Technische Universitat Ilmenau

Geschichte

The Technische Universität Ilmenau is a German public research university located in Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany. It was founded in 1894, it has a total of 5 academic departments and about 7,200 students.IntroductionBackgroundResearch and education at the Technische Universität Ilmenau is focused on engineering with strong links to economics and natural sciences. It is the only university in the federal state of Thüringen with the title “Technische Universität”. Today's university began its life in 1894 as the "Thüringisches Technikum”, a private training college. This took on the status of Hochschule für Elektrotechnik (HfE) before becoming a Technische Hochschule (TH) and in 1992 being accorded the title of Technische Universität (TU).AcademicsTU Ilmenau offers degrees in technology, science, economics and media. These all also form part of the interdisciplinary media subjects which are a more recent development and combine technology, economics, law and social studies.The 7200 or so students (at the last count) include about 1650 who come from outside Germany. The courses they take lead to Bachelor’s and/or master's degrees in which the subjects tend to be drawn from a number of disciplines within the overall groups of Engineering, Mathematics with Science, and Economics with Social Studies.Among the distinguishing features of the TU Ilmenau are personal care for students from professors, tutors and student mentors; a campus with modern buildings only short distances apart; a variety of social activities and social support; many student associations as well as diverse cultural and sports activities.The International School is drawing attention from lot of students and researchers. Master's in Communications and Signal processing is the well sought course in English. Each semester, approximately 35 students join to the program from all over the world, with a high percentage of students from Asia. This Master's program is very well reputed for its scientific research standards.

"„Juwel im Osten“ nennt die „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“ die Technische Universität Ilmenau. Lob, das die Ilmenauer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler immer wieder mit Spitzenleistungen in der Forschung unter Beweis stellen: sie entwickeln Designermoleküle, die den Krebs bekämpfen und sie forschen am autonomen Auto der Zukunft.Die Technische Universität Ilmenau bietet ein breites Fächerangebot in den Bereichen Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften sowie Wirtschaft und Medien an. Besonders die individuelle Betreuung und die moderne Ausstattung unterscheiden die TU Ilmenau von anderen Universitäten."