The TU/e was established in 1956 in Eindhoven. It now encompasses 9 scientific departments providing 10 academic Bachelor programmes, 19 Master programmes, 10 postgraduate design programmes, 3 first degree teacher-training programmes in mathematics, physics and chemistry, as well as various other postgraduate courses and programmes. TU/e also superivises several research schools recognised by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, among which top research schools and a leading technological institute. In numbers, TU/e has approximately 3000 employees, 220 professors, 6800 students, 200 postgraduate students, 450 PhD students, 20.000 graduate engineers, 1000 graduate design engineers and has awarded about 2000 PhD's. The university participates in the European university networks CESAER, Santander and CLUSTER and collaborates with universities all over the world.

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, in particular the group led by Prof. A. M. Cohen is responsible for the evaluation and critical assessment of the results accomplished by WebALT. This research group has been previously a partner in the OpenMath projects and is currently also working in the European project Le Active Math.