Civil Engineering Technologies
Bachelor's Degree
New social, environmental and economic models and scenarios pose significant challenges that make it necessary to adapt current structures and systems such as mobility management, transport and logistics systems, large infrastructure management, water supply, energy sources, waste reduction and environmental protection.
The world is changing and it needs professionals who are able to provide innovative and creative solutions from a global perspective using the knowledge of the twenty-first century.
Civil engineering is an essential part of this development towards the societies of the future. It contributes to the improvement of people's quality of life, environmental protection and economic growth.
This degree is taught exclusively in English.
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| Academic year starts | September |
| Duration | 4 years |
| Study load | 240 ECTS (including the bachelor's thesis) |
| Delivery | On-campus |
| Language | English |
| Places | There are no places available as this is a degree in extinction |
| Official degree | Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering Technologies by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya recorded in the Spanish Ministry of Education's degree register) |
Since the 2020-2021 academic year the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering (2010 program) is in extinction and will not accept new applicants. Students currently enrolled in this program will have two choices:
- To proceed with their current program (see the extinction time table)
- To adapt to the 2020 program of the new Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering (see the course adaptation table)
Career opportunities
- This degree is the first part of the training that you will take to become a Civil Engineer, after completing your Master's Degree in Civil Engineering.
- As a graduate you can join project engineering companies, consulting firms, construction companies, R&D departments, and also work in the financial and service sectors.
Learning objectives
- With a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering Technologies you will receive solid training in both sciences and engineering tools and technologies, which will allow you to face assuredly the Master's Degree in Civil Engineering.
- In the last year of the degree you will be able to choose the optional subjects that best meet your interests and acquire knowledge in topics as current and sought after by companies such as big data, smart-cities, modelling or entrepreneurship.
2022-2023 Academic year
Optional courses
Fall semester
- Risk assessment for natural hazards
- Instrumentation & remote sensing
- Machine learning & data science
- Programming for science & engineering
- Sustainability, social & environmental impact
Spring semester
- Software tools for civil engineering
- Urban mobility & decision support
- Digital twins & augmented reality
- Entrepreneurship & innovation
Students enrolled at UPC for the Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering can access the following information:
The Bachelor's Thesis is an original exercise to be done individually and presented and defended before a university panel consisting in a project in the sphere of the specific civil engineering technologies synthesising and integrating the competences acquired on the course.
List of bachelor's thesis currently scheduled for public presentation:
As this is a new program there is not any information available for the moment.
Related links
Institutional information
- Data on the degree (in Catalan)
- Data on the faculty
- System of Guarantee of Degree Quality
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