25th Anniversary of Chemical Engineering at the US Engineering School

The Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville has celebrated the Inaugural Ceremony of the program of activities that will commemorate the 25 Years of the beginning of the teaching of the Degree in Chemical Engineering (IQ) at the University of Seville.  

The event, which was attended by more than 200 attendees, was chaired by the Director of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, Andrés Sáez Pérez, and was attended by Nieves Valenzuela Romero, General Director of Development of Innovation of the Junta de Andalucía, and graduated from the II Promotion of the IQ qualification of the ETSi. Likewise, the coordinators of the Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mónica Rodríguez Galán and Ángel Villanueva Perales, as well as the President of the Alumni Association, Francisco Campos García, participated.   

With this event, the ETSi begins the celebration of the events on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Teaching of the Degree in Chemical Engineering that will take place throughout the entire academic year 23/24, scheduling among other activities meetings of colleagues from different promotions , as well as teaching staff, talks and technical conferences in the field of IQ, a sectoral hall in which “student-company” synergies will be developed, V Environment Day within the framework of World Environment Day (June 5, 2024) under the title: “Chemical Engineering and Sustainability”, as well as the celebration of the VII Congress of Teaching Innovation in Chemical Engineering (CIDIQ) that will be held between September 23 and 25, 2024 and will serve as a closing to the 25th Anniversary. 

25 years of history and professionals  

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) was created in December 1963, by Decree Law 3608/63 under the sponsorship of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In July 1965, the first visit of experts from said organization to Seville took place to discuss the new curriculum to be taught at the School. The teaching activities of the Industrial Engineering degree began a year later, in September 1966, officially inaugurated in April 1967.  

The Chemical Engineering degree (Plan 98) was implemented at the ETSi in the 1998-1999 academic year, graduating around 600 students over 11 classes. The adaptation of university teaching to the European Higher Education Area means that the title of Chemical Engineer is transformed into Bachelor's and Master's Studies in Chemical Engineering, which at the ETSI are implemented in the 2010-11 and 2014-15 academic years, respectively. Since then, 10 undergraduate and 8 master's classes have been formed, with a total of 386 graduates.   

Currently, the graduate and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering have the collaboration of 4 Business Chairs: CEPSA Energy Foundation Chair, Waste Management Chair in the Circular Economy (Aborgase), Inerco Chair, Water Chair (Emasesa) in addition to the agreement with Flacema. 

The wide versatility of the training of the graduates of the ETSi Chemical Engineering degree makes them a professional profile widely in demand by the industry both nationally and internationally, as demonstrated by the wide variety of companies that have in their staff with these professionals: Ayesa, CEPSA, REPSOL, Atlantic Copper or P&G are some of them.