Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
ISEP is a Higher School of Engineering with its roots in the last century. Founded in 1852, as the Industrial School of Porto, it was one of the two schools which integrated the first public structure of industrial schools in Portugal. Since 1989, ISEP has been integrated in the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), public institution of higher education.
Throughout the year, ISEP became one of the biggest and top engineering schools in Portugal.
The mission of the Institution is to take part of the development, social well being, technical and scientific national excellence, by promoting a solid formation to engineers, enabling them to become engines of progress, innovation and social and cultural agents.
Nowadays, ISEP is located in a campus with 50 000m2 is organized within a structure that has 7 departments and several student facilities: library, restaurant, canteen, bar, medical and counseling services, health club, travel agency and a congress center. Attended by 5700 students, ISEP offers nine first cycle engineering degrees (180 ECTS): civil engineering, mechanical engineering, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, computer science engineering, electrical and computing engineering, power systems engineering, chemical engineering, instrumentation and metrology engineering, computing and medical instrumentation engineering, some pos graduate studies and five master degrees in the same field of knowledge.
In what concerns I&D, ISEP has 10 research groups - CIDEM: Research and Development Centre of Mechanical Engineering, CIETI: Innovation Centre in Engineering and Industrial Technology, CISTER: Investigation Centre in Reliable and Real-time Systems, GECAD: Investigation Group in Knowledge Engineering and Support to Decision, GICEC: Investigation Group and Consulting and Innovation in Civil Engineering, GILT: Graphics, Interaction & Learning Technologies, GRAQ-CEQUP-REQUIMTE: Chemical Reaction and Analysis Group, LSA: Autonomous Systems Laboratory, SIPROM-CIGAR: Modulation and Multiphase Processes Simulation Group and CMUP/LEMA: Mathematics Engineering Laboratory.
Over the last fifteen years the IPP has been implementing the Internationalisation process and albeit some structural constraints we may conclude that a lot has been achieved, mainly:
- Progressively embracing an internationalisation culture;
- The increasing number of students and teachers involved in mobility programmes:
- Participation in various actions within the Socrates programme and others: Leonardo da Vinci, ALFA, Tempus and Asia ITC;
- Almost two hundred active partnerships with HEIs.
