History

History

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, supported by the knowledge and expertise of its team of professionals, presents the portfolio of services to the industrial sector, as an initial proposal for the development and technological change that the country needs in these areas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering presents great challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, the experience and knowledge acquired during 46 years by the university in Electrical Engineering, added to the gradual abandonment of the study of this discipline in the world, offers strengths to lead new research and projects. On the other hand, Electronic Engineering plays a fundamental role in the competitiveness of industrial products. The university is able to generate knowledge and innovation to improve industrial processes and solve local problems. The Electrical Engineering degree was approved at the National University on May 22, 1961. Engineer Hernando Correal Correal was Dean of the Faculty and the first director of the Department was Martin Lutz. The impulse and sustained support of both of them managed to obtain resources and equipment for the laboratories. In 1971, the postgraduate program in Electrical Power was created, which promoted the qualification of the department's teaching staff. In 1982, the first research groups were created. In 1994 Engineer Gabriel Sánchez, who had been professor of the Department for many years and manager of the Energy Company of Bogotá (EEM) at that time, made a contract with the University to install the High Voltage Laboratory equipment in the University Campus. When the EEM was capitalized in 1997, it donated its equipment, thus giving rise to the creation of the Electrical Testing Laboratory that is now known as LABE.