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The ITBA
Since the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology was
founded as a private university in 1959, its vocation for innovation,
technology, and academic excellence have been recognized.
The ITBA offers the following undergraduate degree
courses: Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum and Chemical
Engineering, and Business Administration and Systems Engineering.
The objective of the Graduate School and Continuing
Education Division is to offer refresher and professional development
training focusing on the following areas: Information Engineering and
Automation; Energy and the Environment; Health Engineering; and
Technology Management. The Office for Coordination of Research and
Development and the Office of Technological Services are also working
in these areas with the common aim of contributing to the
technological development of institutions and the country.
Telecommunications in the ITBA
The ITBA is fully conversant with the
telecommunications field, at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels,. For the past 13 years, it has offered an attendance-based
graduate level specialization course on Telecommunications Engineering
and, for the past 10, eight of them in conjunction with another
university, a Telecommunications Management course. The course
currently offered is taught with the collaboration of ITU experts and
leads to a joint ITBA-ITU diploma.
Since early 2004, the ITBA has offered a graduate
level distance education Telecommunications Management course, which
has met with singular success: the second academic course began on
April 18, 2005, with 45 participants from different countries of the
Americas.
The University has an advanced telecommunications
center (CAT), whose mission is to offer services and specific events
in the telecommunications field.
The CAT seeks to link the ITBA’s academic
activities with those of the communications business sector, offering
a wide array of technological and management services. It also seeks
to contribute, by offering basic and advanced human resource training,
to business needs and requirements, and technical assistance on
specialized telecommunications topics.
To summarize, the CAT’s vision is to serve as a
sector technology reference center by offering a wide array of
technology and management services and high quality scientific output,
generating intellectual property, training outstanding human resources
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and, essentially,
bridging the divide between academia, with its innovative
technological activity, and the local industry that is to adopt it.
The ITBA and CITEL
The ITBA has been designated a CITEL Regional
Training Center and, in 2005, will offer a distance education course
on WiFi for the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, and
another on satellite communications.
The ITBA and the ITU
The ITBA has also been selected as an International
Telecommunication Union Center of Excellence and, owing to its
background and experience in the telecommunications area, has been
assigned academic responsibility for the graduate level
telecommunications technology course that the ITU intends to offer as
a distance learning course beginning in 2005.
Ruben Kustra
Director Graduate courses in telecommunications
ITBA
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The Buenos Aires
Institute of Technology 
