The Higher Technical School of Engineering is located at Isla de la Cartuja, in the former pavilion of America during the Universal Exposition of Seville Expo'92.

It is located opposite the Olympic Stadium and next to Isla Magica theme park, about 30 minutes walk away the city center crossing over La Barqueta bridge.

Bus lines C1 and C2 . These buses stop in Santa Justa train station, final stop of the high-speed train (AVE) from Córdoba, Madrid and Málaga. It is located 16 minutes walk away from San Pablo airport.

All access roads lead to the close ring road SE-30, crossing over Alamillo bridge.

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) was established in December 1963 according to the Spanish Royal Decree 3608/63 and sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Experts from the OECD first visit Seville in July 1965 in order to agreed the curriculum of the School. The OECD curriculum was approved in July 1967.

The construction of the building started in August 1965. One year later, September 1966, academic activities began in the pavilion L-1.The School was officially open in April 1967. The first Director of the School was Mr José María Jiménez de Amores.

In March 1972 graduates the first class of the School made up of 30 graduates from the Electrical (17), Mechanics (7) and Chemical (6) specialities. The following year, Mr Javier Aracil Santonja got the first tenure of the School.

The curriculum (OECD) is declared extinguished on 1976 when the curriculum from 1964, valid in the rest of schools of the country, is assumed.

At that time it was possible to study the Industrial Engineering Degree in the specialities of Electrical, Mechanics, Organisation and Chemistry and PhD in Industrial Engineering. Over the year 91/92 the School begins to offer new studies: Telecommunications Engineering. Over the year 94/95 the advanced course of this degree in the specialities of Process Control, Electronics, Signals and Radiocommunications and Telematics is offered.

On the 26^th October 1993 (by the Decree 157/1993 of the 5^th October 1993, the catalog of official degrees in the andalusian universities is approved, BOJA [Official Bulletin of the Andalusian Government] 26^th October) the degrees Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering, which were already offered, are assigned to the School as well as the new degrees Chemical Engineering, Industrial Electronics and Automatic Engineering, Industrial Organisation Engineering and Electronic Engineering. Finally, in 2001, the degree of Aeronautical Engineering is offered in the School.

The School also offers 5 undergraduate degrees (Industrial Technology Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering Technology, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and the new Civil Engineering), which are complemented with their corresponding masters, 3 undergraduate degrees belonging to the “International Campus of Excellence Andalucia Tech” (Energy Engineering, Electronics, Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering and Industrial Organisation Engineering) and 7 masters (Master of Electronics, Communications and Signal Processing, Master of Electrical Energy Systems, Master of Automatic Control, Robotics and Telematics, Master of Advance Mechanical Engineering Design, Master of Industrial Organisation and Business Management, Master of Environmental Engineering and Master of Thermal Energy Systems).

The School has matured over its 29 years of life. Over 1900 well-trained graduates left their classrooms, many of them now PhDs, Professors, etc. The School has set up relations and collaborations with many other domestic and foreign universities in order to help both professors and students. Nowadays many students attend their courses in renowned international centres in the frame of the international exchange programmes.

Our School has nowadays almost 6000 students, 400 professors and an annual number of graduates of over 400 engineers.

The contact with the industrial sector, first through the Laboratory of Industrial Research and Tests and then through the Andalusian Association for Industrial Research and Cooperation (AICIA) has been a constant and productive target that duly helps to train the students and the industrial development of the region.

MISSION

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI), University of Seville, is a university centre whose aim is studying, teaching and researching in the field of Engineering as well as creating, developing and spreading the knowledge at the service of society. The School always acts under strict quality and social responsibility criteria focusing on the region of Andalusia

The aim of the School is to train Bachelors of Engineering, Master of Engineering graduates and also PhDs of Engineering in order to satisfy the needs of the increasingly globalised and changing industrial sector. The School also recognise the importance of applying the result of research to the constant improvement of the teaching staff and the excellent training of its graduates.

VISION ABOUT THE FUTURE

The vision of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville is to consolidate as an international reference centre for the training of Engineering as a result of its high level of excellence in researching and teaching as well as its significant contribution on the society development on the basis of the application of the result of research.

VALUES

Higher Technical School of Engineering is inspired by the same principles that inspire the University of Seville as a public institution whose aim is to serve society: equality, freedom, justice, solidarity and pluralism.

The aforementioned principles are underpinned by the following values, which lead the activity of the University of Seville and that the School assumes as part of it:

• Innovation and creativity as the driving force for progress.
• Transparency and adequacy of the information.
• Development of partnerships.
• Leadership and involvement of managers.
• Social responsibility.
• Student-orientation.

In addition, the School assumes as own values the aim of constant improvement, professionalism, the pursuit of excellence in every performance and efficiency in the use of resources.