At noon on 16 October 1961, the solemn act of inauguration of the activities of the School of Engineering took place in the Throne Room of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, with the presence of the Rector of the University of Navarre, José Mª Albareda, the President of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Vicente Asuero, the Mayor of San Sebastián, Nicolás Lasarte, the Vicar General of the Diocese, José Cruz Sudupe, the first teaching staff of the School and other authorities. The following day, on 17 October 1961, classes began.

Throughout this year, the official status of the courses taught by the University of Navarra was recognised by Decree 2294/1962, of 8 September, of the Ministry of National Education, which recognises the civil effects of the courses taught by the University of Navarra for the purposes set out in the Agreement signed between the Holy See and the Spanish State on 5 April 1962.

First event between the School and IESE on the occasion of the III Assembly of the Institute of Higher Business Studies in San Sebastian, which opens the history of collaboration between the two centres of the University of Navarra. The IESE brings together in Donostia the executives who have followed its senior management programmes together with its professors and scientific staff, with the aim of channelling the continuity of the permanent training work it provides. Since then, there have been numerous students who, after their training as engineers in San Sebastian, have completed their professional curriculum as managers at IESE, since "IESE and the School share the same commitment and dedication to their students". The Gipuzkoa Technical Research Centre (CIT) was also created, with Pachi Tegerizo as its first director. The aim is to create an industrial and research laboratory at the service of Gipuzkoa's industry, which carries out its activities in perfect symbiosis with the School, as it also collaborates in the teaching of the fourth and fifth years.

The duration of Industrial Engineering is reduced to five years, eliminating the two years of Selective and Initiation, and also incorporates the specialisations of Mechanics and Chemical-Metallurgy into Industrial Engineering.

The first graduating class of Industrial Engineers from our School, made up of twelve graduates, concludes their studies. It is the pioneer class, which began and finished their studies in the half-remodelled Urdaneta building.

The School's first female Industrial Engineer, María Belén Mongelos, graduates. Together with 31 other classmates, they constitute the III Promotion of the School.

With nine students, it graduates in 1970. This year, the specialisations of Mechanics, Metallurgy, Electricity and Industrial Organisation for Industrial Engineers.

A new "electronic brain" is installed in the school, the HP 2100s computer, which can be connected for the first time to work as a remote terminal.

CEIT, a centre of scientific and technical excellence, promotes innovation in industry through the promotion of research projects for companies seeking to develop new products and services. Its first Director General is also the Director of the School, José Mª Bastero, with Manuel Fuentes as scientific director.

Tecnun celebrated its silver jubilee in 1986 after twenty-five years as a School of Industrial Engineering in San Sebastian. Three are the continuous witnesses of this quarter of a century of life and receive the first silver medals of the University of Navarra. They are the secretary Conchita Elormendi and professors Pachi Tegerizo and José Casares. 1,116 graduates, 36 doctors, three of whom were already university professors, and a total of 987 students studying engineering in its classrooms.

The School was chosen, along with eighty other European universities, to participate in a pilot programme developed by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Education for the recognition of transferable credits between universities in the twelve member states of the then European Communities. These were the beginnings of what later became known as the European Community's ERASMUS Programme for the mobility of students between university institutions.

A group of students from the School travel to Rome to attend the beatification of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, founder of the University. This year the School was also invited by the International Olympic Committee to participate in the Barcelona Games through three research projects on sports biomechanics in the disciplines of high jump, pole vault and fixed bar in gymnastics. To this end, the School sent a team of students led by Professor Javier García de Jalón.

Once again this year, a change of curriculum was implemented, in accordance with the University Reform Law. The Industrial Engineering degree is renewed and the School will offer four degrees in Higher Engineering: Industrial Engineering, Industrial Organisation Engineering, Industrial Automation and Electronics Engineering and Materials Engineering. The degree programme lasts five years. In addition, the LRU allows students to choose part of the subjects.

The Employment Day is a conference that brings companies to the School, thus bringing potential employers closer to the new engineering graduates at Tecnun. During the days, held in February or March, students have the opportunity to learn what the different participating companies do, what they need from future engineers, thus bringing supply and demand of engineers closer, and opening the possibility of obtaining a job, the realization of summer internships, or the development of the final degree project.

Joaquín Casellas, the first director of the School, received the University's Gold Medal in 1995. This is the highest award given by the University in recognition of outstanding services rendered by individuals or legal entities.

The Telecommunications Engineering degree begins to be taught at the School. In the same year, the Antonio Aranzábal-University of Navarra Chair of Thermal and Fluids Engineering is created.

The University of Navarra celebrates its fiftieth anniversary and that same year, in October, the Founder of the School, Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, is canonised in Saint Peter's Square by Blessed John Paul II. In the same year, 2002, Tecnun receives the Mention of Quality from the Ministry of Education for its Doctorate Programme in Industrial Engineering.

At the proposal of the School, the University has conferred three honorary doctorates, the latest being Anthony Kelly, in 2003, former Chancellor of the University of Surrey and founder of Churchill College, University of Oxford. Previous recipients were Christopher M. Sellars of the University of Sheffield (1989) and Manuel Elices of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1994).

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias inaugurate the Miramón building.

Nine new undergraduate degrees adapted to the EHEA were introduced: Industrial Technologies Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Electronics Engineering, Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Communications Electronics Engineering, Industrial Organization Engineering, Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

In 2009, the Tecnun Motorsport team took part for the first time in the Formula Student competition, driving its single-seater at the Silvertone and Hockenheim circuits. More than 45 students from the school participate in the project.

Tecnun celebrates its 50th anniversary. In its half-century of history, more than 6,000 engineers and physicists have graduated. The events closed with the inauguration of the sculpture entitled "From Plane to Space", by the artist Néstor Basterretxea, which today presides over the entrance to the San Sebastián technology campus.

Engineer Leire Labaka defends the School's 500th thesis. The research effort of TECNUN has been mainly focused on research projects applied to the day-to-day running of companies, both in Gipuzkoa and globally. The first thesis to be defended at the School was that of engineer Juan Manuel Martinez-Apezteguía. In the photo the authors of both theses blowing the celebration cake.

For the first time, master's degrees adapted to the EHEA are being introduced: Industrial Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Production Management in Companies in the Automotive Sector. All bachelor's and master's degrees will obtain EURACE accreditation by 2020, the European Seal of International Quality in Engineering.

Tantaka, the solidarity time bank, was launched at Tecnun at the beginning of the 2017-2018 academic year with the aim of acting as an intermediary between the associations of Gipuzkoa and the Donostia-San Sebastián campus. Since then, more than 200 people, including students and staff from the School and the CEIT research centre, have participated annually in volunteering activities in areas such as care for children and adolescents, the elderly, the sick and the disabled.

In May 2018, the Advisory Board was established. Today it is made up of 32 companies and institutions with which Tecnun has collaboration agreements to jointly and structurally review the present and future of engineering education, so that the institutions can have a positive influence on Tecnun and thus improve the skills profile of graduates and their suitability for the labour market.

In September 2019, Tecnun began teaching in Madrid. The Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering started at the new postgraduate headquarters of the University of Navarra with students from both the School and other Spanish universities and with a strong involvement of companies associated with the Master's Degree that collaborate by teaching, giving lectures and organising visits to their facilities.

The undergraduate degrees are renewed and the ANECA approves new study plans for all the degrees, with common complementary itineraries in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Sustainable Development and Making & Hacking. The School continues its commitment to teaching innovation and joins the CDIO network, made up of the 120 best engineering schools worldwide.

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