Our history
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Boumerdes University, formerly called the National Institute of Electricity and Electronics, INELEC, came into existence as a result of an agreement signed between the National Company for Manufacture and Assembly of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, SONELEC, and Education Development Center, EDC, Newton, Mass., USA. The agreement was signed as early as March 1976, according to the program set forth in the planning study conducted for SONATRACH in March 1974.
The main objective assigned to the agreement was the creation of an adapted version of an American type higher educational institution to serve as a technological pole offering the state of the art in the various fields of Electrical Engineering. This led to a set of goals assigned to the newly created institution :
- Training engineers and technicians to serve the emerging national electronic industry.
- Training and updating continuously the know-how of field engineers and technicians already working in industry.
- Developing applied research and graduate education in relation with industry.
- Developing a good documentation/library center to support research and pedagogical activities.
To meet these requirements, it was necessary to settle for an adapted version of a typical American Higher Educational Institution having the following characteristics:
- Selection of English as the language of education.
- Selection of a curriculum insuring an optimal balance between theoretical and experimental work.
- Use of a small ratio of students to teachers.
- Involvement of students and faculty staff in the achievement of training objectives.
- Integration of industrial training periods in the curriculum.
- Development of close ties with industry through the direct involvement of faculty members and students.
- Creation of sound pedagogical management structures (curriculum, library, equipment, committees, etc.
- Creation of a sound set of support services with a special emphasis on the library / doc center, the computer center, the audiovisual centers, etc.).
The implementation of such an important project could not be achieved relying only on local resources. To this end, a consortium of American universities and some major industrial institutions were created to provide the required resources. Some of the institutions forming the consortium:
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Oklahoma State University, Still Water, Oklahoma.
- Stevens Institute of Technology.
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
- University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri.
- University of Wisconsin Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin.
- Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Massachusetts.
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
- GTE Sylvania.
- Harris Corporation.
- Raytheon Service Company.
At the beginning, all faculty members and staff were American nationals from institutions of the consortium; At the same time, a program for training Algerian faculty members was under way.
By the end of 1989 a graduate program in Applied Electronics and Electronic Systems Engineering was initiated for of a Master (Doctorat) Degree.
In 1998, INELEC ceased to exist as such and became an Electrical Engineering Department within the Faculty of Engineering of Boumerdes University with more than 600 students currently enrolled. Despite this change, the new Department still works as an American type of higher educational institution, and English is still the education language.
Under Executive Decree No. 10-15 of January 12th, 2010, the DGEE was promoted to an Institute within the University of Boumerdes and was referred to as Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Institut de Génie Electrique et Electronique).
Brief History of the University of Boumerdes
University of M'Hamed BOUGARA Boumerdes was created under the Executive Decree No. 98-189 of June 02 , 1998; By merging six old institutes whose creation dates back to the 60s-80s.
- National Institute of Hydrocarbons and Chemistry (INCH) - 1973
- National Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering(INELEC) - 1980
- National Institute of Mechanical Engineering (INGM) - 1980
- National Institute of Building Materials (INMC) - 1987
- National Institute of Manufacturing Industries (INIM) - 1987
- National Institute of Food Industries (INIA )- 1987
* More details about the institutes creation : https://en.univ-boumerdes.dz/universit%C3%A9/histoire.html
About Si M´Hamed Bougara
Ahmed Ben Larbi Bougara, nicknamed Si M´Hamed, was born on December 2, 1928, in Khemis-Miliana, in the Wilaya of Aïn-Defla.
As a child, he studied at a French school; He studied the principles of the Muslim religion and learned the Koran from the Cheikh Benblidia; In 1946, he went to Tunis to continue his studies at the Al-Zitouna Mosque.
The Algerian Islamic Scouts were the initial structure in which he began his nationalist activity. He joined to it when he was only 16 years old. In 1946, he joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA) and then the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Freedoms.
He was imprisoned twice by the French authorities: the first time on 1945 ( The demonstrations of May 8, 45) and the second time in 1950, where he was exiled from his hometown.
He joined the Revolution war (1945) at its beginning where he held various responsibilities. In 1955, he was promoted to the rank of political assistant and then in charge of communication between Algiers and its enverons.
He participated in many battles that took place in the wilaya IV (Bouzegza, Sacamodi, Oued el Melh, Oued Fodda and other areas).
In 1956, he was promoted to the rank of captain, this allowed him to attend the Congress of the Soumam held on August 20, of the same year.
In 1958, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, chief of the wilaya IV. He participated in the historic meeting of the wilayas leaders, held on December 6, 58 in El-Milia, in the north of Constantine.
May 5, 1959, where if M'hamed fell heroically in the field of honor during a murderous clash in Ouled Bouachra, in the wilaya of Médéa, whose body has not been found to date.