Abbreviation IQS Website IQS Founded 1905 Parent organization Ramon Llull University | Accreditation ABET, AACSB Phone +34 932 67 20 00 Province Province of Barcelona | |
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Predecessor Chemical Laboratory of the Ebro Established 1905; 112 years ago (1905) Location Via Augusta, 390, Barcelona, Spain Address Via Augusta, 390, 08017 Barcelona, Spain Similar ESADE Barcelona ‑ Building 3, Universitat Ramon Llull, Blanquer ‑ Universit, CRAI Biblioteca de Biolog, La Salle Campus Barcelon Profiles | ||
Chemical Institute of Sarriá (Institut Químic de Sarrià – IQS) is an educational institution that manages two schools of the Ramon Llull University, IQS School of Engineering and IQS School of Management. Both schools offer masters and doctorate programs. The Institute also manages IQS PEINUSA, a society through which it conducts research, innovation, and technology transfer for industries and enterprises. And a division IQS Executive offers specialized professional and corporate training. All this is with the support of a large group of companies through the IQS Companies Foundation.
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History
Jesuit Fr. Eduardo Vitori founded Chemical Laboratory of the Ebro at Roquetas, Tarragona, in August 1905. In 1916 he moved it next to St. Ignatius College in Sarriá, where it acquired the name Chemical Institute of Sarriá. In 1965 the Ministry of Education recognized it as a State Higher Technical Education Center. In 1984 it ceased to be a legally dependent center of the Society of Jesus and became a foundation governed by a board of trustees. On 1 March 1990 it joined with other institutions in becoming Ramon Llull University, the first private university in Catalonia as approved by the Parliament of Catalonia on 10 May 1991, then called the IQS School of Engineering and IQS School of Management (formerly School of Economics ADE).
In its centennial year 2005, IQS received the Gold Medal of the city of Barcelona and the Cruz de Sant Jordi distinction of the Government of Catalonia, in recognition of their teaching and research. In 2010 construction began on the new IQS School of Management building, which was officially opened by the then Prince of Asturias and Girona on 12 December 2012. In 2013 IQS School of Engineering began offering a degree in biotechnology.
IQS School of Engineering
IQS School of Engineering offers studies in chemistry, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, biotechnology, and bioengineering. It has collaborative agreements with various companies and universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through its special accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, its chemical engineering degree is equated with that of top universities in the United States.
IQS School of Management
IQS School of Management offers management and business management studies, accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Facilities
IQS has a total area of 16,649 square meters which includes the new 10,800 square meter School of Management opened in December 2012. IQS consists of a main building, headquarters of the IQS School of Engineering, a building for workshops and laboratories to pilot an industrial plant, with an adjacent facility with a semi-industrial pilot plant for refined chemicals, and a building for environmental laboratory analysis. In the main building are fully equipped classrooms, workshops, and teaching laboratories where the student is assigned a place for single use, research laboratories used by students to develop the experimental part of final career work or doctoral thesis, laboratories to perform services for industry, a library (Ernest Solvay Multimedia Documentation Center), multimedia rooms equipped for video-conferencing, as well as areas for administration, a bar, and restaurant.
In December 2007 the bioengineering building opened and in 2012 the headquarters of the IQS School of Management, a 10-storey building with a total floor area of 10,800 square meters of which 5600 are intended for educational use. The upper floor of the building accommodates the IQS Executive training program, having 10 classrooms. The building includes a further 15 classrooms, some modular, with a total of 1000 seats; 43 offices, meeting rooms, and archives for teachers and administrative staff; the 1,350 square meter SEAT Laboratory for Mechanics on the first floor for Industrial Engineering studies; a study room and library of 140 seats, with separate entrance (open on weekends); an auditorium for 191 people; and an underground garage for 175 cars and 14 motorcycles.