A Chronicle of Important Events in the Field of Electrical Engineering in Romania

The Chronicle of important events in the field of electrical engineering in Romania from 1776 to 2017 unfolded in the Chapter was chosen to allow the international professionals in the field and various synthesis Institutions to grasp quickly but profoundly the evolution of electrical engineering Industry and Education over more than 200 years in Romania. It should be noted that electrical engineering started as Electro-Physics and then continued by close cooperation between electro-physics and engineering education for Industry. On the part of Industry strong and rather synchronous with the international trends, developments of the electric power system (with hydro and thermal power plants) and of power electric devices, from electric machines and transformers and power electronics drives of all sorts and power levels, to locomotives, subway and streetcar traction systems have been observed in the twentieth century. On the part of Education, strong research Institutes like ICPE and IPA etc. and Technical Universities contributed notably with R&D results (many with international visibility) while providing for Industry more 1,000,000 electrical engineers over the twentieth century. A few thousands of Romanian electrical engineers are working today for industry all over the world, too; some in key technical leadership positions. Though slowing down immediately after the year 1989, the Industry related to electrical engineering is reviving slowly but steadily, with new targets and means, with strong international investments and cooperation, such that now in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Sibiu, Brasov, Craiova etc. thousands of electrical engineers are doing R&D in international companies in close cooperation with local Universities. The international academic cooperation flourished, as never before, in the last 30 years and is here to stay for a bright future of Electrical Engineering-academic and industrial, in Romania.