Dedicated to training professionals who apply electricity and electromagnetism to generate electrical energy that contributes to the sustainable development of society. We started in 1961, as the first program of the Technological University of Pereira. In the year 2000, the National Ministry of Education recognized our trajectory with the High-Quality Accreditation. Currently, we have spaces for
learning and research such as specialized laboratories, software licenses, and the virtual subscription to the databases of IEEE, Springer, and ScienceDirect, as well as a specialized library, among others. The Technological University of Pereira and the Program of Electrical Engineering share an institutional identity based on the premise that the integral professional education is beyond of specific curricular contents, but is part of the academic life, and implies educational practices such as critical thinking, education for citizenship, democracy, and commitment to environmental sustainability. Based on this, the objectives of the program are:
1. To train professionals capable of interpreting the phenomena in which electrical energy intervenes, which makes possible the planning, generation, transmission, maintenance, and use of such energy in a safe, efficient, economic, and sustainable manner.
2. To train professionals of a high academic level, with knowledge in power systems, automatic control, and power electronics. Professionals that are competent, analytical and able to solve problems, manage projects, establish effective communication with the technical and academic community, with a high sense of ethical and professional
responsibility to make efficient and rational use of resources.
3. To promote research and continuous study in our alumni, such that they learn how to stay close to the state-of-the-art, and to promote autonomous and critical thinking that allows for the identification of problems and formulation of possible solution
alternatives.
4. To educate citizens with high ethical values, solidarity, critical thinking, creative and flexible minds, with personal and social responsibility, with the capacity to act individually and collectively, in order to influence the social reality.
5. To educate professionals in a context of social coexistence based on reason, equality, discussion, and permanent criticism. This is thanks to the emphasis on citizen education and democracy, which is the only framework that makes possible the free and autonomous development of people, which implies forming creative, innovative
and trained people to act in a globalized world.
