The Chihuahua Institute of Technology (in es, Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua, ITCH) is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...

located in the city of Chihuahua, capital of the state of Chihuahua, in

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

History

The Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua, also known as ITCH, was the first institute of technology in

outside Mexico City. The first stone was laid on September 26, 1948 by the Public Education Secretary, Lic. Manuel Guel Vidal, and by the governor of Chihuahua State, Ing. Fernando Foglio Miramontes. Construction started some days later, on November 13, and was directed by Ing. Alfredo Guevara Cepeda and by the auxiliary resident engineer, Ing. Jesús Roberto Durán. The first principal of this important educative institution was Ing. Gustavo Alvarado Pier, who became the school principal on October 9, 1948. On the year 1953 ITCH graduated the first generation of technicians in the country of Mexico. On 1954 ITCH graduated the first generation of industrial engineers, which also was the first generation of the country.

Logo

The

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consists in a

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, showing three-fourths of the gear which contain 14 complete teeth and the remaining fourth with a drawing of a factory working at full speed, and was designed in an age when the industrialization of Mexico was the top priority.

Motto

The

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of the institute, "''La Técnica por el engrandecimiento de México''" (Technology for the Growth of Mexico), implies a commitment to improve the country by educating its citizens with state-of-the-art technical knowledge.

Mascot

The mascot of the institute is a

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, this symbol is mainly used when competing in sports.

Academics

Offers a variety of degree programs: *

Electronic Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

* Electrical Engineering *

Electromechanical Engineering In engineering, electromechanics combines processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Electromechanics focuses on the interaction of electrical and mechanical systems as a whole and how the two systems ...

* Materials Engineering * Business Administration * MS in

Electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accoun ...

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