Optimizing the electric energy's generation, transportation, and distribution processes and the incorporation of renewable energies to the market are two of the axes that are currently most relevant in an electric engineers' job. This speciality of engineering is developed between the commitment to decrease the processes and products' energy consumption and the need to have at our disposal electric supplies with higher quality and reliability standards. Professionals of this field will have to have a good knowledge of the scientific and technological principals which are specific for this area, so that they can solve real problems that will often demand important decision-taking. These engineers will have to face a globalised market, not only with their technical abilities, but also through management and organizational skills that allow them to develop their job effectively and efficiently, with special emphasis on improving productivity of the industrial processes involved.

The Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering offers the possibility for the student to get to know the basis of Eolic, Solar, and Nuclear energy, together with the characteristics of the present electric markets. Agreements signed with companies and those of mobility with other European universities allow the students to complete their education with training periods in companies or exchange programs. The analysis of job advertisements for the newly graduated in this field of industrial engineering shows excellent career prospects.

Students who obtain this degree title will acquire the abilities needed to design and develop projects in the field of Chemical Engineering which involve the construction, refurbishment, repairing, maintenance, demolition, manufacturing, installing, assembling, and exploiting of electric facilities, electric equipment and machines, energy facilities and industrial plants, in accordance with the applicable law of professional functions (Law 12/1986).