To implement the resolutions from UNEC’s online Academic Council meetings held on May 31, 2020 (No. AC-172) and September 14, 2020 (No. AC-173), the “Faculty of Expertise and Standardization” was dissolved on October 19, 2020, and in its place, the “Faculty of Engineering” was established.
According to UNEC Academic Council order No. 829/3/2018, dated September 25, 2018, the Faculty of Commodity Studies was re-designated as the Faculty of Expertise and Standardization.
The training of highly qualified specialists in the field of commodity studies in the republic dates back to the 1930s. Educational institutions such as the Trade and Cooperative Institute, the Consumer Cooperative Institute, the Soviet Trade Institute, the Social and Economic Institute, and the Azerbaijan Institute of National Economy prepared specialists under various titles. Following the unification of several universities, the Institute of National Economy named after K. Marx was founded. By the 1930s, it encompassed six faculties, including the Faculty of Soviet Trade, with departments such as “Commodity Studies” and “Economic Organization and Techniques of Soviet Trade.” The Department of Commodity Studies was then led by Senior Lecturer A.U. Guliyev.
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In 1959, the Institute of National Economy was merged with Azerbaijan State University (ASU), where a Faculty of Commodity Studies was established in 1962. Professor Soltan Salmanov served as the faculty’s first dean, later succeeded by Professor Alasgar Gasimov.
In 1987, the Institute of National Economy lost its independent status, becoming the Baku branch of the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute (LFEI) named after N.A. Voznesensky. In 1990, however, the commodity studies specialty separated from the Baku branch and was reestablished within the Azerbaijan Technological Institute. From September 1, 1993, to June 13, 2000, this institution operated as the independent Baku Institute of Commodity Studies and Commerce under the leadership of Professor A.P. Gasanov.
On June 13, 2000, under a Presidential Decree of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Baku Institute of Commodity Studies and Commerce merged with the Azerbaijan State Institute of Economics to form the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). Despite the institute’s dissolution, the functions of all its faculties, departments, divisions, and units were retained within UNEC as a division of technical and technological specialties.
In November 2004, parallel faculties and departments were consolidated, leaving two faculties: the Faculty of Commodity Studies and the Faculty of Technology and Design.
The news of the Faculty of Expertise and Standardization (2015–2018)