History of the ETSI

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) was created in December 1963, by Decree Law 3608/63 under the sponsorship of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In July 1965, the first visit of experts from said organization to Seville took place to discuss the new curriculum to be taught at the School. The (OECD) curriculum was approved in July 1967.

The construction work on the building began in August 1965, with teaching activities beginning in pavilion L-1 a year later, in September 1966. The School was officially inaugurated in April 1967, with Mr. José Mª de Amores Jiménez the first Director of the School.

In March 1972, the first class of the School left, made up of 30 graduates from the specialties of Electrical (17), Mechanical (7) and Chemistry (6), taking office the following year the first full professor of the School, Mr. Javier. Aracil Santonja.

The plan (OECD) was declared to be extinguished in 1976, adopting the 1964 curriculum, in force in the other schools in the country.

At that time, the titles of Industrial Engineer were awarded, with the possibility of studying the specialties of Electrical, Mechanical, Organization and Chemistry, and Doctor of Industrial Engineering.
In the 91/92 Academic Year, the School begins the teaching of new teachings: those leading to the title of Telecommunications Engineer. In the 94/95 academic year, the second cycle of this degree was taught for the first time, making it possible to study the specialties or intensifications of process control, electronics, signals and radiocommunication and, finally, telematics.

Dated October 26, 1993 (Decree 157/1993 of October 5, 1993, which approves the catalog of official university degrees of Andalusian universities, BOJA of October 26), the degrees are assigned to the school of Industrial Engineer and Telecommunications Engineer that he had already been teaching, as well as the new qualifications of Chemical Engineer, Industrial Automation and Electronics Engineer, Industrial Organization Engineer and Electronics Engineer. Finally, in 2001 the School began to teach the Aeronautical Engineering degree.