Description
The Department of Electrical Engineering dates back to the formation of the university itself on 1 July 1949, as it was one of the departments that had much of its origins in the Sydney Technical College. The first head of department was H. J. Brown, who was appointed on the same day as the university's foundation. When the first three university faculties were established by Council on 8 May 1950 (resolution 54), Electrical Engineering became one of the initial four departments within the Faculty of Engineering. On 10 September 1951 Council changed the designation of all departments to schools and so the School of Electrical Engineering came into existence (resolution 153). On 8 September 1980 Council altered the name of the school to the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science effective from 1981 (resolution 80/139). On 10 December 1990 Council approved the creation of a School of Computer Science & Engineering from the Department of Computer Science within the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science effective 1 January 1991. The name of the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science then reverted back to the School of Electrical Engineering (resolution CL90/108v). On 9 November 1998 Council changed the named of the School of Electrical Engineering to the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications (resolution CL98/80b). In 2006 the head of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications was Professor Branko Celler. Subordinate agency: UTECOM Computing Laboratory (1956 - 1960) / Digital Computing Laboratory (1960 - c.1966) / Computing Centre (c. 1966 - 1972) / Computing Services Unit (1972 - 1985) - 01/08/1956 - 03/07/1972 Subordinate agency: Department of Control Engineering (c. 1965 - 1972) / Systems and Control (1972 - 1998) - 10/06/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Solid State Electronics (c. 1965 - 1982) / Electronics (1982 - 1998) - 01/12/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Electric Power Engineering - 10/06/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Communications - 20/12/1964 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Joint Microelectronics Research Centre (JMRC) - 01/02/1982 - 01/06/1992 Subordinate agency: Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems (1991 - 1996) / Photovoltaics Special Research Centre (1996 - 2002) - 01/01/1991 - 31/12/1999 Subordinate agency: Key Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering (1999-2003) - 01/01/1999 - 31/12/1999 Subordinate agency: Department of Electronic Computation (c. 1965 - 1972) / Computer Science (1972 - 1991) - 26/05/1965 - 31/12/1990 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1949-