The Technical University of Catalonia ( ca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, , es, link=no, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest engineering university in

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, Spain. It also offers programs in other disciplines such as mathematics and architecture. UPC's objectives are based on

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, as it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the largest share 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

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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 (

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) and UNITECH. UPC is also a parent institution of the

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(IBEI). The university was founded in March 1971 as the ''Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona'' through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded in the 19th century. it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of

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Manresa Manresa () is the capital of the Comarca of Bages, located in the geographical centre of Catalonia, Spain, and crossed by the river Cardener. It is an industrial area with textile, metallurgical, and glass industries. The houses of Manresa are ...

Sant Cugat del Vallès Sant Cugat del Vallès (; es, San Cugat del Vallés, link=no) is a town and municipality north of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Known as ''Castrum Octavianum'' in antiquity (which literally means ''the castle of Octavianus'') and as ''Pins del Val ...

Terrassa Terrassa (, es, Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona, ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell. The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ' ...

Igualada Igualada () is a municipality in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Anoia River and at the western end of the Igualada-Martorell-Barcelona Railway. Igualada is the capital and central market of the ...

Vilanova i la Geltrú Vilanova i la Geltrú () is the capital city of Garraf ''comarca'', in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Historically a fishing port, the city has a growing population of approximately 66,000, and is situated 40 km south-west of Ba ...

and

Mataró Mataró () is the capital and largest town of the ''comarca'' of the Maresme, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia Autonomous Community, Spain. It is located on the Costa del Maresme, to the south of Costa Brava, between Cabrera de Mar and Sa ...

. As of the academic year 2017–18, the UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs.

Rankings

UPC is consistently ranked as one of the leading European universities in the technology and engineering fields. U.S. News & World Report, for instance, ranks it as the world's 36th for Computer Science and 60th for Engineering. The

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also place the UPC among the world's 50 best universities in disciplines such as Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Instruments Science and Technology and Remote Sensing.

Schools

Barcelona East School of Engineering
(EEBE) *

Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering The Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering ( ca, Escola d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels, EETAC; es, Escuela de Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones y Aeroespacial de Casteldefels) is a h ...

(EETAC)
Barcelona School of Building Construction
(EPSEB)
Manresa School of Engineering
(EPSEM)
Vilanova i la Geltrú School of Engineering
(EPSEVG) *

Barcelona School of Agricultural Engineering The Barcelona School of Agri-Food and Biosystems Engineering (EEABB) is a university center founded in 1912. EEABB is nowadays an engineering school of the UPC-BarcelonaTech offering bachelor's and master's degrees in the field of Biosystems e ...

(ESAB)
Terrassa School of Industrial, Aerospace and Audiovisual Engineering
(ESEIAAT)
Barcelona School of Architecture
(ETSAB)
Vallès School of Architecture
(ETSAV)
Barcelona School of Civil Engineering
(ETSECCPB) * School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB) *

Barcelona School of Informatics The Barcelona School of Informatics ( ca, Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona, FIB; ) is one of the schools of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Technical University of Catalonia), Spain. It was created in 1976, four years after the e ...

(FIB)
Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering
(ETSETB) *

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(FME)
Barcelona School of Nautical Studies
(FNB)
Terrassa School of Optics and Optometry
(FOOT) *

Interdisciplinary Higher Education Centre Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...

(CFIS)
Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre
(CITM) Affiliated Schools *

(IBEI)
Euncet University Business School
(EUNCET)
EAE University Business School
(EAE)

UPC UNESCO Chairs

* Càtedra UNESCO de Direcció Universitària (CUDU) –

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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. * BSC –

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* 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 Autonomous Living * 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 * MCIA – Center Innovation Electronics. Motion Control and Industrial Applications * PERC-UPC – Power Electronics Research Centre * TALP – * TIEG – Terrassa Industrial Electronics Group

Science Fiction Award

From 1991–2010, the Board of Trustees at the 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 (Yoss), ''Super extra grande'' * 2012: Miguel Santander, ''La epopeya de los amantes'' * 2014: Roberto Sanhueza, ''El año del gato''

Notes and references

External links

Official website
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