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Encyclopedia > Technical University

A University of Technology is an university with a focus on technology. A synonym is "Technical University". It is often differentiated from educational institutions with a more vocational education orientation, such as the Australian Technical and Further Education Institutes. A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... A blacksmith is a traditional trade. ... Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions are a type of adult education organisation in Australia. ...


See also

  • Technikon - an equivalent of university of technology. (Terms used in South Africa)
  • Institute of Technology
  • Hogescholen (Terms used in Hungary or Netherlands)
  • Politechnika (Terms used in Poland)
  • Technische Hochschule, Technische Universität (Terms used in Germany)

Technikon is a term used in South Africa to refer to a university of technology. ... An institute of technology, or a polytechnic, is an institution of higher education specialising in technology, a vocational education institution specialized in technical education, or a mixture of both. ... Technische Hochschule (acronym TH) is, what a university of technology (i. ...

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Mathematics at the Brno German Technical University (2202 words)
Czuber was born in Prague and studied at Prague Technical University where he habilitated for practical geometry in 1876, and worked as an assistant to Professor Koristka.
In Brno he was rector of the German Technical University in the years 1939-1940, and had a major role in the transformation of the school under the regency of the German Empire.
From 1928 to 1937 Koppenfels was an assistant to Professor Prange at the Technical University in Hannover.
Istanbul Technical University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (424 words)
Istanbul Technical University's long and distinguished history began in 1773 when it was founded by Sultan Mustafa III as the Imperial Naval Engineers' School, an institution dedicated to the training of ship builders and cartographers.
In 1944 the name of the institution was changed to Istanbul Technical University and in 1946 the institution became an autonomous university with architecture, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering faculties.
And just as Istanbul Technical University played a leading role in the modernization movement of the Ottoman Empire, it has also maintained its leadership position in the changes and innovations taking place in construction, industrialization, and technological realms during the modern days of the Turkish Republic.
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