The Technical University

The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), regularly essentially alluded to as DTU, is a college in Kongens Lyngby, only north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was established in 1829 at the activity of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and is today positioned among Europe's driving building foundations.

DTU, alongside École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Eindhoven University of Technology and Technische Universität München, is an individual from EuroTech Universities Alliance.

DTU was established in 1829 as the 'School of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt) with the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, then an educator at the University of Copenhagen, as one of the main thrusts. The motivation was the École Polytechnique in Paris, France which Ørsted had gone to as a youthful researcher. The new foundation was introduced on 5 November 1829 with Ørsted as its foremost, a position he held until his demise in 1851.

The College of Advanced Technology's premises in Sølvgade, finished 1889

The new school's first home was two structures in Studiestræde and St-Oederstræde in focal Copenhagen yet albeit extended a few times they stayed deficient and in 1890 another building complex was initiated in Sølvgade in 1890. The new structures were outlined by the draftsman Johan Daniel Herholdt.

In 1903 the College of Advanced Technology started the instruction of electrical specialists notwithstanding the development engineers, creation engineers and mechanical architects officially taught at the school.

In the 1920s space had at the end of the day get to be inadequate and in 1929 the establishment stone was laid for another school at Østervold. Consummation of the building was deferred by World War II and it was not finished until 1954.

From 1933 the foundation was authoritatively known as Danmarks tekniske Højskole (DtH), which was typically interpreted as the 'Specialized University of Denmark'. On 1 April 1994, regarding the joining of Danmarks Ingeniørakademi (DIA) and DTH, the Danish name was changed to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, with a specific end goal to incorporate the word 'College', in this manner offering ascend to the initials DTU by which the college is normally known today. The formal name, Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, still incorporates the first name.

Primary working in Lyngby.

In 1960 a choice was made to move the College of Advanced Technology to new and bigger offices in Lyngby north of Copenhagen. They were introduced on 17 May 1974.

On 23 and 24 November 1967 the University Computing Center facilitated the NATO Science Committee's Study Group initially meeting talking about the recently instituted term 'Programming Engineering'.

On 1 January 2007 the college was converged with the accompanying Danish exploration focuses: Forskningscenter Risø, Danmarks Fødevareforskning, Danmarks Fiskeriundersøgelser (from 1 January 2008: National Institute for Aquatic Resources; DTU Aqua), Danmarks Rumcenter, and Danmarks Transport-Forskning.