The éAntonioEcheverrítoday Technological University José Antonio Echeverría, in its beginnings the University City José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), whose old acronyms are still used for its popular recognition. With the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959, a stage of revolutionary transformations at the national level began in Cuba and among the first were educational ones. Thus the conditions are created to initiate a true university reform, dreams until then unique of the great Cuban teachers: Varela, Martí, Mella, Varona and of all those who for years had fought and even given their lives to cement a worthy University that was only achieved with Fidel. It is attached to the Ministry of Higher Education of Cuba.
On February 15, 2017, the National Accreditation Board awarded him the superior category of excellence, for his results in the comprehensive training of students, research and its impact on the municipality, the nation and abroad.
History
The history of CUJAE has its antecedents in the old School of Engineers, Electricians and Architects of the University of Havana, created on June 30, 1900, when the Military Orders for this purpose. At the beginning, it began in the old convent of San Agustín, today the Carlos J. Finlay Museum of the History of Medicine, and then moved on to La Colina, attached to the Faculty of Sciences and Letters of that University Center, with the careers of Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering, adding that of Architecture, the first of October of the same year.
As a result of the reform movement that began in 1923, there is a significant turnaround in the programs that had not been reviewed for some twenty years, causing changes in the curricula of the three aforementioned careers. In 1925 it became the School of Engineers and Architects, continuing within the Faculty of Letters and Sciences.
When the teaching law of 1937 was promulgated, twelve Faculties were created at the University of Havana, among them the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture appears with new programs for Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Architecture, which remained in force with slight modifications until 1960.
In January 1943 this Faculty is divided into two: Engineering, where they continue to study Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Architecture, with the degree of the same name.
The incorporation of a broad student movement to the insurrectionary process organized at that time to overthrow the government of the day, caused the closure of the university in the year 1956, which did not reopen until after the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959.
On November 18, 1961, the Faculty of Technology of the University of Havana was founded, and on January 10, 1962, it was officially ratified by the University Reform Law, being integrated again, with six Schools : Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Architecture. Later they would appear: Mining Engineering, Geophysical Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Sugar Engineering and the careers of medium technical level: Hydrotechnics and Topography.
Construction
In September 1960, the commander-in-chief Fidel Castro announced the purpose of building a university city; he name her José Antonio Echeverría. There were three possible places for its realization, and by consensus the neighboring Central Toledo, today Central Manuel Martínez Prieto, in the current municipality of Marianao was chosen.
On March 13, 1961, in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the assault on the Presidential Palace and the taking of Radio Reloj, the construction works were officially inaugurated. In the year of 1962 the construction work had advanced considerably but the urgent need for capital to subsidize the completion of the project remained. To this end, the engineer Altshuler prepared a report on the Request for Technical Assistance to the United Nations Special Fund, a request that met with the opposition of the representative of the United States, but since there were no strong reasons to reject it, they then looked for a way to obstruct it always postponing its treatment in the Assemblies of said Organization.