The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is an institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technicum, it was founded in 1912. The emphasis was on natural sciences, engineering and architecture, with a school of medicine added later. Two Nobel laureates teach there , Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell.
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is an institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technicum, it was founded in 1912. The emphasis was on natural sciences, engineering and architecture, with a school of medicine added later. Two Nobel laureates teach there , Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell. The Technion's Faculty of Electrical Engineering has been ranked among the top fifteen electrical engineering departments in the world. Its engineering/technology and computer sciences faculties have been ranked among the top forty in the world.
(now the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space)]] The Technion was conceived in the early 1900s by the German-Jewish fund Ezrah, as a school of engineering and sciences, and the only higher learning institution, in then Ottoman Palestine — other than the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (founded 1907). The cornerstone was laid in 1912, but studies only began 12 years later, following an intense debate over the language of instruction. Ezrah deemed Modern Hebrew inappropriate for scientific instruction, and demanded that German be used instead. However, in the aftermath of World War I and the decline of Germany's influence as a European superpower, Hebrew was adopted.
The Technion opened in 1924, although the official opening ceremony took place in 1925. The first class had 16 students, majoring in civil engineering and architecture. In the 1930s, the Technion absorbed many Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany and neighboring countries. In 1953, it awarded its first PhD in electrical engineering. Until the establishment of a school of engineering at Ben Gurion University in the early 1970s, the Technion was the only institution in the country offering engineering degrees.
, Haifa]] The Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is one of four state sponsored medical schools in Israel. It was founded in 1969 and is active in basic science research and preclinical medical training in anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, microbiology, physiology, and pharmacology. Other facilities on the Faculty of Medicine campus include teaching laboratories, a medical library, lecture halls, and seminar rooms. Academic programs are offered at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine leading to the Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees. The medical campus is located in the neighborhood of Bat Galim, adjacent to Rambam Hospital, the largest medical center in Northern Israel.
They have developed collaborative research and medical education programs with various institutions in medicine and bio-medical engineering including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Mayo Medical School.
The Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management at the Technion is the oldest such department in Israel. IE&M (Industrial engineering & Management) was launched as a Technion academic Department in 1958. The Department grew under the leadership of Pinchas Naor, who served as its founding Dean. Naor's vision was to combine Industrial engineering with Management by creating a large, inherently multidisciplinary unit covering a wide spectrum of activities, from applied engineering to mathematical modeling; from economics and behavioral sciences to operations research and statistics.
The Technion offers many after-school and summer enrichment courses for young people on subjects ranging from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.
The Technion offers undergraduate and graduate studies in Materials science, Electrical engineering, Civil, environmental engineering, Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Chemical engineering, Food engineering biotechnology, Agricultural engineering, Aerospace engineering, Industrial engineering, Computer science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Architecture and urban planning, Science education and technology education, and Medicine.
