Greetings from the Head of the Department

I am pleased to welcome you to the UPC Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (DECA) website. It is designed to be a link to the outside, giving visibility to the teaching and research activities carried out within the department. The intention is for it to be an information (passive) and communication (active) tool for the members of the department, current or potential students, the international academic community, and society.

The department is very young, born in October 2015, and formed by 6 sections that gather the history of 6 departments (or departmental sections) that merged into a larger department - both in number of people, teaching and research activity.

At the moment, the department receives teaching assignments from twelve teaching centers and from a UPC institute, which indicates the versatility of the Teaching and Research Personnel that form it. A large percentage of this teaching activity is assigned by the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering. Consequently, the UPC-Camins-BarcelonaTech Federation was established in 2016, promoted by our department and the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering.
In addition, the Transversal Unit for the Management of the Field of Civil Engineering (UTGAC), located in building B2 of UPC North Campus, is part of this Federation. It is the common administration and services area for all academic units in the Civil Engineering field.

One of the key points in every university department is the research coordination carried out, mainly by the Teaching & Research Staff and the doctoral students or Teaching & Research Staff in training, with the fundamental support and involvement of UTGAC Administrative & Services Staff. I would like to highlight the personnel assigned to the different research laboratories. The Teaching & Research Staff of the department participates in a total of 25 research groups at the UPC. Regarding these research groups, 21 have a coordinator who belongs to our department. The Teaching & Research Staff also participates in 8 doctoral programmes, thus promoting high-level research. This information is then published as doctoral theses, articles in high-impact international journals, and presentations at national and international conferences.

2025 marked DECA's tenth anniversary, and we celebrated the unification of the six departments that existed within the Field of Civil Engineering. We want this path to be in continuous construction and evolution, in order to remain a department that integrates all idiosyncrasies. Thank you for your collaborative spirit and for opening communication channels. You help us improve. Let us keep going.

Kind regards on behalf of the management team and all the department staff.