Instituto Superior Técnico

Infobox University
name =
native_name = Instituto Superior Técnico


established = 1911
type = Public school
president = Carlos Matos Ferreira
city = Lisbon and Oeiras
country = Portugal
undergrad = about 8600
postgrad = about 1500
faculty = over 700
campus = Urban
website = http://www.ist.utl.pt

The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is a Portuguese faculty of engineering and part of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon). It is a public institution of university higher education with great scientific and financial autonomy, founded in 1911.

The IST, since its foundation, has been the largest and one of the most reputed schools of engineering 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 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 8,600 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 degree programmes, 21 doctoral courses and various specialized courses. Its highly-qualified teaching staff includes 670 Ph.D. holders.

The IST benefits from an IBM supercomputer built in 2007, which is one of the most powerful in Portugal (1.6 TFLOPS as of 2007). [pt icon [http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/dinheiro_digital/news.asp?section_id=3&id_news=80041 "IST e IBM lançam projecto de computação de alto desempenho"] , in Diário Digital (17th April 2007)]

History

The Instituto Superior Técnico has its origins in the Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa, created in the second half of the 19th century (founded in 1852 as Instituto Industrial de Lisboa, renamed in 1869), an important school of vocational education upgraded into an higher education school of engineering opened between 1896 and 1910, which led to the creation of IST in the following year - 1911.

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 [e-mail]

* It also belong to CLUSTER (Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research), which is a network of leading European Universities of Technology; their fundamental missions are advanced research and higher education of engineers, scientists and architects. [http://www.cluster.org See Cluster]

Locations

IST has two "campi":

*the Alameda "campus", located in the heart of Lisbon
*the Taguspark "campus", located in Oeiras

Notable alumni

* Júlio Ferry Borges, former president of the Euro-International Concrete Committee, civil engineer (1945) [pt icon [http://www.lnec.pt/organizacao/de/nesde/biografiaferryborges Biografia do Eng.º Júlio Ferry Borges] , Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil]
* Alberto Romão Dias, former State Secretary for Higher Education, chemical-industrial engineer (1964)
* Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, electrical engineering (1960)
* António Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal; former president of the Socialist International and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, electrical engineering (1971)
* Duarte Pacheco, former minister, former president of IST, electrical engineering (1923)
* Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo, first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, chemical-industrial engineer (1953)
* José Sucena Paiva, former State Secretary for Science and Technology, cathedratic professor at the IST Energy Department, electrical engineering (1966)
* João Sentieiro, current president of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), full professor at IST, electrical engineering (1969)

References

ee also

*Technical University of Lisbon

External links

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt/en/?language=en Instituto Superior Técnico]
* [http://www.ist.utl.pt/en/htm/campus/tagus/index.shtml IST - Taguspark "campus"]
* [http://www.ist.utl.pt/en/htm/education/upto2006/ Undergraduate Programmes]
* [http://gri.ist.utl.pt/en/ International Office (GRI)]
* [http://gri.ist.utl.pt/files/docs/IST_triptico_pp.pdf "Study at IST"]
* [http://www.radiozero.pt/ Rádio Zero - Instituto Superior Técnico Radio]
* [http://diferencial.ist.utl.pt/ Diferencial - Instituto Superior Técnico Newspaper]
* [http://www.cinemaparaist.pt.to/ CinemaParaIST - Instituto Superior Técnico Film Club]
* [http://www.utl.pt/page.aspx?lang=en&idCat=1 Universidade Técnica de Lisboa]
* [http://www.projectofst.com Projecto FST - Instituto Superior Técnico Formula Student Team]