UPC
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona
(UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, has 28,362 students, 2,604 lectures, 1,280 administrative and service staff. The annual budget is about 242,835,000 € and the income managed by the Technology Transfer Centre is 58.750.000 € yearly.
Every year about 700 UPC students go abroad for exchanges of four months in average.
UPC has 10 schools, one of them is “Escola Tecnica Superior d' Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona (ETSEIB)” founded in 1851. This school has 4.000 students and 300 lectures.
The UPC is an academic institution providing high level scientific education in nuclear disciplines. For instance at the degree level in ETSEIB is providing about 60 ECTS every year on purely nuclear engineering oriented, and has a Conceptual Simulator of Nuclear Power Plants (SIREP 1300). UPC has a PhD program on Nuclear Engineering.
The research activities related to nuclear engineering are developed in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering and in the Institute of Energy Technologies.
The education and research activities related to nuclear engineering at UPC are developed by: 2 professor, 9 lectures, 8 PhD researches, and 16 PhD students.
The research topics are: nuclear technology, nuclear safety, environmental impact,
ionizing radiation technology, radiation protection, nuclear fusion, nuclear instrumentation, particle accelerators, thermal-hydraulics, radioactive waste,
non destructive evaluation, radon, dosimetry.
Website: http://www-sen.upc.es
Contact Person at UPC for ENEN: Prof. Ph.D. Javier Dies Javier.Dies@upc.edu
Master program 2007-2008
Mandatory subjects: for Nuclear Engineering, Intensification, ETSEIB |
European Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering -ENEN |
Subject | ECTS | School hours | Level/semester | Coordinator | Number of students |
| Nuclear Engineering Fundamentals | 5 | 60 | 3 - Ql | X. Ortega | 40 |
| Nuclear fusion | 5 | 60 | ALE - Qll | J. Dies | 16 |
| Functioning and applications of particles accelerators | 5 | 60 | ALE - Qll | F. Calviño | 9 |
Master in Energy, Nuclear Specialty |
Subject | ECTS | School hours | Level/semester | Coordinator | Number of students |
Uses of radiations in the Health and Industry field | 5 | - | Q I | - | 3 |
| Nuclear Reactor physics | 2.5 | - | Q I | - | 4 |
| Accelerator physics and technology | 5 | - | Q I | - | 4 |
| Nuclera Fusion | 5 | - | Q I | - | 5 |
| Environmental impact of ionizing radiations | 5 | - | Q I | - | 3 |
| New technological developments of fission reactors | 2.5 | - | Q I | - | 5 |
| Nuclear Safety and Radioactive waste management | 5 | - | Q I | - | 5 |
| Nuclear Plant Thermal hydraulics | 5 | - | Q I | - | 5 |
Q I | From September to December / Evaluation on January / subject given every year |
| Q II | From February to May / Evaluation on June / subject given every year |
| ALE | Free choise |
PhD program in Nuclear Engineering
| Number of Students: 3 |
Ph D research topics: NUCLEAR SAFETY, PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESMENT
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, GENERATION II, III AND IV
NUCLEAR FUSION
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
IONIZING RADIATION TECHNOLOGY
RADIATION PROTECTION
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
THERMAL-HYDRAULICS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE
MEDICAL APLICATIONS
NUCELAR DATAS
DOSIMETRY
SYNCROTRON
RADIOCHEMESTRY
RADON
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUES.
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Update: 2007-october-30
