Sunday, April 24, 2016

The Development of Technical Education in Europe

Specialized instruction emerged and grew gradually contrasted with established schools, i.e. colleges and language structure schools. The principal specialized schools were mining and military specialized schools for structural designers. 

The primary specialized college was the well known École Polytechnique in Paris, set up in 1794. An optional school leaving declaration was important for understudies to enter this school. The understudies were set up for military and common administration. The school put accentuation on educating hypothetical subjects (science, graphic geometry, material science). The association diagram and instructive project of École Polytechnique served as a model for polytechnic schools in nineteenth century Europe. 

Specialized training in Austro-Hungarian Empire 

Prague Technical University 

The beginnings of the specialized training in Prague are firmly related with the name of Ch.J. Willenberg. Christian Joseph Willenberg (1655 - 1731), a local of Silesia, got his scientific and specialized information through administration in the French armed force. He settled in Prague and he tended to an appeal to Emperor Leopold I in January 1705, asking for to start showing designing sciences. After twelve years, the Institute of Engineering Education was set up in 1717. The beginnings were unobtrusive. Willenberg started instructing just 12 understudies in his private level. The quantity of understudies achieved more than 200 in 1779 yet tumbled to just 106 in 1806. 

In 1806, after the venture of F.J. Gerstner (educator of science at the Prague University), in view of the model of École Polytechnique, the Institute of Engineering Education was changed into Prague Polytechnic. Around then Prague Polytechnic was the main school of higher specialized instruction in the Austrian government. Numerous well known individuals worked and taught at Prague Polytechnic. The best known of them was Christian Doppler, teacher of science and reasonable geometry from 1837 to 1847. 

In 1863 Prague Polytechnic was changed into the Technical University. Around then studies were partitioned into 4 branches: mechanical building, science, structural designing and engineering. In 1869 the Technical University was partitioned into two colleges - German Technical University and Czech Technical University. 

The German Technical University in Prague was canceled in October 1945 (the establishments with their gear were consolidated in Czech Technical University in Prague. 


Vienna Technical University 

In 1805 Emperor Franz I asked the majestic commission on training to set up the foundation of a specialized college in Vienna. In December 1814 Johann Joseph Prechtl (previous teacher of arithmetic at a maritime school in Trieste) was named executive of the recently settled Technical Institute. Instructing started in November 1815 with 3 teachers and 47 understudies in adjusted quarters. The Institute was separated into a specialized school and a business schools. 

In 1865, the primary change was finished. The business school was annulled and the specialized school was partitioned into four sections: school of designing, school of structural building, school of mechanical designing and school of specialized science. In 1866 the principal minister was chosen. In 1872, the Technical Institute was changed into Imperial-Royal Technical University. Since 1975 the school has been called Vienna University of Technology. 

Specialized University Graz 

The Technical College was built up in 1811 regarding exhibition hall (Joanneum). In 1827, the Department of Technical and Practical Mathematics was built up. In 1864 it was changed into Technical University. 

Specialized Academy in Lemberg (Lvov) 

In 1817, optional specialized school was built up in Lemberg. It was separated into a specialized school and a business schools. In 1844 the school was changed into Technical Academy and Florian Schindler, the principal executive of Brno Technical College, was selected the chief of the Academy. In 1848, the working of the school was demolished by flame and a few teachers moved to the recently settled Brno Technical College. In 1877 the Academy was changed into Technical University. The school exists as Lviv State University "Lvivska Polytechnica" now.

 
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