History highlights

1920	The Polytechnic School of Timisoara is established by the Royal Decree No 4822 on November 11, 1920
1920	The Polytechnic School Sports Society is founded
1921	The Polytechnic Board for Professional Improvement is appointed by Decree No 365/1921
1921	The first Year-Book of the Polytechnic School is issued
1921	The first series of public, scientific and general information conferences is set up The Polytechnic School Student Society is set up
1921	The `Mathematics Magazine of Timisoara` (RMT) is founded under the supervision of professor Traian Lalescu, the rector of the Polytechnic School
1923	The Pavilion of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is inaugurated on November 11
1923	The Scientific Society of Polytechnic School is founded. In 1925 it publishes the first issue of the `Buletin Scientifique de l`Ecole Politechnique de Timisoara
1923	The Student Mathematics Society is set up. Three villas for the teaching staff are opened within the area of the Polytechnic School
1924	The Polytechnic School confers its first graduate degrees
1927	The first Congress of the Polytechnic School Graduate Engineers is organised
1927	The first Hall of Residence for 220 students is opened
1930	The students` canteen is opened
1933	Two distinctive faculties are created: The Faculty of Electro-Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Mining and Metallurgy
1934	The Mathematics Professors Association is set up
1935	The Polytechnic School is given the right to award the `Doctor Engineer` degree, but it is approved by the Board of Professional Improvement only in 1937
1937	The `Politehnica` Sports Centre is set up
1938	The Academy of High Agronomic Sciences of Cluj is converted into a faculty and subordinated to the Polytechnic School until 1945
1939	The first `Doctor Engineer` degree is awarded to professor Stefan Nadasan
1941	The Faculty of Civil Engineering is founded
1948	The Polytechnic School is renamed `The Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara`
1948	The Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara consists of four faculties (the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Chemistry) with twelve fields of specializations
1948	The `Buletin de Science et Technique de Politechnique de Timisoara` is published. Its name changes into `Bulletin of Science and Technique of the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara` in 1949 1952 Six-year evening courses and distance learning courses are set up
1956	The `Scientific and Technical Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara` is published
1961	The Computer Centre is founded
1962	The Faculty of Agricultural Mechanical Engineering is transferred from Craiova. It worked during the period (1962-1996).
1968	Three-year undergraduate programmes are initiated at the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering
1969	Three-year undergraduate programmes are initiated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
1970	The department of Architecture is founded within the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the department of Applied Electronics within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
1970	On the occasion of celebrating its semi-centennary, the institute is given the right to be called the `Traian Vuia` Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara. The Institute consists of 5 faculties with 25 specializations for 3-year graduate engineers and 5-year graduate engineers, 537 teaching staff and 5653 undergraduates
1971	Three-year programmes are established under the patronage of the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara in Hunedoara and Resita
1973	The Department of Prototypes and Electrical and Mechanical Microproduction starts working
1980	The Polytechnic School celebrates its 60th anniversary. The institute consists of 5 faculties with 57 specializations, 13,898 Romanian students, 1,103 overseas students, 808 teaching staff.
1991	The name of the `Traian Vuia` Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara changes into THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
1995	The present name of THE "POLITEHNICA" UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA is adopted.
2005	The Faculty of Architecture and City Planning was founded
2011	The Faculty of Communication Sciences was founded
2013	According to the Governmental Decision no. 493/ 2013 published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 447 / 22.07.2013 UNIVERSITATEA "POLITEHNICA" OF TIMIŞOARA name is changed in UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA OF TIMIŞOARA
2014	UPT's new Library was inaugurated

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