Nowadays it is difficult to think of a world without the electronic systems available and the level of automation of some given processes and services. The sectors of communications, transport, home automation, automobile, safety, manufacturing, and environmental management need the application of modern and complex devices of electronic instrumentation, robotics, artificial vision, programming automatons, application of power electronic systems or continuous control of processes and products. It is probably one of the specialities of engineering that involves the highest number of action fields, and whose dynamism requires versatile professionals that, having a good knowledge of the scientific and technological principals which are specific for this area, can solve real problems that will often imply important decision-taking. These engineers will have to face a globalised market, not only using their technical abilities, but also showing 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 specialize in Electronic systems or Automation. Agreements with companies and mobility agreements 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 Industrial Electronic and Automatic Engineering which involve the construction, refurbishment, repairing, maintenance, demolition, manufacturing, installing, assembling, and exploiting of electric equipment, energy facilities, industrial plants and facilities, and automation and control processes, in accordance with the applicable law of professional functions (Law 12/1986).