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The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany.It was founded in 1879 and has about 30,000 students.
1 History
The TU Berlin was formed in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the preexisting Building Academy (established in 1799) and the Vocational Academy (est. 1829).
Since 1916, it included the former Mining Academy which was founded in 1770.
It was closed after World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name.
2 Campus
The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin.
The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg.
3 Organization
Since April 1, 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap, the TU Berlin is divided into the following 8 faculties:
- HumanitiesThrough the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? The humanities offer clues but never a complete answer. They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which ir
- MathematicsMathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of "figures and numbers". In the formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures and Natural SciencesThe term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. Thus the traditional description of natural science is the study of the physical,
- Process Science
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
- Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences
- Architecture, Environment, Society
- Economics and Management
4 Students
With nearly 30,000 students, the TU Berlin is Germany's largest technical university.
It also holds the record of highest percentage of students from other countries - about 20%.
5 Faculty
As of 2003, ca. 7100 employees work at the TU Berlin, including about 360 professors and 1,820 scientific employees.
6 Noted Alumni and Professors
(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel ( 1781- 1841), architect
- August Borsig
- Georg Schlesinger ( 1874- 1949)
- Carl Bosch (1874- 1940), chemist
- Fritz Haber ( 1868- 1934), chemist
- George de Hevesy ( 1885- 1966), chemist
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz ( 1887- 1975), physicist
- Dennis Gabor ( 1900- 1971), physicist, holography
- Eugene Wigner ( 1902- 1995), physicist
- Ernst Ruska ( 1906- 1988), physicist, electron microscope
- Konrad Zuse ( 1910- 1995), engineer and developer of the first computer worldwide
