Welcome to Instituto Superior Técnico

 

IST´S MISSION

The IST, founded in 1911, is a prestigious school of engineering, science and technology located in Lisbon, Portugal, with about 8500 undergraduate and 1700 postgraduate students, and an academic staff of over 700 professors with a PhD.

An autonomous institute within the Technical University of Lisbon, IST is a research oriented school, settled in two campi, one in central Lisbon and another one in the Taguspark, a science and technology park in the Lisbon area, where more than 130 technology-based companies are settled. IST offers a variety of graduation, MSc and PhD programs, including not only the classical engineering and basic science fields but also a number of the emerging ones.

IST is organized in departments, research centres and institutes, all involved in teaching and research. External panels of experts periodically evaluate these activities. Research and services contribute to about half of the IST turnover.

IST cooperates worldwide with some of the best universities and R&D institutions, and is a member of various European networks of prestigious schools in Engineering, Science and Technology, such as CLUSTER, TIME, and CESAER, committed to provide technical education at the highest international standards.

TEACHING and RESEARCH

Under the Bologna Process changes introduced in IST for the 2006/2007 academic year, the five year degree courses have been reorganized into integrated five year Master’s degree courses or into two cycle programmes, conferring, respectively, a Bachelor degree and a Master’s degree (three + two years).

With regard to undergraduate teaching, IST offers 12 Master programmes and nine integrated Master’s courses. In terms of doctoral studies, the Technical University of Lisbon awards, through IST, doctorates (PhDs) in 20 scientific areas. Doctoral students represent around 6% of the total number of students at IST. A total of 453 PhDs diplomas were awarded between 2001 and 2005.

Study and Research Areas

Aerospace Engineering Applied Mathematics and Computation Architecture Biological Engineering Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Chemistry Civil Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Electronics Engineering

Environmental Engineering Industrial Engineering and Management Information and Communication Networks Engineering. Information Systems and Computer Engineering Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mining and Geological Engineering Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Physics Engineering Territorial Engineering

 

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Address

Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Phone: +351 218417332 Fax: +351 218470858
E-mail: cd@ist.utl.pt URL : www.ist.utl.pt