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The university alumni and professor list includes several US National Academies
members,[7] two National Medal of Science laureates[8][9] and ten Nobel Prize
winners.[10][11][12][13]
The university is notable for having been the first to offer a degree in Industrial
Engineering and Management (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen). The university designed the
degree in response to requests by industrialists for graduates with the technical
and management training to run a company. First offered in winter term 1926/27, it
is one of the oldest programmes of its kind.[18]
Contents
1 History
2 Campus
3 Organization
4 Faculty and staff
5 Library
6 Notable alumni and professors
7 Rankings
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History
1899 early Art Nouveau Medal Technische Hochschule Berlin, 100th Anniversary,
obverse
In 1899, the Königlich Technische Hochschule zu Berlin was the first polytechnic in
Germany to award doctorates, as a standard degree for the graduates, in addition to
diplomas, thanks to professor Alois Riedler and Adolf Slaby, chairman of the
Association of German Engineers (VDI) and the Association for Electrical,
Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE).
After Charlottenburg's absorption into Greater Berlin in 1920 and Germany being
turned into Weimar Republic, the Königlich Technische Hochschule zu Berlin was
renamed "Technische Hochschule zu Berlin" ("TH Berlin").[21] In 1927, the
Department of Geodesy of the Agricultural College of Berlin was incorporated into
the TH Berlin. During the 1930s, the redevelopment and expansion of the campus
along the "East-West axis" were part of the Nazi plans of a Welthauptstadt
Germania, including a new faculty of defense technology under General Karl Becker,
built as a part of the greater academic town (Hochschulstadt) in the adjacent west-
wise Grunewald forest. The shell construction remained unfinished after the
outbreak of World War II and after Becker's suicide in 1940, it is today covered by
the large-scale Teufelsberg dumping.
Main building of TU Berlin in 2010
The north section of the main building of the university was destroyed during a
bombing raid in November 1943.[23] Due to the street fighting at the end of the
Second World War, the operations at the TH Berlin were suspended as of 20 April
1945. Planning for the re-opening of the school began on 2 June 1945, once the
acting rectorship led by Gustav Ludwig Hertz and Max Volmer was appointed. As both
Hertz and Volmer remained in exile in the Soviet Union for some time to come, the
college was not re-inaugurated until 9 April 1946, now bearing the name "Technische
Universität Berlin".
Since 2009 the TU Berlin houses two Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC)
designated by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.[24]
Campus
The TU Berlin covers 604,000 m², distributed over various locations in Berlin. The
main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The seven
schools of the university have some 33,933 students enrolled in 90 subjects
(October, 2015).[25]
The university also has a franchise of its Global Production Engineering course –
called Global Production Engineering and Management at the Vietnamese-German
University in Ho Chi Minh City.[27][28]
Organization
Library
Entrance of the main library of Technische Universität Berlin and of the Berlin
University of the Arts
The new common main library of Technische Universität Berlin and of the Berlin
University of the Arts was opened in 2004[38] and holds about 2.9 million volumes
(2007).[39] The library building was sponsored partially (estimated 10% of the
building costs) by Volkswagen and is named officially "University Library of the TU
Berlin and UdK (in the Volkswagen building)".[40] A source of confusion to many,
the letters above the main entrance only state "Volkswagen Bibliothek" (German for
"Volkswagen Library") – without any mentioning of the universities.
Some of the former 17 libraries of Technische Universität Berlin and of the nearby
University of the Arts were merged into the new library, but several departments
still retain libraries of their own. In particular, the school of 'Economics and
Management' maintains a library with 340,000 volumes in the university's main
building (Die Bibliothek – Wirtschaft & Management/″The Library″ – Economics and
Management) and the 'Department of Mathematics' maintains a library with 60,000
volumes in the Mathematics building (Mathematische Fachbibliothek/"Mathematics
Library").
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), graduate, engineer, designer of the first ballistic
missile and NASA rockets
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), graduate, designed the first modern computer and first
high-level programming language
According to the research report of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2018,
TU Berlin ranks 24th absolute among German universities across all scientific
disciplines. Thereby TU Berlin ranks 9th absolute in natural sciences and
engineering. The TU Berlin took 14th place absolute in computer science and 5th
place absolute in electrical engineering.[46] In a competitive selection process,
the DFG selects the best research projects from researchers at universities and
research institutes and finances them. The ranking is thus regarded as an indicator
of the quality of research.[47]
In the 2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, globally the TU
Berlin ranks 82nd overall (7th in Germany), 40th in the field of Engineering &
Technology (3rd in Germany) and 36th in Computer science discipline (4th in
Germany), making it one of the top 100 universities worldwide in all three
measures.[48]
As of 2016, TU Berlin is ranked 164th overall and 35th in the field of Engineering
& Technology according to the British QS World University Rankings. It is one of
Germany's highest ranked universities in statistics and operations research and in
Mathematics according to QS.[49]
See also
Universities and research institutions in Berlin
European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Free University of Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin University of the Arts
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External links
(in English) Official website
(in English) TU Berlin: International partner universities
(in English) Website of the Student's Council and Government
(in English) TU Berlin: Campus Map
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