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Milestones in the history of LETI
1886
1886
Founded in St. Petersburg as Technical College of Postal and Telegraph Services
1891
1891
Transformed into the first institute of higher education in Europe with major in electrical engineering
1899
1899
Re named to Electrotechnical Institute of Emperor Alexander III.
1901-1908
1901-1908
Alexander Popov, the inventor of radio developed the educational system of Radio Engineering being the fist elected director of the institute
1910
1910
Professors and lecturers participated in the project of the first Russian hydroelectric power station – Volchovskaya HPP (G.O. Graftio). Besides, scientists from ETU worked on the first in Russia projects of thermal electric power stations, powerful hydroelectric and heat generators, unique electrical drives.
1917
1917
The first chair of Radio Engineering in Russia was established by the alumni Professor Imant G. Freiman
1920
1920
ETU Professor Genrikh O. Graftio supervised the State plan for electrification of Russia – 'GOELRO' (1920s)
1920
1920
The largest in Europe laboratory of high-voltage engineering was founded by A.A. Smurov.
1922
1922
The first in the world chair of Electric Drive by Professor Sergey A. Rinkevich was established
1931
1931
The first in the world chair of Electroacoustics and Ultrasonic Testing by Professor Sergey Ya. Sokolov was established
1934-1937
1934-1937
Training of specialists in the area of Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics was started in the middle of the 1930s
1935
1935
The first in the world chair of High-frequency Electrothermy by Professor Valentin P. Vologdin was established
1945-1950
1945-1950
After the WW II ETU started intensive development of new scientific fields: Radio Electronics and Telecommunications, Automatics and Telemechanics, Computer Science and Opto Electronics.
1946
1946
Department of Dielectrics and Semiconductors started to work (N.P. Bogoroditsky). Nowadays researches of Radio material continue to be conducted in the field of Micro- and Nano-Technologies
1955
1955
The first prototype of a phased-array antenna for radar applications was elaborated by the team of Professor Yury Ya. Yurov
1955
1955
The first in Russia Department of Electromedical Apparatus was opened in 1962 by A.I. Berg.
1950-1960
1950-1960
ETU graduates worked on acoustic methods of ice cover measuring, made researches on the polar stations of Arctican regions and Antarctic (1950-1960).
1960
1960
Development of the unique test complex for spacemen to work at the null gravity
1976
1976
Elaboration of method of sublimation growth, which is nowadays widely used all over the world for manufacturing SiC boules and became known as the LETI method
1989
1989
The Faculty of Humanities was established. These days Faculty of Humanities in ETU is one of the largest one in Saint-Petersburg.
1993
1993
International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility was organised on ETU grounds
1991
1991
The first Center for Innovations Commercialization in the former USSR was established
1992
1992
LETI got the university status and was renamed to St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (SPb ETU "LETI")
2000
2000
Professor Zhores I. Alferov, a graduate and the former Chair of the Optoelectronics Department of ETU, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Herbert Kroemer "for basic work on information and communication technology", especially "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics"
2001
2001
The R&D Magazine Award '100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year 2001' (USA) for the development of an electrically scanned antenna based on ferroelectrics 'DrWiN' made by the staff of ETU Physical Electronics Department together with the American National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Paratek Microwave Inc.
2005
2005
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) mounted a Milestone Plaque on the premises of ETU (2005) as recognition of Popov's contribution to the development of wireless communication.
2007
2007
ETU along with the other 57 best Russian universities (one of the 24 universities of technology) won the national bid in the scope of the National Project on Innovations in Education.
2007-2009
2007-2009
ETU got investments from Russian Government for the implementation of the Project in, more than 738 million roubles (around 18M EUR) to purchase and implement unique state-of-the-art research equipment
2010
2010
ETU got Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Technical Fair, 'The Best Innovation Project and the Best Research Development of the Year 2010' for the development of the first national portable digital X-ray diagnostic comple
2012-2016
2012-2016
Two University Centers of Excellence for 'Nano, bio, information and cognitive technologies' as well as 'Terrorism counteraction and public safety' were established
2013-2020
2013-2020
ETU University was among the 50 Russian universities that took part in an open competition for the right to receive state funding; as a result 15 including ETU winners were picked and given the opportunity to implement their programs for the improvement of their international standing (5-100 programs).
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