Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing ( _hr. Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva, abbr: "FER") is one of the top faculties of University of Zagreb. The faculty is regarded as "the largest technical faculty and the leading educational as well as research-and-development institution in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in Croatia." [http://www-old.unizg.hr/guide/w-str50.htm Page about FER on old web site of University of Zagreb] ]

FER owns four buildings situated in the Zagreb neighbourhood of Martinovka, Trnje. The total area of the site is 43,308 m². As of 2006, the Faculty employs about 260 teaching and research staff, about 50 research associates, and about 100 administrative and support staff. In the academic year 2004/2005, the total number of students was about 3,300 in the undergraduate, and about 500 in the graduate program. [http://www.contel.hr/2007/venue Venue of ConTEL 2007] ]

As of school year 2004/2005, when the implementation of the Bologna process started at the University of Zagreb, the faculty has two baccalaureus programmes (each lasting 3 years)hr icon [http://www.fer.hr/oferu/preddiplomski About baccalaureus programmes on FER] ] :
* Electrotechnics and information technology
* ComputingAfter receiving a bachelor's degree, students can take part in one of three master's programmeshr icon [http://www.fer.hr/oferu/tehnika About master's programmes on FER] ] :
* Electrotechnics and information technology
* Information and communication technology
* Computing

Organisation

The Faculty comprises 12 departments:
* Applied Physics
* Applied Computing
* Applied Mathematics
* Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Measurements
* Electric Machines, Drives and Automation
* Power Systems
* Telecommunications
* Electronic Systems and Information Processing
* Control and Computer Engineering in Automation
* Electroacoustics
* Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems
* Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering

History

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering ( _hr. Elektrotehnički fakultet, abbr: "ETF") was formed on 1 July 1956 when the College of Engineering of the University of Zagreb was divided into ETF and three other new faculties. The faculty existed under this name until 7 February 1995 when it was renamed to its current name.

In 1956, the first curriculum was formed, offering students programme called "Study of Electrical Engineering". The faculty was divided into two departments, one for weak current ("Odjel za slabu struju") and another for the strong current ("Odjel za jaku struju"). This was later referred to as the ETF-1 programme. The Faculty changed its curriculum in 1967, when the ETF-2 curriculum introduced a division of studies into electrical power systems, electronics, electrical machinery and automation. In 1970, the ETF-3 curriculum introduced further specializations, such as nuclear power systems and computing."50 godina FER-a, Zapisi dobronamjernog zlopamtila", Vladimir Naglić, Zagreb, 2006.] There was also an ETF-4 curriculum later.

In 1994 name of the faculty changed, and the curriculum was changed from ETF-4 to FER-1. A separate study called "Study of Computing" was formed, so the faculty from then on offered two different degrees - one was the existing "diplomirani inženjer elektrotehnike", or graduate engineer of electrical engineering, and the new one was "diplomirani inženjer računarstva", or graduate engineer of computing. In 2004 FER-1 was transformed to FER-2, to conform to the Bologna process [http://www.fer.hr/english English homepage of FER] ] . This involved, among other things, changing the length of the essential course set from four semesters to two semesters, the renaming of the first study program to include the term information technology, and the reworking of the program subdivisions so that they each include five specialized modules.

Noted alumni

* Ante Marković, last prime minister of SFRYhr icon cite web|author=Kristijan Zimmer|title=Dodijeljene Zlatne diplome i priznanja "Josip Lončar"|year=2004|url=http://www.fer.hr/zivot/proslave?@=1g9]
* Branko Jeren, Croatian minister of Science and Technology 1993-1995.

Noted professors

* Danilo Blanuša, a mathematician, inventor of second and third known snark (was dean of FER in the 1957-58 school year)

References

External links

* [http://www.fer.hr/ Homepage]
* [http://www.hr/darko/etf/fer.html History and organization of ETF]