Graz University of Technology

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other Template:Main other{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#if:|Template:Main other }}{{#invoke:check for unknown parameters|check |unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox university with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | academic_affiliation | academic_affiliations | academic_staff | accreditation | address | administrative_staff | affiliation | affiliations | athletics_affiliations | athletics_nickname | athletics_nicknames | budget | campus | campus_type | campus_size | canton | caption | chair | chairman | chairperson | chancellor | city | closed | colors | colours | coor | coordinates | country | dean | director | doctoral | embedded | endowment | enrollment | established | faculty | footnotes | former_name | former_names | founder | founders | free | free1 | free2 | free_label | free_label1 | free_label2 | head | head_label | image | image_alt | image_name | image_size | image_upright | language | latin_name | location | logo | logo_alt | logo_size | logo_upright | map_size | mascot | mascots | module | motto | mottoeng | motto_lang | mottoeng | name | native_name | native_name_lang | nickname | nrhp | officer_in_charge | other | other_name | other_names | other_students | parent | postalcode | postcode | postgrad | prefecture | president | principal | province | provost | pushpin_label_position | pushpin_map | pushpin_map_caption | rector | region | religious_affiliation | sporting_affiliations | sports_free | sports_free1 | sports_free2 | sports_free3 | sports_free_label | sports_free_label1 | sports_free_label2 | sports_free_label3 | sports_nickname | sports_nicknames | state | students | superintendent | top_free | top_free1 | top_free2 | top_free_label | top_free_label1 | top_free_label2 | total_staff | type | undergrad | vice_chancellor | vice-president | vice_president | visitor | website | zipcode }}{{#invoke:Check for clobbered parameters|check | template = Infobox university | cat = Template:Main other | image; image_name | other_names; other_name | former_names; former_name | founders; founder | academic_affiliations; academic_affiliation | academic_staff; faculty | campus_type; campus | other_students; other | location; address | location; city | location; address | location; canton | location; prefecture | location; province | location; region | location; state | location; country | location; postalcode | location; postcode | location; zipcode | postalcode; postcode; zipcode | coordinates; coor | colors; colours | free_label; free_label1 | free; free1 | athletics_nicknames; sports_nicknames; athletics_nickname; sports_nickname; nickname | athletics_affiliations; sporting_affiliations | affiliation; affiliations | mascots; mascot | nrhp; embedded; module }} Graz University of Technology (Template:Langx, short TU Graz) is a public research university located in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and is the oldest science and technology research and educational institute in Austria. It currently comprises seven faculties and is a public university.<ref name="faculties institutes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It offers 19 bachelor's and 36 master's study programmes (of which 20 are in English) across all technology and natural sciences disciplines. Doctoral training is organised in 14 English-speaking doctoral schools. The university has more than 17,000 students, and around 1,900 students graduate every year. The Graz University of Technology and the University of Graz co-operate in teaching and research of natural sciences.<ref name="NAWI Graz Coordination Office">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The university has a staff of 3,935.<ref name="Graz University of Technology" /> Research areas are combined in five fields of expertise. TU Graz, the University of Leoben and TU Wien form the network Austrian Universities of Technology (TU Austria)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with more than 45,000 students and 11,000 staff.

CampusEdit

The university has multiple campuses, as it is mainly situated on three sites in the city, two in the centre of Graz and one in the southeast of the city.

Old Technik (Rechbauerstrasse / Lessingstrasse)
New Technik (Kopernikusgasse / Petersgasse)
Inffeldgasse

Campus buildings at the Graz University of Technology

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Main building
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New Technology building
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BMT building (Biomedical Engineering)
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A further Chemistry building
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Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (Inffeldgasse 16)
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Engineering Mathematics/ Geodesy building
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Study Centre (Inffeldgasse 10)

HistoryEdit

1811: The Joanneum is founded by Archduke John of Austria. The first subjects taught were physics, chemistry, astronomy, mineralogy, botany, and technology. Friedrich Mohs became the first professor of mineralogy in 1812.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="19th century">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1864: The Styrian government makes it the Joanneum Regional and Technical College.<ref name="19th century" />

1874: The Austrian government takes over the Imperial-Royal College of Technology in Graz.<ref name="19th century" />

1888: Opening of the Main Building (Old Technik) by Franz Joseph I of Austria.

1901: The Technical College is granted the right to award doctorates.<ref name="20th century">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1955: The Technical College is divided into three faculties.<ref name="20th century" />

1976: The Technical College is divided into five faculties and renamed Graz University of Technology, Archduke-Johann-University (Technische Universität Graz, Erzherzog-Johann Universität).<ref name="20th century" />

2004: The new Austrian university law (UG 2002) is fully implemented – the university is divided into seven faculties.<ref name="21st century">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

OrganizationEdit

The university consists of seven faculties:<ref name="faculties institutes" />

Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Civil Engineering Sciences
Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Economic Sciences
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Geodesy
Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Chemical and Process Engineering, and Biotechnology

TeachingEdit

Students at TU Graz have a choice of 19 bachelor programmes and 36 master programmes. Graduates receive the academic degrees BSc, MSc or Diplom-Ingenieur/-in (Dipl.-Ing.). The doctoral programmes (Dr.techn. and Dr.rer.nat.) are offered as postgraduate programmes. Continuing education is offered in the framework of Lifelong Learning and consists of 11 part-time master's programmes and university programmes plus a range of other courses.

Facts and figuresEdit

Beginners: 1,780
Graduates (academic year 2022/23): 1,855
Federal budget 2023: €208.6 million
Income from third-party funds 2023: €88.4 million
Floor space (m²): 277,817
Non-academic staff: 1,151
Academic staff: 1,932 (of which project staff 1,106)
Lecturers/student assistants: 854

Data from: 2023/24<ref name="TU Graz Statistics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

RankingsEdit

Template:Infobox university rankings In Shangai Ranking's 2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, it is in the 201-300 range in biomedical engineering and in the 301-400 range in atmospheric science and in mathematics. It can be found in the 401-500 range in biotechnology, in chemistry, and in materials science & engineering.<ref name="gras">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2023 Leiden Ranking, the PP_top10% analysis puts it on position 558, the PP_industry ranks Graz University of Technology on place 13.

Notable alumniEdit

Raimund Abraham (1933–2010), architect
Silke Bühler-Paschen, physicist
Günther Domenig (1934–2012), architect
Friedrich Emich (1860–1940), chemist
Dietmar Feichtinger (born 1961), architect
Anselm Franz (1900-1994), pioneering jet engineer, inventor of the Jumo 004 and Lycoming T53 turbine engines
Ernst Hiesmayr (1920–2006), architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna
Karl Kordesch, fuel cell and battery designer
Hans List, technical scientist and inventor, entrepreneur
Hanns Malissa (1920–2010), chemist
Hubert Petschnigg, architect
Alois Riedler (1850–1936), mechanical engineer
Rudolf Sanzin (1874–1922), locomotive designer
Friedrich St. Florian (born 1932), architect
Nikola Tesla, electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor (did not receive a degree and did not continue beyond the first semester of his third year, during which he stopped attending lectures)<ref>Template:Usurped, D. Mrkich</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Karl von Terzaghi, civil engineer and founder of soil mechanics
Luis Trenker (1892–1990), architect, artist and alpinist
Svitlana Winnikow (1919-1981), first woman professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University

PartnershipsEdit

TU Graz has set up strategic partnerships with five universities:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Graz University of Technology is also a member of CESAER.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Affiliates and shareholdingsEdit

TU Graz holds shares in more than 20 companies, mainly research centres like the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology or Virtual Vehicle.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It also hosts the Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis and the headquarters of the Silicon Austria Labs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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