informs both researchers and administrative staff in preparing and carrying out EU research projects. Notable faculty and alumni Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer Alexander Meissner (1883 – 1958), Austrian engineer and physicist, co-inventor of the Electronic oscillator Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect Elfriede Tungl (1922-1981) civil engineer, first Austrian woman to earn a doctorate in civil engineering, in 1973 became the first female associate professor at TU Wien. Ernst Hiesmayr (1920-2006), architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna Ferdinand Piëch (1937-2019), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who was the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group Franz Pitzinger (1858–1933), Constructor General of the Austrian Navy Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow Günter Blöschl (born 1961), Austrian hydrologist Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz) Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect Ina Wagner (born 1946), Austrian physicist, sociologist, professor of computer science 1987 – 2011, TU's second ever female professor Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview Jörg Streli (1940–2019), Austrian architect Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer Leon Kellner, grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist Marie-Therese Hohenberg, Austrian architect (born 1972) Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture Peter Schattschneider (1950), Austrian physicist Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991-2011 Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor of physics Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine Vinzenz Bronzin (1872-1970), Italian mathematics professor, and pioneering finance theorist Yordan