History

In 1963, The Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest introduced a new specialization - Automatics which initially developed within the department of Power Engineering but which was coordinated by the Automatics department founded in the same year by Professor Corneliu Penescu, Ph.D., eng, member correspondent of the Romanian Academy. Professor Penescu's personality and invaluable contribution led to the development of the Automatics school and three years later to the foundation of the Faculty of Automatics. In 1967 the Automatics Department was divided in two: Automatics Chair I and Automatics Chair II and in 1969 there was founded the Computer Department coordinated by Professor Mircea Petrescu. At present the Automatics chairs are these: Industrial Automatics and Informatics, Automatics and System's Engineering and Computer Science.

Among the deans of the faculty there were: professor Corneliu Penescu, professor Sergiu Calin, professor Simion Florea, professor Ion Dumitrache, professor Teodor Danila and professor Nicolae Cupcea. The actual dean is professor Dumitru Popescu.

In its forty years of history the Faculty of Computers and Automatic Control has become a leading department of “Politehnica” University and one of the most important schools in the country in the field of systems engineering and computer science; this is also due to the highly academic standard of its professors and to its exceptional students and graduates.

At present the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers enjoys the same prestige and develops important academic and scientific research collaborations with many national and foreign schools in the field of automatics, systems science and engineering and computer science.