
The Technische Universität Darmstadt (Technical University
of Darmstadt or Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly referred to as TU
Darmstadt is a research university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. It was
founded in 1877 and received the right to award doctorates in 1899. In 1882 it
was the first university in the world to set up a chair in electrical
engineering, in 1883 the first faculty for electrical engineering was founded
there.