The Emergence of the Department:
The Electrical
Engineering Department was found with the establishment of High
Industrial Institute in 1960. The beginning was simple as the
department had few electrical devices and equipment with a
limited number of teaching staff. The department was assisted by
foreign experts who worked as members of the teaching staff
since its establishment ( no Iraqi teaching staff was available
then). Two labs were developed namely; electronics lab and
electrical engineering lab. The High Industrial Institute was
then renamed to be The College of Industry belonging to the
Ministry of Education and later to the Industrial Engineering
College in 1968 and finally to the University of Technology in
1975. The department was one of the founding bodies to the
university. In 1968, the department was renamed to become
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department due to the
increasing country needs to the specialization of ele4ctrical
engineering.
Building and developing
curricula and study plans went on and postgraduate studies were
introduced accompanied with elaborating classes and labs to
ensure utmost conditions to carry out the tasks of the
department to implement university education and to go along
with the world technological, engineering and scientific
development.
To achieve the above objectives,
postgraduate studies were brought forward in the academic year
1976-1977 including basic electrical engineering specialties
namely; power engineering, electronics engineering and
communication engineering. |