Càtedra Taigua of Urban Water Engineering and Management

Subject: Urban water engineering and management

It is difficult to find professionals with deep technical knowledge (in the urban water sector, we would speak of hydraulics) who are also skilled in management. However, management decisions often require such technical knowledge. The objectives of promoting this course are:

  1. To incorporate digitalization, hydroeconomics, and governance tools into the training of engineers.
  2. To open this training to professionals in the sector.

This course will include three blocks (two Tuesday afternoons each):

- Digitalization and Control of Urban Hydraulics
- Hydroeconomics
- Governance

The coordinators are UPC professors, but they also include contributions from national and international experts in each topic. These experts may vary in each edition to keep the content dynamic. The keynote talks will be open to the general public as conferences to enrich the city of Terrassa with this knowledge.

The course schedule for the 2025 edition includes the following activities:

6/9/2025 15:00-16:00: Course Introduction. Ramon Pérez Magrané.

16/9/2025 16:00-19:00: Use of hydraulic models (EPANET). Ramon Pérez.

23/9/2025 15:00-16:00: Digitalization of the water sector using open source. Creation, implementation, maintenance, and growth. GISWATER, success stories. Josep Lluís Sala Sanguino. (Open lecture)

23/9/3025 16:00-19:00: Generation of hydraulic models from GIS and databases. Josep Lluís Sala Sanguino, Albert Bofill Ylla.

30/9/2025 15:00-17:00: Introduction to hydroeconomics. Ramon Pérez.

30/9/2025 17:00-19:00: Costs inherent to service provision and income determination. Leonard Carcolé. (Open lecture)

7/10/2025 15:00-17:00: Tariffing. Anna Crispi Sucarrats. (Open lecture)

7/10/2025 17:00-19:00: Economic and financial management of the service, depending on its management form. Leonard Carcolé. (Open lecture)

14/10/2025 15:00-17:00: What is governance and what does it involve? Definitions and context. Edurne Bagué

14/10/2025 17:00-19:00: Participatory session on governance. Edurne Bagué and Martí Rosas.

21/10/2025 15:00-17:00: Sociology of governance. Cases and examples. Edurne Bagué.

21/10/2025 17:00-19:00: Governance: Study of 2 cases. Bea Escribano and Annelies Broeckman. (Open lecture)

This course is intended for master's students (MUEI, MUESAII, and MUOR) at ESEIAAT, but also for professionals in the sector as part of continuing education. We believe that having both groups in the classroom can be very enriching.

To enroll in the course as a visiting student, the following protocol must be followed.

Pre-registration will be done via the UPC-TAIGUA Chair website by filling in the form.

Required documents include a motivation letter and proof of a university degree or enrollment in a master's program.

Admission criteria will be based on the relevance of studies and professional experience.

These same criteria will be used to award scholarships from the chair, covering 50% of the enrollment fee.

Enrollment will be processed at the ESEIAAT secretary's office (each ECTS credit costs €145, so the total enrollment fee is €435).

The timeline for the entire process is as follows:

Pre-registration: Until September 4, 2025

Notification of admission and scholarship awards: September 8, 2025

Enrollment: From September 9 to 15

 

Registration form:_

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