ITCM is part of the Mexican public education system (SEP) and offers several careers mainly related to the industrial needs of the region.
The Constitution of a Board pro-construction of the School of Arts and Crafts was the first step that gave rise to what in the beginning was the Regional Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero.
On November 20, 1950, the then director of PEMEX, Mr. Antonio J. Bermudez, representing the president of the Republic, Mr. Miguel German Valdes, laid the cornerstone of the institute.
Shortly after the September 2, 1954 courses began at 7:00 am with a total of 511 students serving Chief Engineer Luis Hidalgo y Castro.
In 1996 the Master of Science in Chemical Engineering began as a response to changing national trends with respect to oil development.
This change also resulted from the recommendations of the Evaluation Committee of the National Register of Graduate CONACYT.