Escuela Politécnica Nacional
| Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) |
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| motto | E scientia hominis salus |
| founding | 1869 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Quito |
| country |
 Ecuador
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| Rector | Florinella Muñoz |
| Students | approx. 12,000 |
| Employee | approx. 750 |
| including professors | about 600 |
| Website | www.epn.edu.ec |
The Escuela Politécnica Nacional , EPN for short , is a state university in Quito , Ecuador .
overview
The college was founded in 1869 by parliament as the Instituto Superior Politecnico ; President Gabriel García Moreno entrusted the Jesuit Order with the administration of the college. The Observatorio Astronómico de Quito is part of the university. The first teachers and directors at the university were the German-born astronomer Juan Bautista Menten SJ, the German Jesuit and biologist, physicist and chemist Ludwig Dressel SJ, the German Jesuit and mathematician and geographer Joseph Kolberg SJ, the Italian Jesuit and botanist Luis Sodiro SJ and the German geologist, geographer and botanist Theodor Wolf . Later came the Jesuits and mathematicians Emil Müllendorf SJ and Armando Wenzel SJ, the Jesuit, ancient orientalist and astronomy historian Josef Epping SJ and Albert Claessen as well as the chemists Ludwig Heiss , the botanist Christian Bötzkes , the zoologist Joseph Honshteter SJ and the Prussian army chaplain Eduard Brugier . After the assassination of President Garcia Moreno on August 6, 1875, the Jesuits had to leave Ecuador and the college was closed. It was not until 1936 that President José María Velasco Ibarra reopened the university. The university has been called Escuela Politécnica Nacional since 1946 .
It offers students degrees at all levels, including doctorates in the faculties:
- Administrative sciences
- Chemical engineering and agro-industry
- Civil and environmental engineering
- Computer science engineering
- Electrical engineering and electronics
- Geology and petrosciences
- mechanical engineering
- Natural sciences, mathematics, physics
such as
- Technical Training School (ESFOT) with training programs for network technology, telecommunications, IT, data technology
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Feser: "Ecuador", Verlag Michel Müller, Erlangen 2005
Coordinates: 0 ° 12 ′ 38 ″ S , 78 ° 29 ′ 20 ″ W.