Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BME since 1782
Dr. Péter Moson Former vice rector for international relations Former Institutional Erasmus coordinator
BME in Figures 1782-1949 Institutum Geometricum Hydrotechnicum 1949-2000 Technical University of Budapest 2000- Budapest University of Technology and Economics 8 Faculties, 77 Departments 24 000 Students Academic Staff: 1300, with scientific qualification: 800 Faculties: Civil Engineering (1782) Mechanical Engineering (1871) Architecture (1873) Chemical and Bioengineering (1873) Electrical Engineering and Informatics (1949) Transportation Engineering (1951) Natural Sciences (1998) Economic and Social Sciences (1998) 3
Nobel laureates of BME Dénes GÁBOR (1900-1979) holography, in 1971 Jenő WIGNER (1902-1995) theoretical physics, in 1963 György OLÁH (b:1927) organic chemistry, in 1994 4
Former students of BME Tódor (Theodore) von KÁRMÁN Aeronautical Engineer & Mathematician (1881-1963) Leo SZILÁRD Physicist (1898-1964) Ede TELLER Physicist (1908-2004) 5
Former graduates of BME Donát BÁNKI inventor of carburator (1859-1922) Károly ZIPERNOWSKY inventor of transformer (1853-1942) Ernő RUBIK inventor of Rubik s cube (1944-) 6
Education at the BME Engineering education in general: 7-8 semester BSc programs (210-240 credits) 3-4 semester MSc programs (90-120 credits) PhD Programs (3 years) BSc, MSc and PhD curricula in English Since 1994 European Credit Transfer Scheme Continuing Engineering Education, postgraduate courses, MBA, etc. 7
BSc/BA Programmes at the BME Faculty of Civil Engineering (EMK) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (GPK) Faculty of Architecture (EPK) Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering (VBK) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK) Faculty of Transportation Eng. and Vehicle Eng. (KJK) Faculty of Natural Sciences (TTK) Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK) Civil Engineering (8 semesters) Mechanical Engineering (7) Energy Engineering (7) Industrial Design Engineering (7) Mechatronics (7) Architecture (8) Chemical Engineering (7) Bioengineering (7) Environmental Engineering (7) Electrical Engineering (7) Computer Science and Engineering (7) Transportation Engineering (7) Mathematics (6) Physics (6+1) Management in Engineering (7) Business and Management BA (6+1) International Business BA (6+1) Applied Economics BA (6) Communication and Media Sciences BA (6) 8
2 year MSc/MA Programmes at the BME ENGINEERING MASTER PROGRAMMES Structure civil engineer (1,5 years) Infrastructure civil engineer (1,5 years) Geodesy & geoinformatics (1,5 years) Mechanical engineer Mechatronics engineer Mechanical modeling Architecture (5 years) Chemical engineer (2009) Bioengineer (2009) Environmental engineer Electrical engineer Computer engineer Biomedical engineer (2009) Transport engineer Logistics engineer Vehicle engineer OTHER MASTER PROGRAMMES Applied Mathematics Physics Cognitive sciences Economics International economy Regional and environmental economy Marketing Master of Business Administration Financial Accounting Management and Organisation Technical manager (2009) Engineer- teacher 9
Doctorate Schools (PhD/DLA) ~900 PhD students/candidates Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Architecture Fac. of Chemical and Bioengineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Faculty of Transportation Engineering Faculty of Natural Sciences Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences Civil Engineering Sciences Earth Sciences Mechanical Engineering Sciences Architectural Art (DLA) Building Sciences Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Electrical Engineering Information Technology Transport Science Vehicle, Mobile Machines Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science Physics Economy, Management and Organizations Psychological Sciences History of Technology and Science 10
Budget Tuition fees 11 % Other income 10 % Total : 29,8 billion HUF (~120 million ) R&D& innovation 26 % State budget 53 % 11
Research University In 2010 by the Hungarian government (5 in the country) Former rector of BME Gábor PÉCELI with the official document 12
Main industrial partners Alcoa Audi Bosch Budapest Gas Works EGIS E.ON Ericsson Flextronics General Electric Hewlett-Packard Hungarian Electric Works Hungarian Oil Co. (MOL) Hungarian Post IBM Intel Knorr-Bremse Microsoft Nokia Oracle Paks Nuclear Power Plant Richter Gedeon SAP Sanofi-Aventis (Chinoin) Siemens Telenor 13
Erasmus exchanges at BME Bilateral agreements with around 300 European universities, in 27 countries More than 300 outgoing BME students/year Around 900 incoming exchange students/year (including Erasmus+, Brazilian Science Without Borders program, ITESM [Mexico], Wisconsin [USA], Uni-Duisburg [Germany], KIT [Korea], etc.) 14
140 Number of ERASMUS+ Agreements (2015) 120 116 100 94 80 64 60 40 35 29 38 27 38 20 0 17 16 1 2 2 8 8 8 17 11 2 2 4 7 14 5 15 15 10 15
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HUNGARY 10 000 000 inhabitants 2 000 000 live in the capital, BUDAPEST HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE, related to Finnish Member of the EUROPEAN UNION since 2004 25
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