Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt

[4] After Kittler retired from teaching in 1914, the Technische Universität Darmstadt awarded him an honorary doctorate and appointed Waldemar Petersen as his successor.

[5] Peterson established high voltage technology and invented a compensator for residual current in case of unintentional earth faults of an outer conductor, which is exhibited in the German Museum in Munich today.

In 1930, Hans Busch was appointed professor at the newly established Institute of Communications Engineering.

Under the Nazi regime, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Technische Universität Darmstadt were brought into line with the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.

He founded the system theory of electrical message transmission and thus made a significant contribution to the development of long-distance telephone traffic.

Under his leadership the following missions were accomplished: 1961 Alan Shepard, first American in space, 1962 John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, 1969 Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, and the 1973 launch of the Skylab space laboratory.Robert Piloty, who was appointed to the field of message processing in 1964, had a great influence on the development of data technology and the establishment of computer science as an independent discipline.

In 1968, Robert Piloty and Winfried Oppelt initiated the first computer science course in Germany at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Gerhard Sessler is included in the National Hall of Fame of the USA and received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2010.

In 1998, Werner Langheinrich and Ottmar Kindl developed the technology for cameras in the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).

One year later, M. Anders, Egon Christian Andresen and Andreas Binder developed the linear power train of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).

The research focus is characterized by cooperation with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Semiconductor Technology in connection with microtechnically manufactured sensor systems.