News and Events

The student councils honor outstanding lecturers in the subject areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics, and Mathematics from the past two semesters. The special feature of these prizes is that they are awarded by the students themselves. [read more]

TUM students have again given their university an excellent report card. For the CHE University Rankings they rated various aspects of their degree programs. In all of the assessed subject areas the students reported outstanding levels of satisfaction, both with the quality of teaching and the study… [read more]

What does inflation mean? What kinds of saving and investment products are available? Students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the workshop “Because We Care” to teach young pupils about money management. They visit schools on a voluntary basis to give age-appropriate and… [read more]

For the eighth time, highly motivated coders gathered at "hackaTUM" to work on exciting future-oriented projects with leading industry partners. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is celebrating the official launch of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). As an integrative research institute, MDSI will pool the expertise of more than 60 professors in the fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. [read more]

In 1876, Wilhelm von Bezold delivered the first lecture on electrical telegraphy at the Technische Hochschule München – now known as TUM. This laid the foundation for a discipline that continues to shape our daily lives to this day: electrical and computer engineering. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is "University of Excellence." This was announced by the Science Council (WR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Federal Ministry of Research. TUM President Professor Thomas F. Hofmann extended his thanks to members of the TUM community. [read more]

The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs is extending its support for the robo.innovate robotics incubator at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is providing €3.5 million in funding for the next three and a half years. NEURA Robotics is also joining as an important first industry sponsor. [read more]

To make autonomous vehicles as safe, affordable and competitive as possible, researchers from the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems have developed a centralized architecture for the software-controlled vehicle of the future with partners from the automotive industry. [read more]

Professor Berna Özkale Edelmann and her team at the Microrobotic Bioengineering Lab have succeeded in using nanorobots to stimulate stem cells with such precision that they are reliably transformed into bone cells. The new method offers opportunities for faster treatments in the future. [read more]

Researchers at TUM have developed a reference system that permits direct comparison of lightweight construction methods for the first time. This will help industry and research develop components that are lighter and more stable, essential for the medical, automotive, and aeronautics sectors. [read more]

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has accepted Amr Alanwar, Professor of Cyber-Physical Systems, into its prestigious Emmy Noether Program. His research into logical zonotopes enables more efficient calculations in various applications, including digital circuits. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Darmstadt have investigated how text-to-image generators handle gender stereotypes in various languages. The results show that the models not only reflect but also amplify gender biases. The direction and strength of the distortion depend on the language in question. [read more]