National Technological University

The Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) is a national public university in Argentina, as a continuation of the National Workers' University. It is the only university in the country with a federal organization and whose academic structure has engineering as its priority objective.

Its administrative headquarters are located in the city of Buenos Aires but it has 30 Regional Faculties, a National Higher Institute for Technical Teachers and classroom extensions geographically distributed throughout the territory of the Argentine Republic.

By its number of students, it is the largest engineering university in the country.

Undergraduate courses taught at the UTN

• Air engineering.
• Civil engineering.
• Electrical engineering.
• Electronic engineering.
• Electromechanical engineering.
• Engineering in information systems.
• Railway engineering.
• Industrial engineering.
• Mechanical engineering.
• Metallurgical engineering.
• Naval engineering.
• Fishing engineering.
• Chemical engineering.
• Textile engineering.
• Engineering in automotive industry.
• Bachelor of Rural Administration.
• Bachelor of industrial organization.
• License in programming.

Dependencies

Regional Faculties

Buenos Aires Regional School, the largest in the country.

Haedo regional faculty, the first in Latin America to have Ferroviary Engineering.

Its thirty Regional Faculties are the following:

• Regional Faculty Avellaneda
• Regional Faculty Bahía Blanca
• Colegio Regional Buenos Aires
• Chubut Regional Faculty
• Universidad Concepción de Uruguay
• Regional Faculty Concordia
• Regional Faculty Córdoba
• Regional Faculty Delta
• Regional Faculty General Pacheco
• Haedo Regional Faculty
• Regional Faculty La Plata
• Regional Faculty La Rioja
• Regional Faculty Mendoza
• Regional Faculty of Neuquén
• Paraná Regional Faculty
• Regional Faculty Rafaela
• Reconquista Regional Faculty
• Regional Faculty of Resistance
• Regional School Tierra del Fuego
• Regional Faculty Rosario
• Universidad San Francisco
• Universidad San Nicolás
• Universidad San Rafael
• Universidad Santa Cruz
• Universidad Santa Fe
• Regional Faculty Trenque Lauquen
• Tucumán Regional Faculty
• Regional Faculty Venado Tuerto
• Regional Faculty Villa María
• Regional Faculty Mar del Plata

Other dependencies

• National Executive Consulting of Transport
• Higher National Institute of Technical Teacher
• E-Learning Center UTN BA

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  Colegio Regional Buenos Aires

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  Regional Faculty La Plata

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  Regional Faculty Concordia

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  Tucumán Regional Faculty

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  Regional School Tierra del Fuego

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  Haedo Regional Faculty

Applied technological research

History

Historical context

Industrial development after the First World War generated a growing demand for artisans, operators, technicians and engineers, making the need to train technical management and supervision cadres urgent, while at the same time placing more and more professionals in the dependency engineering.

On the other hand, it was extremely difficult for technicians who graduated from the few secondary industrial schools to access universities. This situation led a group of teachers from the Otto Krause school headed by the engineer Pascual Pezzano between 1935 and 1945, to conceive the idea of founding a Higher Technical Institute that would allow industrial technicians to follow tertiary and/or university studies; although his various projects could not be successfully channeled. In 1946, under the presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, and due to the growing industrialization of Argentina during the Second World War, the task already being carried out by the National Commission for Professional Learning and Orientation (CNAOP), which had been founded in 1945, with Perón at the helm of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare. Within this framework, during Peronism, schools-factories were also founded for the training of operators.

However, the students who graduated from the Arts and Crafts schools (or factory-schools) had practically no chance of finishing high school, due to the innumerable equivalency tests that were required of them. It should be noted that the training provided by these schools resembled a kind of basic secondary cycle with employment opportunities.

National Workers University

When the first graduates of the school-factories were about to graduate, the Government and the CGT (General Confederation of Labor) began to think about implementing a higher cycle. This would bear the name of Universidad Obrera Nacional and its purpose would be to train factory engineers, trained to create production processes. It was thought of a more "practical" than that of traditional engineers. His students would have the obligation to work in their specialty and would attend a five-year degree.

In this way, by means of Law 13,229 of the year 1948, the National Workers University (UON) was created, although it was not before 1952 that the National Executive Power sanctioned Decree No. 8014/52 by which it regulated the aforementioned law and gave the University its first organization and operation regulations. In Chapter II, art. 9 of said Law, establishes the creation of the UON as a higher technical education institution, dependent on the aforementioned Commission, with the aim of fully training professionals of labor origin, destined to satisfy the needs of the Argentine industry. The graduate was awarded the title of Factory Engineer in the corresponding specialties.

Cecilio Conditi was chosen as the first rector of the university, being accompanied by ing. Pezzano as Vice Chancellor. The courses were finally inaugurated by Juan Domingo Perón on March 17, 1953. The first regional faculties were Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Rosario and Córdoba. In 1954 the regional faculties of Bahía Blanca, Mendoza, La Plata and Avellaneda were added, and in July 1955 that of Tucumán.

In 1955 the de facto military government of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu implemented a policy of defunding and postponing the UON. The ING. Meoli was appointed as comptroller of the university by the de facto government. During his administration he changed the curricula, replacing the subjects of politics and unionism with culture and legislation. The students of the UON organized themselves to claim the same organization and recognition as the other universities, and began to call it National Technological University.

Creation of the National Technological University

During the government of Arturo Frondizi, the name National Technological University was officially adopted, through the enactment of the nº 14 855 of October 14, 1959 that gave it its new autonomy.

According to its creation law, the specific purposes of the National Technological University are:

To prepare professionals in the field of technology to meet the corresponding needs of the industry, without neglecting cultural and humanistic formation, to make them able to unfold in a managerial level within industry and society creating a spirit of social solidarity and mutual understanding in the relations between capital and work.

Article 2 of National Law No. 14855

After the enactment of the law no. of technical schools as it was until now.

On August 31, 1962, the University Assembly approved the first statute of UTN. By that time, it already had eleven regional faculties. In 1965, through Law 16712, the university was incorporated into the regime of National Universities.

In 1964, the Rector of the UTN Juan Sábato authorized the Santa Fe Regional Faculty to teach the first year of the engineering degree in the city of Paraná, at the "José María Torres" Normal School. This headquarters added courses until it became the Paraná Delegation in 1968, still dependent on the Santa Fe Regional.

In 1967, the Delegation of the San Justo Party was created, dependent on the Buenos Aires Regional. In 1969 the delegations of San Francisco (resolution 483/69), Villa María (resolution 486/69) and Entre Ríos (resolution 487/69) were added.

In the following decades, the UTN became the leading study house for the training of new technological engineers in the country.

1970s

The Entre Ríos delegation was again divided into Deleg. Paraná and Deleg. Conception of Uruguay in 1970. In 1970 the Gral. Pacheco Delegation was created (resolution 136/70) and in 1971 the San Rafael Delegation (resolution 582/71). In 1972 the Superior Council of the Technological University, by Resolution No. 571/72, approved the transformation of the Paraná Delegation into the Paraná Regional Faculty. The delegations of Rafaela (1974), Trenque Lauque (1975), Venado One-eyed (1975).

During the governments of Juan Domingo Perón, and later of María Estela Martínez de Perón (1973-1976), the UTN was intervened. After the 1976 military coup, the de facto government proposed the disappearance of the UTN and the absorption of its faculties by other national universities. However, he had to backtrack on this plan due to the reaction of the university community. During this period, 14 people linked to the UTN Regional Buenos Aires, including employees and students, were disappeared by the military government.

1980s and 1990s

In 1983 democracy returned to the country and the process of normalization of the universities began, with the return of teaching competitions and university autonomy. The UTN elects its own authorities through the University Assembly of 1986. Eng. Juan Carlos Recalcatti was chosen as rector and re-elected in 1989.

In this period, the Rawson Delegation (1985), the Confluencia Academic Unit (Plaza Huincul-Cutral Có) (1985), the La Rioja Academic Unit (1986) and Reconquista (1986) were created.

In 1993 Eng. Hector Carlos Brotto is chosen as rector of the university.

In October 1999, the Directorate of Port Activities of the province of Buenos Aires ceded a building located in the port of Mar del Plata to the UTN, so that the university could use it as a regional office in this city. The works are carried out in three stages, ending in November 2009.

21st century

In December 2005, the University Assembly decided to transform the Academic Units of La Rioja and Concordia into Regional Faculties.

It is important to note that since its creation, more than 30,000 professionals have graduated from its 17 degree courses, which is equivalent to almost half of the engineers in the country. On the other hand, its geographical extension translates into a student absorption capacity - 70,000 students - which is equivalent to more than 50% of all engineering students in the country. The University is free to those who pass the entrance exam, whose topics cover the areas of mathematics, university orientation and physics.

Symbol

Its symbol has a meaning greater than the mere isotypical representation of the initials of the name of said university. The semicircles represent the curves of evolving technological dynamics, the Greek letter PSI (Ψ) represents the humanistic nature of the faculty, and the + (plus) sign indicates the positive nature of technological thinking and its tendency to improve.

It is very similar to the character Yazz () of the alphabet tifinagh, which corresponds to the Unicode U+2D65.