Norwegian Institute of Technology


[Image:Hovedbygget ntnu.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hovedbygningen, the main building of the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)]
The Norwegian Institute of Technology was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent college.
In 1996 NTH ceased to exist as an organizational superstructure when the university was restructured and rebranded. The former NTH departments are now basic building blocks of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
NTH was primarily a polytechnic institute, educating master level engineers as well as architects. In 1992 NTH had 7627 master and doctoral students and 1591 employees; it graduated 1262 chartered engineers, 52 chartered architects, and 92 Dr.Ing.. The operating budget was equivalent to US$100M, and the total premises amounted to around 260,000 m2.
Since the merger, it forms a part of the university campus commonly known as Gløshaugen, from the geographical area in which it is situated.
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History

The decision to establish a Norwegian national college of technology was made by the Norwegian parliament, the Storting, in 1900, after years of heated debate on where the institution should be located; many representatives felt that the capital Kristiania was self-evident as the place for this nationally important seat of learning. However, eventually Den Tekniske Høgskole was located in the geographically central city of Trondheim, based on an emerging policy of decentralisation as well as the city's existing and highly esteemed technical college, Trondhjems Tekniske Læreanstalt.
Hovedbygningen, the building of Norges tekniske høgskole was designed by architect Bredo Greve. It was built of granite block construction in the National Romantic style of architecture.
Five academical departments were originally present in the parliament's resolution of 31 May 1900:

Academic faculties

The academic structure of NTH during the last years before its inclusion in NTNU was as follows:
  • Faculty of Architecture, with 5 Departments:
  • *Form and Colour Studies
  • *Building Technology
  • *Architectural History
  • *Arch. Design
  • *Town and Regional Planning
  • Faculty of Applied Earth Science and Metallurgy, with 3 Departments:
  • *Metallurgy
  • *Geology and Mineral Resources
  • *Petroleum Technology and Applied Geophysics
  • Faculty of Civil Engineering, with 8 Departments:
  • *Building and Construction Engineering
  • *Geotechnical Engineering
  • *Road and Railway Engineering
  • *Transportation Engineering
  • *Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering
  • *Building Materials
  • *Structural Engineering
  • *Geodesy and Photogrammetry
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with 5 Departments:
  • *Electrical Power Engineering
  • *Telecommunications
  • *Engineering Cybernetics
  • *Physical Electronics
  • *Computer Systems and Telematics
  • Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, with 7 Departments:
  • *Inorganic Chemistry
  • *Organic Chemistry
  • *Physical Chemistry
  • *Chemical Engineering
  • *Industrial Chemistry
  • *Industrial Biochemistry
  • *Biotechnology
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, with 6 Departments:
  • *Thermal Energy and Hydropower
  • *Machine Design and Materials Technology
  • *Production and Quality Engineering
  • *Applied Mechanics, Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics
  • *Heating and Ventilation
  • *Refrigeration Engineering
  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, with two Departments:
  • *Mathematics Sciences
  • *Physics
  • Faculty of Marine Technology, with 4 Departments:
  • *Marine Systems Design
  • *Marine Structures
  • *Marine Hydrodynamics
  • *Marine Engineering
  • Faculty of Economics and Industrial Management, with two Departments:
  • *Economics
  • *Organisation and Work Science
  • Center for Management Education
  • Technical University Library of Norway
  • *The national resource library of technology and architecture
  • *Locations: Technical Main Library as well as six Faculty Libraries on campus

Notable alumni

Commercial impact

The following companies, or divisions of international companies, have been created directly or partly from NTH research and influence, including its contract research arm SINTEF with spin-offs:
  • 3d-Radar AS
  • Atmel Norway
  • Ceetron AS
  • Cybernetica (Norwegian company) advanced process control, specializing in nonlinear model predictive control
  • CorrOcean
  • ErgoRunit AS
  • Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)
  • GE Vingmed Ultrasound, formerly Vingmed Sound
  • Marine Cybernetics, specialising in the testing and verification of ship and offshore structure control systems
  • MARINTEK, The Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute, including MARINTEK, Inc.
  • Nordic Semiconductor ASA
  • Oceanor
  • Powel ASA
  • Q-Free ASA; formerly Micro Design AS
  • Schlumberger Information Solutions Trondheim, formerly VoxelVision AS
  • SINTEF, The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at NTH
  • SINTEF Energy Research, SINTEF Petroleum Research, and SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture ²
  • Sinvent Ltd., SINTEFs development and investment company
  • Sun Microsystems Trondheim; formerly ClustRa Systems
  • Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS; acquired Systems in Motion AS