EE School - Development

The development of the School of Electrical Engineering is closely related to the history of university education in Serbia. The first lectures in electrical engineering at the university level date back from 1894. Professor Stevan Markovi} was the first lecturer and the founder of the Chair for electrical engineering within the Engineering department of the "Great School" of Belgrade. Only four years later, in 1898, Prof. Markovi} had founded the first electrical engineering lab . Ever since the electrical engineering had been studied within the "Great School" which had grown into the University of Belgrade in 1905. The first degrees in electrical engineering had been awarded in 1922.

The education in electrical engineering had been significantly intensified after the reorganization of the Engineering department which took place in 1935. The Mechanical engineering division had been transformed into the Mechanical - Electrical engineering division so that by the beginning of 1937. the four curricula were defined: Mechanical engineering, Aeronautics, Power engineering,and Telecommunications. Due to the lack of lab equipment the opening of the fourth curriculum had to be postponed till the end of the second World war. In 1946 the separate Electrical engineering division was established. It grew into the School of electrical engineering in 1948, while its two curricula became divisions for Power engineering and Telecommunications. In 1955, the third division for Engineering physics was founded. Over the years the division for Telecommunications was extended to cover the education in electronics, control and computing. The separate fourth division for Computer engineering and computer science was established in 1987.

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