Focus on Technology

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This is the university that invented the electrical engineer. And much more.

The Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt is one of Germany’s leading technical universities. Its roughly 270 professors, 3,500 employees, and 21,000 students devote their talents and energy to areas of research that will be critical for the future such as energy, mobility, communications and information technologies, and housing and living conditions. The wide variety of disciplines represented are all focused on technology as viewed from the vantage points of engineering, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.

  • Readily Stimulated: "Smart" Polymers

    Darmstadt researchers plan to selec¬tively control the properties of underlying materials utilizing thin, “smart,” plastic films. For example, paper might be induced to release print¬ing inks, if necessary, chemical reactions might be started and inter¬rupted as required, or medications might be tailored to affect only certain parts of the body.

  • On the Way to CO2 Free Power Plants

    Innovative methods for capturing CO2 use hardly any energy and add little to operating costs / TU Darmstadt dedicates a pilot plant.

  • TU Darmstadt's synagogue exhibition to tour the USA

    Launch scheduled for 29 August at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI. The TU Darmstadt and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen’s "Synagogues in Germany - A Virtual Reconstruction" exhibition may be viewed in the USA commencing in late August.

  • Clean Water for Megacities

    Professor Peter Cornel’s team from TU Darmstadt’s Institute WAR will be presenting the results of their joint interdisciplinary project with Tongji University at the Shanghai World Expo: A “semicentral” approach to municipal water supply, sewage treatment, and refuse disposal. The Institute WAR, in the Department of Civil Engineering, contributes to solving complex environmental problems with research on water supply and groundwater protection, wastewater technology, waste management, industrial material cycles, and environmental planning.

  • TU Darmstadt Excels in Rankings for Technological and Social Science Fields

    Albert Einstein already recommended TU Darmstadt in 1919, stating: “In my opinion you must definitely go to Darmstadt. They have a good Polytechnic School.” Beyond its long-standing renown in the natural sciences and engineering, the TU has achieved an excellent reputation in the social sciences as well.

  • The Secret IT Capital of Europe

    With 12,700 companies in the information technology sector, the metropolitan region around the rivers Rhine, Main, and Neckar already has more IT businesses than Silicon Valley and more IT employees than Bangalore. An ambitious new project will further develop Europe’s biggest software cluster with funding from the German government.

  • Professor Jürgen Rödel Awarded Major Research Prize

    Professor Jürgen Rödel received the esteemed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research on high-performance ceramics. With a grant of 2.5 million euros, the award is the largest monetary prize awarded for scientific research in Germany.

  • New Initiative to Raise Number of Women Faculty and Researchers at TU

    The Technische Universität Darmstadt has a skeptical view of policies aimed at selectively promoting the interests of women engaged in academic research and favoring women when selecting candidates for top scientific positions. As Professor Dr. Hans Jürgen Prömel, President of the TU Darmstadt, put it, “We have created a special program that has fundamentally changed our appointment policies and will give us more women professors.”