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5 unusual facts about Polytechnic University of Catalonia


Benedetta Tagliabue

Presently Benedetta Tagliabue teaches at the University of Architecture ETSAB (Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona) in Barcelona and lectures regularly in architectural forums.

Galactic Suite Design

The team also includes the Centre of Aerospace Technology in Barcelona (CTAE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) or the international engineering advisory firm Altran.

Raimon Carrasco

He was also president of the Foundation Enciclopèdia Catalan from 2002 to 2006 and member of the Foundation of the UPC.

Space Camp Spain

It was the university A3E Association of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia that initiated the idea of a summer camp with this particular approach of role playing the kids as astronauts; making them realize what they need to survive in such hard environment called Space.

TSS – Transport Simulation Systems

TSS originated in 1986 as LIOS, a research group at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) headed by Professor Jaume Barceló.


Graphene antenna

A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory (led by Ian F. Akyildiz) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (principal investigators Albert Cabellos and Eduard Alarcón) developed a method to create an antenna that would be shaped into graphene strips from 10 to 100 nanometers wide and one micrometer long.


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