| National Polytechnic School | |
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| (Spanish: Escuela Politécnica Nacional) | |
| Motto | "E scientia hominis salus" (in Latin) |
| Established | 1869 |
| Type | Public university |
| Chancellor | Eng. Alfonso Espinosa |
| President | Eng. Adrián Peña |
| Location | Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador |
| Campus | Urban, 152,000 square metres (38 acres) |
| Mascot | Owl |
| Website | epn.edu.ec (in Spanish) |
The National Polytechnic School (Spanish: Escuela Politécnica Nacional), also known as EPN, is a public university located in Quito, Ecuador.
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The National Politechnic School was founded on August 27, 1869 by the National Convention of the Ecuador and the Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno. For this purpose, Garcia Moreno brought members of a German Jesuit religious order who managed the university and the Quito Astronomical Observatory. Juan Bautista Menten, Teodoro Wolf and Luis Sodiro are among the first scientists that come to the National Polytechnic School. The newborn institution was concibed as the first research center of Ecuador and was created with the purpose of contributing to the scientific and technological development of the country.
EPN is the second-oldest public university in Ecuador, after Central University of Ecuador.
The university remained closed during some decades, until 1935, when Ecuadorian President José María Velasco Ibarra re-opened it.
In 1964, the university moved from its campus "La Alameda" to the current Polythecnic Campus, being the rector José Rubén Orellana Ricaurte.
The campus, called "José Rubén Orellana", is located at the sector center-oriental of Quito. It occupies an area of 15.2 hectares and has a built area of around 62,000 metres2. Its student body numbers approximately 10,000 of which thirty percent are women.
At the campus there are some libraries with a content primarily oriented to the engineering and scientific topics.
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