Federico Santa María Technical University

The Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María ( de: Technical University Federico Santa María ) is a Chilean university.

University

The Technical University Federico Santa María is a private institution and has a total of nearly 10,000 students, 260 full-time and 300 part-time professors. The headquarters is located exactly between the port city of Valparaíso and the seaside resort of Viña del Mar in Chile's Region V, ( about 2 hours drive west of the capital Santiago de Chile). It is located on the hill " Placeres " (Spanish for " the joys " ), which still belongs to the city of Valparaíso and borders with the busy Avenida España in the Pacific Ocean. From the said Avenida España, where the bus stop is along with a passenger bridge, a staircase leads to the main building.

History

The establishment of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, also briefly known as USM for " Universidad Santa María ", went from an idea by Mr. Federico Santa María Carrera and Mr. Agustín Edwards McClure, his executors, out. Santa María was the last will, Valparaíso to an educational institution, which should consist of an art, craft and engineering academy to enrich. A corresponding Testament was written for this purpose on 20 January 1920 in Paris and stored and made ​​available to the public on 27 April 1926. It provided, among other things, that the Office of the teaching staff should be reserved in the first ten years exclusively of foreigners. Edwards then traveled to meet the demands, to Germany, where he took them under contract to Professor Karl Laudien of the Technical University of Szczecin. In May of 1929, shortly after the first meeting of the Executive Council of the "Santa María Foundation " Professor Laudien traveled to Chile. In February 1931 Professor Laudien the Board Council was appointed rector of the art and Handwerksakadamie. Shortly afterwards, namely, in 1932, began the formation of the first apprentices, after they had been previously trained for a month by craftsmen. The "preparatory " school, the first exclusively belonged to the university career, took in March 1934 on their operation. In October of the same year the Foundation magazine was: " Scientia " was founded, which have been published in scientific and technical collaborations and news of the university. With the reform of the Statute in September 1935, the " Santa María Foundation " in " Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María " (Eng. "Technical University Federico Santa María " ) has been renamed. From now on, the university consisted of an art, craft and engineering academy. These three departments were under the four faculties of the University: Mathematics, trade and economic, physics and chemistry, and biology. In October 1935, the statute was again amended and appointed army Armando Quezada Acharan rector of the university. Professor Laudien however, remained rector of the Art and Craft Academy. In June 1936, Francisco Cereceda was appointed the successor of Rector Quezada Cereceda, who had previously died in April 1936. Ceredas tenure as rector of the university lasted until 1936 in which he strengthened their institutional position. Inter alia the theoretical part of the studieng £ nge were expanded and extended the practical part. In the forties the workshops and laboratories were expanded. It was also the main auditorium, whose inauguration took place in 1941, and the administration building, which today strongly influenced the character of the building complex, in essence, and the library built. Added to this was the broadcasting of a radio program with a cultural background. The faculties of electrical engineering, chemistry and engineering came in 1944, mathematics and physics added and are still unchanged.

Testament Santa María

"I would like to share, especially my fellow human beings that I have devoted the last thirty years of my life of selflessness and can therefore create my first Testament in 1894 and bequeath to the people of Valparaiso university. This was a mistake, as it turned out over time and showed me the experience. It is important for me to finish the proletariat of my country and for this reason I have created a plan with which I, at first something for our descendants in the form of a primary school, an arts and crafts academy and an engineering academy 'll afford. hereby to the disadvantaged apprentices the attainment of the highest degree of human knowledge are possible. " " After payment of all Erbschulden, I leave my executors the totality of my possessions so that they can use these same for the construction and maintenance later called institutions in the city Valparaiso: An art and craft academy boarding and, for students in the primary school have highlighted by her classmates because of their intelligence and their diligence; also two or more students will be admitted per region of Chile, and depending on the management of the institution who also excelled in their respective primary school; " " ... Both the lessons, as well as accommodation, food and clothing are free, in the boarding school of arts and crafts academy also separate rooms for students are provided which have in turn excelled by her classmates at the Academy through your skills and of which the Council thinks they should continue their studies at the engineering Academy, . pupils wealthy parents be allowed under any circumstances in the boarding school of arts and crafts academy, they can enroll only in Externat both institutions " " ... On the admission to Externat has the headquarters of the institutions An Engineering Academy and all its branches, rails, ie production shops of every kind, mining engineering, hydraulics, electricity, etc., and all those other branches, the necessary progress; . Boarding this academy is to be part of the above mentioned arts and crafts academy, to which only those students will be admitted that holds on the one hand, the Council able to complete their studies, on the other hand from the Art and Craft Academy or other schools emerge and not a means to have the completion of their studies. Moreover, there will be a Externat chosen by the Council for students who will complete successfully with high probability an engineering degree. " "Both the two Externaten the arts and crafts academy and Engineering Academy, as well as the two boarding schools is at noon the same food served. Since both institutions are secular is any form of religious doctrine prohibited within the academies and should therefore be carried out exclusively in the parents' home." "Both the arts and crafts academy, as well as the Engineering Academy and each chair, which could form in the future, should the name " José Migual Carrera " in memory of our freedom fighters, who launched the first call for the independence of Chile, to his title to attach. "

Faculties

  • Architecture
  • Materials Science
  • Electricity
  • Electronics
  • Physics
  • Humanist Studies
  • Trade and Economy
  • Computer science
  • Mathematics
  • Engineering
  • Public works
  • Chemical, biological and environmental processes
  • Sport and Leisure
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