Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia
School of Engineering

Government body and consultants

Management Team

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Academic coordinator

The head of the program works under the direction of the dean of the school/faculty in which the course is taught and is in charge of academic programming, coordinating the materials and human resources needed to deliver related courses, monitoring the quality and the improvement plans of these courses, and formulating the corresponding proposals. The number of heads of the programs in the ETSE is five, this number being set by the Governing Council for each school or faculty.

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Academic coordinator

In addition to these statutory bodies, the centre has a series of Masters' coordinators. These individuals work in conjunction with the management team and are responsible for academic programming, coordinating the material and human resources needed to deliver one or more Masters' programmes. The ETSE Masters' coordinators are:

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School Council

Specific functions

The School Council is the governing body of the School of Engineering. It is a statutory body and has, among others, the following specific functions:

Members

The regulation of ETSI, in its Article 5 states:

  1. The School Council consists of 50 members.
  2. The School Council is comprised of the following:
    • a) The director of the center, the assistant director, in charge of education and secretary.
    • b) The heads of department who are responsible for a teaching equivalent to at least a third of the total burden of some of the teachings ascribed to the ETSE.
    • c) Representatives of 31 members of the teaching and research linked to the center, including ex officio members provided in paragraphs a) and b), elected by this group and between this. This representation includes:
      - 26 faculty members with permanent links;
      - 5 faculty members with no permanent ties
    • d) In the case of not having enough candidates among teachers with no permanent ties vacancies may be filled by candidates of teachers permanently linked doctor by this group and between it.
    • e) Representatives of 13 students at a rate of one for each of the teachings ascribed to the center, and the rest to complete the total at the rate of one for each additional education according to the largest number of students enrolled chosen by this group and between them. In the case of endangered lessons, students will be grouped with these new teachings related subjects.
    • f) A representative of six members of the administrative and services staff at the center, elected by this group and between this.
  3. Eligible members of the School Council are renewed every four years, except for students, who are each two, notwithstanding the possibility of other elections to fill vacancies.
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Committees

Validations and Adaptations Committee

The School Council approved its constitution by the heads of the program. Its function is to review applications for recognition and to make the necessary recommendations to the director of the School, who makes any final decisions.

School's Electoral Committee

The School's Electoral Committee is in charge of organizing, controlling and publishing the results of the electoral processes that affect the School and the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics and the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering. The committee is regulated by article 14 of the Electoral Regulations of the URV. Its composition is as follows: the director or designated assistant director, the secretary of the School, and a representative each of the teaching staff, students and administrative and services staff, all designated by the School Council.

Quality and Strategic Planning Committee

The Quality and Strategic Planning Committee is made up of the School's management team, degree and master coordinators, the management support officer and the teaching quality officer, the directors from both the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering and the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, head of equality, head of center communication, PAT coordinator, external internship coordinator, international relations and mobility coordinator, secondary school relations and recruitment coordinator, and two students. The committee is responsible for promoting the implementation of the School's Quality Management System and the creation of teams to handle the results of any reviews and assessments carried out. It also establishes who will participate in the planning and monitoring of the Quality Management System, and also acts as one of the internal means for communicating the system's policies, objectives, plans, programmes, responsibilities and achievements. The commission is responsible for designing the actions and indicators of the strategic plan, monitoring the actions taken and evaluating the results obtained.

ETSE Equality Council

On 22th January 2025, the ETSE Equality Council was constituted, promoted by the URV's Equality Unit.

The functions of the ETSE Equality Council are the following: disseminate issues related to gender equality, Send the needs, concerns, concerns and/or complaints of the respective groups to the person responsible for Equality of the centre, propose actions that aim to promote gender equality, advise the person in charge of Equality of the centre on what support may be requested.

Its composition is as follows: the Equality Manager (president or president),1 PDI of the DEEEA, assigned by the director of DEEEA, 1 PDI of the DEIM, assigned by the director of the DEIM, 1 PTGAS of the ETSE, 1 PTGAS of one of the departments assigned to the ETSE, 2 students (one must be a member of the Existim association of the ETSE, and another has to be a member of the centre's associations or a delegate in the ETSE.

Consultant Bodies

Assessment Council

The Assessment Council is the School's consultant body only one for all the courses, and it is made up of physical and legal persons from outside the University and linked to the courses taught at the School. Its principal task is to work to bring the School's study plans and the students' abilities in line with those required by the labour market.

The School tries to ensure that this council is made of notable people from all the ambits related to its qualifications so that they can contribute their experience and knowledge of the world of work.

Currently, Council members are, Carles Rovira of the Associació d'Empreses de Serveis de Tarragona, Carlos Zaplana of T-Systems, Daniel Reseco of Roche, David Gámez of Lear, Emili Anglès of Kellogg, Eva Martí Pi of the Associació Nuclear Ascó Vandellós II, Sergi Novo of the Clúster TIC Catalunya Sud, Hugo Padilla of CISCO, Joan Enric Carreres of the Consell Social of the URV, José Manuel Barrios of IDIADA, Josep Boqué of Medtronic, Pere Marc Franquet of Essity, Robert Marqués of E-TICS, Susana Prado of Inetum Catalonia, León Benmayor of Free Power, Xavier Guardiola of King Activision Blizzard, Jordi Moragas of Quercus Technologies, Maria Mas of AEQT, Francesc Iniesta of Mahle Holding Spain, Jorge Ríos d'Etecnic, Hugo Lobón de Fluor Comporation, Sergi Calatayud de Viewnext, and Jorge Baños de Westinghouse Electric Company. On behalf of the School, the ETSE Management Team and degree and double degree coordinators.