Tecnun has celebrated the opening ceremony of the Graduate academic year 2018-19 and the imposition of Master's caps. As highlighted in the presentation by the coordinator of studies Coro Aycart, in addition to the 916 students of Degree,148 students will study this year one of the 3 masters of engineering offered by the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in San Sebastian. In addition, 71 engineers will continue their doctoral programs under the tutelage of more than 250 researchers from Tecnun and Ceit-ik4, the center for technical studies and research in Gipuzkoa that the University founded here in 1982 with the support of public institutions represented today at campus.

The event was attended by President, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, the president of the Basque Parliament, Bakartxo Tejeria, the Basque Government's Minister for Economic and Infrastructure development , Arantxa Tapia, and the director general of Management Strategy of the Provincial Council, Sebastián Zurutuza. Also participating in the event were the director of Tecnun, Raul Antón, the director of development, Iñigo Gutiérrez, the General Manager Javier Aizpún, the president of Ceit-Ik4, José María Rodríguez Ibabe and academic authorities of the UPV/EHU and Deusto such as Txelo Ruiz and José Antonio Rodríguez respectively. Also in attendance was the Vice President of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Jon Altuna.

The inaugural lecture was given at position by Sener's CEO, Jorge Unda, entitled: "Projects. Aptitudes and attitudes to work in a team".

The ceremony began with the reading of the most relevant events of the past year, such as the culmination of the renewal process and accreditation of the master's degrees and Degree of Tecnun and the awarding of the Eur-Ace Seal (European quality seal that highlights, mainly, the professional character and the high capacity of employment rate of the graduates). 

Also highlighted were the research projects carried out last year together with the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa at framework of the Etorkizuna Eraikiz initiative, the collaboration with the City Council in the program for the return of talent and the participation of Tecnun in the Cluster of university training in Engineering, Science and Technology of the Basque Country, promoted by the Basque Government. Likewise, the creation of the first committee advisor of Companies of Tecnun, composed of 24 companies with which Tecnun has collaboration agreements such as the Real Sociedad, Biele or Etxe-Tar, was also highlighted.

Extraordinary Doctorate Prizes

The event culminated with the submission of the Extraordinary Doctorate Awards. The winners were David del Río and Jorge Aramburu Montenegro.

The thesis of David del Rio from San Sebastian has explored the implementation of high data rate transmitters for fifth generation networks (5G) and future networks, under the direction of the professors of Tecnun Roc Berenguer and Juan Francisco Sevillano. This has been developed in the framework of the European project 'E3Network' with the participation of companies and centers of international prestige.

Jorge Aramburu's thesis has been carried out in close collaboration with the hepatology and interventional radiology unit of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra within the framework of a project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. As a result of the thesis work, a series of results have been obtained that have been useful to interventional radiologists who carry out radioembolization treatment in patients with liver cancer.