TUIASI is a technical university with more than 200 years tradition, a community of 11 faculties which nowadays represents o pole of influence and power within the largest city in the North-East of Romania.

In 1813, Gheorghe Asachi, the founder of the Romanian technical education, set up the first centre for technical education taught in Romanian, beginning with a civil engineering class which was later developed within the Michailean Academy (1835) and ‘Alexandru loan Cuza’ University in laşi (1860).

From among the 56 state institutions of higher education in the country, TUIASI has the oldest tradition in engineering education.