Pages from the History of the Polytechnic Institute of Iaşi. The 1940’s -1950’s
Pages from the History of the Polytechnic Institute of Iaşi. The 1940’s -1950’s

Summary/Abstract: The history of higher technical education in Romania begins in the second decade of the 19th century, with the creation of schools of land surveyors in Iaşi and Bucharest. The capital of Moldavia opened the way for this type of education and was one of the major centres of the Romanian academic life. The establishment of the third polytechnic school in 1937 crowned the efforts of academics and specialists in this region to establish a higher education institution that could prepare solely engineers for the Romanian industry. The beginning and the early years did not stand under favourable conditions. The institution was first exiled to Chernivtsi and then to Turnu-Severin, which would jeopardize the future of the engineering school of Iaşi. The present study is an investigation of the past of the institution and an attempt to revive a part of its history, focusing on the situation of the School in the 1940’s-1950's – a world that was unsettled in many ways.

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