine Herlitschka, Herbert Tumpel, Peter Schuster (from left to right) Picture: © TU Wien | Thomas Blazina

Organisation Faculties Architecture and Planning Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Informatics Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mathematics and Geoinformation Physics Technical Chemistry 36

Location 37

culTUre TU Orchester Since1984, international concert tours. TU Ball Vienna‘s oldest ball (originally called "Technikerkränzchen" in 1815) takes place in Vienna Hofburg, every last Thursday in January. Akademische Bläserphilharmonie Wien Wind orchestra with its headquarters at the TU Wien 38 TU Choir Since 2012, focus on pop music. Picture TU Choir: © Peter Häring|CC BY 3.0 AT

TU live TU-Forum Topics with up to date, divisive content and technical background. 39 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.

Facts & Figures 1/2 Finances* 347 Mio. €turnover 257 Mio. €balance sheet total Rooms > 9.000rooms 290,000 m²total area Staff** 3,675scientific staff thereof 143professors 1,134non-scientific staff 4,809total staff 40 Sources: * Balance of Accounts 2015 ** Knowledge Balance Sheets 2015

Facts & Figures 2/2 Library* 1,4 Mio.book stocks > 3,8 Mio.Web-Server/Access to library services (virtual visits) Students** 29,919 thereof 27.7%women Alumni** 2,768first and second degrees thereof 1,384bachelor programmes thereof 1,011master programmes thereof 113diploma programmes thereof 260doctoral programmes 41 Sources: * Library (2016), ** Knowledge Balance Sheets 2015