Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Encyclopedia
The Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, (Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires - ITBA) is an Argentine
private university
located in the city of Buenos Aires
. Its focus is primarily on Information Technology
, Business
and Engineering
studies.
In spite of being a small university, with only about 1650 undergraduate students, ITBA is regarded as one of the best engineering schools in the country, with an annual graduation average of 200 engineers, about 10% of the annual national total. ITBA maintains cooperation agreements with over 50 universities in 20 countries.
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ITBA's first Dean was retired Admiral Garzoni who retired around 1979 and died shortly thereafter. The current ITBA Dean is Alt. Enrique Molina Pico. It is located in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero
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Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
private university
Private university
Private universities are universities not operated by governments, although many receive public subsidies, especially in the form of tax breaks and public student loans and grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities are...
located in the city of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. Its focus is primarily on Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, Business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
and Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
studies.
In spite of being a small university, with only about 1650 undergraduate students, ITBA is regarded as one of the best engineering schools in the country, with an annual graduation average of 200 engineers, about 10% of the annual national total. ITBA maintains cooperation agreements with over 50 universities in 20 countries.
History
ITBA was created on November 20, 1959 by a group of Navy officers and professionals, with the purpose of advancing the teaching of engineering in ArgentinaArgentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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ITBA's first Dean was retired Admiral Garzoni who retired around 1979 and died shortly thereafter. The current ITBA Dean is Alt. Enrique Molina Pico. It is located in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio of the Argentine capital at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city of Buenos...
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Undergraduate programs
The University offers undergraduate degrees in:- Business Administration & Information Systems
- Chemical EngineeringChemical engineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
- Electronic EngineeringElectronic engineeringElectronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...
(rated as one of the 7 best Argentinian engineering courses in 2004 by the National Commission of Education and University Accreditation (La Comisión Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación Universitaria, CONEAU) - Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineeringIndustrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
- Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
- Naval architectureNaval architectureNaval architecture is an engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures. Naval architecture involves basic and applied research, design, development, design evaluation and calculations during all stages of the life of a...
- Petroleum EngineeringPetroleum engineeringPetroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...
- Informatics EngineeringInformatics engineeringInformatics engineering is the direct translation from many southern European languages of an engineering discipline most commonly known in English as computer engineering....
- Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
Graduate programs
- Executive Master in Strategic and Technological Management: offered in partnership with Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI), Spain.
- Master in Project Evaluation: offered with Universidad del CEMA, Argentina.
- Marketing for Engineers
- Telecommunications Management
- Electricity Market Management
- Oil and Gas Economics
- Software Engineering: Tutorial Mode, offered with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
- Data Mining
- Telecommunications
- Sustainable Environmental Management