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Technical University of Crete

Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης

Type Public

Higher Education Institution

Greece University System

Established 1977

Rector Evangelos Diamandopoulos

Administrative 270
staff

Students 3443

Undergraduates 2897

Postgraduates 546
 Location Chania

, 

Greece

Campus Kounoupidiana Campus, 7 km northeast of the

city of Chania

Nickname TUC

Affiliations CESAER

Website www.tuc.gr

The library of the university, Chania.

The Technical University of Crete (TUC; Greek: Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Polytechneio

Kritis) is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education and
was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The first students were admitted in 1984. The
purpose of the institution is to conduct research, to provide under-graduate and
graduate educational programs in modern engineering fields as well as to develop links
with the Greek industry.
The Technical University of Crete ranks highly among the Greek technical universities in
terms of research productivity, research funding, scientific publications and citation per
faculty member.[1][2][3]
 Contents

 1Emblem
 2Academic structure
 3Research
 4Campus
 5Academic evaluation
 6Partner universities
 7Honorary doctorate degree awards
 8Memberships
 9Members of CESAER
 10Mobility programs
 11See also
 12References
 13External links

Emblem[edit]
The emblem of the Technical University of Crete is Daedalus.

Academic structure[edit]
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The Technical University of Crete comprises five Engineering Schools, all of which offer
undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes. The School of Electronic and
Computer Engineering was renamed to School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
in July 2016.[4]

Schools Divisions

 Production Systems
School of Production Εngineering & Management [5]
 Decision Sciences
 Management and Administration
 Exploration and Positioning
School of Mineral Resources Engineering[6]  Mining Technology
 Minerals Exploitation
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering [7]  Electronics and Computer Architecture
 Computer Science
  Control Systems
 Telecommunications
 Environmental Management
 Environmental Process Design and Analysis
School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering[8]
 Hydraulics and Geoenvironmental
Engineering
 Architectural Design
 Urban Design and Planning
School of Architecture[9]
 Digital Media in Architectural Design
 Visual Arts

Research[edit]
The Technical University of Crete is particularly active in conducting basic and applied
research.[10]

 School of Production Engineering and Management [11]

Laboratories: Computer Aided Manufacturing, Intelligent Technological Systems,
Computer Aided Design, Robotics, Environmental Engineering and Management,
Dynamic Systems and Simulation, Decision Support Systems, Data Analysis and
Forecasting, Financial Engineering, Management Systems, Work Safety and Cognitive
Ergonomics, Applied Socioeconomic Research.

 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering [12]

Laboratories: Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Intelligent
Systems, Software Technology and Network Applications, Electronics, Electric Circuits
and Renewable Energy Sources, Microprocessor and Hardware, Automation,
Information and Networks, Telecommunications, Digital Image and Signal Processing.

 School of Mineral Resources Engineering [13]

Laboratories: Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics, Applied Mineralogy, Petrology and
Economic Geology, Geodesy and Geomatics, Rock Mechanics, Mine Design, Solid
Fuels Beneficiation and Technology, Ore Processing.

 School of Environmental Engineering [14]

Research Fields: Liquid and Solid Waste Management, Water Resources and Coastal
Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Remediation Engineering, Air Pollution,
Environmental Sciences.

 School of Architecture [15]
Research Fields: Architectural Design, Urban design and Planning, Digital Technologies
in Architectural Design, History and Theory of Architecture and Art, Landscape
Architecture, Visual Arts, Restoration of Buildings.
Campus[edit]
The campus is located on a panoramic site in the peninsula of Akrotiri and covers an
area of 750 acres (3.0 km2), 7 km northeast of Chania and 1 km from Kounoupidiana.
Library, IT & Communications Centre, cafeterias, sports facilities, and students'
dormitories are located on campus.[16]

Academic evaluation[edit]
The Technical University of Crete is among the top Greek institution with the highest
rate of research publications per faculty member.[1][17][18][19][20]
In 2015 the external evaluation of the institution cited Technical University of Crete
as Worthy of merit.[21]
An external evaluation of all academic departments in Greek universities was recently
conducted by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQAA).[22]
According to the Times Higher Education (THE) list of best Universities in the world for
2022, Technical University of Crete is among the top 1.000 in the world (place 801-
1000) and among the top 600 (place 501-600) on the field of Engineering & Technology.

 Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

(2011) [23]
 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2011) [24]
 Department of Mineral Resources Engineering (2011) [25]
 Department of Production Engineering & Management
(2012) [26]
 Department of Architecture (2013) [27]

Partner universities[edit]
Within the framework of foreign strong international relations with universities from all
over the world, TUC has signed Bilateral Cooperation Agreements with the following
institutions:

 Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nurenberg, Germany

 Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
 Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
 Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
 Universitaet Lueneburg, Germany
 Technische Universitet Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
 Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, Germany
 Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
 Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France
 Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
  Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
 Universite de Liege, Belgium
 Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
 Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
 Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
 Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
 Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
 Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic
 BRNO University of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
 Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
 Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
 University of Mining & Technology St Ivan Rilski, Bulgaria
 Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
 University of Chemical Technology
 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K
 National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte,
Montana, USA
 Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  University Of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Engineering,
Denmark

Honorary doctorate degree awards[edit]

The Technical University of Crete has conferred the title Doctor Honoris causa to the
following distinguished scientists:

 5/5/1993. Rudolf Kalman, founder of the modern

mathematical control theory, Emeritus Professor at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology.
 3/5/1996. Sir David Cox, founder of Modern Statistics,
Professor at the University of Oxford.
 2/12/1996. Michael Athans, founder of the self-adjusting
control in the field of automation, Professor at M.I.T.
 26/5/2000. Kenneth R. Laker, founder of micro-electronics in
the field of active filters of acoustics surface waves, Professor
at the University of Pennsylvania.
 10/6/2002. Bernard Roy, founder of the European School of
Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Emeritus Professor at the
Universite Paris-Dauphine.
 15/12/2004. Mohammad Jamshidi, expert on modelling,
control and applications of Large-scale complex systems,
Regents Professor at the University of New Mexico.
 15/12/2004. Athanasios Fokas, expert on non-linear
mathematical science, Professor at the University of
Cambridge.
 4/3/2005. Laurent Lafforgue, outstanding contribution to
Langlands program in the field of number theory and
analysis, Permanent Professor at the Institute des hautes
etudes scientifiques (IHES).
 1/2/2006. Eftychios Bitsakis, outstanding contribution to
Theoretical Physics, Professor Emeritus at the University of
Ioannina.
 07/05/2006. Richard Lambert, expert on physical chemistry
and surface science, Professor of the University of
Cambridge.
 01/09/2008, Pravin Varayia, Distinguished Professor of the
Department of Electric & Computer Engineering of Berkeley
University
 01/09/2008. Professor David F. Olli, expert on photochemical
and biochemical engineering, Distinguished Professor of the
North Carolina State University
 10/11/2008. Roman Slowinski, founder of the scientific school
of «intelligent decision support systems», Professor at the
Computer Science Institute of Poznan University of
Technology
 29/05/2009. Professor Dimitrios Bertsekas, McAfee Professor
of Engineering at MIT, member of the United States National
Academy of Engineering.
 04/10/2012. His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew, prominent figure with diverse social,
humanitarian, environmental and spiritual work.
 12/09/2012. Asad M. Madni, for contributions to development
and commercialization of sensors and systems for aerospace
and automotive safety, Distinguished Professor in the area of
systems' design and signal processing, member of the US
National Academy of Engineering.
 14/12/2012. Jaime-Gil Aluja, in Recognition of his
Outstanding Contributions to the field of Decision Making in
Uncertainty
 5/12/2015, Emmanouil Michailakis, in recognition of his
outstanding Contributions to the field of Medical Science and
his valuable services to Greece and TUC, Doctor.
 29/06/2017, George Tchobanoglous, in recognition of his
outstanding Contributions to the field of Environmental
Science and his valuable services to the Technical University
of Crete
  30/08/2019, Rainer Stegmann, in recognition of his
outstanding contribution to the promotion of research and
technology worldwide in the field of Solid Waste
Management.

Memberships[edit]
The Technical University of Crete cooperate with universities and other organizations of
higher learning and research. Within this framework, it has been a member of the
European University Association since 1995 (E.U.A), a member of the Conference of
European Engineering schools of Advanced Research (CESAER) since
2003. CESAER, is a non-profit association of
leading engineering universities in Europe. CESAER was set up on May 10, 1990, with
headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. The main objectives are to provide high quality
engineering education in Europe and to improve links between association members in
research, as well as postgraduate and continuing education.

Members of CESAER[edit]
Country Institution(s)

 Austria Vienna University of Technology

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

 Belgium Université catholique de Louvain
Ghent University

Brno University of Technology

 Czech Republic
Czech Technical University in Prague

Aalborg University
 Denmark
Technical University of Denmark

 Estonia Tallinn University of Technology

 Finland Helsinki University of Technology

 France École centrale Paris

Grenoble Institute of Technology
 Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
Paris Institute of Technology
Supélec

Leibniz University Hannover

RWTH Aachen
Technical University of Berlin
Darmstadt University of Technology
Dresden University of Technology
 Germany Technical University of Hamburg
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Technical University of Munich
University of Karlsruhe
University of Stuttgart
Braunschweig University of Technology

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 Greece National Technical University of Athens
Technical University of Crete

 Hungary Budapest University of Technology and Economics

 Ireland University College Dublin

 Israel Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Politecnico di Milano
 Italy Polytechnic University of Turin
University of Florence

 Lithuania Kaunas University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

 Netherlands Eindhoven University of Technology
University of Twente

 Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 Poznań University of Technology
 Poland
Warsaw University of Technology

Instituto Superior Técnico

 Portugal
University of Porto

 Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest

 Russia Tomsk Polytechnic University

Polytechnic University of Madrid

 Spain Polytechnic University of Valencia
Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Chalmers University of Technology

 Sweden Royal Institute of Technology
Lund University

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  Switzerland ETH Zurich

Istanbul Polytechnic University

 Turkey
Middle East Technical University

Heriot-Watt University
 United Kingdom Queen's University Belfast
University of Southampton

TUC is also a member of the Réseau Méditerranéen des Ecoles d'Ingénieurs (RMEI), a
member of the Community of Mediterranean Universities (CMU) and a full partner of
NEARCTIS (A Network of Excellence for Advanced Road Cooperative Traffic
management in the Information Society). It is an academic network gathering the main
teams working on the field of traffic management and optimisation, with a particular
focus on cooperative systems for road traffic optimisation, but it covers a wide scope as
it appears that cooperative systems have to be integrated into the whole traffic
management systems. The full partners are:

  Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands

  Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  University College London, United Kingdom
  University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  EPFL, Switzerland
  Technical University of Crete, Greece
 Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur
Securite, France
 Europe Recherche Transport, France
  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.,
Germany

Mobility programs[edit]
SOCRATES is a programme funded by the European Union that covers all areas and
levels of education. The section involving higher education is called Erasmus. Students
can participate in this exchange programme by studying at a particular university in
another European country for a short period. Study placements involve either attending
classes at a host university. The Technical University of Crete, has signed many
bilateral agreements with other universities. The number of the outgoing and incoming
students is increasing, year after year, indicating that the programme is very successful.

See also[edit]
 List of universities in Greece
 Polytechnic (Greece)
 University of Crete
 Open access in Greece

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b "QS World University Rankings - Technical University of
Crete". QS World University Rankings. 2017-09-01.
2. ^ "TUC among the World's Best Universities For Oil, Gas, And Petroleum
Engineering in 2017". CEOWORLD magazine. 2017-07-20.
3. ^ "Research Statistics - Technical University of Crete" (in Greek). TUC.
4. ^ "Academic Schools - Technical University of Crete". TUC.
5. ^ "School of Production Engineering and Management". TUC.
6. ^ "School of Mineral Resources Engineering". TUC.
7. ^ "School of Electrical and Computer Engineering". TUC.
8. ^ "School of Environmental Engineering". TUC.
9. ^ "School of Architecture". TUC.
10. ^ "Research – Technical University of Crete". TUC.
 11. ^ "Research – School of Production Engineering and Management".
TUC.
12. ^ "Research – School of Electrical and Computer Engineering". TUC.
13. ^ "Research – School of Mineral Resources Engineering". TUC.
14. ^ "Research – School of Environmental Engineering". TUC.
15. ^ "Research – School of Architecture". TUC.
16. ^ "Campus - Technicall University of Crete". TUC.
17. ^ "TUC ranked 151-200 in Civil Engineering subject at the
ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects - 2017". TUC.
18. ^ "TUC Professors broke the 10,000 citation level according to Google
Scholar". TUC.
19. ^ "TUC Professor in the top 1.5% of the Social Science Research
Network according to the international ranking "SSRN Top Authors"".
TUC.
20. ^ "Awards & Distinctions - Technical University of Crete". TUC.
21. ^ "Technical University of Crete - External Evaluation Report"  (PDF).
www.adip.gr. 2015."Two members of the EEC give a lower evaluation
(positive) due to the fact that QA of the Institution is actually not in place
and also that the absence of a feasible strategic plan hampers the
Institution’s operation and its readiness to change."
22. ^ "Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency". Archived
from  the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2014-12-16.
23. ^ HQAA Final Report - Department of Environmental Engineering,
Technical University of Crete, 2011
24. ^ HQAA Final Report - Department of Electronic & Computer
Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 2011
25. ^ HQAA Final Report - Department of Mineral Resources Engineering,
Technical University of Crete, 2011
26. ^ HQAA Final Report - Department of Production Engineering &
Management, Technical University of Crete, 2012
27. ^ HQAA Final Report - Department of Architecture, Technical University
of Crete, 2013

External links[edit]
 Technical University of Crete (TUC) - Official Website  (in
English and Greek)
 Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency
(HQAA) (in English)
 Technical University of Crete Internal Quality Assurance
Unit (in Greek)
 Technical University of Crete Special Research Fund
Account (in English and Greek)
o Guide to Laboratories of the Technical University of
Crete (in English and Greek)
 Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQAA)
(in Greek and English)
o Department of Production Engineering and Management,
HQAA Final Report, 2012 (in English)
o Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, HQAA
Final Report, 2011 (in English)
 o Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
HQAA Final Report, 2011 (in English)
o Department of Environmental Engineering, HQAA Final
Report, 2011 (in English)
o Department of Architecture, HQAA Final Report, 2013  (in
English)
o DASTA Office (Career Office & Innovation Unit), HQAA
Final Report, 2012 (in English)
 "ATHENA" Plan for Higher Education (in Greek)
 Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET) (in Greek
and English)
 okeanos (GRNET's cloud service) (in Greek and English)
 synnefo - Open Source Cloud Software (GRNET)  (in Greek
and English)
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