Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Catalan) is a Spanish public university of the Generalitat of Catalonia's primary objectives are the study, teaching, research and technology transfer.

History:

The first history of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) is at the foundation in 1968, the Polytechnic Institute, which brought together the existing state technical schools in Barcelona. These schools had a long history and its origins can be traced, in some cases, the mid-nineteenth century, for example, the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona, which began activities in October 1851. Victor Good, president of the Polytechnic Institute, was the first rector of the Polytechnic University.
In March 1971, is the Polytechnic University of Barcelona (UPB), which is initially formed by the technical colleges of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB) and Terrassa (ETSEIAT), School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB ) and some research institutes. The same year 1971 he created the School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB).
Shortly before the August 4, 1970, had approved the General Education Act and funding of educational reform. This Act covered the entire educational system from basic education to university education, and stated that the universities would have determined autonomy and control procedures and verification of knowledge, the education system and the system of teaching and research. The universities also assume the management and administration of their schools and their services. Moreover, the Act also provides for the incorporation into the university structure of the colleges of Engineering and Technical Architecture.
So in 1972, joining the University of Barcelona University School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa (EUETIT) and Vilanova i la Geltrú (current EPSEVG), the Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (now EPSEB) and School of Mining Engineering of Manresa (EUPM current). Earlier this year the activities begin in the schools of Agricultural Engineering of Gerona and Lerida, which had been created by official, but had not finished starting.
In 1972 he was appointed rector of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona Professor Ferraté Gabriel Pascual, who served until 1976, when he was appointed director general of Universities in Madrid. Is elected to replace Professor Julia Fernández Ferrer, who was rector until 1978. After elections, the same year was elected again Ferraté Gabriel, who served as rector of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona and then the Polytechnic University of Catalonia until 1994, when leaving the office building the new Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and be its first rector. In 1994 he was elected rector i Jaume Pagès Fita, who served until 2002, the year in which elections were held and in which he was elected a new president, Josep Ferrer Llop. In 2006 new elections were held, by accessing the Rector Professor Antoni Giro Roca.
During this time, the supply teacher at the University has not stopped growing. 1972, Manresa School starts giving studies of Industrial Engineering and changed its name to Technical College of Manresa (EUPM), somewhat later, the School of Agricultural Engineering of Gerona also becomes a polytechnic college and Lérida, begin to be taught in addition to undergraduate studies, undergraduate courses. The year 1974 began activities in the School of Civil Engineers, Canales y Puertos de Barcelona (ETSECCPB). Two years later, in March 1976, establishing the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB). In Terrassa establishing the College of Optics (EUOOT) from a Ministerial Order of 7 October 1977 and two years later, in the Commonwealth of Sabadell-Terrassa starts School of Architecture of Vallès (ETSAV), later, in 1991, he moved to the town of Sant Cugat del Vallès.