It had its origin in the section of Electricity and Electronics - SEE, when in Pavilion V, in 1996, there was an intense and productive stage of development. That year the Academic Area of Communications was created, as it promoted the incursion of the PUCP in telecommunications, due to the accelerated deployment of fixed and mobile terrestrial telephone and Internet networks in Peru, as a consequence of the privatization of the sector in 1994. Likewise, cooperative relationships were established with institutions such as the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech, USA).
Precisely in 1998, the rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the president of the Telefónica Group of Spain, at an Ibero-American summit in Madrid, agreed to offer Salomón Lerner, rector of the PUCP, their support to launch a new engineering specialty, oriented to telecommunications. For this reason, a working commission was created at the FCI, chaired by the dean, Eng. Manuel Olcese, which recommended the creation of the undergraduate degree in "telecommunications" engineering. Already in 1999, an ad-hoc work team developed the implementation plan for the "telecommunication" professional career, to be presented to the university council. The request was approved by a majority vote at the university council meeting of July 8, 2001, and was subsequently ratified by the assembly.
In charge of professors Eduardo Ísmodes and David Chávez of the SEE, the implementation of the new specialty began and in March 2002 the students of the first promotion entered EEGGCC. On July 5, 2006 the university assembly approves the creation of the Telecommunications Engineering Section and intensifies the work of organizing and implementing the curriculum, courses, laboratories, improving infrastructure and social projection of the new career. In 2009, the creation of the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering was approved.
A recent achievement corresponds to November 2018, date on which under Law 30309, the Telecommunications Engineering Section is recognized as a research center R&D+i authorized by CONCYTEC to implement scientific research, development and/or technological innovation projects.