BCNeMotorsport was founded in 2007 by 13 ETSEIB students as ETSEIB Motorsport, with their first car, the CAT01 marking the beginning of their participation in Formula Student, with combustion cars. Over the years, they have continued to grow and innovate, achieving national and international recognition. In 2011 they designed and built the first electric car…
The incorporation of 3D printing into the ETSEIB represents a qualitative leap in training and research in industrial engineering. Its applications range from teaching and prototyping to high-level competitions, such as the BCN Motorsport team, which manufactures parts for its Formula Student car with this technology. Also noteworthy is ARM2u, the biomedical engineering team that…
The Pegaso Z-210 is a prototype truck manufactured by the Spanish company ENASA in 1955, preserved today in the lobby of the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB). The vehicle was presented in September 1955 at the Paris Motor Show with an innovative proposal. The Z-210 was one of the first non-Italian European trucks to…
In 1950, in the midst of Francoism and autarky, the Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, S.A. (SEAT) was founded, with the aim of motorising Spain. Although the regime preferred to decentralize industry outside Catalonia, the factory was eventually set up in Barcelona. The decision was motivated by the availability in the city of well-trained…
On December 16, 1877, the School of Industrial Engineers of Barcelona hosted the first telephone communication in the Iberian Peninsula. The Dalmau family’s company had imported two Bell devices, patented the previous year by Alexander Graham Bell, and installed them in two rooms of the School to demonstrate how the new invention works. Ten days…
In 1864, the Ictíneo II, Narcís Monturiol’s second and most ambitious submarine, built in the port of Barcelona, was launched. The ship incorporated an unprecedented innovation in the history of navigation: a boiler-based submersible mechanical propulsion system that used a chemical mixture capable of generating heat without emitting CO₂, becoming the first mechanically propelled underwater…