III promotion of the Classroom of Machine-Tool of the ETSI of Bilbao

The act of delivery of the diplomas celebrated to first of April in the Classroom of Degrees with the assistance of Zuriñe Gómez of Balugera, director of Universities of the Basque Government; Inmaculada Freije, director of Planning and Strategy of the Department Industry; Jesús Crag, deputy director of Business Promotion and Innovation of the Deputation Foral of Biscay; Carmelo Garitaonaindia, vice-chancellor of the Campus of Biscay of the UPV/EHU; Xabier Ortueta, director of AFM, and the director of the School, Enrique Amezua.

The Classroom, directed to the alumnado of the last courses of the specialitys of Industrial Engineering, Automatic and Industrial Electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers, was created in 2009 with a double purpose. On the one hand, it offers to the youngsters the possibility to complete his learning in an only course (intensive, that realises of simultaneous form to the last year of career) and, by another, facilitates them the realisation of practices and Projects of End of Career in companies or technology centres, what promotes the labour insertion of these young engineers. These companies collaborators are leading signatures of the machine-tool, automotive sector, the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing or the components of precision like Etxe Tar, Susensa, Lan-Bi, Ideko, Danobat, Tekniker, Onapres, Azpiaran, ITP SA, Fagor Arrasate, Tecnalia, Ibarmia or Sener and have showed in the successive editions his satisfaction with the work realised by the students of the School.

Like this, the students of this new promotion join to the 45 that participated in the previous editions of the Classroom and that find (all they) working in distinct branches of the sector: roughly 60% has incorporated to companies directly related with the manufacture of machine-tool; 30%, in engineers or companies users, and 10% remaining has been hired by technology centres. To stand out that one of the students works for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Brussels.

To attain this tuning with the needs of the companies of the sector, some of the sessions that complete the program of the Classroom are given by professionals of technology centres like Tekniker-IK4, Ideko-IK4 or Tecnalia, as well as of companies leaders like Design-3D and Fagor Arrasate. Besides, the Association of manufacturers of Machine-Tool (AFM) supports the initiative facilitating diverse activities and the realisation of practices. On the other hand, the initiative also has the backrest of the Basque Government –through his departments of Industry and of Education– and of the Department of Economic Promotion of the Deputation Foral of Biscay. At present, all the agents involved ultiman the agreement that will allow to follow working in the Classroom during, at least, four years more, until 2017.

Some of the students of this last promotion have opted for continuing his learning with diverse titles of postgrado. Four of them do it in the University of Crandfield (England) and one in Karlsruhe (Germany). Both centres belong to the wide network of more than 150 academic institutions Europeans with which the School keeps agreements of exchange.

The sixth of the students is Estíbaliz Díaz, that has attained a scholarship of investigation of the Basque Government of four years to do the doctorate in the own workshop of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the School, to the time that realises the ‘Máster in Mechanical Engineering: Design and Manufacture of exchange'. This student, that finishes to finish Engineering of Manufacture, is besides an example of the high level reached by these students. His is, according to the Spanish Society of Engineering of Manufacture, the best Project of End of Career presented the year happened in this speciality.

The work, described by the School with a 10, studies the mechanised of the free copper of oxygen for scientific installations and was realised under the supervision of the professor Luis Norberto López of Lacalle, director of the Classroom Machine-Tool and professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the School. In him, Díaz Tena deepens in new technicians that will be applicable, for example, in projects like the linear accelerator of ions, whose functional components manufacture mainly in copper and where looks for obtain pieces without thermal sensors damage neither structural.

The case of Estíbaliz Díaz Tena also puts of relief the every time greater inclination of the students by areas before considered masculine. This year they collect his diploma 8 students and are 26 those that have finalised this course of specialisation since it set up the Classroom.

Data of the sector

The sector of the machine-tool is one of the key pieces in the industrial gear Basque. According to the data advanced by the own association of manufacturers the past week, in spite of the crisis, the sector invoiceed the past year 1.100 million euros, figure that represents an increase regarding the closing of the previous exercise. By branches, 750 millions proceed the manufacture of machinery, between 300 and 350 million the one of accessories, and between 100 and 150 million the manufacturing of other products. It is also one of the sectors that more has bet for exporting his production, that in some subsectores, as the one of the manufacture of machinery arrives to 87% of the production. El País Basque occupies positions of world-wide leadership in this sector, in which it is third producer and European exporter and ninth of the world. Keep this positioning is one of the aims of the Classroom of Machine-Tool.