Apparently the EFT element of UAS flying started around 7 years ago. The undergrads started doing the same course as the DE around 2 years ago.
I started around 8 years ago, and the EFT stuff was well integrated by then. It must have been in the first half of the 1990s that they started it all up.
Certainly in 1997 the final year chaps and chapesses had been doing EFT for long enough to finish it.