TU Wien

• Illustration — Plus Energy Office of TU Wien • Illustration — Kuppelsaal (cupola hall) of TU Wien • Illustration — Library building of TU Wien • Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer • Alexander Meissner (1883 – 1958), Austrian engineer and physicist, co-inventor of the Electronic oscillator • Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor • Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer • Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect • Christian Andreas Doppler (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist • Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician • Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect • Elfriede Tungl (1922-1981), civil engineer, first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in civil engineering, in 1973 became the first female associate professor at TU Wien. • Ernst Hiesmayr (1920-2006), architect, artist and former rector of TU Wien • Ferdinand Piëch (1937-2019), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group • Ferenc Krausz (born 1962), Hungarian–Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 • Franz Pitzinger (1858–1933), Constructor General of the Austrian Navy • Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow • Günter Blöschl (born 1961), Austrian hydrologist • Günther Tschabuschnig (born 1982), Austrian computer scientist • Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist • Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer • Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician • Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer • Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer • Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz) • Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect • Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect • Ina Wagner (born 1946), Austrian physicist, sociologist, professor of computer science 1987 – 2011, TU's second ever female professor • Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant • Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview • Jörg Streli (1940–2019), Austrian architect • Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer • Leon Kellner (1859–1928), grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist • Marie-Therese Hohenberg (born 1972), Austrian architect • Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer • Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer • Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer • Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit • Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture • Peter Schattschneider (born 1950), Austrian physicist • Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of TU Wien from 1991 to 2011 • Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist • Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher • Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect • Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics • Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor of physics • Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab • Ulrike Diebold (born 1961), Austrian–American physicist, vice president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences • Victoria Coeln (born 1962), Austrian light artist • Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine • Vinzenz Bronzin (1872-1970), Italian mathematics professor, and pioneering finance theorist • Yordan Milanov (1867–1932), one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century • Zvonimir Richtmann (1901–1941), Croatian physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist • Illustration — Karlskirche and the TU Wien

As a university of technology, TU Wien covers a wide spectrum of scientific concepts from abstract pure research and the fundamental principles of science to applied technological research and partnership with industry. TU Wien is ranked #190 by the QS World University Ranking, #406 by the Center of World University Rankings, and it is positioned among the best 251-300 higher education institutions globally by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The computer science department has been consistently ranked among the top 100 in the world by the QS World University Ranking and The Times Higher Education World University Rankings respectively. • Ranking — 2019 — 2018 — 2017 — 2016 — 2015 — 2014 — 2013 — 2012 • QS World University Rankings — 199 — 182 — 183 — 197 — 246 — 264 — 274 • QS Faculty Rankings: Engineering & Technology — 127 — 142 — 115 — 93 — 93 — 91 — 132 — - • QS Subject Rankings: Mechanical Engineering — 151-200 — 151-200 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 151-200 — 151-200 — 151-200 — - • QS Subject Rankings: Electrical Engineering — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 51-100 — 51-100 — - • QS Subject Rankings: Chemical Engineering — 101-150 — 151-200 — 151-200 — - — 151-200 — - — - — - • QS Subject Rankings: Civil & Structural — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — 101-150 — - • QS Subject Rankings: Computer Science — 51-100 — 51-100 — 51-100 — 51-100 — 51-100 — 51-100 — 51-100 — - • The Times Higher Education World University Rankings — 251-300 — 251-300 — 251-300 — 226-250 — 226-250 — 251-275 — 301-350 • The Times Higher Education Subject Rankings: Engineering and Technology — 151-175 — 126-150 — 91 — 100 — 96 — - — - • The Times Higher Education Subject Rankings: Computer Science — 76 • Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking's) — 301-400 — 401-500 — 401-500 — 401-500 — 401-500 — 401-500 — 401-500 • Academic Ranking of World Universities, Subject field: Computer Sciences — 76-100 — - — - — 101-150 — 76-100 — 76-100 — 101-150 • Academic Ranking of World Universities, Subject field: Electrical Engineering — 101-150 — 76-100 — - — - — - — - • Academic Ranking of World Universities, Subject field: Materials Science — 151-200 — 101-150 — - — - — - — - • Academic Ranking of World Universities, Subject field: Mechanical Engineering — - — 101-150 — - — - — - — -