Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted a role as an adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

It is the first time he has accepted a role of this type anywhere in the world.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams, who runs the university's Innovative and Enterprise Research Laboratory, met Mr Wozniak and invited him to come to UTS.

Deputy vice chancellor at UTS Glenn Wightwick said it was quite a coup.

"He came out and she offered him an adjunct professorship and he accepted," Professor Wightwick said.

"It was just amazing, it was brilliant."

Mr Wozniak founded Apple along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne in 1976 with an aim to make and sell personal computers.

He is credited for designing both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s.

As a former IBM chief technologist, Professor Wightwick remembers being fascinated by his school's Apple II when he was a child.

"I was enamoured and my parents said that was the career that I was going to be in as far as they could observe," he said.

"Steve Jobs obviously had the innovation, flair and marketing but Steve Wozniak was, I guess, the kind of brains behind the technology originally," Professor Wightwick told 702 ABC Sydney's Robbie Buck.

Beginning in December, Mr Wozniak is expected to visit the university from time to time when it is hoped he will inspire students on topics about innovation in the computer space.