Polytechnic University of Catalonia, currently referred to as BarcelonaTech
and commonly named just as UPC, is the largest engineering university in
Catalonia, Spain - albeit encompassing other disciplines such as mathematics
and architecture. UPC's objectives are based on
internationalization, as it is Spain's technical university with the highest
number of international PhD students and Spain's university with the highest
number of international master's degree students. UPC is a university aiming at
achieving the highest degree of engineering/technical excellence and has
bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities.
UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which
allows for student exchanges between leading European engineering schools. It
is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of
European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research and
UNITECH. The university was founded in March 1971
as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of
engineering and architecture schools originally founded during the 19th
century. As of 2007 it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of
Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada,
Vilanova i la Geltrú and Mataró. UPC has about 30,000 students and 2,500
professors and researchers. Schools
EET: Escola d'Enginyeria de Terrassa EETAC: Escola d'Enginyeria de
Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels
EPSEB: Escola Politècnica d'Edificació de Barcelona -
EPSEM: Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Manresa -
EPSEVG: Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú -
ESAB: Escola Superior d'Agricultura de Barcelona -
ETSAB: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona -
ETSAV: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès -
ETSECCPB: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Camins, Canals i Ports
de Barcelona - ETSEIAT: Escola Tècnica Superior
d'Enginyeries Industrial i Aeronàutica de Terrassa -
ETSEIB: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona
Telecom BCN, ETSETB: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de
Telecomunicacions de Barcelona - EUOOT: Escola Universitària d'Òptica i
Optometria de Terrassa - FIB: Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona
FME: Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística -
FNB: Facultat de Nàutica de Barcelona -: Marine Engineering, Nautical
Engineering, Maritime Transportation, Systems Engineering, Nautical
Technology, Nautical Studies, Naval Engineering, and more.
CFIS: Centre de Formació Interdisciplinària Superior -
CITM: Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia
EEI: Escola d'Enginyeria d'Igualada EUETIB: Escola Universitària
d'Enginyeria Tècnica Industrial de Barcelona
EUPMT: Escola Universitària Politècnica de Mataró -
EUNCET: Escola Universitària Caixa Terrassa -
EAE: Centre Universitari EAE - UPC UNESCO Chairs
Càtedra UNESCO de Direcció Universitària - UNESCO Chair of Higher Education
Management Càtedra UNESCO de Mètodes Numèrics en
Enginyeria de la UPC - UNESCO Chair of Numerical Methods in Engineering
Càtedra UNESCO de Sostenibilitat - UNESCO Sustainability Chair
Càtedra UNESCO en Salut Visual i Desenvolupament - UNESCO Chair of Vision
and Development Càtedra UNESCO en Tècnica i Cultura -
UNESCO Chair of Technology and Culture UPC Research Centers
The UPC has a number of research centres.
CCABA - Advanced Broadband Communications Center
CD6 - Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development
CDPAC - Cen. de Documentació de Projectes d'Arquitectura de Catalunya
CEBIM - Molecular Biotechnology Centre CERpIE - C. Recerca i Desenv. per a la
Millora i Innov.de les Empreses CETpD-UPC -Tech. Research Cen.for
Dependency Care and Autonom Liviving CPSV- Centre of Land Policy and
Valuations CRAE - Centre de Recerca de
l'Aeronàutica i de l'Espai CRAHI - Centre de Recerca Aplicada en
Hidrometeorologia CRAL - Centre for Research and Services
for the Local Administration CIMNE - International Center for
Numerical Methods in Engineering CREB - Biomedical Engineering Research
Centre CREMIT - Center for Engines and Heat
Installations CRNE - Centre for Research in
Nanoengineering LACÀN - Specific Research Center of
Numerical Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering
LIM/UPC - Maritime Engineering Laboratory
LITEM - Laboratori per a la Innovació Tecnològica d'Estructures i Materials
PERC-UPC - Power Electronics Research Centre
TALP - Centre de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i la Parla
Science Fiction Award From 1991-2010, the Board of Trustees at
UPC organized and awarded an annual Science Fiction Award. Currently the
award is presented bi-annually. Previous winners include:
2007: Brandon Sanderson, Defending Elysium; and Carlos Gardini d'Angelo,
Belcebú en llamas 2008: Eduardo Gallego Arjona and Guillem
Sánchez Gómez, La cosecha del centauro 2009: Roberto Sanhueza, Bis
2010: José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Super extra grande
2012: Miguel Santander, La epopeya de los amantes
See also Vives Network
List of universities in Spain Barcelona Supercomputing Center
International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
MareNostrum Knowledge Engineering and Machine
Learning Group Notes and references
External links Official website