The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (,

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: ''FER'') is a faculty of the

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. It is the largest technical faculty and the leading educational facility for research and development in the fields of electrical engineering and computing in

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. FER owns four buildings situated in the

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neighbourhood of Martinovka, Trnje. The total area of the site is . , the Faculty employs more than 160 professors and 210 teaching and research assistants. In the academic year 2010/2011, the total number of students was about 3,800 in the undergraduate and graduate level, and about 450 in the PhD program. As of the academic year 2004./2005., when the implementation of the

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started at the University of Zagreb, the faculty has two baccalaureus programmes (each lasting 3 years): *

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After receiving a

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, students can take part in one of three master's programmes: *

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** Electric Machines, Drives and Automation * Information and

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** Information and Communication Engineering ** Communication and Space Technologies *

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** Computational Modelling in Engineering **

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Organisation

The Faculty comprises 12

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s: * Applied Physics * Applied Computing * Applied Mathematics * Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Measurements * Electric Machines, Drives and Automation * Energy and Power Systems * Telecommunications * Electronic Systems and Information Processing * Control and Computer Engineering in Automation * Electroacoustics * Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems * Communication and Space Technologies

History

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (,

: ''ETF'') was formed on 1 July 1956 when the College of Engineering of the University of Zagreb was divided into ETF and three other new faculties. The faculty existed under this name until 7 February 1995 when it was renamed to its current name. In 1956, the first curriculum was formed, offering students programme called "Study of Electrical Engineering". The faculty was divided into two departments, one for weak current (''Odjel za slabu struju'') and another for the strong current (''Odjel za jaku struju''). This was later referred to as the ETF-1 programme. The Faculty changed its curriculum in 1967, when the ETF-2 curriculum introduced a division of studies into electrical power systems, electronics, electrical machinery and automation. In 1970, the ETF-3 curriculum introduced further specializations, such as nuclear power systems and computing. There was also an ETF-4 curriculum later. In 1994 name of the faculty changed, and the curriculum was changed from ETF-4 to FER-1. A separate study called "Study of Computing" was formed, so the faculty from then on offered two different degrees - one was the existing ''diplomirani inženjer elektrotehnike'', or graduate engineer of electrical engineering, and the new one was ''diplomirani inženjer računarstva'', or graduate engineer of computing. In 2004 FER-1 was transformed to FER-2, to conform to the

. This involved, among other things, changing the length of the essential course set from four semesters to two semesters, the renaming of the first study program to include the term

, and the reworking of the program subdivisions so that they each include five specialized modules. Starting with the academic year 2018./2019. the curriculum was changed from FER-2 to FER-3 and is mandatory for new students.

Deans

* Anton Dolenc (1956–1957) * Danilo Blanuša (1957–1958) * Božidar Stefanini (1958–1959) * Vatroslav Lopašić (1959–1960) * Hrvoje Požar (1960–1962) * Vladimir Matković (1962–1964) * Radenko Wolf (1964–1966) * Vladimir Muljević (1966–1968) * Hrvoje Požar (1968–1970) * Vojislav Bego (1970–1972) * Zlatko Smrkić (1972–1974) * Zvonimir Sirotić (1974–1976) * Uroš Peruško (1976–1978) * Ante Šantić (1978–1980) * Berislav Jurković (1980–1982) * Milan Šodan (1982–1984) * Nedžat Pašalić (1984–1986) * Leo Budin (1986–1988) * Vladimir Naglić (1988–1990) * Ivan Ilić (1990–1992) * Danilo Feretić (1992–1994) * Stanko Tonković (1994–1996) * Stanko Tonković (1996–1998) * Slavko Krajcar (1998–2000) * Slavko Krajcar (2000–2002) * Mladen Kos (2002–2004) * Mladen Kos (2004–2006) * Vedran Mornar (2006–2010) * Nedjeljko Perić (2010–2014) * Mislav Grgić (2014–2018) * Gordan Gledec (2018–2022) * Vedran Bilas (2022-current)

Notable alumni

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* Branko Jeren, Croatian minister of Science and Technology 1993-1995 * Damir Boras, Rector of University of Zagreb since 2014- * Vedran Mornar, Croatian minister of Science, Education and Sport 2013-2015

Notable professors

* Danilo Blanuša, a mathematician, inventor of second and third known

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(was dean of FER 1957-1958)

KSET

The Electrical Engineering Student Club ( Croatian: ''Klub studenata elektrotehnike'',

: ''KSET'') is a student association founded by students of the Croatian Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and plays an active role in the social life of the

and Zagreb in general. The club is part of a larger building complex of its native faculty.

References

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