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Instituto Superior Técnico

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Instituto Superior Técnico
File:IST Logo.png
TypePublic school
Established1911
PresidentAntónio Manuel da Cruz Serra
Academic staff
1,029 [1]
Students9,900 (2008/2009) [1]
Undergraduates8,968 [1]
Postgraduates932 [1]
Location
Lisbon and Oeiras
,
Portugal
CampusUrban
ColoursBlue and White   
NicknameTécnico
Websitehttp://www.ist.utl.pt
North Tower of Instituto Superior Técnico

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the largest and most prestigious Portuguese of engineering school and is part of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon). It is a public school with large scientific and financial autonomy, founded in 1911.

IST, since its foundation, has been the largest and the most reputed school of engineering, science and technology in Portugal, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It develops strong research and development activities in accordance with the highest international standards. It has two campi, both located in the Greater Lisbon area (Alameda in Lisbon and Taguspark in Oeiras), and consists of ten Departments and one Autonomous Section that are responsible for teaching the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Each Department is organised in sections, which group together specific subjects within its scientific area. In addition, the laboratories of the several Departments are an important source of support to the teaching and research activities carried out at IST.

Today, IST offers 21 undergraduate programmes attended by more than 8,500 students, covering a wide range of areas of knowledge, including not only all the traditional engineering specializations, but also other modern areas such as Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace and Physics Engineering.

Postgraduate training is also very important with over 1,500 students enrolled in 28 master's, 21 doctoral and several specialized programmes. Its highly-qualified faculty includes 670 Ph.D. holders.

IST benefits from an IBM supercomputer built in 2007, which is one of the most powerful in Portugal (1.6 TFLOPS as of 2007).[2]

History

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) was created in 1911 from the division of the Industrial and Commercial Institute of Lisbon. Alfredo Bensaúde, an engineer, was IST's first dean (1911–1922) and promoted a wide-rang reform in the Portuguese higher technical education, including the first engineering courses at IST: mining, civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical-industrial. IST's second dean was Duarte Pacheco (1927–1932), also an engineer, who was responsible for the construction of the university campus at Alameda. The architect Porfírio Pardal Monteiro designed it. Meanwhile IST became part of the recently created Technical University of Lisbon. Throughout the following decade, the image of engineers from IST was projected into major engineering works, promoted by Duarte Pacheco, who was by the time Minister of Public Works.

Between 1952 and 1972, 12 study centres were established in Portugal, three of them at IST, in the fields of chemistry, geology and mineralogy, and electronics. These centres were responsible for promoting faculty training and scientific qualification through doctoral studies in universities and research centres abroad. In 1970, the minimum period for obtaining a bachelor degree decreased from six to five years, and IST denoted a remarkable increase of the number of students. During this period, scientific research at IST increased significantly, through the creation of the Complexo Interdisciplinar which fasten together various autonomous research units, and contributes to transform IST in a reference school at European level[according to whom?].

In the 1990s, new courses were created in cutting-edge engineering areas, including master and doctoral programmes. In 2001, IST inaugurated a new campus in Oeiras, located in a science and technology park, the TagusPark, which involves more than 120 technology-based companies. In the academic year of 2006-2007, the Declaration of Bologna was successfully implemented for all IST programmes, aiming the establishment of a European Education Area to make Europe a competitive knowledge-based economy.

Today's IST is generally recognised as Portugal's leading engineering school. IST is involved with some of Portugal's most prestigious R&D&I and technology transfer institutions. A vast number of courses in cutting-edge engineering areas, at undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, are nowadays offered at IST. IST is also actively involved in several networks and international programmes to promote student mobility, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Through a large number of agreements with other institutions worldwide, IST participates in more than 20 Dual Master programmes, and joint PhD programmes with MIT, CMU, UT-Austin and EPFL.

Affiliations

  • Instituto Superior Técnico is a member of TIME association (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) for researchers and student exchanges and double-degree in Europe. T.I.M.E. Coordinator is Prof. José Santos-Victor.
  • It also belongs to CLUSTER (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research), which is a network of leading[according to whom?] European Universities of Technology; their fundamental missions are advanced research and higher education of engineers, scientists and architects. See Cluster

Locations

IST has two campi:

Notable alumni

co-founder (1997) and CEO of Chipidea Microelectrónica.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d http://www.ist.utl.pt/pt/sobre-IST/factos-numeros/
  2. ^ Template:Pt icon IST e IBM lançam projecto de computação de alto desempenho, in Diário Digital (17th April 2007)
  3. ^ Template:Pt icon Biografia do Eng.º Júlio Ferry Borges, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil

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