The Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering will provide you with the expertise and skills for acting in the industrial sector, one of the most important for the today's economic development. As a graduate in Electrical Engineering you will play a key role in the realm of electricity, industrial electronics and automation. And, if you want to continue studying, you will be able to become an industrial engineer.
General information
- Name of the course:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- Branch of knowledge:
- Engineering and architecture
- Duration:
- 4 years
- European credits:
- 240
- What qualifications can lead to:
Graduate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Girona
- Teaching institution:
- Polytechnic School
- Indicative number of places:
- 40
- Last admission mark:
Grades required for the June 2023 examination call
- Approx. price for the first year:
- See How much does it costs to study at the University of Girona?
- Valid report:
- Report (2010)
- Other information:
- Monitoring indicators
It's useful to know
The Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering will provide you with professional qualifications recognised by the Spanish State (Act 12/1986). This means that, as a graduate in Electrical Engineering, you will be able to do work that other professionals cannot do. You will also, of course, be able to carry out all the activities related with the industry sector that do not require professional attributes regulated by law. Thus, you will be able to operate in areas related to industrial engineering in general and electrical engineering in particular:
- Generation, transport, distribution and use of electrical energy.
- Electromechanical operations (electrical engines): regulation of speed and position.
- Automation and control of industrial processes.
- Industrial plants: electrical facilities and communications.
- Sustainability: renewable energies, efficient energy management, intelligent distribution of electrical energy, social and environmental impact, electrical vehicles.
- Home automation.
- Design, development, preparation and industrial management of engineering projects.
- Expert opinions, studies and reports.
- Technical and financial advice, verification, control, maintenance, marketing, management, use, management, organisation, planning, production, quality and safety.
Access
Access requirements
- Upper secondary school education
- Access: university entrance examinations (PAU), general stage. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture.
- Higher level training cycles (CFGS).
- Access: all CFGS. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture.
- Over 25 years old
- Preferential option in successful entrance exam: Engineering and Architecture.
- Over 40 years old
- Assessment of professional experience relating to the bachelor's degree that the applicant wishes to be admitted to and sufficient interview outcome.
- Over 45 years old
- Entrance exam passed and favourable interview outcome.
- Others
- Special types of access recognised under current regulations .
Another information on access
- Pre-enrolment code:
- 81040
- Weightings
- Weighting parameters of the subjects in the specific phase of the PAU
- Validated credit transfer from higher level training cycles
- Validated subjects and credit transfers from higher level vocational training cycles
Careers
The Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering will provide you with specialised education and, at the same time, a good general education in engineering. This will give you versatility and a capacity to adapt to various types of work and you will therefore have many job-placement options:
- In engineering and consulting firms.
- In companies in the electrical sector.
- In renewable-energy companies.
- In energy-services companies.
- In industry in general.
- In services.
- In the Administration.
- In education.
- In technology research and transfer.
- Working as a freelance engineer.
- Creating your own company.
Recent employability surveys indicate that graduates in electrical engineering quickly find work, even before they finish their studies, and that such work is linked to what they have studied. You can get an idea of your many professional options by looking at the careers services for the various engineers’ associations, for example enginyersgi.cat .
Continue studying
The speciality content of the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and the Bachelor's degree in Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineering relate to industrial electronics, automation and electricity. What varies is the proportion of these contents. This close relationship will allow you to also obtain a Bachelor's degree in Automation and Industrial Electronics Engineering in just one additional academic year. If you are already certain from the start that you wish to study the two bachelor's degrees, you can enrol simultaneously for the Dual bachelor's degree in Engineering in Automation and Industrial Electronics / Electrical Engineering.
Once you complete your Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, you will also be able to study the Master in Industrial Engineering at the University of Girona, the only official master's degree that qualifies its holder to enter the regulated profession of industrial engineering.
In addition, the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering provides access to other technology and science master’s degrees. The postgraduate degrees that the University of Girona offers include some with a highly practical profile, focused on labour market needs and also on research, which you will be able to access the doctorate in Technology through.
Other specialisation courses and postgraduate activities are available through the University of Girona Foundation: Innovation and Training, whose main objective is to fulfil the needs of higher level lifelong learning in all fields of knowledge.
Subjects
Mathematics15.00 credits
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
BBasic |
9.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Physics12.00 credits
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Graphic expression 7.00 credits
|
BBasic |
7.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Chemistry6.00 credits
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Computer science8.00 credits
|
BBasic |
8.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of mechanics and strength of materials6.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of the science of materials6.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Statistics6.00 credits
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Business6.00 credits
|
BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics12.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical, electronic and automatic systems24 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
8.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of mechanics and strength of materials6.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical circuits and installations6 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial production and environment6.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electronics and automation16 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical machines and operations9 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Power electrical generation and systems14 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical circuits and installations5 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional5 credits
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Projects6.00 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Power electrical generation and systems8 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
8.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical circuits and installations10 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional20 credits
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Bachelor’s thesis 15 credits
|
OBCompulsory |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional modules + academic recognition31 credits
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
|
OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Calendar and timetables
Through the following links you can access the calendars and timetables that correspond to this bachelor's degree.
The academic calendar marks the beginning and end of classes, non-teaching days, holidays, exam periods, and so on. The administrative calendar marks the periods to make the different formalities administrative.
Placements
All the subjects making up the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering have a practical aspect which carries very considerable weight for the studies and for facilitating incorporation into professional life. Practical classes are held in small groups and in modern laboratories adapted to the current requirements.
Businesses play a large role at the Polytechnic School. As an electrical engineering student, you will be able to take up work placements through work placements. You will be able to choose between the more than 450 options that are proposed in each academic year.
Bachelor's thesis
During the final year, you will complete a bachelor's thesis to show the knowledge you have acquired during the degree. The bachelor's thesis is an engineering project on the subject you choose and which you will carry out under the supervision of a lecturer. If you wish, you can complete this in a company or research group.
The business association that supports the Polytechnic School and professional associations of engineers award prizes every year to the best theses.
Mobility
The Polytechnic School (PS) maintains relations with universities from all over the world. There are several mobility and exchange programmes that enable you to make stays abroad for studying subjects, drafting bachelor's theses or broadening studies: Erasmus, Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, Socrates, IAESTE, SICUE-Sèneca, Balsells scholarships, Josep Maria Ginés i Pous scholarship.
Enrolment
First year enrolment
1
Once the Catalan government has allocated you your place, you will receive an email from the UdG with your user code and a link for setting your password, as well as links to online enrolment applications and information on enrolling on your bachelor's degree studies. If you do not receive the message, fill in and send the user-account application form for newly admitted students for the academic year.
2
Use the link provided in the message to set your password. The user code and the password make up your digital identity as a UdG student and will allow you to access the university's online services.
3
Use your user code and password to access the online enrolment and check the enrolment period assigned to you. If the period has already started, the application will inform you that you can start your enrolment.
4
Click on the Grants and allowances tab. If you are entitled to any discounts that are not recognised, you will have the option to start the recognition procedure by pressing the corresponding "Request” button and attaching scans of the necessary documentation. Your school’s secretary's office will validate the documents so that, where appropriate, you can enjoy the corresponding discount on your enrolment or free enrolment.
6
Formalise your online enrolment following the guide's instructions. If you have queries, contact the secretary’s office at your teaching institution. Remember you must enrol before the deadline provided for, otherwise, you will lose your place.
- Subjects
- Check the subjects for which you can enrol in the section Subjects > Available subjects 2023-2024 of the website for your bachelor's degree studies.
- Fees
- Consult the enrolment fees and deductions available to you.
- Payment
- You can pay the enrolment fee in full, in two or three instalments or in monthly instalments. See the terms and conditions in the Enrolment Regulations.
- Grants
- If you have applied for the MEFP general scholarship and you meet the academic requirements established in the call for applications, you will be able to enrol without paying the public fees (subject to the subsequent award of the scholarship).
- Third language
- If your degree course requires a level of knowledge of a third language to obtain the qualification and you already have a recognised certificate of this level or higher, we recommend that you present it together with the rest of the documentation required for the first enrolment. Check the Regulations about a third language.
- Insurance
- If you are under 28 years old, you are obliged to take out compulsory school insurance for €1.12 per year. If you are over 28 years old, you will be covered by a compulsory accident insurance for 6.65 euros per course. Further information on the Insurance policies page.
- Staying
- Bear in mind that if you do not pass a minimum of 30 credits in the first two years, you will not be able to continue the same course at the UdG. Check the Rules for staying.
- ID
- Spanish nationals do not need to produce their national ID (DNI) unless they opposed the University of Girona's collection of personal data during their online enrolment (see the guide for online enrolment).
If you are a national of a EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or Andorra, you will need to present a valid ID or passport from your country of origin.
Otherwise you will preferably need to present a valid foreign-national identification care (TIE) or passport if do you not have a TIE.
You will need to attach a scanned copy of the document through the corresponding online procedure and present the original in person at the academic secretary’s office.
For online submissions you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
You have until the 21 November to submit the document.
- Admission documents
- If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from PAU, CFGS, admission exams for individuals over the age of 25, 40 or 45 or university degree obtained from the UdG, you will not need to produce any documents.
If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from a university degree completed at another university, you will need to forward a copy of your degree online (e-degree or authenticated digital copy of the degree) or provisional degree certificate (with digital signature and CSV), or produce the original in person at the academic secretary's office.
If you have been admitted to the UdG through academic record transfer or university pre-enrolment from a university degree started at another university, you will have to send proof, online, of payment, of your transfer fees, signed electronically and with SVC, or present the original in person at the secretary’s academic office.
For online submissions of documents, you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
You have until the 21 November to submit the documents.
- Allowances and exemptions
- Before you register, review the self-enrolment’s "Grants and allowances" tab. If you are entitled to allowances that are recorded as accredited and are valid on the date of the start of the academic year (12 September), you will not need to produce any documents.
If you are entitled to allowances that are not recorded as accredited, you can start the accreditation procedure by clicking on the corresponding "Request" button, and uploading the necessary documents there for applying the corresponding enrolment discount or payment exemption.
You can also use the “Document Accreditation” procedure from the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably (with digital certificate) the electronic register of the UdG, or to produce the documents in person at the academic secretary's office.
If your documents are currently being processed or pending renewal, you will not be eligible for the enrolment-fee discount, but presentations of updated documents will be accepted up to 31 December for subsequently regularising your situation.
Further information from the Allowances and Loans page.
- Bank details
- If you are not the holder of the bank account from which the registration fee will be paid by direct debit, you must submit the completed bank details notification/ modification form and proof of identification for the account holder.
For online submissions of documents you will have to use the “Communicating or amending bank details” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
These documents will have to be produced within a period of 10 work days as from the date of enrolment.
- Enrolment application (only for face-to-face enrolment)
- If you not enrol online (online enrolment), you will have to fill in an enrolment-application document for the teaching centre. The centre itself will provide you with the document and which you will have submit duly filled in and signed on the day of enrolment.
- Photograph
- After you have enrolled, you will need to produce a personal photograph through the La meva UdG intranet (Staff > digital Identity), in accordance with the instructions provided on the same webpage.
Note: accreditation by electronic means is not definitive, except in the case of original electronic documents or authentic electronic copies. The UdG reserves the right to request the corresponding physical documentation at a later date.
Online enrolment
Online enrolment is the University of Girona's electronic enrolment system. It is done through the Internet and is available for the most of the studies.
Testimonials
"The technical expertise in electrical systems and in automation and control that I need in my daily work are clearly connected to the subjects I studied."
“The vision that the university gave me in human and business aspects enabled me to become the company managing director that I am today.”
"The technical expertise in electrical systems and in automation and control that I need in my daily work are clearly connected to the subjects I studied."
“The vision that the university gave me in human and business aspects enabled me to become the company managing director that I am today.”
"The technical expertise in electrical systems and in automation and control that I need in my daily work are clearly connected to the subjects I studied."
“The vision that the university gave me in human and business aspects enabled me to become the company managing director that I am today.”