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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
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.
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