Pete Seeger’s planned concert at the ETSEIB is one of the most remembered episodes of student activism during the late Franco regime. The American folk singer, known for his commitment to the spanish republican cause and his opposition to the Vietnam War, was to give a recital in the parking lot of the School on…
During 175 years of uninterrupted activity, the ETSEIB has established itself as a benchmark in the training of industrial engineers in Catalonia. Since its foundation in 1851, the school has accompanied the great economic and technological transformations of the country, adapting its curricula to each era without ever interrupting its teaching work, not even at…
Since its foundation in 1851 as the Escuela Industrial Barcelonesa (Barcelona Industrial School), the school has changed its name several times: Escuela Profesional Industrial de Barcelona (Professional Industrial School of Barcelona) (1855), Escuela Superior Industrial de Barcelona (Superior Industrial School of Barcelona) (1859) and, around 1865-1866, Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Barcelona (School of Industrial…
The Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929 was the showcase of a city that presented itself to the world as an exponent of modernity, at a time of great urban and technological transformation of the Catalan capital. Industrial engineers linked to the School actively participated in the assembly and in the technical projects that guaranteed the…
The Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1888, inaugurated on 20 May with Queen Maria Cristina, was a major milestone in the history of the city. Barcelona, the great industrial capital of Spain, had a well-connected port, a powerful cotton textile industry and, above all, the technical support of the School of Industrial Engineers: its engineers…
In February 1923, Albert Einstein visited Catalonia at the invitation of a group of Catalan scientists led by the industrial engineer Esteve Terrades i Illa. Einstein gave lectures at the Institute of Catalan Studies and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, and his visit aroused an overflowing enthusiasm among the city’s engineers, architects and…