Soon after the establishment of the Department of Technology, when it was found that there was interest in a new profile - engineers of technology - a new Decree was passed on November 16,1925, which finally established the Division of Technology of the Technical Faculty in Belgrade beside the existing Civil Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Architecture Divisions.
In the beginning, the Division of Technology had only three permanent lecturers: Professors Du{an Tomi}, Kosta Todorovi} and Aleksandar Leko, who was elected assistant professor in 1923.
The first engineers of technology, or more precisely, mechanical engineers of the Technological Department graduated in the same year when the Division was founded in 1925.
The new Division of Technology, placed in a University building, worked in very difficult conditions. It had only 364 m2 of laboratory space, which was used for experimental work. Due to limited space, the registration of new students was limited until 1931 when the Division was moved into the new building of the Technical Faculty and considerably improved working conditions were attained. Interest in this type of study increased gradually so that after 1933 the number of new students increased and in the school year 1940/41, just before World War II,170 new students were enrolled, while there were 464 students in the whole Division.
In the prewar 1925-1941 period 221 students had graduated from the Division of Technology. During the war the Division did not work, but senior students were given a chance to graduate, whieh was taken advantage of by 25 candidates, so that by 1945 246 students had graduated.
In the prewar period the Division developed rather slowly, so that, prior to World War II, only seven teachers and eight teaching assistants for chemical and technological subjects were employed, while lectures concerning general and technical subjects were held by teachers from other divisions of the Technical Faculty. Changes in the prewar period were not limited only to a staff increase but also involved changes in the curricula whereby the number of chemical and technological subjects was increased in regard to general and technical subjects.
For a while, during the war, occupying forces were stationed in the building of the Technical Faculty, while allied bombings in 1944 destroyed completely the part of the building housing the laboratories of the Division of Technology.
