Instituto Superior Técnico
| Instituto Superior Técnico | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1911 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Lisbon , Portugal |
| Presidente | Rogério Anacleto Cordeiro Colaço |
| Students | 10,894 (2012) |
| Employee | 1,402 (2012) |
| including professors | 927 |
| Networks | CLUSTER , EIT-KIC InnoEnergy, TIME , CESAER , MAGALHÃES, ATHENS , EASN |
| Website | tecnico.ulisboa.pt |
The Instituto Superior Técnico (German: Technical University, abbreviated IST) is an engineering university in Portugal . Organizationally, the IST belongs to the University of Lisbon .
history
It was founded in 1911 as a result of the splitting up of the former Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa (German: Industrial and Business School of Lisbon) into different departments. Alfredo Bensaúde , who had already promoted reforms based on the German model at the previous university as a lecturer as early as 1892, became the first director (1911–1922) and introduced both modern teaching methods and the various disciplines: mining, construction, mechanics, electrical engineering, industry -Chemistry. Under director Duarte Pacheco (1927–1932), who was also Minister of Construction at the same time, the current Alameda campus in Lisbon was laid out on a hill as a prestige project of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar . At the same time, the incorporation of the IST as a faculty of the Technical University of Lisbon was completed.
Between 1952 and 1972, twelve study centers were created in Portugal, three of which were located within the IST (chemistry, mineralogy and geology, later electronics). The research was increasingly driven forward, especially in the building of the interdisciplinary complex, in which various autonomous research units were housed. In the course of the increased requirements and possibilities of the IST, the Taguspark campus of the IST was created in Oeiras in 2001 , also to enable proximity to industry, of which a number of companies maintain facilities in the Taguspark technology park. In February 2012, the IST was the third Campus Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear in the area Bobadela / Sacavém in county Loures opened. The only nuclear reactor in nuclear-free Portugal is now there, exclusively for research purposes .
Since the 2006/07 apprenticeship year, the IST has finally joined the Bologna Process .
The IST is considered the largest and most renowned engineering university in Portugal and has also gained increasing international importance. According to their own information, 61% of students get a job before graduation and 92% of students get a job within six months of graduation. A number of well-known personalities from politics and business in Portugal have graduated from IST, including the former Prime Ministers Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (1930–2004) and António Guterres (* 1949).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Instituto Superior Técnico: Conselho de Gestão - Composição. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Harald Bodenschatz / Max Welch Guerra (ed.): Urban development under Salazar. Dictatorial modernization of the Portuguese empire 1926–1960. Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86922-528-9
- ^ A building and its history: Lisbon Technical University
- ↑ www.ist.utl.pt , accessed on September 1, 2012
- ↑ www.attractproject.org , accessed September 1, 2012
- ↑ www.academic.research.microsoft.com ( Memento of May 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2012
- ↑ www.ist.utl.pt , accessed on September 1, 2012
Coordinates: 38 ° 44 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 24 ″ W.