Electrical and Computer Engineering is the broadest and most diverse field of engineering. It is concerned with the generation, transmission, distribution, processing and exploitation of electrical energy and information. Almost every human activity, from the production process to the spread of knowledge and entertainment, is based upon the use of electrical energy and information. It is thus easy to see how central the role of ECE for modern society is

The basic aim of the School’s curriculum is to educate professionals who will develop clear ideas and views on architecture, understand in depth the social conditions in which they are going to work and master the essential technical knowledge and sensitivity to cope with the development of architectural ideas. Studies are combined with research conducted primarily in the School’s laboratories. Experimental ideas are tested through applied research, thus establishing links between social needs and demands and the educational process. The School of Architecture of the NTUA offers high quality education which, at the same time, is open to the challenges of the contemporary world.

The objectives of the School of Chemical Engineering are to properly train and educate the students in the discipline. Thus, an effort has been made to integrate, right from the beginning of the studies, social environmental and humanistic considerations into the curriculum. The latter must develop all the capabilities and human qualities of the students to enable them participate in the production of materials and goods, with the highest respect toward the environment and the social problems, and to make them positively creative.

The School’s objective is the high level education of students in the Applied Science of Rural and Surveying Engineering which consists of individual scientific subjects like Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Cartography, Geoinformatics Science and Systems, Property registry, Regional-Urban Design and Development and the study of Transportation, Hydraulic and Technical Works. The main point and advantage of Rural and Surveying Engineering speciality are the conception and knowledge of geographic space characteristics on the one hand and the capability of perfect description and completion of geoinformation into geoinformatics systems on the other.

The main objectives of the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering are to enable the Mining Engineer to work efficiently and productively in exploiting the mineral and energy resources of the country in mines, in quarries, in geotechnical works, in industries which add value to mineral raw materials, in metallurgical plants, in metal-forming enterprises, and in businesses and activities related to the protection and rehabilitation of the environment.

The aim of the School is to provide education and carryout research in all fields related to Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, as well as other related fields that can be grouped under the broader title of Maritime Technology. In this way, the School addresses the needs of the local shipbuilding industry and the merchant marine by producing well-trained graduate naval architects and marine engineers. It should be added that the degree offered covers both naval architecture and marine engineering, in contrast to the separate courses followed in certain other countries.

The School aims to providing students with the requisite knowledge for a scientific approach to problems of advanced industrial companies and enterprises of both public and private sectors, for the utilisation of new technologies and the organisation of production and decision-making followed by an analysis of market data. It also provides the necessary scientific background for staffing research and development departments in companies, research centres and higher-education institutes in the areas of mathematics, physics and engineering.

The task of civil engineering is to create and maintain a built environment that improves the quality of life while taking into account societal, financial and environmental realities. The curriculum is designed to prepare future civil engineers accordingly. While its primaryemphasis is on engineering theory, design methodology and state-of-the-art civil engineering practice, it also complements engineering with a series of non-technical courses which cover economics, management, elements from sociology and law, quality and safety, and the environmental impact of civil engineering projects.

The objective of the educational programme of the School of Mechanical Engineering is to cover both scientific and professional needs of the Mechanical Engineer, recognising the general trends and new areas world wide, but also providing a firm basis for meeting local production and development activities. Special emphasis is placed on a scientific and analytical way of thinking as well as on its application to the profession of Mechanical Engineering. Attention is also focused on the training of Mechanical Engineers with a broad level of knowledge so that they will be able to follow the rapid developments of science.

STRUCTURE, MISSION, EXCELLENCE

The National Technical University of Athens is structured according to the continental European system for training engineers, with an emphasis on solid background. The duration of courses leading, after the acquisition of 300 credit units to a Diploma, of Master’s level, is five years. The valuable work of NTUA and its international reputation are due to its well-organised educational andresearch system, the quality of its staff and students, and the adequacy of its technical infrastructure. NTUA graduates were pivotal to Greece’s pre-war development and to post-war reconstruction. The graduate engineers who staffed public and private technical services and companies were and remain by general consent, equal to their European counterparts. Many have been elected to distinguished teaching and research positions in well-known universities all over the world.

Under Article 16 of the Greek Constitution and consequent laws, and in accordance with its tradition and structure, the primary institutional component of the NTUA’s mission, effected through the integrated complex of studies and research, is to provide advanced higher education of outstanding quality in science andtechnology.

For this purpose, NTUA operates as a State University with nine Schools, self-administered by the Senate, the Rector, the Vice-Rectors, the School Presidents, representatives of the academic staff and students from every School, as well as representatives from other university bodies.

The obvious need for any major institute of higher education to operate and offer education and research opportunities within a well organised and completely unambiguous internal system of principles, aims, procedures, rights and obligations, led, between the years 1997 and 2000, to the in depth internal and external evaluation of the NTUA’s structure and activities and consequently to the drawing up, discussion with all NTUA’s members and approval by the Senate and the Ministryof Education, (Government Gazette 1098/B/05.09.2000), of the NTUA Statute. This code of operation and development, considered as one of the best European University Statutes, defines that the main strategy of NTUA in the new millennium, is not only to maintain its position as an outstanding and internationally recognised public university of science and technology, but also to strengthen that position as regarding all its basic operations. All other strategies, aims and actions must be compatible with this basic strategic choice.

NTUA in numbers

• 1837, foundation year
• 9 Schools, 512 faculty members, 4.090 external collaborators, 23.914 students, 300,000 sq.m. of installations.
• Over time, the baccalaureate grades required for admission in all of NTUA schools remain constantly the highest between all Greek academic institutions by specialty. For the year 2016, the minimum grade for admission to the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 18,628 points, was the highest nationwide among all schools of the 2nd Scientific Field "Science & Technology".
• According to QS World Universities Ranking 2016, NTUA is the leading academic institution in Greece and the only one in the top 400 institutions worldwide. The School of Civil Engineering is in the 33rd position of the world’s best schools by specialty. NTUA is in 67th place worldwide among technological universities.
• At NTUA operate 194 laboratories, 140 of which are certified. In 2015, they were ongoing 1423 national and European research projects.
• NTUA Faculty members publish annually more than 3.000 scientific papers (in journals, conference proceedings, chapters in volumes etc.) which earn more than 20.000 citations.
• In the decade 2000-2010, graduated from NTUA 14.617 students. Of the 120.000 qualified engineers active today in Greece, the majority (over 40%) are NTUA graduates.

Choosing "Prometheus bringing the fire from the gods to the mankind", as its symbol, NTUA never loses sight of the real human needs and dimensions. Its final concerns are quality of life and protection of democratic rights and achievements. It integrates its mission by adopting the timeless valuable social role of the traditional Universities. Consequently, it develops the broader personal and social qualities of its academic and research staff and its students by

⬜ Cultivating their skills for self-reliant access to knowledge, synthesis, research, communication and cooperation for staff and project management

⬜ Developing well integrated personalities equipped not only with renewable scientific and technological knowledge, but also with responsibility as professionals and democratic citizens

⬜ Strengthening their general background for contribution in the overall complex of scientific, technological, social and cultural development of Greece and the International community