Instituto Superior Técnico

The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) was created from the split of the Lisbon Commercial and Industrial Institute (IICL) into two schools. Following the implantation of the Republic in Portugal in 1910, Alfredo Bensaúde, a professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the IICL, was invited by Manuel de Brito Camacho, Minister of Development in the Provisional Government, to create and lead a new technical school, as part of nationwide education reforms. A decree approved on 23 May 1911 and published in the Diário do Governo declared that the IICL would be split into two schools: the Instituto Superior do Comércio (current Lisbon School of Economics and Management) and the Instituto Superior Técnico.{{Cite web |last=Instituto Superior Técnico |title=1911 — A fundação do IST |url=http://alumni.100.ist.utl.pt/momentos/1911.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905144409/http://alumni.100.ist.utl.pt/momentos/1911.html |archive-date=5 September 2023 |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=alumni.100.ist.utl.pt |language=Portuguese}}{{Cite journal |date=25 May 1911 |title=Ministerio do Fomento |url=https://files.dre.pt/gratuitos/1s/1911/05/12100.pdf |journal=Diário do Governo |language=pt |issue=121 - Anno 1911 |pages=2118}}

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Alfredo Bensaúde was the first director of IST, a position he held from 1911 to 1920. He implemented its first pedagogical program, which had five engineering courses: mining engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and chemical-industrial engineering. Under his direction, there was an investment in theoretical-practical teaching where workshops and laboratories, as well as the library, played an essential role.{{Cite book |last=Matos |first=Ana Cardoso de |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429399831-62/alfredo-bensa%C3%BAde-revolutionary-training-engineers-ana-cardoso-de-matos?context=ubx |title=Modernity, Frontiers and Revolutions |publisher=CRC Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780429399831 |chapter=Alfredo Bensaúde: A “revolutionary” in the training of engineers|pages=415–420 |doi=10.1201/9780429399831-62 }} He also noted for recruiting foreign teachers, which he considered to have an essential role in organizing some of the courses.{{Cite web |title=Os estrangeirados na fundação do IST |url=http://alumni.100.ist.utl.pt/momentos/estrangeirados.html |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=alumni.100.ist.utl.pt |language=Portuguese}}

The first facilities of IST were located in the Rua da Boavista in Lisbon. In 1927, Duarte Pacheco became director of IST and started the project for a new campus for the school. He requested the design to architect Porfírio Pardal Monteiro, who counted with the collaboration of Luís Benavente, a fellow architect, in the project. The construction of the Alameda campus started in 1928 and was finished in 1935, with the inauguration happening the following year. IST became the first academic institution in Portugal with its own campus. In the meantime, in 1930, IST became part of the newly created Technical University of Lisbon. File:Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisboa - Portugal (3135450628).jpgIn 1948, IST hosted the "Fifteen Years of Public Works" exhibition, an event organized by the Portuguese State to exhibit the new infrastructures built in the first 15 years of the Estado Novo. The statue of a woman holding a square and compass, by Salvador Barata Feyo, placed in the northern side of the campus, is a sculpture from this exhibition that was permanently added to the Alameda campus.{{Cite web |title=Episódio 23: A Estátua da Engenharia {{!}} 110 anos do Técnico |url=https://110.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/arquivos/episodio-23-a-estatua-da-engenharia/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=110.tecnico.ulisboa.pt |language=pt}}

Between 1952 and 1972, 12 study centres were established in Portugal, three of them at IST, in the fields of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy, and Electronics. These centres were responsible for promoting faculty training and scientific qualification through doctoral studies in universities and research centres abroad.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=History |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/about-tecnico/institutional/historia/ |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}

In 1970, the minimum period for obtaining a bachelor's degree decreased from six to five years, and the number of students enrolled at IST significantly increased. During the 1970s, scientific research at IST also has a major increase, through the creation of the Interdisciplinary Complex building in 1973, which gathered together various autonomous research units.

During the 1990s, more engineering courses, including Master and PhD degrees, were added to IST's curricular offer. The facilities in the Alameda campus had the greatest expansion in this decade, with the construction of the Civil Engineering and Architecture Pavilion and the North and South towers.

In 2000, IST inaugurated a new campus in the municipality of Oeiras, specifically in the Taguspark, the first Portuguese science and technology park.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Taguspark |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/about-tecnico/campus/taguspark/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}} In the academic year 2006–2007, the Declaration of Bologna was successfully implemented for all IST programmes, reducing the time to obtain a bachelor's degree to three years. In 2012, the Tecnológico e Nuclear campus was added to IST, following the discontinuation of the Technological and Nuclear Institute.

Today IST is involved with several of Portugal's research, development and technology transfer institutions and offers a vast number of degrees in science and engineering areas, at undergraduate, master and doctoral levels. IST is also part of several networks and international programmes to promote student mobility, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

IST has three campuses: the Alameda campus in Lisbon, the Taguspark campus in the Oeiras municipality, and the Tecnológico e Nuclear campus in the Loures municipality.

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The Alameda campus is the primary location of IST. It was inaugurated in 1936 as the first dedicated university campus in Portugal.{{Cite journal |last1=Branco |first1=Jorge Freitas |last2=Branco |first2=Miriam |date=2007 |title=Etnografia dum lugar tecnológico. O campus da Alameda (IST, Lisboa) |url=https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/1099/1/Branco_Barros_2007.pdf |journal=DA-CLI - Capítulos de livros internacionais |language=Portuguese |isbn=978-972-8964-07-8}} It is located in the freguesia of Areeiro, in Lisbon.

The campus originally had 7 buildings.{{Cite web |title=Instituto Superior Técnico |url=http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/site/app_pagesuser/sipa.aspx?id=3162 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico |language=pt}} Throughout the years, new buildings were constructed inside the campus, expanding the facilities of IST. Some of the buildings added after 1936 include:

• The Interdisciplinary Complex, opened in 1973;{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Projecto de uma História do Complexo Interdisciplinar |encyclopedia=. |url=http://abreufaro.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/capitulo-2_complexo.pdf |last1=Dias |first1=A. Romão |date=2007 |language=Portuguese |last2=Diogo |first2=Hermínio P.}}
• The Civil Engineering and Architecture Pavilion, opened in 1993;
• The North Tower, opened in 1994;
• The South Tower, opened in 2000;
• The Social Action Pavilion, opened in 2003.{{Cite web |last= |title=IST – Social Action Pavilion |url=http://pardalmonteiro.com/en/portfolio_page/ist-a-social/ |access-date=6 September 2023 |website=Pardal Monteiro Arquitectos}}

File:Pavilhão_de_Civil_IST_2.jpgCurrently the campus has a total of 26 buildings.Tecnico Lisboa, [https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/files/2015/11/carta-navegacao-alameda-en.pdf Campus Plan - Alameda], 2015 Apart from lecture and research buildings, it includes a dedicated canteen building, a building for the students' association, playing fields for sports, an indoor swimming pool, and a kindergarten.

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IST inaugurated a second campus in the Taguspark, a science and technology park in Porto Salvo, in the Oeiras municipality, in 2000. The campus consists of a main building, a sports field and a hall of residence.

Taguspark is located about 14 km to the west of the Alameda campus. A free shuttle bus service connecting the Alameda and Taguspark campuses is available for exclusive use of the IST community.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Mobility and Transports |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/campus-life/services/mobility-and-transports/ |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}

As of the academic year 2023–2024, three bachelor's degree programmes and five master's degree programmes are lectured in the Taguspark campus.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Undergraduate Programmes |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/education/courses/undergraduate-programmes/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Master's Programmes |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/education/courses/masters-programmes/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}

The Tecnológico e Nuclear campus was added to IST in 2012. It is located in Bobadela, in the municipality of Loures, about 9 km northeast of the Alamada campus. Prior to its addition to IST, the campus belonged to the Technological and Nuclear Institute (Portuguese: Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear), which was extinguished in December 2011 by governmental decree.{{Cite web |title=Brief History |url=http://www.ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/uk/uk_pr_hist.htm |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=www.ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}

The campus contained the only nuclear reactor in Portugal, which was used for more than 50 years for scientific research. The reactor was stopped on 11 May 2016 and dismantled in 2019.{{Cite web |title=Único reator nuclear português foi desmantelado em segredo em março |url=https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2019-09-02-Unico-reator-nuclear-portugues-foi-desmantelado-em-segredo-em-marco |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Expresso |language=pt-PT}}

As of the academic year 2023–2024, two master's degree programmes use the facilities in this campus: Radiation Protection and Safety, and Science and Technology for the Cultural Heritage.

IST has two official halls of residence for its students:{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Halls of Residence |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/campus-life/halls-of-residence/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}

• The Eng. Duarte Pacheco residence, located in the freguesia of Parque das Nações, which opened in 1998 for students in the Alameda campus.
• The Prof. Ramôa Ribeiro residence, located in the Taguspark campus, which opened in 2013 for students in this campus.

As of the academic year 2023–2024, IST offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the following domains:

• Aerospace engineering
• Applied mathematics and computation
• Architecture
• Biological engineering
• Biomedical engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Computer science and engineering
• Data science
• Electrical and computer engineering
• Electronics engineering
• Engineering physics
• Environmental engineering
• Industrial engineering and management
• Materials engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Mining and geological engineering
• Naval architecture and ocean engineering
• Telecommunications and informatics engineering

IST is also actively involved in several networks and international programs to promote student mobility, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Through a large number of agreements with other institutions worldwide, IST students can join double degree programmes and joint PhD programmes with universities in Europe, the United States, Brazil, and Israel.{{Cite web |last=International Affairs Division (AAI) |title=Double Degree Programmes |url=https://aai.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/nucleo-de-mobilidade-e-cooperacao-internacional/do-mundo-para-o-tecnico/estudos/programas-de-duplo-grau/ |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=aai.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}

IST is a member of several academic and scientific networks and associations, including:

• Advanced Technology Higher Education Network (ATHENS){{Cite web |title=Partner Institutions |url=http://athensnetwork.eu/network-list.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=athensnetwork.eu}}
• Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER), a non-profit association of leading engineering universities in Europe{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.cesaer.org/members/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=CESAER |language=en-EN}}
• Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER), a network of leading European universities of technology{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://cluster.org/about-us/member-universities/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=CLUSTER |language=en-US}}
• Heritage Network, a network of European and Indian technical higher education institutions{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://heritagenetwork.org/english-version/members |access-date=2 October 2023 |website=Heritage Network}}
• Magalhães Network, a network of European, Latin American and Caribbean universities{{Cite web |title=EUROPEAN MEMBERS |url=https://www.magalhaes-network.org/copia-de-members |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=Magalhaes Network |language=en}}
• Partnership of a European Group of Aeronautics and Space Universities (PEGASUS){{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.pegasus-europe.org/members/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=PEGASUS |language=en-US}}
• Sino-European Engineering Education Platform (SEEEP), a collaboration between the members of CLUSTER and Chinese universities in the areas of science, technology and engineering{{Cite web |title=SEEEP members |url=https://cluster.org/sino-eu-platform/organisation/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=CLUSTER |language=en-US}}
• Top International Managers in Engineering (T.I.M.E.){{Cite web |date=2019-02-19 |title=Members |url=https://timeassociation.org/time-members/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |website=T.I.M.E. Association |language=en-US}}

IST students have a variety of groups and activities that they can join.

The students' association of the Instituto Superior Técnico (AEIST, Portuguese: Associação dos Estudantes do Instituto Superior Técnico) is the organization that represents and supports the students of IST. It was established on 11 December 1911, when IST was just 8 months old.{{Cite web |title=AEIST |url=https://falisboa.pt/aeist-2/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=FAL - Federação Académica de Lisboa |language=pt-PT}}

In the present day, the AEIST organizes activities and initiatives in the areas of social responsibility, culture, sports, training, employability and recreation.

IST and its students' association are represented in various sports.

The most notable sports team from IST is the Clube de Rugby do Técnico, a rugby union club founded in 1963. The club has become three-times champion of the top-tier rugby league in Portugal (most recently in the 2020–2021 season), four-times winner of the Portuguese Rugby Cup, and winner of the Portuguese Super Cup in 1994.{{Cite web |last=Lusa |date=2022-09-03 |title=Após ver tribunal dar-lhe razão, Técnico revoga desfiliação na federação |url=https://www.publico.pt/2022/09/03/desporto/noticia/apos-tribunal-darlhe-razao-tecnico-corrige-desfiliacao-fpr-2019301 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}

The students' association competes in basketball (men/women), chess, futsal (men/women), handball (men/women), karting, padel, rugby sevens (men), squash, table tennis, tennis, and volleyball (men/women).{{Cite magazine |date=September 2022 |title=Sports Team |url=https://aeist-my.sharepoint.com/personal/aeist_aeist_pt/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Faeist%5Faeist%5Fpt%2FDocuments%2FDire%C3%A7%C3%A3o%2022%2D23%2FGabinetes%2022%2D23%2F2%2E%20GCM%2022%2D23%2FReda%C3%A7%C3%A3o%2022%2D23%2FFisicaMente%2FFisicamente%20Setembro%20%287%C2%AA%20edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o%29%2FENG%5FDigital%5FFISICAMENTE%20EDIC%CC%A7A%CC%83O%207%5Fcompressed%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Faeist%5Faeist%5Fpt%2FDocuments%2FDire%C3%A7%C3%A3o%2022%2D23%2FGabinetes%2022%2D23%2F2%2E%20GCM%2022%2D23%2FReda%C3%A7%C3%A3o%2022%2D23%2FFisicaMente%2FFisicamente%20Setembro%20%287%C2%AA%20edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o%29&ga=1 |magazine=Fisicamente |publisher=AEIST |page=4 |access-date=10 September 2023}}

IST has three tunas:

• Tuna Universitária do Instituto Superior Técnico (TUIST), the male tuna, established in 1993{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-04-12 |title=TUIST celebrates its 24th anniversary |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/campus-community/tuist-celebrates-its-24th-anniversary/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}
• Tuna Feminina do Instituto Superior Técnico (TFIST), the female tuna, established in 1994{{Cite web |title=Historial |url=https://tfist.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~tfist.daemon/sobre/historial/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=TFIST |language=pt-PT}}
• Tuna Mista do Instituto Superior Técnico (TMIST), a mixed tuna based in the Taguspark campus, established in 2006{{Cite web |title=TMIST - Tuna Mista do Instituto Superior Técnico |url=https://tmist.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=tmist.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}

The TUIST organizes each year the International Tunas Festival of the City of Lisbon, which is held at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon.{{Cite web |title=Events - Festival |url=http://tuist.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~tuist.daemon/tuist7/web/realizar/index.php |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=tuist.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}

Notable student groups in IST are:

• BEST Lisboa, local group of the Board of European Students of Technology, formed in 1989 as one of the 12 founding groups{{Cite web |title=About BEST |url=https://best.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/about_en.html |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=best.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}
• Diferencial, the IST students' newspaper, established in 1991{{Cite web |date=2023-06-29 |title=110 Histórias, 110 Objectos. O Diferencial |url=https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/29/ciencia/noticia/110-historias-110-objectos-diferencial-2054702 |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}
• Formula Student Lisboa (FST Lisboa), a Formula racing engineering team that competes in Formula Student competitions, established in 2001{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.fstlisboa.com/about |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=FST Lisboa |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-06-29 |title=Presentation of the new Formula Student Lisboa prototype fills Técnico's Great Hall |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/campus-community/presentation-of-the-new-formula-student-lisboa-prototype-fills-tecnicos-great-hall/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}
• Grupo de Estratégia, Simulação e Táctica (GEST), focused on event coordination around wargames, board games, tabletop and trading card games.
• Grupo de Teatro do Instituto Superior Técnico (GTIST), the theatre group of IST, first active from 1960 to 1971 and revived in 1992{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Fatal {{!}} GTIST |url=http://fatal.ulisboa.pt/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=fatal.ulisboa.pt |language=pt}}
• HackerSchool, a hackerspace started in 2012, centered on the development of various engineering projects themed around free software and open hardware.{{Cite web |title=HackerSchool |url=https://hackerschool.dev |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=hackerschool.dev}}
• JUNITEC, junior enterprise of IST, established in 1990{{Cite web |title=About us |url=https://junitec.pt/en/about-us/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=JUNITEC |language=en-GB}}
• Núcleo de Arte Fotográfica (NAF), artistic photography group of IST, established in the 1950s{{Cite web |title=Núcleo de Arte Fotográfica |url=https://nucleodeartefotografica.pt/sobre |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=nucleodeartefotografica.pt |language=pt}}
• Projecto de Sustentabilidade Energética Móvel (PSEM), an engineering team that designs and builds electric vehicles to compete in the Greenpower racing competitions, established in 2013{{Cite web |title=PSEM - About Us |url=https://psem.ist.utl.pt/content/about_us.php |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=psem.ist.utl.pt}}

• Técnico Solar Boat, an engineering team established in 2015 that develops solar, hydrogen and autonomous boats{{Cite web |title=Técnico Solar Boat |url=https://tecnicosolarboat.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=tecnicosolarboat.tecnico.ulisboa.pt}}
• TLMoto, a sports motorcycle engineering team that competes in MotoStudent, established in 2012{{Cite web |title=TLMoto |url=https://tlmoto.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/about_en.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=tlmoto.tecnico.ulisboa.pt |language=en}}

Some of the most notable recurring events organized by students of IST are:

• Arraial do Técnico, a music festival that places place at the Alameda campus at the start of the academic year, organized by the AEIST
• SINFO, a tech conference organized by a dedicated team. Takes place annually since 1993{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-03-01 |title=Tech Conference at Técnico (SINFO) celebrates its 30th anniversary with the "biggest edition ever" |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/campus-community/tech-conference-at-tecnico-sinfo-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary-with-the-biggest-edition-ever/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}}

The University of Lisbon, which IST is part of, is the institution represented in global university rankings. Nevertheless, IST is represented indirectly in the rankings for the specific subjects of engineering and technology.

In an survey conducted in 2022 to 1450 IST postgraduates who graduated during the year 2020, 96.7% of the inquired indicated that they were employed, 80.4% reported that they got employed within 6 months of their graduation, and 73.6% indicated that they are working in their field of study.{{Cite report |url=https://oe.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/files/sites/24/2023-relatorio-empregabilidade-web-pt.pdf |title=A situação profissional dos recém-diplomados do IST |last= |date=2022 |publisher=Observatório de Empregabilidade do IST |language=pt |access-date=10 September 2023}}

IST has a reputation for the high level of difficulty of its courses, which results in a considerable number of dropouts in the undergraduate courses.{{Cite web |date=2019-09-10 |title=″Só estudar também não é eficaz″. Instituto Superior Técnico acolhe os novos alunos |url=https://www.dn.pt/edicao-do-dia/10-set-2019/instituto-superior-tecnico-acolhe-os-novos-alunos-11283547.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=www.dn.pt |language=pt-PT}}{{Cite news |date=17 January 2017 |title=Este país é para engenheiros |language=pt |work=Notícias Magazine |url=https://www.noticiasmagazine.pt/2017/este-pais-e-para-engenheiros/estilos/comportamento/23733/ |access-date=10 September 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Cardoso |first=Miguel |date=2022-06-20 |title=A tirania do mérito |url=https://www.publico.pt/2022/06/20/p3/cronica/tirania-merito-2010172 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}} Students and graduates have criticized some of the courses' programmes for being too focused on theory and lacking practical training.{{Cite web |last=Ferreira |first=Marta Leite |title=Os "génios" do novo curso mais difícil de Portugal |url=https://observador.pt/especiais/os-genios-do-novo-curso-mais-dificil-de-portugal/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Observador |language=pt-PT}}

A 2021 survey to IST students, which gathered 1987 responses, revealed that 16% of the students felt that they had been target of moral harassment and 5% had been target of sexual harassment.{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-05-05 |title=Inquérito do Técnico mostra que 400 alunos se queixam de assédio moral e sexual |url=https://www.publico.pt/2022/05/05/sociedade/noticia/inquerito-tecnico-mostra-400-alunos-queixam-assedio-moral-sexual-2005022 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}

IST alumni have held prominent positions in politics, research organizations and the business sector, in Portugal and internationally. Three Prime Ministers of Portugal were IST alumni, of which one (António Guterres) currently serves as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

File:António_Guterres,_23.03.23.jpg, current Secretary-General of the United Nations, licenciatura degree in electrical engineering in 1971|250x250px]]

File:Maria_de_Lourdes_Pintasilgo_(1986)_(cropped).jpg, first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, licenciatura degree in chemical-industrial engineering in 1953|250x250px]]

Academics, researchers and inventors

• António Câmara (Lic. civil engineering, 1977){{Cite web |last=FCT/UNL |title=António Câmara |url=https://www.dcea.fct.unl.pt/pessoas/docentes/antonio-camara |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.dcea.fct.unl.pt |language=pt-pt}} – researcher in virtual and augmented reality, co-founder and former CEO of YDreams, professor at the NOVA School of Science and Technology
• Maria Amélia Chaves (Lic. civil engineering, 1937){{Cite web |title=Mulheres |url=https://estudossobrecomunismo.wordpress.com/category/temas/mulheres/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=ESTUDOS SOBRE O COMUNISMO |language=pt-PT}} – first female civil engineer to graduate from IST, first Portuguese woman to graduate and then work in civil engineering, and the first Portuguese female engineer to work in the field.
• Raul Pires Ferreira Chaves (Lic. civil engineering, early 1920s){{Cite thesis |last=Chaves |first=Manuel Pedro Fialho Ferreira |title=Vida e obra do arquitecto Jorge Ferreira Chaves (1920-1981) |date=February 2012 |degree=PhD |publisher=FAUTL |url=https://www.repository.utl.pt/bitstream/10400.5/17974/1/1.Manuel%20P%20F%20Chaves_2012___disserta%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Vida%20e%20obra%20do%20arquitecto%20Jorge%20Ferreira%20Chaves%20%281920-1981%292%20%281%29.pdf |language=pt}} – civil engineer, inventor of the MURUS system (a precursor of current modular construction systems)
• Pedro Domingos (electrical and computer engineering, Lic. 1988, M.Sc. 1992){{Cite web |date=2013-05-08 |title=Sum-Product Networks: Powerful Models with Tractable Inference |url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/sum-product-networks-powerful-models-with-tractable-inference/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Microsoft Research |language=en-US}} – researcher in machine learning, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, author of The Master Algorithm
• Mário A. T. Figueiredo (electrical and computer engineering, Lic. 1986, M.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) – academic and researcher, Distinguished Professor at IST
• Isabel Gago (Lic. in chemical engineering, 1939){{Cite web |title=Episódio 33: O Laboratório de Análises Portátil de Isabel Gago {{!}} 110 anos do Técnico |url=https://110.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/arquivos/episodio-33-o-laboratorio-de-analises-portatil-de-isabel-gago/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=110.tecnico.ulisboa.pt |language=pt}} – second woman to study engineering in Portugal and first woman to teach chemical engineering in Portugal
• João Arménio Correia Martins (Lic. civil engineering, 1976)[https://spbiomecanica.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CURRICULUM-VITA-Prof-Correia-Martins.pdf João Arménio Correia Martins (1951–2008)]. Portuguese Society of Biomechanics. spbiomecanica.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 September 2023. – researcher in solid mechanics and biomechanics, professor in IST's Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture from 1986 to 2008
• João Pavão Martins (Lic. mechanical engineering, 1976; M.Sc. computer science, 1979){{Cite web |title=Robótica, arquitetura, biotecnologia e literatura. Conheça os distinguidos pela Medalha de Mérito Científico 2023 |url=https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc23/comunicacao/noticia?i=robotica-arquitetura-biotecnologia-e-literatura-conheca-os-distinguidos-pela-medalha-de-merito-cientifico-2023 |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=www.portugal.gov.pt}} – co-founder of SISCOG, researcher in artificial intelligence and full professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IST
• Nuno Maulide (Lic. chemical engineering, 2003){{Cite web |title=The Group Leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nuno Maulide |url=https://organicsynthesis.univie.ac.at/about-us/meet-the-group/the-group-leader/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=organicsynthesis.univie.ac.at |language=en}} – full professor of organic synthesis at the University of Vienna, Austria's Scientist of the Year 2019
• André Neves (Lic. applied mathematics and computation, 1999){{Cite magazine |last=Florentino |first=Carlos |date=December 2020 |title=An interview with André Neves |url=http://www.cim.pt/magazines/bulletin/41/article/295/pdf |magazine=CIM Magazine |pages=38–40 |access-date=11 September 2023}} – mathematician, professor at the University of Chicago, co-solver of the Willmore conjecture and the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture
• Arlindo Oliveira (electrical and computer engineering, Lic. 1986, M.Sc. 1989){{Cite web |last=Ferreira |first=Pedro |date=2021-06-18 |title=Arlindo Oliveira |url=https://www.inesc-id.pt/arlindo-oliveira/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=INESC-ID |language=en-US}} – current president of INESC, former president of IST (2012–2019), former director of the INESC-ID (2000–2009)
• José Tribolet (Lic. electrical engineering, 1971){{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2019-09-23 |title="A conspirar e a rir havemos de mudar o mundo" |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticias/campus-e-comunidade/a-conspirar-e-a-rir-havemos-de-mudar-o-mundo/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=pt-PT}} – retired full professor of Information Systems at IST, co-founder and chairman of INESC-ID
• Fernando Vasco Costa (civil engineering, 1936) - civil engineer specialising in port engineering and berthing of ships, rector of the Technical University of Lisbon from 1969 to 1972.{{Cite book |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11912/chapter/59 |title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 11 - Fernando Vasco Costa |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |language=en |access-date=10 September 2024}}
• Manuela Veloso (electrical engineering, Lic. 1980, M.Sc. 1984){{Cite web |title=Manuela Veloso |url=https://engineering.cmu.edu/directory/bios/veloso-manuela.html |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=engineering.cmu.edu |language=en}} – researcher in robotics and artificial intelligence, professor at the Carnegie Mellon University

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

• Cristina Fonseca (M.Sc. communication networks engineering, 2011){{Cite web |date=2012-03-18 |title=Cristina Fonseca (Talkdesk) at March Beta Talk |url=https://luiscaldasdeoliveira.com/2012/03/18/cristina-fonseca-talkdesk-at-march-beta-talk/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Luis Caldas de Oliveira |language=en-US}} – co-founder of Talkdesk and investor
• Diogo Mónica (M.Sc. communication networks engineering, 2009; PhD computer science, 2015){{Cite web |title=Diogo Monica - Co-Founder @ Anchorage |url=https://www.finnotes.org/people/diogo-monica |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.finnotes.org}} – co-founder of Anchorage Digital
• Stephan Morais (Lic. civil engineering, 1996){{Cite web |title=Alumni - Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Ambiente (DECivil) |url=https://decivil.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ligacao-a-sociedade/alumni |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=decivil.tecnico.ulisboa.pt |language=pt}} – investor, first Portuguese to be nominated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
• Ernesto Morgado (Lic. mechanical engineering, 1976; M.Sc. computer science, 1981) – co-founder of SISCOG, president of Ernesto Morgado S.A., retired professor at IST's Computer Engineering department
• Paulo Neves (Lic. electrical engineering){{Cite web |title=Equipa do novo líder da PT já está pronta |url=https://expresso.pt/economia/2015-07-07-Equipa-do-novo-lider-da-PT-ja-esta-pronta |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Jornal Expresso |language=pt-PT}} – former CEO of Altice Portugal (2015–2017)
• José Bento dos Santos (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1970){{Cite web |title=José Bento dos Santos |url=https://www.wook.pt/autor/jose-bento-dos-santos/33622 |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=Wook |language=pt}} – businessman, trader, metals broker, cook and gastronome
• Isabel Vaz (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1990), executive chair of {{ill|Luz Saúde|pt|Luz Saúde|}}, one of the largest healthcare companies in Portugal.

Politicians and diplomats

• Álvaro Barreto (Lic. civil engineering, 1959){{Cite web |last=Sousa |first=António Freitas de |date=2020-02-11 |title=Álvaro Barreto: um tecnocrata na política |url=https://jornaleconomico.pt/noticias/alvaro-barreto-um-tecnocrata-na-politicas-546218/ |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=O Jornal Económico |language=pt-PT}} – various ministerial roles between 1978 and 1990, and Minister of the Economy from 2004 to 2005
• Maria da Graça Carvalho (Lic. mechanical engineering, 1978)Porto Editora, [https://www.infopedia.pt/apoio/artigos/$maria-graca-carvalho Maria Graça Carvalho], infopedia.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-17. – Minister of the Environment and Energy since 2024, former Minister of Science and Higher Education (2003–2005)
• Ângelo Correia (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1968)[https://www.sporting.pt/incscp/pdf/investor_relations/ir_cv_angelocorreia.pdf Curriculum Vitae - José Ângelo Ferreira Correia]. sporting.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-16. – Minister of Internal Administration (1981–1983)
• Adelino Amaro da Costa (Lic. civil engineering, 1966){{Cite web |title=Biography, Adelino Amaro da Costa - Instituto Amaro da Costa - IDL |url=https://www.idl.pt/en/adelino-amaro-da-costa/biography/ |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=www.idl.pt}} – Minister of National Defense (1980)
• Alfredo Bruto da Costa (Lic. civil engineering, 1963){{Cite web |date=2016-11-12 |title=O engenheiro que queria ver erradicada a pobreza |url=https://www.dn.pt/portugal/o-engenheiro-que-queria-ver-erradicada-a-pobreza-5493876.html |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=www.dn.pt |language=pt-PT}} – Minister of Social Coordination and Social Affairs (1979–1980)
• Alfredo Nobre da Costa (Lic. mechanical engineering, 1946){{Cite web |last=Porto Editora |title=Alfredo Nobre da Costa |url=https://www.infopedia.pt/apoio/artigos/$alfredo-nobre-da-costa |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=infopedia.pt |language=pt}} – Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), Minister of Industry and Technology (1977–1978)
• Luis Veiga da Cunha (civil engineering, Lic. 1959, PhD 1971){{Cite web |date=2012-03-27 |title=PPA e AIP atribuem Prémio Carreira a Luís Veiga da Cunha |url=http://www.ppa.pt/2012/03/ppa-e-aip-atribuem-premio-carreira-a-luis-veiga-da-cunha/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Parceria Portuguesa para a Água |language=pt-pt}} – Minister of Education (1979–1980)
• João Pedro Matos Fernandes (M.Sc. transports, 1995){{Cite web |last=Peixoto |first=Helena |date=2019-01-07 |title=Ministro do Ambiente volta a "casa" para celebrar os 182 anos da FEUP |url=https://noticias.up.pt/ministro-do-ambiente-volta-a-casa-para-celebrar-os-182-anos-da-feup/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Notícias U.Porto |language=pt-PT}} – Minister of the Environment (2015–2022)
• Mariano Gago (Lic. electrical engineering, 1971){{Cite web |title=Mariano Gago: The Portuguese Science Minister with the Longest Tenure |url=https://cmuportugal.org/media/mariano-gago-the-portuguese-science-minister-with-the-longest-tenure/ |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=CMU Portugal |language=en-US}} – Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (1995–2002, 2005–2011)
• António Guterres (Lic. electrical engineering, 1971){{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-06-21 |title=António Guterres re-elected as UN Secretary General |url=https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/campus-community/antonio-guterres-re-elected-as-un-secretary-general/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Técnico Lisboa |language=en-US}} – Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017, former Prime Minister of Portugal (1995–2002), former president of the Socialist International (1999–2005) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2005–2015)
• Miguel Pinto Luz (Lic. electrical and computer engineering, 2000){{Cite web |title=Miguel Pinto Luz - Minister of Infrastructure and Housing |url=https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc24/ministries/infrastructure-and-housing/minister |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.portugal.gov.pt}} – Minister of Infrastructure and Housing since 2024
• Carlos Moedas (Lic. civil engineering, 1993){{Cite web |title=Carlos Moedas |url=https://re-imagine.eu/bio/carlos-moedas |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=Reimagine Europa |language=en-US}} – Mayor of Lisbon since 2021
• Duarte Pacheco (Lic. electrical engineering, 1926) – various ministerial roles between 1928 and 1943, director of IST (1929–1932, 1936–1937)
• Dulce Pássaro (Lic. chemical engineering, 1976){{Cite web |date=2021-06-24 |title=Dulce Pássaro é a mandatária da candidatura de José Francisco Rolo |url=https://radioboanova.sapo.pt/dulce-passaro-e-a-mandataria-da-candidatura-de-jose-francisco-rolo/ |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=radioboanova.sapo.pt |language=pt-PT}} – Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning (2009–2011)
• Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1953){{Cite web |title=Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo |url=https://unesco.missaoportugal.mne.gov.pt/en/history/ambassadors/maria-de-lourdes-pintassilgo-en |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=Permanent Delegation of Portugal to UNESCO}} – first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal (1979–1980)
• João de Deus Pinheiro (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1970){{Cite web |date=2011-08-26 |title=Como eles eram no liceu |url=https://www.dn.pt/revistas/nm/como-eles-eram-no-liceu-1962902.html |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=www.dn.pt |language=pt-PT}} – Minister of Education and Culture (1985–1987), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987–1992), European Commissioner between 1993 and 1999
• João Fraústo da Silva (Lic. chemical-industrial engineering, 1958){{Cite journal |last=Pombeiro |first=Armando J. L. |date=2003 |title=Protagonists in Chemistry |url=https://cqe.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/files/files/2016/06/Prof.-Frau%CC%81sto-da-Silva.pdf |journal=Inorganica Chimica Acta |volume=356 |issue=356 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.1016/S0020-1693(03)00330-X}} – Minister of Education (1982–1983), director of IST (1970–1972)

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