The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (in Hungarian, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem) is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary. 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ... The European University Association (EUA) is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe. ... DRC may stand for: Democratic Republic of the Congo Dancing Robot Contest Danish Refugee Council (drc. ... The African Unification Front is an organisation aiming to promote a political, social and economic union in Africa. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

History

The legal predecessor of the university was founded in 1782 by Emperor Joseph II, named Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum (Institute of Engineering). Count István Széchenyi played a considerable role in industrialization as well as the launch of engineering training in Hungary. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II Joseph II (March 13, 1741 - February 20, 1790) was a Holy Roman Emperor (1765 - 1790). ... Portrait of Count István Széchenyi by Friedrich von Amerling Gróf Széchenyi István (Count Stephen Széchenyi) (September 21, 1791, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – April 8, 1860 Döbling), known as The Greatest Hungarian, was a Hungarian politician and writer, one of the founding fathers of New Hungary after the revolution of 1848. ...

It was reorganized in 1871 as Royal Joseph Technical University and was elevated to equal rank with other universities in the country. It received its current site near Gellért tér (next to the Art Nouveau Hotel Gellért) in 1910. Alfons Mucha, lithographed poster, 1898 Art Nouveau (French for New art) is an art and design style that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century. ...

It was reorganized in 1934 as Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics and it played a dominant role in the interwar industrialization process besides engineer and economist training in Hungary.

The university was restructured again in the postwar period. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was partly launched by students of the Technical University, followed by many professors. The two technical universities seated in Budapest were merged in 1967 to form the Technical University of Budapest with six faculties. An up-to-date pool of machinery and instrumentation has been provided by support from Hungary and abroad. Hungarians investigate a disabled Soviet tank in Budapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a popular revolt against Soviet influence and control in Hungary. ...

Famous students

Among its Nobel Prize winner students are the inventor of holography Dennis Gabor, the chemist George Oláh and the physicist Eugene Wigner. Many other students of the university have become world-famous, including Tódor Kármán, Kálmán Kandó, Dénes Mihály, Károly Kós and Leó Szilárd. Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (5th June, 1900, Budapest - 9th February, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist who is most notable for inventing holography. ... George Andrew Olah (born 1927) is a U.S. (Hungarian-born) chemist. ... Eugene Wigner (left) and Alvin Weinberg Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál Jenő) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. ... Leó Szilárd (right) working with Albert Einstein. ...

Present

In May 2000 the university had 1024 regular professors (more than 50% of whom had scientific qualifications). 34 professors/researchers of the university are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in short: HAS, in Hungarian: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) was founded in 1825, when Count István Széchenyi offered one years income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Bratislava (seat...

Training courses are provided in five languages: Hungarian, English, German, French and Russian. The credit system was introduced in 1995.

Today it has eight faculties:

• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Economic and Social Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Natural Sciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering and Informatics

External links

• Detailed history in English and in Hungarian (http://www.bme.hu/en/hrs/index.html)
• Photo  (http://www.bme.hu/en/other/photo/send.html?p_01_007.jpg)
• Photo, with view to the Gellért hill (http://www.tanok.bme.hu/foto/cat010/05.jpg)