Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known in Norwegian as Norges tekniske høgskole or NTH, was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway, established in 1910. It existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent college, and in 1996 it ceased to exist as an organizational superstructure when the university was restructured. Its former departments are now building blocks of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and it forms part of the campus known as Gløshaugen. The decision to found a national college of technology was made by the Storting in 1900, and the school was placed in Trondheim as part of a policy of decentralisation. It was primarily a polytechnic institute educating master level engineers as well as architects, and in 1992 it had 7627 master and doctoral students and 1591 employees. It appears in this atlas because it was the principal employer of the chemical engineer John Ugelstad, who was a professor there from 1966 to 1991.