The Clausthal University of Technology (German: Technische Universität Clausthal, also referred to as TU Clausthal or TUC) is an institute of technology (Technische Universität) in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany. The small public university is regularly ranked among the Top German universities in engineering by CHE University Rankings.More than 30 % of students and 20 % of academic staff come from abroad, making it one of the most international universities in Germany.The university is best known for the prominent corporate leaders among its former students. In 2011, five of the 30 leading companies within the German stock index had alumni of TUC on their management board. Two of them as CEO.
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- History
- Organization
- Reputation
- Ranking
- Unique features
- Student Life
- Big Band
- Notable faculty and alumni
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History
The academy of the local Hanoverian mining authority was established in 1775 at Clausthal in the Harz mountain range with its centuries-long history of mining in the Upper Harz (most notably at the Rammelsberg). Initially a school for pitmen and smelter workers, it was raised to the status of a mining college by the Westphalian minister Count Hans von Bülow in 1810. In 1864, at the behest of King George V of Hanover, the spin-off of a mining academy (Bergakademie) was founded.
Both institutions remained under joint administration after the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, until in 1906 the academy was separated as an autonomous educational establishment directly subordinate to the Prussian government represented by a curator. It was one of only two mining academies in Prussia, the other being the mining college in Berlin established in 1770, a predecessor of the Berlin Institute of Technology.
After World War II, the academy passed under the authority of the West German state of Lower Saxony, it was renamed Technische Hochschule in 1966 and Technische Universität in 1968.
Auditorium
Organization
The Faculty of Natural and Materials Sciences
Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
Institute of Metallurgy
Institute of Non-Metallic Materials
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Institute of Physics and Physical Technologies
Institute of Polymer Materials and Plastics Engineering
Institute of Technical Chemistry
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Laser Application Centre
Institute of Mining
The Faculty of Energy and Economic Sciences
Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and Energy Systems
Institute of Energy Process Engineering and Fuel Technology
Institute of Environmental Sciences
Institute of Geology and Paleontology
Institute of Geophysics
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering and Mine Surveying
Institute of German and International Mining and Energy Law
Institute of Management and Economics
Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing, Waste Disposal and Geomechanics
Institute of Mineralogy and Mineral Resources
Institute of Mining
Institute of Subsurface Energy Systems
Students' hostel
The Faculty of Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering
Institute of Applied Mechanics
Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering
Institute of Computer Sciences
Institute of Electrical Information Technology
Institute of Mass Transfer
Institute of Mathematics
Institute of Mechanical Engineering
Institute of Particle Technology
Institute of Plant Engineering and Fatigue Analysis
Institute of Process and Production Control Technology
Institute of Tribology and Energy Conversion Machinery
Institute of Welding and Machining