Faculty's History
Year | Event |
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Oct. 2018 | The Master's degree program "Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering" is now offered completely in English. |
Oct. 2017 | The Master's degree major "Micro- and Nanoelectronics" is taught in English |
Oct. 2010 |
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Oct. 2009 | The faculty has more than 3000 students |
Feb. 2007 | The research project "UMIC" of the faculty is approved in the first round of the excellence initiative of the federal and state governments as unique cluster in communications engineering and information technology |
2007 | Start of the German Bachelor's degree programs "Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering" and "Business Administration and Engineering: Electrical Power Engineering" |
2003/2004 | Introduction of the German diploma program "Business Administration and Engineering: Electrical Power Engineering". Further increase of student numbers: WS 2003 about 2700 students in the faculty |
2001/2002 | Introduction of the German diploma program "Computer Engineering" in addition to Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and introduction of the international Master's degree program "Communications Engineering" |
1999/2000 | Renaming of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering to Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology |
1999 | Start of the German Master's degree program "Computer Engineering" |
1998/1999 | Start of the international Master's degree program "Electrical Power Engineering" |
1989 | 4500 students in the faculty. In the following 90s there is a strong decline of students in all scientific and engineering disciplines |
1972 | Additional chairs start activities on semiconductor electronics |
1965 | Extension of the research activities into data processing and computer engineering |
1964 | Extension of the research activities into the field of semiconductors |
1961 | Electrical Engineering becomes an independent faculty |
1953 | The discipline of Electrical Engineering has reached the 1000 students mark |
1946 | Electrical Engineering is integrated as an independent department into the "Faculty of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering" |
1920 | Development of Electrical Engineering into an independent engineering science under W. Rogowski; about 100 students |
1882 | Electrical Engineering started by A. Wüllner and O. Grotian as an engineering discipline at RWTH Aachen |