technical university Ilmenau

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technical university Ilmenau
logo
motto the SPIRIT of science
founding 1953 (since 1992 TU)
place Ilmenau
state Thuringia
country Germany
Provisional head Kai-Uwe Sattler
Students 5,608 WS 2018/19
Employee approx. 1,465 (as of December 1, 2018)
including professors 95 (as of December 1, 2018)
Networks DFH , MGU
Website www.tu-ilmenau.de
Ernst Abbe Center (Rectorate)

The Technical University of Ilmenau is a university of the Free State of Thuringia in Ilmenau . It has five faculties and offers 19 Bachelor, two Diploma and 25 Master’s courses. Research and teaching are strongly influenced by engineering and are characterized by a close connection between engineering and economics, mathematics and natural sciences.

Faculties

Research focus

Gustav-Kirchhoff-Platz from the south with a fountain and Kirchhoff building
Zusebau (Faculty of Computer Science and Automation)
Feynmanbau (Center for Micro and Nanotechnology)

The research activities are based on the six interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research clusters:

focused. In 2004 the university was accepted into the German Research Foundation . Research at the TU Ilmenau is carried out by a number of local non-university research institutes , such as the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), the Fraunhofer Application Center for System Technology (AST), a branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), the Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research and the Institute for Microelectronic and Mechatronic Systems strengthened.

The research cluster "Mobile Communication" is aimed at researching mobile wireless access technologies for broadband, multimedia communication networks as well as multimedia technologies for processing and presenting information. The interdisciplinary cluster “Technical and Biomedical Assistance Systems” develops new types of movement systems based on biological models (climbing animals, worms, etc.), mobile service robots that are intended to support people in everyday life. Further research focuses of the university include a. Magnetofluid dynamics, solar technology , image processing , optical technologies as well as new materials and materials for the automotive industry. In the DFG Collaborative Research Center 622 “ Nanopositioning and Nanomeasuring Machines”, university scientists from various fields work together on the scientific and technical basis for the development and implementation of nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines. The TU Ilmenau is involved in international and national networks such as 3DTV, NEWCOM or EURON or "OptoNet technology network" of the Free State of Thuringia, Polymermat, Automotive Thuringia. The center for innovation competence “MacroNano - peripherals and complex systems for electronics and biosensors” with the research groups “microfluidics and biosensors” and “functionalized peripherals” as well as the center for micro and nanotechnologies have established themselves at the university.

history

The technical center (Curiebau), built in 1894

The history of this university began in 1894 with the establishment of the Thuringian Technical Center in Ilmenau , a private educational establishment founded by Eduard Jentzen and directed by Georg Schmidt from 1903 to 1948 . In 1895 the first own teaching building was built in the city center, the old technical center (today's Curie building), which was expanded with additions in 1896, 1898 and 1901. In 1926 he was followed by the New Technical Center (today Faraday Building). In the same year the Thuringian technical center in Ilmenau was renamed the Ilmenau Engineering School .

After the Second World War, it was nationalized in 1947 and converted into a technical college for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in 1950. Following a decision by the GDR Council of Ministers to set up special universities, the University of Electrical Engineering (HfE) in Ilmenau opened its doors on September 16, 1953 . The first 268 students were enrolled. With the laying of the foundation stone for the Helmholtz Building on May 2, 1956, numerous teaching buildings were erected on the Ehrenberg, about two kilometers east of the Ilmenau Center, that have long shaped the university's image. In 1963 the HfE received the status of a technical university (TH), after evaluation and restructuring it was elevated to a technical university (TU) in 1992 . In the 1980s, the KOBRA operating system was developed together with the Robotron combine . In 1985 a computer kit, the GDC1 , was finally developed and sold , which was partially compatible with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

The Humboldt Building from 2004 with the Audimax on the TU campus

Following the success of an electronic media technology pilot project started in 1994 as part of the electrical engineering diploma course, an independent university diploma course in media technology was introduced in 1996 as the first and only one of its kind (today continued in the bachelor's and master’s course), flanked by the addition of social science-oriented applied media science and media management alongside the industrial engineering courses. Media informatics remained as a subject within the computer science diploma course.

X-ray construction with an experimental lecture hall

In 2006 the university became the first German university to advertise a professorship for computer and video games.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 winter semester, the reforms of the German higher education system associated with the Bologna Process were also implemented at the TU Ilmenau. The study structure was reorganized and the previous diploma courses were converted to the graduated degrees Bachelor and Master .

Long-term international scientific collaborations are the basis for joint student training projects such as the German Engineering Faculty of the TU Ilmenau at the Moscow Energy Institute, founded in 2007. In 2013, the TU Ilmenau and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg signed a contract with the National Technical Research University of Kazan on the cooperation in establishing a German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT).

On May 18, 2020, the previous Vice-Rector for Science, Kai-Uwe Sattler, was elected as interim president, replacing Rector Peter Scharff, who has been in office since 2004, from mid-June 2020 .

The logo comes from the time when the technical university was established and was designed by the Ilmenau graphic designer Johanna Krapp. The lettering should represent the three lower case letters thi as an abbreviation for Technische Hochschule Ilmenau. The logo was retained by the management of the university after the conversion to the university.

Personalities

campus

The campus is located on Ehrenberg in the east of the city and was named after the founding rector Hans Stamm . Most of the university buildings, the student residences of the Thuringia Student Union and the Studentenflöhe daycare center are located here. The Curie, Faraday, Helios and X-ray buildings form a second, smaller campus on Weimarer Strasse, the Georg-Schmidt-Technikum.

University campus of the TU Ilmenau with teaching and research facilities, dormitories and university-related infrastructure

At the TU Ilmenau, there is radio hsf, the oldest student radio in Germany. Various student associations are active on campus. For example, the Research Association for Electronic Media e. V. is the largest self-administered student network in Thuringia. The ISWI eV has organized the International Student Week in Ilmenau every two years since 1993 . The four student clubs bi-Club, BH-Club, bc-Club, BD-Club and the bc-Studentencafé have established themselves in the Ilmenauer Studentenclub e. V. merged. There are various student religious communities in Ilmenau, including the Catholic student community in Ilmenau, the Evangelical student community in Ilmenau, the student mission in Germany and a Muslim community.

courses

(B = Bachelor course, M = Master course, D = Diploma course)

See also

Web links

Commons : Technische Universität Ilmenau  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Technical University of Ilmenau - University Management / Rectorate. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  2. https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/universitaet/wir-ueber-uns/daten-ffekten-zahlen
  3. Network. List of universities in the DFH network. In: www.dfh-ufa.org. Franco-German University, accessed on October 7, 2019 .
  4. University assembly elects interim president of TU Ilmenau. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 20.4 ″  E