Technion

The Technion (in Hebrew: הטכניון - מכוןטכנולוגילישראל), created in 1912, is oldest of the Université S of Israel. Technion counts approximately 13 000 pupils, originating in 35 countries of the world. Technion is also a research center.

University programs

Technion gives a programme of four years which leads to a license are engineering and sciences, as well as a programme of 3 years for obtaining a science degree. The diploma for the occupation of architect is obtained in five years; the diploma and the license in medical sciences at the end of three and four years of studies respectively. As for the control, it is allotted at the end of six years of studies and a year of boarding school.

All faculties offer courses and training courses of research leading to higher diplomas, among which scientific Control (M.Sc.), Control of engineer (M.E), Control of high commercial studies (M.B.A) and doctorate (pH. D).

The disciplines taught and studied in Technion include/understand:

Genius: aerospace, agricultural, Materials, food and Biotechnology, biomedical, chemical, civil, electric, industrial and mechanical management, ;
Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Data-processing, Mathematical, Physical, Medicine;
Architecture and city planning.

Poles of excellence

The fusion of sciences and technologies made research a mainly multidisciplinary activity. Also, Technion established poles of excellence in fields essential with the scientific and technological development future of Israel. These poles provide to Technion a flexible structure to answer the new priorities of research.

The multidisciplinary poles of excellence carry on their activity in the following fields:

advanced separation and membranes,
biotechnology,
catalyzes,
technologies of the communication and information,
fluid complexes,
microstructures and macromolecules,
materials and structures composite,
high temperature and supraconductivity,
science of the interface,
microsatellites,
microsystems,
nanoelectronic by biotechnology,
optoelectronic,
engineering of proteins,
technology of the software.

Research institutes

Some 40 centers and research institutes support interdisciplinary research and are used as national resources, in particular:

the theoretical Institute of higher learning of chemistry
the Asher Institute of space research
the Research institute marine and coastal (CAMERI)
the Institute of high mathematical studies
the Institute of theoretical physics
the National research institute out of buildings (NBRI)
the Neaman Institute of high scientific studies and technological (SNI)
the family Institute Rapaport of research in medical sciences
the Silver Institute of biomedecine
the Institute of the solid states
the Research institute on transport
the hydraulic Research institute.

Former students

50 000 former students of Technion are one of the most invaluable resources of the country. They account for 70% of the engineers approved in Israel. It is them which created the industrial infrastructure of the country, which reinforced its capacities of defense and which made work of pioneers as regards company with technological vocation.

Attracted by the quality of the graduates of Technion, of the international companies (Intel, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Motorola, Hewlett Packard and DIGITAL) settled in Israel to establish research centres there and of development making of Israel the hearth with stronger concentration of start-up High-tech, just after the Silicon Valley .

Some discoveries

the algorithm Lempel-Ziv-Welch was developed by two professors of Technion, Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. This algorithm and its evolutions are universally recognized and used, for example, in the format of Digital image GIF, or certain software of compression such as StuffitX.
the Rasagiline, which treats the Parkinson's disease, was developed by professor Moussa Youdim.
the data-processing engine Zend Engine was developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, when they were students in Technion.
the method of ecological electrical production, more known under the name of energy Tower, was developed by Israelis of the Technion institute, and in particular professor Dan Zaslavsky.

History

At the beginning of the century, much start to dream of a modern nation of the name of Israel. To concretize this hope, the Jews understand that they require to acquire the technical training that the European universities refuse to exempt to them. In 1905, the 5th Congrès Zionist underlines the urgency to create a Jewish university.

In 1912, foundations are dug at the top of the slopes which overhang Haïfa, a small port located in the north of Palestine. During a festive ceremony, under a sun of spring, the first stone of Technikum, first Jewish technical university, is posed. Its mission is to exempt to the young pioneers know-how necessary to build a nation. The inscription in 1924 of the first sixteen pupils - engineers engages a vital dynamics between Technion and the embryonic Jewish State. The majestic arcades of the first building of Technion will see passing from the generations of students equipped with know-how necessary to make of Israel a flourishing modern reality.

While Israel deals with the challenges of the world war and fight for its independence, Technion knows a rapid expansion and works out a series of ambitious projects to meet new needs. In 1949, professor Sydney Goldstein founds the Department of Aeronautics. “Soon they will dream to build planes here”, make fun the skeptics.

With the presidency of the General Yaakov Dori, the reputation of Technion as a technical supplier of the needs for Israel as regards safety (role which is reserved for him for the era of the Haganah) is consolidated. The battle weakened forever inside the country. The know-how of the establishment made it possible to build a new coastal road connecting Haïfa to Tel Aviv. Electricity with the telecommunication networks, industries founders with the production of residences prefabricated to answer at the request of the immigrant , Technion held the role of a power station feeding the development of the State.

Gradually, the teachers of Technion acquire a growing international recognition. In the Years 1970, Technion makes it possible to obtain diplomas of civil engineering, agricultural genius, mechanics, electricity, chemistry, and architecture. Sciences, among which mathematics, chemistry, physics and mechanics, develop. At this point in time the American Association of the Friends of Technion (ATS) takes up the challenge and collects 10 million dollars for the construction of the new campus, followed by the Israeli government which offers the same amount.

“ the Israeli starts to think of what could resemble its life in the Middle East alleviated ”, the review of Technion wrote when the Camp David agreements buried the war with the Egypt in 1978. Each time a new field of research emerges, Technion answers present: micro electronics in 1977, with the opto-electronic in 1989, centers of excellence emergent. Unceasingly expanding on the 120 hectares of its new campus, the machine with success which the City of Technion represents, thus starts to weave the bonds between students, teachers, industrial sector and public authorities.

Technion accompanied Israel throughout each critical turning by its history, anticipating its needs and finding solutions with its problems. At that time like today still, Technion is used as technical power station in the State of Israel, endeavouring to be used all the inhabitants of the area and clearing the way for a future lit for all the people of the world. Students, teachers and graduates of Technion contribute in a single way to construction of the future of Israel. Linked by the same glare which shines at the bottom of their eyes, by their inexhaustible search of excellence, the smile that they post means " quite simply; merci" , thank you to the thousands for Friends of Technion who help to transform the vision of the actually last century forthcoming millenium.

Chronology

1901 : The 5th Congress Zionist launches a call for the creation of a Juive university.
1903: The association of the teachers Jews of Palestine asks for the creation of a polytechnic university.
1908: Wissotsky, Schiff and the Fonds Jewish national invest in the acquisition of new a " Tecnikum".
1912: Pose first stone on the Mont Carmel.
1915: Occupation of the building during the First World War.
1920: Official purchase of the building.
1923: Albert Einstein becomes the president of the Friends of Technion.
1924: Creation of a class of engineers.
1938: Creation of new departments: Structure, Industrial engineering, Civil engineering, a naval college and 11 laboratories.
1944: Creation of a advanced alarm system against the air raids.
1953: David Ben Gourion chooses a site of 120 hectares to increase Technion.
1954: Albert Einstein receives a doctorate Honoris Causa .
1961: Creation of a Faculty of Sciences.
1969: Creation of a Medical college: the Institute can thus combine technology and medicine.
1981: Birth of the fiberoptics (creation of Fibronics resulting from Technion).
1993: Pupils of Technion then design and launch their own satellite, smallest of the world.
1998: Technion is able to work out a transistor 1/100 000e time smaller than a human hair.
2004: Two researchers of Technion, Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko are honoured by the Nobel Prize with Chemistry.
2005: Russel Berry Nanotechnolgy Center, one of most advanced in the world, is born.
2006: The departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering are classified 12 in the world in quality of research, 2 except the USA.

External bonds

the official site
Association Technion France
(en/fr/heb) cartitative Association rested by French students of Technion

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