From the School of Electricity to the School of Electrical Engineering of Iaşi (1910-1937)
From the School of Electricity to the School of Electrical Engineering of Iaşi (1910-1937)

Summary/Abstract: Romanian education in engineering is rooted in the schools of land surveyors created by Gheorghe Asachi and Gheorghe Lazăr in Iaşi in 1813 and Bucharest in 1818. The first institution to provide systematic training for a technical career was the National School for Road Constructions and Bridge Design (Civil Engineering) set up in 1881 in Bucharest, which later became the Polytechnic School (following the French model). A similar institution was founded in Timişoara in the same year for political reasons. Between 1910 and 1937, in Moldavia, engineers were trained at the Faculty of Sciences within the University of Iaşi. During this period, but mainly after World War I, the university’s management and the academic staff in the Faculty of Sciences strongly expressed their position in favour of the separation of the technical departments from the Faculty of Sciences. In 1937, after almost twenty years of failed attempts by the university, the Romanian Government granted permission for the creation of a Polytechnic University in Iaşi with two departments, Technological Chemistry Engineering and Electrotechnical Engineering. The paper presents the evolution of the latter from the moment of its foundation as the School of Electrical Engineering in 1910 until the creation of the Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering in 1938.

• Details
• Contents