Technology for People Vienna University of Technology at a Glance History | Alumni | Research Teaching | Mobility | Organisation | Location Beyond Technology | Facts & Figures

Overview History Alumni Research Focus Points Cooperations Infrastructure EU Framework Programme Third Party Funds Development Awards & Grants Studies Bachelor Programmes Master Programmes Teacher Trainings Doctoral Programmes First Admissions 2 Mobility Organisation Management Faculties/Institutes Location Beyond Technology 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 ´02 3

Alumni 1/2 Richard Zsigmondy Nobel laureate Chemistry Franz Viehböck (astronaut) Electrical Engineering Luis Trenker (alpinist) Architecture Gebrüder Strauss (composers) Josef – Civil Engineering Johann – Business Administration Rudolph Steiner (antroposopher) Teacher training: Mathematics and Science Christian Doppler (Doppler-Effect) Physics, Mathematics 4

Alumni 2/2 Herbert Boeckl (painter) Architecture Viktor Kaplan (Kaplan-Turbine) Mechanical Engineering Boris Nemsic (manager) Electrical Engineering Fritz Lang (film director) Civil Engineering Susanna Zapreva (manager) Electrical Engineering Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer (researcher) Electrical Engineering 5

Research Five Research Focus Points: Computational Science and Engineering Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies Materials and Matter Information and Communication Technology Energy and Environment 6

Research Cooperation | Overview On campus Cooperation 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) 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 7 FWF = Austrian Science Fund; FFG = Austrian Research Promotion Agency

Research Cooperation | Christian Doppler Labors Early stages of precipitation: Ferroic materials: Wireless technologies for sustainable mobility: Model based calibration methods: Portfolio risk management: Software engineering integration for flexible automation systems: Spatial data from laser scanning and remote sensing: Reliability issues in microelectronics:

Research Cooperation | Doctoral Programmes TU Vienna: AB-Tec Applied Bioscience Technology Computational Perception Energy Systems 2030 Functional Matter Mathematical Logic in Computer Science Partial differential equations FWF: Complex Quantum Systems Computational Materials Science Models of differential equation in research and technology Water Ressource Systems 9

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 Signal and Information Processing in Science and Engineering (sub-project with the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna ) 10

Research Cooperation | Special Research Areas (SFB) sponsored by the FWF: ADLIS - Advanced Light Sources: Spectroscopy with Ultrashort Pulses from T-Rays to X-Rays IR-ON – Nanostructures for Infrared Photonics ViCoM - Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory FoQuS - Foundations and Applications of Quantum Science 11

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 CEST Centre of Excellence in Electrochemical Surface Technoloy and Materials CTR - Carinthian Tech Research - Competence Center for Advanced Sensor Technologies 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 SBA 2 - Secure Business Austria 2 12 VRVis - Visualization, Rendering and Visual Analysis Research Center Wood COMET – Centre of Excellence for Wood Composite Materials and Wood Chemstry K-Projekte: AdvAluE - Advanced Aluminium Applications within ECO Transport ECV - Embedded Computer Vision, Link FFT - Future Farm Technology HFA-TiMBER - Timber in Material, Building and Environmental Research JOIN4+ - Network of Excellence for Joining Technologies JOIN 4+ Micromat - Reliability and Lifetime of Material Interconnects in Electronics MPPF - Multifunctional Plug & Play Facade PAC - Process Analytical Chemistry - Data Acquisition and Data Processing ProDSS - Integrated Decision Support Systems for Industrial Processes Softnet II - Competence Network in Next Generation Software Engineering ZPT - K-Project non-destructive Testing and Tomography Cooperation | COMET Programmes

Research Infrastructure DMQT (Designed Matter & Quantum Technologies) MCC (Materials Characterization Center) X-ray Center Surface Analytics Science Center USTEM (Center for Electron Microscopy) RES (Robust Embedded Systems) Low Temperature Facilities TRIGA Mark-II (Reactor) Vienna Scientific Cluster (High Performance Computing) ZMNS (Center for Micro- and Nanostructures) 13

Research 14 EU Framework Programme

Research 15 Third Party Funds Development

Research Awards & Grants Winners of the Wittgenstein-Award 1997: Erich Gornik – Semiconductor nanoelectronics 1998: Georg Gottlob – Information systems and artificial intelligence 1998: Walter Schachermayer – Stochastic processes in actuarial mathematics 2002: Ferenc Krausz – Quantum optics: ultra fast processes, strong field phenomena 2006: Jörg Schmiedmayer – Atomic physics, quantum optics, miniaturisation / chip technology ERC-Grants Silke Bühler-Paschen – Quantum Criticality: The Puzzle of Multiple Energy Scales Georg Gottlob – Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology Christian Hellmich – Multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, with links to biology and medicine Thorsten Schumm – Nuclear Atomic Clock Siegfried Selberherr – Modeling Silicon Spintronics Stefan Szeider – The Parameterized Complexity of Reasoning Problems 16

Teaching 17 Teaching at TU Vienna The education offered by the TU Vienna 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 Vienna from economy and industry, governmental as well as research institutions are manifest evidence for this. Wide Range of Studies The TU Vienna offers 19 bachelor-, 43 master-, 5 teacher training 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 ( ) 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 Mathematics in Science and Technology ( ) Statistics and Mathematics in Economics ( ) Mathematics in Computer Science ( ) 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 ( ) 18 Programm code in parentheses Studies | Bachelor Programmes

Teaching Architecture Architecture ( ) Building Science and Technology ( ) Civil Engineering Civil Engineering - Structural Engineering ( ) Civil Engineering - Building Management and Geoengineering ( ) Civil Engineering - Infrastructure Planning and Management ( ) Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering ( ) Electrical Engineering Energy Engineering ( ) Automation Technology ( ) Telecommunication ( ) Computer Technology ( ) Microelectronics ( ) Computer Sciences Computational Intelligence ( ) Visual Computing ( ) Information & Knowledge Management ( ) Media Informatics ( ) Medical Informatics ( ) Software Engineering & Internet Computing ( ) Computer Engineering ( ) Business Engineering and Computer Science ( ) Didactic for Informatics ( ) Materials Sciences Materials Sciences ( ) Regional Planning Regional Planning and Development ( ) Chemical and Process Engineering Chemical and Process Engineering ( ) 19 Studies | Master Programmes 1/2 Programm code in parentheses

Teaching Technical Chemistry Technical Chemistry – Synthesis ( ) Technical Chemistry - Materials Technology and Materials Analytics ( ) Technical Chemistry - Materials Chemistry ( ) Technical Chemistry - Chemical Process Engineering ( ) Technical Chemistry - Biotechnology and Bio- analytics ( ) Technical Mathematics Mathematics ( ) Statistics ( ) Mathematics in Science and Technology ( ) Mathematics in Economics ( ) Mathematics in Computer Science ( ) Financial and Actuarial Mathematics ( ) Technical Physics Physical Energy and Measurement Engineering ( ) Technical Physics ( ) Surveying and Geoinformation Survey and Land Registration ( ) Geodesy and Geophysics ( ) Geomatics Engineering and Cartography ( ) Business Informatics Business Informatics ( ) Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering ( ) Mechanical Engineering - Economics Mechanical Engineering – Management ( ) 20 Studies | 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.“) 21 Studies | Doctoral Programmes

Teaching The following teaching subjects can be studied at Vienna University of Technology: Mathematics (E406) Descriptive Geometry (E407) Physics (E412) Chemistry (E423) IT and IT Management (E884) 22 Studies | Teacher Training

Teaching Programmeabsoluterelative (%) Architecture91219,9 Civil Engineering3146,9 Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 3978,7 Informatics85718,7 Mechanical Engineering3106,8 Regional Planning and Development1884,1 Technical Chemistry2114,6 First Admissions: Bachelor Programmes 1/2 23 Winter term 2010/11, source:

Teaching 24 Programmeabsoluterelative (in%) Technical Mathematics2916,4 Technical Physics2806,1 Chemical and Process Engineering1082,4 Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering 621,4 Business Informatics1864,1 Mechanical Engineering - Economics 3056,7 Teacher training1613,5 Source: First Admissions: Bachelor Programmes 2/2

Mobility 25 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) GE4 (Global Education for European Engineers and Entrepreneurs) International cooperations and mobility Partner universities The TU Vienna has bilateral agreements with more than 80 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 26 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, Financial Management and Controlling and Infrastructure and Development: Peter Skalicky Rector Sabine Seidler Vice Rector for Research Adalbert Prechtl Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Gerhard Schimak Vice Rector for Infrastructure and Development Paul Jankowitsch Vice Rector for Financial Management and Controlling The Senate is the supreme collegial board, which consists of 26 members – professors, representatives of the mid-level faculty, non-scientific staff and students. 27

Organisation Management 2/2 The University Council consists of seven members from economy and science. It acts as a supervisory board: Siegfried Sellitsch Chairman; CEO (retired) Wiener Städtische Allgemeine Versicherung AG Othmar Pühringer Associate chairman; CEO (retired) VA Technologie AG Albert Hochleitner CEO (retired) Siemens AG Österreich Johannes Khinast Marie-Curie-Chairprofessor, TU Graz Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla Scientific Director/Chief Executive, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Hannelore Sexl Consultant of the Austrian Academy of Science Gabriele Zuna-Kratky Manager Technisches Museum Wien 28

Organisation FacultyBachelor + Master Programmes Institutes Architecture and Planning Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Informatics Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mathematics and Geoinformation Physics Technical Chemistry (interdisciplinary) Total per Faculties

Location 30

Beyond Technology 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. TU-Forum Topics with up to date, divisive content and technical background. 31 TUW Racing Team Students design and build a racing car and take part in international formula-student competitions..

Facts & Figures 1/2 Finances* 272 Mio. €turnover 234 Mio. €balance sheet total 59 Mio. €third party funds** Rooms** > 9.000rooms m²total area Staff* 152professors 1.900scientific staff 1.040non-scientific staff 1.013lecturers, teaching assistants and tutors 4.105total staff 32 Sources: * Balance of Accounts 2009 **respectivly Intellectual Capital Report: Ref.No. II.2.11 respectivly IV.2.5.

Facts & Figures 2/2 Library* 1,36 Mio.book stocks borrowing Students** thereof 23,9%foreigners thereof 25,1%women Alumni*** 2.330first and second degrees thereof 884bachelor programmes thereof 431master programmes thereof 779diploma programmes thereof 236doctoral programmes 33 Sources: * Library (2009) and ** , ***Academic year 2008/09