Technische Universität Berlin/ Technical University of Berlin

The Technische Universität Berlin also called as TU Berlin for short and illegitimately as the Technical University of Berlin or Berlin Institute of Technology, is a research university situated in Berlin, Germany and one of the huge and most prominent research and education institutions in Germany. The university was established in 1879. It has the highest amount of foreign students in Germany, approximately 5,598 students, with 20.9% in the summer semester of 2007. The university alumni and professor list comprises ten Nobel Prize winners, two National Medal of Science laureates and National Academies elections. The TU Berlin is a associate of TU9, an integrated society of the largest and highly notable German institutes of technology and of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which permits for student swapping between leading European engineering schools. It is also member of Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Educational and Research.  From 2013, TU Berlin is leveled 41st (2012: 45th) in the world in the field of Engineering & Technology and first in Germany (46th globally) in Mathematics as per QS World University Rankings. The university is well-known for its top ranked engineering program, mainly in mechanical engineering and engineering management.

History

The Technische Hochschule Berlin was founded on 1879 April 1 through the incorporation of the Berlin College of Civil Engineering(Bauakademie) and the Royal College for Vocational Studies (Königliche Gewerbeakademie), two autonomous Prussian launched colleges founded in 1799 and 1821 respectively. Both colleges were combined by the Prussian government to begin the "Royal Polytechnic University in Charlottenburg", named after the region of Charlotenburg just outer Berlin where the Polytechnic was situated. Due to the attempts by professor Alois Riedler and Adolf Slaby, chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE), in 1899 the "Royal Technical College" was the initial Technische Hochshule in Germany that honored a doctorate, as well as the Diploma as regular degree for graduates. In 1916 the ancient Bergakademie Berlin, the Prussian mining academy built by the geologist Carl Abraham Gerhard in 1770 at the will of King Frederick the Great, was incorporated into the "Polytechnic University in Berlin". The mining college had been the patronage of the Frederick William University (the existing Humboldt University of Berlin) for several decades, before it was protracted again in 1860. In 1920 after Charlottenburg's assimilation into Greater Berlin and Germany being turned into a Republic, the college finally called the "Polytechnic University in Berlin". In 1927 the department of Geodesy of the "Agricultural College of Berlin" was integrated into the "Berlin Polytechnic". During the 1930s, the growth and extension of the campus along the "East-West axis" were components of the Nazi plans of a  Welthaupstadt Germania, comprising a new faculty of defense technology under General Karl Becker, built as part of greater Hochschulstadt university grounds in the western Grunewald forest. The shell building lingered incomplete after the outburst of World War II and Becker's suicide in 1940, it is today sheltered by the major Teufelsberg dumping. The north section of the main construction of the university was demolished during a bombing raid in November 1943.

Because of the street fighting at the conclusion of the Second World War, the functions at the "Polytechnic University in Berlin" were deferred as of April, 20th 1945. Planning for the re-launching of the school began on June, 2nd 1945, after the acting rector ship led by Gustav Ludwig Hertz and Max Volmer was assigned. As both Hertz and Volmer stayed in exile in the Soviet Union for some time to come, the college was not re-installed until April, 9th 1946, now renamed as "Technische Universität Berlin". In broad-spectrum, the name is not converted into other languages. The English term Berlin Institute of Technology is a semi-official conversion which was established as conciliation in 2007. Nonetheless, the spontaneous translation Technical University of Berlin remains the most common (although not certified) name for the university in English, with the possible exemption of the native German portrayal (and of course the short form of TU Berlin).

Campus

The TU Berlin plasters ca. 600,000 m², allocated over various locations in Berlin. The main campus is situated in the region of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The seven schools of the university have some 28,200 students joined in more than 50 subjects (January, 2009). El Gouna campus: Technische Universität Berlin has established a satellite campus in Egypt to act as a scientific and academic field office. The nonprofit public-private partnership (PPP) has ambition to provide services of Technische Universität Berlin at the campus in El Gouna on the Red Sea.

Organization

The TU Berlin has included following schools from 4 April 2005:

1.      Economics and Management

2.      Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

3.      Humanities

4.      Mathematics and Natural Sciences

5.      Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems (including Aerospace engineering, Automotive engineering, naval and ocean engineering, and the planning and operation of transport systems)

6.      Process Sciences and Engineering

7.      Planning – Building – Environment (merge of former schools of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture – Environment – Society")