TECH University's School of Engineering includes Telecommunications courses in its graduate programs, a field that has enormous influence in multiple dimensions of human activity. Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States in 1913, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, explained: "From now on the position of a nation in the world will be conditioned by three factors: oil, transportation, and telecommunications". It can be proven today that the former president was not wrong, since the transmission and reception of signals at a distance, which is carried out by electrical or electromagnetic means to communicate any information, is a universal factor in 'Digital Era' societies. From the telegraph, radio, telephone, and television, to mobile telephones, computer networks, the Internet, GPS navigation, and telemetry, all are technologies resulting from telecommunication: the foundations of what we know today as globalization.
The Influence of Telecommunications
Nikola Tesla, American inventor in electromagnetism, once argued that distance is the main impediment to humanity's progression. He also argued that, when it was overcome in word and action, mankind would be united, wars would be impossible and peace would reign throughout the planet. While there are still daunting problems, the reality in retrospect is different: civilizations are better. In recent years, every day 650,000 people connected to the Internet for the first time and every day 325,000 people finally had access to electricity. In the face of extreme poverty and child mortality worldwide, both percentages are now in single digits, whereas in 1950, 27% of children died before their fifteenth birthday. Likewise, illiteracy continues to fall and diseases such as leprosy, polio, and elephantiasis are on the way to being eradicated. These results are largely due to the interconnectivity made possible by telecommunications. TECH, for example, provides education in 23 countries from the comfort of their homes. It is clear, therefore, that higher education in telecommunications is a fundamental asset for companies in all socioeconomic sectors. In this sense, TECH University, through Telecommunications Courses, prepares students for today's most important work challenges.