The Technion’s story has been intertwined with Israel’s for more than a century, from laying the foundations for a new nation to shaping its future.
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As an ultra-Orthodox young girl, Bareqet Hadad never dreamed of studying at the Technion. But life is full of surprises. In July 2022, the mother of three – who already holds her second job in industry – became a graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Hadad married at the age of 18, and after giving birth to her first child, the next step seemed clear: she’d study at a religious college to become an English teacher. She grew up in the ultra-Orthodox community of Elad, graduated high school, and discovered that she was good in English. One…
The Technion has been a magnet for trailblazing women in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields since it first opened its doors in 1924. That inaugural class of just 17 students included one woman, who came to the Technion to study architecture and civil engineering at a time when women were discouraged from pursuing higher education. The ranks of Technion women have grown significantly since 1924. Thanks to the concerted efforts of Professor Shimon Marom, executive vice president for academic affairs, about 40% of all appointments relating to promotions and tenure for academic staff are women. The number of…
The Journey of One Technion Alum The 1983 Cold War science fiction techno-thriller WarGames was a box-office hit that garnered three Academy Award nominations. The film about a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a Pentagon supercomputer also made its mark on then 12-year-old Guy Merin. “I went straight from the theater to K-Mart and bought my first computer,” he recalled. “I started my journey there.” It’s a journey that took him from earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the Technion to Microsoft, where he played a key role in the recent release of Surface Duo 2 — the…
What the Next 100 Years Will Look Like Almost 100 years ago, 17 students began studying at the Technikum, a new university on the slopes of Mount Carmel. The first courses at what we now know as the Technion marked a defining moment for the Jewish settlement in Palestine — The Technikum was Palestine’s first academic institution and the Middle East’s first technological-scientific university. Back then, the Technion offered just two tracks of study: civil engineering and architecture. Today, about 14,000 students can choose from more than 50 undergraduate and 83 graduate programs clustered into 18 academic faculties. The Technion…
While institutions around the world are pondering how to adjust their teaching models to current and future needs, the Technion is one step ahead of the game. It is already deep in the process of implementing systemic changes in both curricula and the way students will learn inside and outside of the classroom. Academia had been rapidly transforming on many fronts: scientific, technological, economic, and social. Then the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated these changes, sparking a worldwide overnight shift to digital learning. Realizing that the Technion must redefine its approach to stay relevant and remain a leader in science and technology,…
For the benefit of patients in northern Israel: The Technion and Rambam Health Care Campus announces the establishment of the Wolfe Center for Translational Medicine and Engineering The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Rambam Health Care Campus, and philanthropists Andi and Larry Wolfe announced the establishment of the Wolfe Center for Translational Medicine and Engineering on Sunday, June 12. The Center will combine engineering and medicine to promote new technologies for the benefit of human health. The Wolfe Center will bring the partnership between Rambam and the Technion to new heights and will serve as a platform for extensive…
In the run up to this summer’s European Formula Student Competitions, the Formula Technion team just unveiled its car for the summer 2022 racing season. Amazingly, the Technion car runs on electricity. It also happens to drive itself. The students, from across various Technion faculties at the Technion presented their new autonomous electric vehicle (A-EV) on June 22, 2022. The Formula Technion project was established in 2012 as part of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The team has presented a wide variety of impressive and successful projects, and the new vehicle is their first autonomous vehicle. Currently, the Formula Technion…
Technion Inaugurates Center for Creative and Engineering Design The Technion recently inaugurated the Mehoudar Center for Inventors, a center for creative and engineering design. The center will become a home for multidisciplinary collaboration, providing faculty, students, and inventors with the resources and technical assistance to build and test engineering prototypes. The center is named in honor of Technion graduate Raphael (Rafi) Mehoudar, a 1966 graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering who received an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater in 2014. At the age of 20, while still at the Technion, he developed the dual flush toilet mechanism, currently…
Long days spent in the lab paid off for 212 students who were awarded their Ph.D. degrees in a stirring ceremony May 23 on the Technion campus in Haifa. The students’ research includes interdisciplinary topics ranging from calculations using an engineered bacterium to sensing systems for electronic skin. “The final chord of the doctoral dissertation is an opening chord to a world of professional research that invites curiosity and a striving for truth, realizing your ability to delve into a complex and complicated problem … and harnessing your ability to face the real challenges of society,” said opening speaker Technion…
Health Tech — Big Winner in Open Studio Awards Hundreds of festive red balloons spelling out Cornell Tech greeted visitors for a day of innovation at the campus on Roosevelt Island, May 20. Inside the Tata Innovation Center with stunning views of the campus and beyond, students and alumni showcased their cutting-edge projects and budding startup ventures in a year-end Open Studio Celebration. Then beneath billowy white tents on the lawn, eleven Open Studio finalists pitched their projects, competing for one of the coveted Startup Awards — a post academic investment valued at $100,000. “This year’s Startup Awards finalists have…
Pictured Above / (L-R) Cornell Tech Dean Greg Morrisett, Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie Cornell Tech and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute just turned 10, and we were there at the celebration to mark this […]