Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
| Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto | |
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| Motto | Saber fazer ("Know-how") |
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| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1852 |
| President | João Rocha |
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Academic staff
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~520 (2014) |
| Students | ~6,600 (2014) |
| Location | Porto, Portugal |
| Colors | Grey & Crimson |
| Mascot | Crimson Fox |
| Website | http://www.isep.pt |
Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering (ISEP) is a public polytechnic higher learning and research engineering institute, located in the city of Porto, Portugal. ISEP is divided in 8 departments, with an emphasis on applied science and technology.
ISEP was founded by the minister Fontes Pereira de Melo in 1852 as Escola Industrial do Porto (Porto School of Industry) to support the industrialization of Portugal, and some time later upgraded to Instituto Industrial do Porto (Porto Institute of Industry). Since 1989, was grouped with other schools in the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Its motto is Saber Fazer — "Know-how".
Today, ISEP is one of the biggest and best known engineering schools in Portugal, with well over 6000 students and 500 faculty members. It has research facilities for real-time systems, artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems, and decision support systems, some of them internationally recognized as leading R&D centers (e.g. GECAD, CISTER, LSA) as accredited by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
The institution has had several names and different roles since its foundation in 1852:
ISEP's campus spans approximately 50,000 square meters in Pólo Universitário, near São João Hospital. Dormitories and some of student life facilities are located outside the campus, but almost all classes are held on campus. ISEP campus was initially located in the central Porto and moved to current one in the 1960s.
ISEP is divided into different schools within its campus:
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