History of the ETSI

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) was created in December 1963 by Decree Law 3608/63 under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In July 1965, experts from the OECD made their first visit to Seville to discuss the new curriculum to be implemented at the School. The OECD curriculum was approved in July 1967.

Construction work on the building began in August 1965, and teaching activities began 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 as the first Director of the School.

In March 1972, the first class of the School graduated, consisting of 30 graduates specializing in Electrical (17), Mechanical (7) and Chemical (6), with the first permanent professor of the School, Mr. Javier Aracil Santonja, taking office the following year.

The OECD plan was declared to be phased out in 1976, and the 1964 curriculum, in force in the other schools of the country, was adopted.

At that time, the degree awarded was Industrial Engineer, with specializations in Electrical, Mechanical, Organizational, and Chemical Engineering, as well as a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering.
In the 1991/92 academic year, the School began offering a new program: the Telecommunications Engineer degree. In the 1994/95 academic year, the second cycle of this degree was offered for the first time, with specializations in process control, electronics, signals and radiocommunication, and finally, telematics.

On October 26, 1993 (Decree 157/1993 of October 5, 1993, approving the catalog of official university degrees of the Andalusian universities, published in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia on October 26), the School was assigned the degrees in Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering, which it was already offering, as well as the new degree in Chemical Engineering, and the second cycles of Engineering in Automation and Industrial Electronics, Industrial Organization Engineering, and Electronics Engineering. Finally, in 2001, the School began offering the degree in Aeronautical Engineering.