TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK

The 'Technical University of Denmark' (Danish: ''Danmarks Tekniske Universitet'', DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: ''Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt''). The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (then a professor at the University of Copenhagen) who also served as its principal until his death in 1851.
From 1933 the institution was officially known as ''Danmarks Tekniske Højskole (DTH)'', which usually was translated as the 'Technical University of Denmark'. Finally on 1 April 1994, in connection with the joining of ''Danmarks Ingeniørakademi'' (DIA) and DTH, the Danish name was changed to ''Danmarks Tekniske Universitet'', in order to include the word 'University', thus giving rise to the acronym DTU by which the university is commonly known today.
On January 1, 2007 the university was merged with the following Danish research centers: Forskningscenter Risø, Danmarks Fødevareforskning, Danmarks Fiskeriundersøgelser, Danmarks Rumcenter, and Danmarks Transport-Forskning.
The student union at DTU is Polyteknisk Forening (www.pf.dk), a 161-year old organisation that represents all DTU students.

Contents

Campus

Departments

Notable alumni and professors

References

External links

Campus

The university is located on a plain known as Lundtoftesletten in the northeastern end of the city of Lyngby. The area was previously home to the airfield Lundtofte Flyveplads.
The campus is roughly divided in half by the road Anker Engelunds Vej going in the east-west direction, and, perpendicular to that, by two lengthy, collinear parking lots located on either side of it. The campus is thus divided into four parts, referred to as quadrants, numbered 1 through 4 in correspondence with the conventional numbering of quadrants in the Cartesian coordinate system.

Departments

★ BioCentrum-DTU (BIC)

★ BYG•DTU

★ Center for Biological Sequence Analysis — chair Søren Brunak

★ Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CICT)

★ Center for Traffic and Transport (CTT)

★ Communications, Optics & Materials (COM)

★ DANCHIP

★ Department of Chemical Engineering (KT)

★ Department of Chemistry (KEMI)

★ Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management (IPL)

★ Department of Mathematics (MAT)

★ Department of Mechanical Engineering (MEK)

★ Department of Physics (FYSIK)

★ Environment & Resources DTU (ER)

★ Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (IMM)

★ Micro and Nanotechnology (MIC)

★ The Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark (DTV)

★ Ørsted•DTU (OERSTED)

Notable alumni and professors

★ Craig Barrett

★ Dines Bjørner

★ Per Brinch Hansen

★ Rodney Cotterill

★ Ludwig A. Colding

★ Henrik Dam

★ Anker Engelund

★ P. Ole Fanger

★ Anders Hejlsberg

★ Henrik Wann Jensen

★ Lars Knudsen

★ Peter Naur

★ Jakob Nielsen

★ P. O. Pedersen

★ Ebbe Sand, football player^[3]

★ Jens Ulstrup

★ Hans Christian Ørsted (founder and first rector)

References

1. http://portalen.dtu.dk/Om_DTU/nyheder_AK.aspx?msg=bc63f250-1683-4fb1-b378-a871d5003a4b visited 2007-01-07
2. http://portalen.dtu.dk/Om_DTU/nyheder_AK.aspx?msg=bc63f250-1683-4fb1-b378-a871d5003a4b visited 2007-01-07
3. Brøndby IF, "Bag duggede ruder", ''Fodbold i Brøndby'', nr. 3, 2004.

External links

★ Homepage of Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

★ History of DTU

★ International Education at DTU