Introduction

The beginnings

 

The FIB was set up in 1976 and started its teaching in the academic year of 1977-1978. The year of 1991-1992 saw the launching of the Degree in Informatics Engineering, the Diploma in Computer Systems and the Diploma in Computer Software, all of which are still being taught today.

Goals

The FIB’s goal is to provide its students with an excellent university education on informatics engineering that responds to social and economic realities, and to promote the dissemination of information technologies to contribute to societies improvements.

The FIB aims to give students a strong background in the sciences that they will have to use along their professional lifes. For this reason, it gives priority to lasting concepts over ephemeral concepts, promotes effective working habits and stimulates their students' ability of selfsufficiency.

The people

The FIB has 3,039 registered students and 270 professors.

The syllabuses

The FIB's syllabuses, which were introduced during the 2004-2005 academic year, are designed to enhance the learning process by combining theory and practical assignments, in a proper measure, and by stressing the acquisition of abilities students will need in the future as top-level computer technology professionals.

Services and facilities

The FIB's Computing Laboratory has 71 servers and 356 workstations of different types in 19 computer classrooms. Students may also use the teaching computer classrooms at the Department of Computer Architecture, the Department of Automatic Control and the Physics Department, among others.
Another factor that contributes the enhacement of teaching at the FIB is its intranet, which enables students, professors and service and administrative staff to communicate with one another.


To complement their academic work and enhance their university experience, students at the FIB are also invited to participate in a number of student associations. These associations organise and foster student participation in a rich variety of sport, leisure and cultural activities. The most important of these are the DAFIB (FIB Student Office), the CEFIB (FIB Sports Club), the magazine "l’Oasi", the JEDI (Association of Young Informatics Students), "Júnior Empresa", the FIB Forum and the VGAFIB (FIB Video Games Association).

Educational cooperation agreements

The FIB promotes the participation of its students in educational cooperation agreements with Spanish and international companies. These agreements allow students to complete the training they have received and additionally grant them direct contact with the professional world. The company, in agreement with the university, defines the educational aim of the agreement and the work plan.

International relations

The FIB offers its students the opportunity to complete their studies in any of a number of prestigious foreign universities. Currently, the FIB maintains teaching relationships with over 50 schools, which are mostly all in Europe and focus on computer science. There are, however, contacts with other schools teaching business management and aeronautics. The FIB has also signed several double degree agreements that enable students to gain a degree from another school in addition to the FIB degree, by extending their studies for a short period of time.

Cercle Fiber

The "Cercle Fiber" (FIB Alumni Association) aims to be a meeting point for graduates of the FIB who are now working in the IT sector. It also allows the School to keep in touch with its graduates, who in turn help to keep its teaching up to date.