Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven University of Technology is a public technical university in Eindhoven, in the southern Dutch province of North Brabant, and the Dutch member of the EuroTech Universities Alliance of leading European science and technology institutions.埃因霍温理工大学（Technische Universiteit Eindhoven，缩写 TU/e）是一所位于荷兰南部北布拉班特省埃因霍温的公立理工大学，也是欧洲理工院校联盟 EuroTech 的荷兰成员。

Founded by the Dutch government in 1956 as the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven, it is the Netherlands' second technical university after Delft, and it places 152nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with roughly 11,000 students enrolled.该校由荷兰政府于 1956 年创办，初名埃因霍温技术学院，是继代尔夫特理工大学之后荷兰的第二所理工大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 152，在校学生约 1.1 万人。

History

• The Dutch government established the school on 23 June 1956 as the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven, the second institute of its kind in the Netherlands after the Technische Hogeschool Delft, which had been founded back in 1905.荷兰政府于 1956 年 6 月 23 日创办埃因霍温技术学院，它是继 1905 年成立的代尔夫特技术学院之后荷兰的第二所同类高等工科院校。

• The university owed its creation largely to Philips, the electronics company headquartered in Eindhoven, which needed a local supply of graduates in electrical engineering, physics, chemistry and later computer science.学校的创办在很大程度上缘于总部设在埃因霍温的电子公司飞利浦的需求，该公司希望本地能持续输送电子、物理、化学乃至后来计算机科学领域的毕业生。

• Henk Dorgelo, a physicist, served as the first rector magnificus, and senior engineers seconded from Philips and other local firms made up much of the early teaching staff.物理学家亨克·多尔格洛出任首任学术校长，早期教师中有相当一部分是飞利浦及其他本地企业派出的资深工程师。

• Teaching was organised in four- and five-year engineering programmes modelled on the German system until 2002, when the Bologna Accords led the university to adopt the bachelor and master structure.学校长期按德国模式设四年与五年制工程师课程，直到 2002 年《博洛尼亚协定》生效后，才改为学士与硕士两段制。

• In 1962 the mathematician and computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra joined the faculty, and he taught there until 1984, a period in which he shaped the young discipline of structured programming.1962 年，数学家兼计算机科学家艾兹格·迪杰斯特拉加入该校任教，直到 1984 年离任，其间他对结构化程序设计这一新兴学科影响深远。

• The British chemist Archer Martin, who had shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography, was a professor at Eindhoven from 1964 to 1974.因发明分配色谱法而分享 1952 年诺贝尔化学奖的英国化学家阿彻·马丁，于 1964 至 1974 年间在埃因霍温任教。

• In 1986 the institution, like the other Dutch technical hogescholen, was formally renamed a technische universiteit, so that the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven became the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.1986 年，该校与荷兰其他高等工学院一样被正式更名为理工大学，埃因霍温技术学院由此改称埃因霍温理工大学。

• In 1986 Eindhoven, together with Delft and Twente, also set up the two-year postgraduate PDEng programmes managed by the Stan Ackermans Institute, which now operate under the 4TU federation.同年，埃因霍温与代尔夫特、特文特三校共同开设了由斯坦·阿克曼斯学院管理的两年制工程博士 PDEng 课程，如今该课程由 4TU 联合会统筹。

• The university created TU/e Holding B.V. in 1997 as a limited company to manage its commercial contracts with industry and its stakes in spin-off firms.1997 年，学校成立有限责任公司 TU/e 控股公司，用以管理它与产业界的商业合同以及在衍生企业中的股份。

• In a 2003 European Commission report on the research impact of European universities, Eindhoven was placed third after Cambridge and Oxford, jointly with the Technical University of Munich.在 2003 年欧盟委员会关于欧洲大学科研影响力的报告中，埃因霍温位列剑桥与牛津之后，与慕尼黑工业大学并列第三。

• When Philips began to withdraw from the region in the 1980s and 1990s, the university turned towards the city and, with local partners, helped launch the Brainport Eindhoven high-technology cluster.二十世纪八九十年代飞利浦逐步撤出该地区后，学校转而与城市及本地伙伴合作，参与打造了 Brainport 埃因霍温高科技产业集群。

• In 2007 Eindhoven joined Delft and Twente in the 3TU federation, which became the 4TU federation in 2016 when Wageningen University and Research was admitted as a fourth member.2007 年，埃因霍温与代尔夫特、特文特结成 3TU 联合会；2016 年瓦赫宁根大学与研究院加入后，该联盟扩展为 4TU 联合会。

• The university's Strategic Plan 2020, presented on 3 January 2011, set goals that included a university college, a graduate school and a fifty per cent rise in both student numbers and doctoral degrees.学校于 2011 年 1 月 3 日发布的《2020 战略规划》提出设立大学学院与研究生院，并将学生人数与博士学位授予量各提高五成等目标。

• Students of the university built the fully electric racing car Stella that won the cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 under the banner of Solar Team Eindhoven.该校学生打造的纯电动赛车 Stella 由埃因霍温太阳能车队研发，于 2013、2015、2017 与 2019 年四度夺得世界太阳能车挑战赛巡航组冠军。

• Silvia Lenaerts took office as rector magnificus in 2021, while Robert-Jan Smits, formerly director-general for research and innovation at the European Commission, has served as president since 2019.西尔维娅·莱纳茨于 2021 年出任学术校长，而曾任欧盟委员会研究与创新总司长的罗伯特-扬·史密斯自 2019 年起担任校长。

• The campus has been progressively rebuilt since the 2010s, with older buildings renovated and new ones added along the central Groene Loper avenue under an energy-neutral construction policy.自 2010 年代以来校园持续改造，沿中央的绿色长廊大道翻新旧楼并增建新楼，新建项目遵循能源中和的建造方针。

• In 2020 the chemist Jan van Hest received the Spinoza Prize, the highest Dutch science award, adding to earlier Spinoza awards won at Eindhoven by René de Borst in 1999, Bert Meijer in 2001 and René Janssen in 2015.2020 年化学家扬·范赫斯特获荷兰最高科学奖斯宾诺莎奖，此前该校的勒内·德博尔斯特（1999）、伯特·梅耶尔（2001）与勒内·扬森（2015）也曾获此奖。

• The institution has repeatedly been the largest recipient of industry funding among European universities in the Times Higher Education rankings, reflecting the depth of its industrial partnerships.在《泰晤士高等教育》的相关统计中，该校多次成为欧洲获得产业经费最多的大学之一，反映出它与产业界合作的深度。

Academics

• The university is organised into nine departments, covering biomedical engineering, the built environment, electrical engineering, industrial design, chemical engineering and chemistry, industrial engineering and innovation sciences, applied physics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics and computer science.学校设九个系，涵盖生物医学工程、建筑环境、电气工程、工业设计、化学工程与化学、工业工程与创新科学、应用物理、机械工程以及数学与计算机科学。

• Almost all teaching is conducted in English, the only exception being biomedical engineering, which is taught mainly in Dutch and therefore also requires a Dutch language qualification from applicants.学校几乎全部课程以英语授课，仅生物医学工程以荷兰语为主，因而该系申请者还须满足荷兰语要求。

• It enrols about 11,161 students according to Times Higher Education, more than four in ten of them from abroad, and employs roughly 3,900 staff including about 3,200 in administrative and support roles.据《泰晤士高等教育》数据，学校在校学生约 11161 人，其中逾四成来自海外，教职员工约 3900 人，其中行政与支持岗位约 3200 人。

• The annual budget stood at 412.6 million euros in 2020, a figure sustained by strong contract research income rather than by a large endowment.学校 2020 年度预算为 4.126 亿欧元，其收入主要来自委托研究而非庞大的捐赠基金。

• Doctoral candidates at Eindhoven are employed as researchers rather than enrolled as students, a continental European model in which a doctorate is a salaried research post.在该校，博士生以研究人员身份受聘而非注册为学生，这是欧洲大陆的惯例，即博士学位对应领薪的研究岗位。

• Since 1986 the university has offered the two-year postgraduate engineering doctorate, or PDEng, with ten such programmes at Eindhoven ranging from automotive systems design to software technology and user-system interaction.自 1986 年起学校开设两年制的工程博士 PDEng 课程，埃因霍温现设十项，覆盖从汽车系统设计到软件技术与用户系统交互等方向。

• Honours programmes are available at both bachelor and master level, offering intensive study tracks for undergraduates and leadership and professional development for graduate students.学校在本科与硕士阶段均设荣誉课程，为本科生提供高强度研习方向，为研究生提供领导力与职业发展训练。

• Eindhoven runs research schools and institutes such as the Eindhoven School of Education and the Eindhoven Energy Institute, and co-locates with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's sustainable energy community.学校设有埃因霍温教育研究院、埃因霍温能源研究院等研究机构，并与欧洲创新与技术研究院的可持续能源共同体共址合作。

• Wil van der Aalst, a professor at the university, is widely regarded as the founder of process mining, and the university's data science group is a global centre for the field.该校教授威尔·范德阿尔斯特被普遍视为流程挖掘的奠基人，学校的数据科学团队也是该领域的世界级中心。

• The university is the Dutch member of the EuroTech Universities Alliance alongside the Technical University of Denmark, EPFL, École Polytechnique, the Technion and the Technical University of Munich.学校是欧洲理工院校联盟 EuroTech 的荷兰成员，该联盟还包括丹麦技术大学、洛桑联邦理工学院、巴黎综合理工学院、以色列理工学院与慕尼黑工业大学。

• Other collaborative ties include a strategic partnership with Wageningen in the 4TU federation and exchanges with institutions such as the National University of Singapore and Zhejiang University.学校还与瓦赫宁根大学在 4TU 联合会内结为战略伙伴，并与新加坡国立大学、浙江大学等院校开展交流。

• Contract research with companies such as ASML, NXP and FEI, all based in the Eindhoven region, forms a distinctive part of the university's research portfolio.与均位于埃因霍温地区的阿斯麦、恩智浦与 FEI 等企业开展的委托研究，构成学校科研版图中颇具特色的一块。

• Valuation of research has produced spin-off companies including SMART Photonics, EFFECT Photonics, MicroAlign and NC Biomatrix, commercialising technologies developed in its laboratories.学校推动科研成果转化，孵化了 SMART Photonics、EFFECT Photonics、MicroAlign 与 NC Biomatrix 等衍生公司，将其实验室技术推向市场。

• Interdisciplinary institutes link engineering to medicine, energy and the built environment, and the university co-operates closely with the Catharina Hospital and the Maxima Medical Centre.学校设有多个跨学科研究所，把工程与医学、能源及建筑环境相连，并与卡塔琳娜医院、马克西玛医学中心密切合作。

• Eindhoven is a partner in the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle, a cross-border technology region in which the three technical universities of the cities co-operate on research and education.学校是埃因霍温—鲁汶—亚琛三角区的成员，这一跨国技术区域内三座城市的技术大学在科研与教学上展开合作。

• Day-to-day management rests with an executive board of three members, the president, the rector magnificus and a vice president, and the rector is by statute the only member whose seat on the board is mandated by law.学校日常管理由三人组成的校理事会负责，即校长、学术校长与一名副校长，其中学术校长是章程规定唯一须在理事会中占席的成员。

• Each of the nine departments is headed by a dean and run by its professors, and the deans sit with the rector in a regular executive deliberation meeting that coordinates teaching and research.九个系各由一名系主任领导并由本系教授共同治理，各系主任与学术校长定期召开行政审议会议，协调教学与科研事务。

• Support services include the Information Expertise Centre, which runs the physical and digital library, and an ICT service responsible for the campus network, computing facilities and shared storage.学校的支持机构包括负责实体与数字图书馆的信息专业中心，以及管理校园网络、计算设施与共享存储的信息技术服务机构。

Campus

• The campus covers about 121 hectares just north of Eindhoven's central railway station, placing the university within a short walk of the city centre and its transport links.校园占地约 121 公顷，位于埃因霍温中央火车站正北，距市中心及交通枢纽仅数分钟步行路程。

• Its buildings are arranged along the Groene Loper, or green carpet, a landscaped central avenue created by closing the former main road through the site.校园建筑沿“绿色长廊”排布，这条景观中轴线由封闭原先穿行校区的主干道改造而成。

• Landmarks include the Atlas building that houses the executive board, the MetaForum learning centre that contains the library, and De Zwarte Doos, the former Philips physics laboratory now used for receptions.校内地标包括容纳校理事会的阿特拉斯楼、设有图书馆的 MetaForum 学习中心，以及由原飞利浦物理实验室改建、现用于接待的“黑盒子”。

• The Luna building provides student and staff housing as well as lecture and cultural space, forming part of a wider residential and social quarter on the campus.卢娜楼提供学生与教职工住宿并兼作讲座与文化场所，是校园内成片居住与社交区的一部分。

• Renovation policy since the 2010s has sought to retain existing materials and structures, while new construction follows green building principles and aims at energy neutrality.自 2010 年代以来，翻新方针力求保留既有材料与结构，新建项目则遵循绿色建筑理念并以能源中和为目标。

• The High Tech Campus Eindhoven, a research park housing more than two hundred companies, lies a short distance from the university grounds and shares staff and facilities with it.聚集两百余家企业的埃因霍温高科技园区距校园不远，与学校共享人员与设施。

• The university's racing and solar car teams, its robot football squad and many of its student teams work from workshops on and around the campus, giving it a strongly applied character.学校的赛车与太阳能车队伍、机器人足球队及众多学生团队在校园内外的车间中作业，使校园带有强烈的应用气息。

Reputation

• Eindhoven places 152nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 180th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.埃因霍温理工大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 152，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 180，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位列 301 至 400 区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university is placed joint 400th, a position that reflects the research-volume weighting of that table against its comparatively small size.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校并列第 400，这一名次反映出该榜单侧重科研体量，而学校规模偏小。

• Its subject strengths are concentrated in engineering: it is placed 22nd in automation and control and 46th in civil and architectural engineering in the 2026 ARWU subject tables.其学科优势集中于工程领域，在 2026 年软科学科排名中，自动化与控制位列第 22，土木与建筑工程位列第 46。

• In the QS 2026 subject tables it ranks 60th in mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing engineering, 61st in chemical engineering and 65th in electrical and electronic engineering.在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，其机械、航空与制造工程位列第 60，化学工程第 61，电气与电子工程第 65。

• The university's industrial income and industry collaboration scores have repeatedly been rated the highest in the world by Times Higher Education, a mark of its applied research culture.《泰晤士高等教育》多次把该校的产业收入与产学研合作得分评为世界第一，这是其应用研究文化的标志。

• Eindhoven has produced or hosted one Nobel laureate and one Turing Award winner, and its researchers have taken the Spinoza Prize, the Netherlands' highest scientific honour, on several occasions.学校培养或延揽过一位诺贝尔奖得主与一位图灵奖得主，其研究人员也多次获得荷兰最高科学荣誉斯宾诺莎奖。

• The university is consistently described as one of Europe's leading technical universities, competing with Delft, Munich and Zurich in fields such as photonics, semiconductors and process mining.学校一贯被视为欧洲顶尖的工科院校之一，在光子学、半导体与流程挖掘等领域与代尔夫特、慕尼黑及苏黎世同行并驾齐驱。

• Its position in the QS table has slipped from around 102nd in 2020 to 152nd in 2027, a trend the university attributes to the size-sensitive nature of the methodology.其在 QS 榜单上的名次已从 2020 年前后的第 102 位降至 2027 年的第 152 位，学校将这一走势归因于该榜方法对办学规模较为敏感。

Student life

• The university's motto is Mens agitat molem, Latin for mind moves matter, a phrase borrowed from Virgil that captures the institution's emphasis on the application of knowledge.学校校训为拉丁语（Mens agitat molem，意为“精神驱动物质”，语出维吉尔），体现其重视知识应用的取向。

• Members of the university can join more than 110 community organisations spanning sport, culture, faith, hobbies, international student groups and the study associations of each department.学校成员可加入 110 余个社群组织，涵盖体育、文化、信仰、兴趣爱好、国际学生团体以及各系的学习协会。

• Technology sports are a distinctive feature, and the university's TechUnited team has won the RoboCup mid-size league world championship in robot football several times.技术体育是该校的一大特色，学校的 TechUnited 队曾多次夺得机器人足球世界杯 RoboCup 中型组冠军。

• University Racing Eindhoven builds and races a car each year in the Formula Student competition, having switched from petrol to electric power in 2010 and won at Silverstone in its first electric season.埃因霍温大学赛车队每年为大学生方程式赛事自制赛车，2010 年由燃油改为电力驱动，并在改用电动车的当季即于银石赛道夺冠。

• Alongside racing and solar teams, student groups work on projects in sustainability, artificial intelligence, health and mobility, often in partnership with local companies.除赛车与太阳能车队外，学生团队还围绕可持续、人工智能、健康与出行等方向开展项目，且常与本地企业合作。

• The compact campus and its position by the central station make student life highly integrated with Eindhoven itself, a city known for design and technology rather than for a traditional student quarter.校园紧凑且紧邻中央火车站，使学生生活与埃因霍温这座城市高度融合，而这座城市以设计与科技而非传统大学街区著称。

• An introduction period each September, cultural and sports associations run by the student body, and the annual Dutch Design Week in the city give the academic year a dense calendar of events.每年九月的迎新活动周、由学生自治组织运营的文化与体育社团，以及城中一年一度的荷兰设计周，使学年日程十分密集。

Notable people

• Henk Dorgelo, the physicist who served as the first rector magnificus, and the industrialists and engineers seconded from Philips in the 1950s shaped the institution's founding character.首任学术校长、物理学家亨克·多尔格洛，以及二十世纪五十年代由飞利浦派出的实业家与工程师，共同塑造了学校创办时期的性格。

• Edsger W. Dijkstra, who taught at Eindhoven from 1962 to 1984 and received the 1972 Turing Award, developed his ideas on structured programming and program correctness during his years there.1962 至 1984 年在埃因霍温任教、1972 年获图灵奖的艾兹格·迪杰斯特拉，正是在此期间提出了结构化程序设计与程序正确性的思想。

• Archer Martin, who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for partition chromatography, spent a decade as a professor at Eindhoven between 1964 and 1974.因分配色谱法分享 1952 年诺贝尔化学奖的阿彻·马丁，于 1964 至 1974 年在埃因霍温任教十年。

• Wil van der Aalst, professor at the university and the recognised founder of process mining, has shaped a research field that remains a signature strength of the institution.该校教授、公认的流程挖掘奠基人威尔·范德阿尔斯特开创了这一研究领域，迄今仍是学校的标志性强项。

• Kees Schouhamer Immink, a graduate whose work underpins optical disc recording, has received an Emmy Award and the IEEE Medal of Honor for his contributions to digital storage.毕业生基斯·斯豪哈默·伊明克的研究奠定了光盘记录技术的基础，他因此获得艾美奖与 IEEE 荣誉奖章。

• Marijn Dekkers, an alumnus who later chaired Bayer and Unilever, and Gerard Kleisterlee, a former chief executive of Philips and chairman of Vodafone, are among its prominent industrial graduates.校友马里恩·德克斯曾任拜耳与联合利华董事长，赫拉德·克莱斯特莱曾任飞利浦首席执行官与沃达丰董事长，二人都是学校杰出的产业界毕业生。

• Camiel Eurlings, who served as the Netherlands' minister of transport, public works and water management from 2006 to 2010, is counted among the university's alumni in public life.2006 至 2010 年任荷兰交通、公共工程与水管理大臣的卡米尔·厄尔林斯，是学校在公共事务领域的校友代表。

• Several Philips chief executives and a large share of the engineers behind the Brainport technology cluster were trained at Eindhoven, tying its alumni closely to the region's industrial history.飞利浦的多位首席执行官以及 Brainport 科技集群背后的大量工程师都出自埃因霍温，使学校的校友网络与当地产业史紧密相连。