Management Team
Director, Deputy Director and Secretary
The Director, appointed by the Rector of the University on the proposal of the School Board, represents the School and is responsible for its direction and management, with the assistance of the management team. Article 75 sets out all the Director's duties. The Director of the ETSE is Dr. Àngel Cid Pastor.
The Deputy Director performs the duties assigned by the Director and, in the event of the Director's absence, incapacity or vacancy, temporarily assumes the Director's duties. The Deputy Director of the ETSE is Dr. Antoni Martínez Ballesté.
The Secretary is responsible for drafting and safeguarding the minutes of the Centre Board, issuing certificates of the resolutions adopted, and issuing the certificates required for administrative management. The Director of the ETSE is Dr. Aïda Valls Mateu.
Degree Programme Coordinators
Under the direction of the director of the centre to which the programme is assigned, they are responsible for academic planning, coordinating the human and material resources required to deliver one or more related programmes, monitoring quality and improvement plans for these programmes, and submitting the corresponding proposals.
Master's Programme Coordinators
In coordination with the management team, they are responsible for academic planning and for coordinating the human and material resources required to deliver one or more master's programmes.
School Council
Specific functions
The School Council is the collegiate governing body of the School of Engineering. It is a statutory body whose functions include the following:
- Electing the Dean or Director and approving their removal from office.
- Approving the School's general lines of action.
- Approving the annual activity report.
- Drafting the School's regulations and proposing amendments to them.
- Drawing up the curricula for the programmes assigned to the School, proposing their approval and, where appropriate, their amendment.
- Supervising the operation of the programmes assigned to the School and the activities of the teaching staff involved in them.
- Ensuring students' academic progress and learning so that they achieve the educational objectives defined in the corresponding curriculum.
- Approving and implementing tutoring and student monitoring programmes for the programmes assigned to the School.
- Ensuring the quality of teaching, services and student support.
- Proposing postgraduate programmes.
- Planning the use of financial resources, establishing general guidelines for their administration, and being periodically informed of implementation decisions adopted by the Dean or Director.
- Allocating material resources to departments that teach on any of the programmes assigned to the School, in accordance with academic planning and the coordination provided for in Article 78.1.
- Reporting on departmental proposals concerning the teaching staff who will teach on programmes assigned to the School through the coordination provided for in Article 78.1.
- Reporting on staffing requirements in accordance with teaching activity plans and departmental proposals concerning the creation of new teaching positions and the allocation of vacancies.
- Establishing delegated committees and other advisory bodies and determining their composition.
- Proposing the full and alternate members who are to sit on teaching staff recruitment committees in accordance with Article 177 of these Statutes.
- Approving the affiliation of teaching staff to the School.
- Performing all other functions assigned to it by the Statutes and the regulations implementing them.
Members
Article 5 of the ETSE Regulations establishes the following:
- The School Council consists of 50 members.
- The School Council is composed of the following persons:
- The Director of the School, the Deputy Director, the programme coordinators and the Secretary.
- The heads of departments responsible for teaching equivalent to at least one third of the total teaching load of any of the programmes assigned to the School of Engineering.
- A representation of 31 members of the teaching and research staff affiliated with the School, including the ex officio members referred to in sections a) and b), elected by and from among this group. This representation consists of 26 permanent teaching staff members and 5 non-permanent teaching staff members. If there are not enough candidates among the non-permanent teaching staff, the vacant positions may be filled by candidates from the permanent teaching staff elected by and from among this group.
- A representation of 13 students, with 1 representative for each programme assigned to the School, and the remaining representatives required to reach the total allocated at a rate of one additional representative per programme according to the highest number of enrolled students, elected by and from among this group. In the case of programmes being phased out, students on these programmes will be grouped with students on the corresponding new related programmes.
- A representation of 6 members of the administrative and services staff assigned to the School, elected by and from among this group.
Eligible members of the School Council are renewed every four years, except for students, whose representatives are renewed every two years, without prejudice to the possibility of holding additional partial elections to fill vacancies.
Committees
Credit Recognition and Adaptation Committee
The Centre Board approved the establishment of this committee, comprising the programme coordinators. Its function is to review applications for credit recognition and make appropriate recommendations to the Director of the school, who is responsible for making the final decision.
Electoral Committee
The Centre Electoral Committee is responsible for organising and overseeing electoral processes affecting the centre and the departments whose management is based there, and for officially announcing their results: the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics and the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Control Engineering. This committee is governed by Article 14 of the URV Electoral Regulations and is composed as follows: the Director or the Deputy Director to whom the Director delegates this responsibility, the Secretary of the centre, one representative of the teaching staff, one student representative and one representative of the administrative and services staff (PAS), appointed by the Centre Board.
Quality and Strategic Planning Committee
The Quality and Strategic Planning Committee consists of the ETSE management team, degree and master's programme coordinators, together with the management support officer and the teaching quality officer, the Director of the DEEEA, the Director of the DEIM, the Equality Officer, the centre's Communications Officer, the PAT Coordinator, the External Internships Coordinator, the International Relations and Mobility Coordinator, the Secondary Education Relations and Recruitment Coordinator, and two students.
This Committee is responsible for promoting the implementation of the SGIQ at the centre and establishing improvement teams to address the results of the reviews and evaluations carried out. It also determines who participates in SGIQ planning and monitoring tasks and acts as one of the internal communication channels for the system's policies, objectives, plans, programmes, responsibilities and achievements. With regard to strategic planning, this committee is responsible for designing the actions and indicators of the strategic plan, monitoring actions and evaluating the results achieved.
ETSE Equality Council
The ETSE Equality Council was established on 22 January 2025, promoted by the URV Equality Unit.
The functions of the Equality Council are as follows: to disseminate information on issues related to gender equality; to convey to the centre's Equality Officer the needs, concerns, issues and/or complaints of the respective groups; to propose actions aimed at promoting gender equality; and to advise the centre's Equality Officer on matters for which support may be requested.
Its composition is as follows: the Equality Officer (Chair), 1 PDI member from the DEEEA, appointed by the Director of the DEEEA; 1 PDI member from the DEIM, appointed by the Director of the DEIM; 1 PTGAS member from the ETSE; 1 PTGAS member from one of the departments affiliated with the ETSE; and 2 students (one of whom will be a member of the ETSE's Existim association, and another who is a member of one of the centre's associations or is a student representative at the ETSE).
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is the centre's single advisory body for all degree programmes. It is made up of individuals or legal entities external to the University and linked to the fields of study taught at the School. Its main task is to work on adapting curricula and ensuring alignment with the skills that the labour market requires from graduates.
The School aims to involve prominent individuals from all fields related to its degree programmes in this council so that they can contribute their experience and knowledge of the labour market.
The Council currently includes Carles Rovira from the Tarragona Association of Service Companies, David Isern from T-Systems, Daniel Reseco from Elix Polymers, David Gámez from Lear, Emili Anglès from Kellogg, Eva Martí Pi from the Ascó Vandellós II Nuclear Association, Sergi Novo from the Clú