Mechanical engineer, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1911), excellent inventor.
Name of the institution:
Donát Bánki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering
After graduating from the Budapest University of Technology in 1879–80, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Technical Mechanics. After that he was the editing engineer of the MÁV machine factory, then of the company Ganz and Partner. From 1899 until his death, he was a professor of structural engineering at the Department of Hydraulic machines, Compressors and Steam turbines at the Budapest University of Technology. The introduction of engine production in Hungary is connected to Bánki and his colleague, János Csonka. Their joint creation was the first and competitive product of the Hungarian engine industry on international markets, the Bánki – Csonka engine produced by the Ganz factory, the most significant innovation of which is the carburetor patented in 1893. In 1894 he patented the first high-pressure combustion engine, the internationally recognized Bánki Engine. His water turbine (1917), which after his death (1926) was awarded the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, opened new avenues in the development of small hydropower plants.
Kálmán Kandó
(Pest, July 10, 1869 – Bp., January 13, 1931) Mechanical engineer, pioneer of railway electrification, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1927).
Name of the institution:
Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering
He earned his diploma at the Budapest University of Technology in 1892. He began working for the Compagnie de Fives-Lille in Paris (1892–1894) and then returned to Budapest to the Ganz Factory, where he soon became head of the Electrical Editing Department. He introduced the manufacture of induction motors (based on his own designs and calculation methods) and began using them for rail traction purposes. In 1896–1898, he designed the first three-phase road tramway (Evian-les-Bains) and electrified several mining railways. Based on the operating results of the phase-change test locomotive, MÁV decided to electrify the Budapest – Hegyeshalom main rail line (1929), for which Kandó designed the electric locomotive named after him. He was awarded the Wahrmann Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1921 for his pioneering achievements in the field of energy management, he was inaugurated as an honorary doctor by the Budapest University of Technology in 1922, and he received several national and international awards.
Károly Keleti
(Bratislava, July 18, 1833 – Bp., May 29, 1892) Statistician, first director of the National Statistical Office, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Name of the institution:
Keleti Károly Faculty of Economics
In the 1860s, he published banking, customs, industrial and financial statistics studies in journals and in the statistical and national economic publications of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In the 1860s, he published banking, customs, industrial and financial statistics studies in journals and in the statistical and national economic publications of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 he became the head of the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade. This office later became as the National Statistical Office established in 1871, in the organization of which Keleti played a significant role and was the first director of it until his death. He is known as the first designer and director of Hungarian statistical surveys. He organized the 1869 census and introduced the individual census sheet system for the 1880 census. He was one of the pioneers in the scientific cultivation of statistics in Hungary, and at the same time the organizer of the first industrial statistics.
János Neumann
(Budapest, December 28, 1903 – Washington D.C., February 8, 1957) One of the most outstanding mathematicians of our century, a university professor.
Name of the institution:
János Neumann Faculty of Informatics
He graduated from the Fasori Lutheran High School in Budapest. He completed his university studies in parallel in Zurich where he graduated in chemical engineering and at the Budapest University of Technology. He obtained his doctorate in mathematics in Budapest. In 1930 he was a guest lecturer at Princeton University (USA) and a professor from 1931. In 1933 he accepted a permanent teaching position at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). In 1954, he was appointed a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and served in that capacity until his death. At the beginning of his career his work mainly covered mathematical logic and set theory; the exact foundation of set theory originates from his work. His outstanding results in the field of quantum theory are the mathematical basis of the theory of the measurement of physical quantities. The foundations of Game theory are also primarily due to his work, as well as so-called operations research, which significance has since been widely recognized in its economics. He played an important role in the development of electronic computers. The basic ideas of this (application of the binary number system, memory, program storage, instruction system, etc.) come from him. His role in solving the theoretical problems related to the release of nuclear energy has internationally been recognized.
Sándor Rejtő
(Košice, August 21, 1853 – Budapest, February 4, 1928) Mechanical engineer, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Name of the institution:
Sándor Rejtő Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering
He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology in 1877. In 1882 he was an industrial supervisor, in 1886 he was a private teacher at the Budapest University of Technology. In 1891 he was professor of mechanical technology and the rector of the university. He organized – partly with his own machines and instruments – the material testing laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Technology of the Budapest University of Technology, the Association of Hungarian Materials Testers; and started and edited its bulletin. His general theory of the behavior of structural materials aroused great interest and much debate. His work as a professor, researcher and, as the first industry supervisorwas particularly successful in the development of the textile industry. He has also been active in the International Association of Materials Testers; at its 1912 New York Congress he served as Honorary President.
Miklós Ybl
Miklós Ybl (Székesfehérvár, April 6, 1814 – Budapest, January 22, 1891) was one of Europe's leading architects in the mid to late nineteenth century as well as Hungary's most influential architect during his career.
Name of the institution:
Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering
After graduating from the Vienna Polytechnic, he worked in the office of Mihály Pollack from 1832 and Henrik Koth from 1836. His first major works are representatives of the romantic Romanesque style studded with oriental elements. His most significant public works were almost determinants of Budapest’s cityscape. Although he did never break with the Romanesque forms, as a result of his second study trip to Italy from 1860 he was attempting to recreate the Italian Renaissance style. In both the early and more mature stages of his art, he created works of excellent Neo-Renaissance style. His main work is the Opera House (1879 – 84), which can be considered an outstanding work of contemporary European architecture with the recreation of Palladio’s picturesque main façade, as well as its interiors and its staircase. He also built a long line of castles along with a number of churches and tenement houses in the countryside. Ybl is the greatest Hungarian architect of the second half of the 19th century. In 1953 an annually awarded architectural prize called Ybl-díj was established in his memory.
Alba Regia
The Alba Regia Faculty was named after a city of the Roman Empire in Pannonia Province. (Today it is called Székesfehérvár, where the Faculty is located)
Name of the institution:
Alba Regia Technical Faculty
The Alba Regia Technical Faculty is a multidisciplinary faculty that offers almost the entire training offer of our university in Székesfehérvár. In a city that was already of strategic importance in Roman times, what was then called White Castle, Alba Regia, after the castle on top of a hill protruding from the surrounding swamp.
The city of Székesfehérvár known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), located in central Hungary, is the ninth largest city of the country, regional capital of Central Transdanubia.
Székesfehérvár, a royal residence, as capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, held a central role in the Middle Ages. As required by the Doctrine of the Holy Crown, the first kings of Hungary were crowned and buried here. Significant trade routes led to the Balkans and Italy, and to Buda and Vienna. Historically the city has come under Ottoman and Habsburg control, and was known in many languages by translations of "white castle”.
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Prof. Dr. Réger Mihály Rektor, felelős kiadó
Kancellár, felelős szerkesztő
Váradi Zsuzsanna Informatikai osztályvezető
Hallgatónk munkáját dicséri a telefonkönyv, amelyet Somogyvári Péter készített.
I would like to welcome all visitors, university students and staff members!
„I want to work. For it is battle enough Having a past such as this to confess. In the Danube’s waves past, present and future Are all-embracing in a soft caress. The great battle which our ancestors once fought Resolves into peace through the memories, And to settle at last our communal affairs Remains our task and none too small it is.”
By the Danube by Attila József
Translated by John Székely
Dear Members of the ÓU community,
As Óbuda University’s new rector as of 15 July, 2019 let me welcome you and share my goals which I wish to achieve together with you all.
First let me intruduce myself briefly. I come from Transylvania where I completed both my primary and secondary education in Hungarian while I studied in Romanian at the “Politechnica” University of Timisoara graduating as top of my class as well as best graduate in my field all around Romania. I started my career at “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, and completed my PhD at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary in 2008. I joined Óbuda University in 2012 and was the first person to earn a habilitation degree at Óbuda University with summa cum laude distinction. As far as leadership experience is considered, I worked as Vice-Dean for Education at the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics between 2013 and 2018, I am responsible for the Computer Engineering BSc and MSc programmes, and I acted as the Vice-Rector for Education since 2018. I have also played an active role both in Hungary and internationally as the Vice Chair of the Hungarian Section of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and since 2017 I have been chairing the IEEE Hungary Section.
In my programme I made a commitment to put Óbuda University on a path followed by the world-renowned higher educational institutions and to turn around the trend which shows that the gap between elite universities and our institution has been widening for quite some years now. We need to bear in mind that education and science are equally important and therefore, both of them should be handled equally. A sustainable university needs to be created using both our own and external resources in which younger generations are mentored by senior colleagues and their networks of relationships and the aims set by the management should motivate all the stakeholders.
I would like to promote bidirectional dialogues within the university and I hold feedback from colleagues in high regard. Consequently, I am open to any feedback which might improve processes and output. Having starting with a quote by Attila József, I am concluding with another one by him: “working precisely and fine / just like stars are moving in the sky / is worth it.”
Wishing you all the best and every success in your work,
At the beginning of 21st century the standards of industry and craftsman training in Hungary was much lower than those of the developed countries. Many of the university’s predecessors made an attempt to alter the circumstances. The most important person of all was Baron József Eötvös, the creator of the idea of a secondary industrial school, as Minister of Religion and Public Education initiated government measures to organize a central model school in the capital and set up training courses for the leaders and managers of large-scale industry. Dr. Ágost Trefort, Minister of Religion and Public Education, continued József Eötvös’s work and established the Public Secondary Industrial School of Budapest in 1879. His name is also associated with the foundation of a number of other institutions during this time.
The following lines are quotes from the directorate of the newly founded Public Secondary Industrial School: “On 2 November of p. year the Ministry of Religion and Public Education opens a secondary industrial school at 28 Bodzafa Str., where the leaders and managers of large-scale industry are being trained.”
(announcement)
Dr Trefort set up another new institution which had significant impact on our nation’s industrial growth and the school’s everyddy life at the same time: he established the Technological Industry Museum. After these two institutions started their operations, Trefort integrated the operations of the museum and industrial school and assigned Károly Hegedűs, the director of the industrial school, the museum’s leadership and supervision as director general.
The demand to place the two institutions into a shared building was fulfilled in the former facility of the fire department on Nagykörút, behind the Népszínház on. Here the palace of the Hungarian industry, the new home of the Secondary Industrial School and Technological Museum – as Pesti Napló’s chronicler writes it – was built.
After the curriculum modifications and changes in the organizational structure in 1896 the school was renamed as Hungarian Royal Public Higher Industrial School. According to the first section of the statutes:
“… its aim and task is, that for the domestic manufacturing industry, the transport companies and the agriculture, training mechanical engineers, chemists, foremen and generally specialists like that, who with time become independent craftsmen, leaders of smaller industrial establishments and factories, moreover that of the domestic metal and iron industry as well as those branches in timber industry which were inserted into the circle of the teaching.”
The Hungarian Royal Public Training School of Mechanics and Watchmaking was established in 1898. The aim of the secondary training school was to increase skilled workers, assistants and independent craftsmen for the watchmaking and mechanics industry, and hereby to develop the domestic watchmaking and mechanics industry, especially spread the necessary expertise. The training school started its operation in a tenement house at 26 Kisfaludy Str., Józsefváros in Budapest.
In 1901, in order to satisfy the demands of its rapid development, the training school was moved to the impressive building at 15 Tavaszmező Str., decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments and constructed according to designs by Gyula Pártos. The marble slab placed in the doorway of the building was to inform about the founders.
Written in secessionist letters in the glass mosaic with a beautiful arc this inscription can be found: M. K. Állami Mechanikai és Órásipari Szakiskola (H. R. Public Training School of Mechanics and Watchmaking).
In the academic year of 1920/1921, the name of the school was changed to the Hungarian Royal Public Training School of Mechanics and Electric Industry, thereby also expressing an increasing tendency towards electrotechnics. Thus it became the first institution in Hungary to bear the word electric in its title.
The first known university in the medieval Central-European region was founded in 1348, in Prague. It was followed by the one in 1364 in Krakow and later in 1365 in Vienna. The first Hungarian university was founded by the Hungarian king Lewis the Great (Nagy Lajos), in 1367 in Pécs.
Budapest, the medieval Óbuda (or Buda) and Pest, has always played a significant role in the country’s economic activites and education for the past centuries. Beyond the denominational and non-denominational elementary and secondary schools, a higher education institution, adapted to the needs and standard of the age, was in operation in Óbuda since the 12th century. On 6 October 1395 Pope Boniface IX signed Óbuda University’s first deed of foundation on the Hungarian king’s, Sigismund of Luxemburg’s request, thus this university became the country’s second and the capital’s first university.
The deed of foundation of the Universitas Budensis with four faculties was not preserved. The papal bull appropriated the revenues of the Provosts of Buda for the university supplies. After its short function however, the institution - on account of internal conflicts of the era – was supposedly shut down in 1403.
After the internal conflicts had ceased and the relationship with the papacy had been arranged, time arrived for King Sigismund to re-establish a new university directly under his influence. Upon the King’s request, on 1 August 1410 the Pope signed his bull concerning Óbuda University’s re-establishment. The university was allowed to function with four classic faculties – Theology, Canon and Civil Law, Medicine and Liberal Arts – enjoying the same priviliges as other great European universities in Paris, Bologna, Oxford and Cologne. The papal bull was preserved as a copy in the Vatican Secret Archives. The Hungarian translation of the papal bull - based on previous editions - was rewritten by Prof. Dr. Géza Érszegi.
Thanks to Ulrich von Richental, the historic coat of arms of Óbuda University, Studium Generale, is well known. Several old manuscripts and early printed editions of Richental’s chronicle saw daylight, the coat of arms appeared in print in the most widely known edition, the Augsburg edition of 1483: in the upper red field lies a silver patriarchal cross on a green triple mount, in the bottom blue part, a left stretching silver shirt arm is holding a closed a book with brown binging and golden-edged pages and also a clasp. According to tradition, the book was the sign of grammar, wisdom and fame but it was identified as the university’s birth certificate and its book of privileges and sometimes even as the Bible. In a figurative sense it repsresnts a textbook and is alos the symbol of gaining wisdom, learning and knowledge as well.
Following the shutdown of Óbuda University, there was no university in operation within the area of today’s Budapest for hundreds of years. Matthias Corvinus experimented to establish a university in Bratislava. The capital boasted a university only in 1777 again when Queen Maria Theresa relocated the institution established by Peter Pázmány, archbishop of Esztergom, in 1635 in Trnava to Buda.
In 2010, celebrating the 600th anniversary of the re-foundation of the Óbuda University – in cooperation with King Sigismund College and the Municipalitiy of Óbuda-Békásmegyer - Óbuda University erected the Statue of King Sigismund in park across the university’s central building. The sculpture is the work of Katalin Csányi.of the Moholy-Nagy University of Fine Arts.
A 2011-es általános felvételi eljárás során 53450 fő tanulhat államilag támogatott alapképzési, egységes, osztatlan képzésen, felsőfokú szakképzésen; 19600 fő mesterképzésen és 1300 fő doktori képzésben.
Az előző évekhez hasonlóan, 2011-ben is főleg a mesterképzésre készülők választási lehetősége bővül: több mint nyolcvan új meghirdetés közül választhatnak az oklevéllel már rendelkezők, amelynek közel harmada tanári szakképzettségeket takar. Emellett 13 új alapképzési lehetőséget hirdettek meg a felsőoktatási intézmények, és 27 új felsőfokú szakképzés közül is választhatnak a jelentkezők.
A jelentkezési szabályok nem változtak, a minimum ponthatár alapképzés, egységes, osztatlan képzés esetén 200 pont, felsőfokú szakképzés esetén 140 pont. A többletpontok rendszerében történ változás, a különböző jogcímeken adható többletpontok - az emeltszintű érettségiért adható többletpontok kivételével - mértéke csökkent. A felvételi eljárási díj összege nem változott, maradt 9.000 Ft. Jelentkezni hagyományos, postai és elektronikus úton lehet.
Általános felvételi eljárás legfontosabb dátumai
Jelentkezési határidő: 2011. február 15.
E-felvételi hitelesítési határidő: 2011. február 23.
Regisztrációs csomagok kiküldése: 2011. április 30-ig
A felvételi kérelem benyújtását követően megszerzett, már rendelkezésre álló dokumentummásolatok (pl. 12. év végi középiskolai bizonyítvány másolata) benyújtási határideje: 2011. június 1.
Módosítások, hiánypótlás benyújtási határideje: 2011. július 7.
Ponthatárok megállapítása: 2011. július 21.
Pótfelvételi eljárás: 2011. augusztus
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