The Higher Education School of Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries (in Spanish: ''Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Química e Industrias Extractivas'' or ''ESIQIE'') was founded as part of the

National Polytechnic Institute National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland ...

in 1948. It offers

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studies in:

Undergraduate

*Industrial

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Engineering *

Petrochemical Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable ...

Engineering *

Metallurgical Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sci ...

and Materials Engineering with two different curricula: *Materials Engineering *Materials and Processing

Undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

studies in

Engineering were first offered by the Institute in 1941 under the now defunct Superior School of Engineering and Architecture. Undergraduate studies in

Engineering were first offered in 1945 under the direction of Dean Guillermo Torres Prieto.

Postgraduate

It offers postgraduate studies that are part of the National Register of Postgraduate Studies of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico, (CONACYT): *

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in Science in Chemical Engineering. *

in Science in Metallurgical Engineering. *

in Engineering in Hydrocarbon and its Associated Energetics. *

Doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' ...

in Science in Chemical Engineering. *

in Science in Metallurgy and Materials. *

in Nanoscience and Micro-Nanotechnology.

Sports

ESIQIE is well known for being represented by

Águilas Blancas Águilas Blancas (), also known as Politécnico when representing the entirety of National Polytechnic Institute, founded as Águilas Blancas de la ESCA- ESIQIE, is a Mexican college football team based in the Casco de Santo Tomas neighborhood ...

in college football. They are by far the most successful team within the Polytechnic, and one of the most prolific in entire country, having won 5

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since their inception.

Alumni

* José Roberto "Pepe" Espinosa, sports broadcaster for

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and

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References

External links

Official ESIQIE website
* https://www.ipn.mx/ Instituto Politécnico Nacional {{Mexico-university-stub