| 1938 | Lectureship for Industrial Furnace Construction |
| 1948 | Chair of Industrial Plants and Industrial Furnace Construction |
| April 1957 | Foundation of the Chair of Industrial Furnace Science Associate Professor H. Schiedeßen |
| 1960 | Foundation of the Institute for Industrial Furnace Construction and Heat Engineering in Metallurgy Professor H. Schiedeßen |
| 1967 | Lectureship in Industrial Furnace Construction and Heat Engineering in Metallurgy |
| 1971 | Lectureship in Energy and Mass Transport |
| 1971 | Retirement of Professor H. Schwiedeßen |
| 1971–1976 | Substitute Professor Dr.-Ing. Günther Woelk |
| 1976 | New appointment of Professor Dr.-Ing. Herbert Wilhelmi to the chair |
| 1996 | Retirement of Professor Dr.-Ing. Herbert Wilhelmi |
| 1996 | Renaming of the chair to High Temperature Technology |
| 11/1996–03/1998 | Substitute Professor Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Köhne |
| 04/1998 | New appointment of Professor Dr.-Ing. Herbert Pfeifer to the chair |
| 2004 | Groundbreaking for the building of the IOB’s new technical centre |
| 2007 | 50th anniversary celebration |
| 2009 — 2010 | New construction of the Institutes building in the Kopernikusstr. 10 with an additional technical centre |
| 2017 | 60th anniversary celebration |