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The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology was established in 1924, at the time of the British Mandate. It is Israel’s premier technical university with a student body of about 12,000, 8,500 full-time undergraduates and the remainder graduate. The nineteen individual Faculties and Departments can be accessed through their Home Pages. You can also access all the Undergraduate and Graduate Courses & Degree Programs which are available at the Technion. The largest faculties, Electrical Engineering,, Computer Science, Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering & Management, all have an enrolment of over 1,000 students. Humanities courses, Jewish Studies and linguistics are taught as service courses within the framework of the Department of Humanities and Arts. Some courses in Industrial Engineering & Management, and some Humanities courses are offered in English, although Hebrew is the official language of instruction.
Where is the Technion?
The Technion is situated on the
slopes of Mount Carmel, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and on
the outskirts of the City of
Haifa. This corner
of the Eastern Mediterranean stands at the junction of three continents
(Europe, Africa and Asia). Successive waves of ancient civilizations have
each left their mark upon the surrounding countryside. (The flint
workings, to be found behind the Technion campus, are the remains of a
stone age technology which dates back forty thousand years!) This is also
the heartland of the bible, and Mount Carmel was the scene of the prophet
Elijah’s triumph over the prophets of Ba’al. Haifa itself is a port city
with a population of over 500,000 . There are excellent wind-surfing
beaches and the city has a thriving industrial base which includes both
heavy industries (primarily chemical and petrochemical) and
high-technology manufacturing (micro-electronics, computer interfacing
and fine-mechanics).
The Faculty of Medicine is located at a separate campus in the suburb of Bat-Galim, on the sea shore at the foot of Mount Carmel and next to Rambam Government Hospital. The Medical Student Dormitories are a short bus ride from the Faculty of Medicine. The Mediterranean climate is hot in summer and wet in winter The temperature range is given in the following Table (Centigrade):
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