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Graz University of Technology (German: "Technische Universität Graz", short "TU Graz") is (after University of Graz) the second largest university in Styria, Austria. In Austria there are two Universities of Technology, one in Graz and one in Vienna. Graz University of Technology was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria. TUG, as the university is called by its students, is a public university. During the winter term of 2008 approximately 10.300 students were enrolled in TUG, of which 14.9% were from abroad. 21.1% of the students were female.
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Campus
The University does not have a single campus, but is mainly situated on three sites in the city, two in the centre of Graz and one in the southeast of the city.
- Alte Technik (Rechbauerstrasse / Lessingstrasse)
- Neue Technik (Kopernikusgasse / Petersgasse)
- Inffeldgasse
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History
1811: The Joanneum is founded by Archduke John of Austria. The first subjects taught were Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Mineralogy, Botany and Technology.
1864: The Styrian government makes it a Technische Hochschule
1874: The Technische Hochschule is taken over by the state
1888: Opening of the Main Building (Alte Technik) by Franz Joseph I of Austria
1901: The Technische Hochschule is granted the right to award doctorates
1955: It is divided into three faculties
1975: It is divided into five faculties and renamed Technische Universität Graz, Erherzog-Johann Universität (University of Technology, Archduke-Johann-University)
2004: The new Austrian university law (UG 2002) is fully implemented - the university is divided into seven faculties.
Organization
The University consists of seven faculties:
- Faculty of Architecture consists of:
- Institute of Structural Design
- Institute of Architectural Science, History of Art and Cultural Studies
- Institute of Urbanism
- Institute of Architectural Typologies
- Institute of Architectural Technology
- Institute of Spatial Design
- Institute of Architecture and Landscape
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Institute of Housing
- Institute of Buildings and Energy
- Institute of Architecture and Media
- Institutes of the Faculty of Civil Engineering:
- Institute of Structural Analysis
- Institute of Structural Concrete
- Institute of Steel Structures and Shell Structures
- Institute of Technology and Testing of Building Materials
- Institute of Laboratory for Structural Engineering
- Institute of Timber Engineering and Wood Technology
- Institute of Highway Engineering and Transportation Planning
- Institute of Railway Engineering and Transport Economy
- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
- Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering
- Institute of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
- Institute of Construction Management and Economics
- Institute of Building Construction and Building Physics
- Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling
- Institute of Applied Geosciences
- Institute of Building Informatics
- Institute of Applied Mechanics
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economic Sciences
- Institute of Production Engineering
- Institute of Materials Science and Welding
- Institute of Strength of Materials
- Institute of Mechanics
- Institute of Thermal Engineering
- Institute of Logistic Systems
- Institute of Machine Components and Methods of Development
- Institute of Lightweight Design
- Institute of Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics
- Institute of Hydraulic Fluidmachinery
- Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics
- Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Institute of Automotive Engineering
- Institute of Vehicle Safety
- Institute of Tools and Forming
- Institute of Production Science and Management
- Institute of Industrial Management and Innovation Research
- Institute of General Management and Organisation
- Institute of Business Economics and Industrial Sociology
- Institute of Engineering- and Business Informatics
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering
- Institute of Electrical Drives and Machines
- Institute of Electrical Power Systems
- Institute of High Voltage Engineering and System Management
- Institute of Electricity Economics and Energy Innovation
- Institute for Fundamentals and Theory in Electrical Engineering
- Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing
- Institute of Electronics
- Institute of Communication Networks and Satellite Communications
- Institute of Broadband Communication
- Institute of Signal Processing and Speech Communication
- Institute of Automation and Control
- Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
- Institute of Human Computer Interfaces
- Institute of Medical Engineering
- Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Institute
- Institute of Technical Informatics
- Institute of Biomechanics
- Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Technical Physics
- Institute of Analysis and Computational Number Theory (Mathematics A)
- Institute of Optimisation and Discrete Mathematics (Mathematics B)
- Institute of Mathematical Structure Theory (Mathematics C)
- Institute of Computational Mathematics (Mathematics D)
- Institute of Statistics
- Institute of Geometry
- Institute of Navigation and Satellite Geodesy
- Institute of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry
- Institute of Geoinformation
- Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems
- Institute of Experimental Physics
- Institute of Solid State Physics
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Institute of Materials Physics
- Institute of Electron Microscopy and Fine Structure Research
- Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Chemical and Process Engineering and Biotechnology
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Materials
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Institute of Analytic Chemistry and Food Chemistry
- Institute of Biochemistry
- Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering
- Institute of Environmental Biotechnology
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
- Institute of Paper, Pulp and Fibre Technology
- Institute of Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering and Plant Design
- Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology
- Institute of Process and Particle Engineering
- Faculty of Computer Science:
- Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication [1]
- Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications
- Institute of Information Systems and Computer Media
- Institute of Knowledge Management
- Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
- Institute of Knowledge Discovery
- Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision [2]
- Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization
- Institute of Software Technology
Teaching
Students at TU Graz have a choice of 17 bachelor's programmes and 33 master's programmes. Graduates receive the academic degrees BSc or Bakk.techn., MSc or Diplomingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.). The doctoral programmes (Dr.techn. and Dr.rer.nat.) are offered as postgraduate programmes.
Studies
Bachelor's programmes:
- Architecture
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical and Process Engineering
- Chemistry (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Civil Engineering with Environment and Construction Management
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering (in cooperation with the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz)
- Geomatics Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics
- Molecular Biology (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Software Development and Business Management
- Technical Mathematics
- Technical Physics
- Telematics
Master's programmes:
- Architecture
- Advanced Materials Science
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bio Sciences
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedical Sciences (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Biotechnology (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Molecular Microbiology (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Chemical and Process Engineering
- Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Chemical and Process Engineering
- Paper and Pulp Technology
- Chemistry
- Chemistry (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Technical Chemistry (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Civil Engineering
- Civil Engineering, Environment and Transportation
- Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering
- Civil Engineering Sciences, Geotechnics and Hydraulics
- Construction Management and Civil Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Business
- Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering (in cooperation with the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz)
- Geosciences
- Earth Sciences (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Geomatics Science
- Geo Spatial Technologies (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics
- Production Science and Management
- Software Development and Business Management
- Technical Mathematics
- Financial and Actuarial Mathematics
- Industrial Mathematics
- Mathematical Computer Science
- Technical Mathematics, Operations Research and Statistics (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Technical Physics
- Nanophysics (in cooperation with the University of Graz)
- Technical Physics
- Telematics
Teacher Training Courses:
- Descriptive Geometry
- Physics
- Computer Science and Computer Science Management
Doctoral Programmes:
- Doctoral Programme of Engineering
- Doctoral Programme of Natural Sciences
University Graduate Programmes:
- Architectural Computing and Media Technology
- NATM - New Austrian Tunnelling Method Engineer
- Space Sciences
- Sustainable Construction
- Traffic Accident Research
Certificate Programme:
- Paper and Pulp Technology
[as of August 2009]
Facts and Figures
- Beginners: 1779
- Graduates: 993
- Federal Budget 2008: 100.4 Mio EUR
- Income from Contractual Work 2007: 42.5 Mio EUR
- Floor Space (m²): 195.607
- Permanent Staff: 2118
- Academic Staff: 1293 (of which project staff 681)
Data as of: 2008/2009
Famous scientists
- Nikola Tesla, famous inventor and electrical engineer
- Richard Zsigmondy, chemist (nobel prize 1926)
- Karl von Terzaghi, civil engineer and founder of soil mechanics
- Hans List, technical scientist and inventor, entepreneur
- Vincent Rijmen, one of the designers of AES
- Karl Kordesch, fuel cell and battery designer [3]
Spin-offs und Start-ups
Most start-ups are created by TU Graz alumni who graduate and become entrepreneurs. There are also companies that have been spun-out of the University by faculty and students, based on technology created at TU Graz; with the exception of non-profit research spin-offs these companies need licenses through the University since implementation of the 2002 University Act in 2004 .
Forschungsholding TU Graz GmbH manages shares of spin-offs and is responsible for out-licensing:
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