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Engineering education
Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles related to the professional practice of engineering. It includes the initial education for becoming an engineer and any advanced education and specialization that follow...
of the Technical University of Catalonia
Technical University of Catalonia
The Technical University of Catalonia , sometimes called UPC-Barcelona Tech, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spain. The objectives of the UPC are based on internationalization, as it is Spain's technical university with the highest number of international PhD students and...
.
TelecomBCN is the largest telecommunications engineering school in Spain.
The school's objective is to train engineers in the fields of information and communication technologies. The school offers two study programs that culminate in two different official degrees: one in telecommunications engineering, with two majors (Communications
and Telematics Networks)) and the other in Electronic engineering
Electronic engineering
Electronics 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...
. In the academic year 2004/2005 the school started a new Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
degree in Information and Communications technologies taught entirely in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. Currently, the school has over 2500 students.
Location
The school's location is at the North Campus of BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
20 minutes away of the center of the city. You can get there easily with public transport. The easiest way to arrive is using the green line of the underground
Barcelona Metro
The Barcelona Metro , part of the public transportation system of Barcelona, Catalonia, is an extensive network of electrified railways that run underground in central Barcelona and above ground into the city's suburbs. Since July 31, 2010, Barcelona Metro system consists of 11 lines with 165...
and getting off at Palau Reial or Zona Universitaria stations. It is expected that a new line (black) will communicate the school directly with the airport at 2012.
Facts
The School- Total number of students: 2,609 (2002/2003)
- New students: 400
- Graduate students : 350 (2002/2003)
- Students with international experience : 129 (2002/2003)
- Exchange students : 74 (2002/2003) 103 (2003/2004)
- # Faculty: 212 (more than 75% are doctors)
- # Academic labs: 32
The degrees
- Telecommunication engineering
- Communications
- Telematics
- Electronics engineering
- distance learning option
- combined degree Telecom-Maths
- Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies
International exchange programs
The school participates in exchange programs with different universities all over Europe, within the SocratesSocrates programme
The SOCRATES programme was an educational initiative of the European Commission; 31 countries took part. The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994 until 31 December 1999 when it was replaced by the Socrates II programme on 24 January 2000, which ran until 2006...
/Erasmus
Erasmus programme
The Erasmus Programme , a.k.a. Erasmus Project is a European Union student exchange programme established in 1987...
program and the TIME
Top Industrial Managers for Europe
Top Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities....
network (Top Industrial Managers for Europe
Top Industrial Managers for Europe
Top Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities....
), including higher education institutions in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,Slovenia and Sweden. It is also involved in student exchange programs with several universities in Switzerland, in the USA and in South-American countries, including Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela. In the academic year 2003/2004 it had a total of 96 partner universities.
Research groups-departments
- Signal Theory and Communications: http://www.tsc.upc.es/
- Networks Department: http://www-entel.upc.es/
- Electronics Department: http://petrus.upc.es/
Telecogresca
TelecogrescaTelecogresca
Telecogresca is ETSETB annual festival and is renowned as the largest university festival in Catalonia.The Telecogresca was done for the first time on December 1 of 1978 to celebrate the construction of the new building of the University in the street Jordi Girona...
is TelecomBCN's annual festival and is renowned as the largest university festival in Spain.