The Center of Technology initially emerged as the School of Engineering of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. The Law No. 47,438, promulgated on December 15, 1959, caused the founding of the first Civil Engineering course in the state. The concern of the governor Dinarte Mariz de Medeiros, in 1957, on the small number of engineers in RN was the fact propellant for the creation of an engineering school in the state.

Years later, precisely in 1973, the Center of Technology appears as an overlay to the School of Engineering, due to structural redesign that occurred in higher education in Brazil during this period. In the new structure, the Center encompassed the courses of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism and technologists in Textile Industry, Rural Administration and Cooperatives, which had a duration of three years.

In 1988, the CT already had six departments, which are of Agriculture, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Eight undergraduate coordinators, these being of Architecture and Urbanism, Cooperatives, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Textile Technology and Zootechny, and graduate in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and also the Nucleus of Technology, formed by 29 laboratories and 3 workshops.

Accompanying the new technologies and mundial trends, courses of Computer Engineering, Production Engineering, Materials Engineering and Textile Engineering were created in 1995. And to introduce the Rio Grande do Norte State even more in the fields of science and technology, graduate courses such as Sanitation Engineering, Architecture and Production Engineering were also founded in the same year.

Currently, the Center of Technology is divided in 12 departments, which are of Architecture and Urbanism, Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering and Automation, Communications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Production Engineering , Chemical Engineering and Textile Engineering.

In total, the Centre coordinates 15 undergraduate courses, multihomed research and extension projects, besides 7 graduate programs.