page_title: School of Engineering, UNAM
section_title: Organization and departments
hierarchical_section_title: School of Engineering, UNAM / Organization and departments
caption_attribution_description: English: A computer engineering at UNAM building a mobile robot.
context_page_description: The School of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico is the most prestigious engineering school in Latin America and one of the top engineering schools worldwide. At the undergraduate level, it offers thirteen majors and some graduate programs. In fall 2008, the school of engineering had over 10,900 undergraduate students and 1,115 graduate students and postdocs.
  The School of Engineering offers undergraduate studies in:
  Biomedical systems engineering
  Civil engineering
  Computer engineering
  Electrical and Electronic engineering
  Geomatics engineering
  Geophysical engineering
  Geotechnical engineering
  Industrial engineering
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechatronics engineering
  Mining and Metallurgy engineering
  Petroleum engineering
  Telecommunications engineering
  The studies on Chemistry, as for chemical engineering, are offered by UNAM's own School of Chemistry.
context_section_description: The school of engineering is organized in divisions (somewhat the equivalent of departments), each under the direct supervision of a Head of division.  These are themselves coordinated and supervised by the faculty dean, currently Carlos Agustín Escalante Sandoval.
   Fundamental Science Division (DCB):
  Is in charge of subjects such as physics and mathematics, every student has to take one or more subjects of this department, specially during the first 4 semesters. These subjects on fundamental science are then common to all students and are often regarded as the most difficult among all.
  Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Division (DIMEI):
  In charge of the majors in the name, is the contact between the school and the industry, there are some programs for young entrepreneurial and some courses that may resemble a BA program in US
  Civil and Geomatic Engineering Division (DICyG)
  The civil Engineering division is one of the oldest divisions and has great prestige. Many famous researchers, and business leaders, such as Carlos Slim have studied in this division.
  Electrical Engineering Division (DIE): The Electric Engineering Division is in charge of three different bachelor's degrees: Electric Engineering, Computer Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering. It is the biggest division by number of students, as the degrees it offers have a high employment rate. This division, especially the computer engineering department,  has established many on-going collaborations with industry and academia, such as: Google, Intel, IBM, Oracle, Telmex, Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Wikimedia Foundation. The DIE has a head chair that coordinates these different departments. The current chair is Dr. Boris Escalante. Each department also has its own chair and coordinator. The department with most students, faculty and infrastructure is the Computer Engineering department, whose current coordinator is professor Norma Elva Chavez.
  Earth Sciences Engineering (DICT):
  This division is organizes the Mining, Petroleum, Geophysics and Geology Engineering bachelor Programs. Is one of the oldest divisions in the school and currently has some joint programs with PEMEX among other petroleum companies.
  Distance and Continuing Education Division:
  As the name implies, this division is in charge of courses and diplomas for active professionals who wish to stay up to date with current technological trends or wish to stay in contact with the academic community in some way other than the conventional graduate programs.
  Social Sciences and Humanities Division (DCSyH):
  In charge of cultural activities and some subjects, such as literature, ethics and history.
caption: Students design and build a robot.
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