Instituto Superior Técnico

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Instituto Superior Técnico

Established:	1911
Type:	Public school
President:	Carlos Matos Ferreira
Faculty:	over 700
Undergraduates:	about 8600
Postgraduates:	about 1500
Location:	Lisbon and Oeiras, Portugal
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, 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 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 2007).^[1]

1 History
2 Affiliations
3 Locations
4 Notable alumni
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] 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 converted to a higher education school of engineering opened between 1896 and 1910, which led to the creation of IST in the following year.

[edit] 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 santos.victor@ist.utl.pt

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. See Cluster

[edit] Locations

IST has two campi:

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

[edit] Notable alumni

Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo, first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, chemical-industrial engineer (1953)
Alberto Romão Dias, former State Secretary for Higher Education, chemical-industrial engineer (1964)
Mariano Gago, Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, physics (1960)
António Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal; president of the Socialist International and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, electrical engineering (1971)
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)
Duarte Pacheco, former minister, former president of IST, electrical engineering (1923)