From faculty records, it appears that it was only in 1912 when the earliest batch of students were conferred their MSCE degrees.

The institution was actually patterned after the University of Havana in Cuba and was first set up at the second floor of the old UST building in Intramuros.

[3] Taking into consideration the pioneering works of the teaching staff and students, the college got its first taste of prestige as the government, under President Manuel L. Quezon gave her recognition on July 12, 1921.

The university held classes up to 1941 but had to close when the Japanese turned its Sampaloc campus into a military camp during World War II.

On January 7, 1946, the university reopened at its present site in Sampaloc and the Faculty of Engineering was temporarily based in the UST Main Building.

On the same year, the Faculty produced the first women engineer: Purita Sarandi, Carmelita Reyes and Josefina Lamban, who graduated Magna cum laude.

Industrial Engineering is integrated into the college in 1977, with Dean Francisco G. Reyes as head.

[2] Founded in 1999 as Institute of Computer Sciences under the College of Science, Information and Computer Studies was formally integrated to the Faculty of Engineering in 2004 due to its technically oriented character.