Federico Santa María Technical University

The Federico Santa María Technical University (Spanish: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, UTFSM) is a non-profit technical university in Valparaíso, Chile, founded in 1931 with the fortune of the sugar merchant and philanthropist Federico Santa María Carrera.费德里科·圣玛丽亚技术大学（Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María，简称 UTFSM）是智利瓦尔帕莱索的一所非营利技术大学，1931 年以糖业商人、慈善家费德里科·圣玛丽亚·卡雷拉的遗产创办。

It is the country's best-known engineering school, a member of the Chilean Rectors' Council (CRUCh), and it enrols 16,730 students, 90.5 per cent of them undergraduates, taught by 752 academic staff.该校是智利最知名的工科院校，为智利大学校长理事会（CRUCh）成员，现有学生 16730 人，其中本科生占 90.5%，专任教师 752 人。

It occupies the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education table for the same year, and 1308th place in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, while it did not enter the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，在同年的泰晤士高等教育排名中位列 1601-1800 区间，在 US News 2026-2027 全球最佳大学排名中列第 1308 位，但未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Federico Santa María Carrera made his fortune in Paris as a broker in the sugar trade and died there on 20 December 1925, leaving a will that still functions as the founding charter of the institution that bears his name.费德里科·圣玛丽亚·卡雷拉在巴黎以糖业经纪人的身份积累巨额财富，1925 年 12 月 20 日在那里去世，留下的遗嘱至今仍是这所以其姓名命名的大学的创办章程。
• The testament was drafted in Paris in 1920 and left the bulk of his estate for a technical and scientific institution in Valparaíso, his native city, with a value that later estimates put at the equivalent of some 27 billion present-day U.S. dollars.这份遗嘱于 1920 年在巴黎订立，将大部分遗产留给其故乡瓦尔帕莱索的一所技术与科学机构，后世估算其现值约合 270 亿美元。
• The will obliged the new school to admit able but poor Chilean students on merit alone, a clause that wrote free tuition and social mobility into the statutes from the outset.遗嘱要求新学校只凭才学录取有天分却家境贫寒的智利学生，这一条款自始就把免学费与社会流动写入了学校章程。
• Four executors were named to carry out the bequest, namely Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure, Juan Brown Caces, Carlos van Buren and Andrew Geddes, who administered the estate through a foundation created on 31 March 1926.遗嘱指定四位执行人落实这笔捐赠，即阿古斯丁·爱德华兹·麦克卢尔、胡安·布朗·卡塞斯、卡洛斯·范布伦与安德鲁·格迪斯，他们通过 1926 年 3 月 31 日设立的基金会管理遗产。
• Teaching began in 1931 with the Escuela de Artes y Oficios and the Escuela de Ingenieros José Miguel Carrera, and the institution took its present name, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in 1935.学校于 1931 年以工艺美术学校与何塞·米格尔·卡雷拉工程师学校的名义开始授课，1935 年改用现名费德里科·圣玛丽亚技术大学。
• Edwards Mac-Clure travelled to Germany to recruit Karl Laudien, then head of a technical school in Western Pomerania, as first rector, and engineers from the University of Berlin, Leipzig University and other German institutions shaped the curriculum before and after the Second World War.爱德华兹·麦克卢尔亲赴德国，聘请当时西波美拉尼亚一所技术学校的校长卡尔·劳迪恩出任首任校长，来自柏林大学、莱比锡大学等德国学府的工程师在二战前后塑造了该校的课程体系。
• The review Scientia appeared in 1934 as the house journal of academic work and still gives its name to the university's research publication.校刊《Scientia》于 1934 年问世，作为校内学术工作的机关刊物，至今仍是该校科研出版物的名称。
• Radio UTFSM began broadcasting on 7 April 1937 on 1450 kHz and remains the oldest university radio station in Latin America, now transmitting also on 99.7 MHz FM and online.该校广播电台于 1937 年 4 月 7 日以 1450 千赫开播，至今仍是拉丁美洲历史最悠久的大学电台，现同时以 99.7 兆赫调频和网络信号播出。
• The first engineer, Homero Capona, graduated in 1939, the year the alumni association that became AEXA was founded, and a Santiago chapter followed in 1941.首位工程师奥梅罗·卡波纳于 1939 年毕业，同年校友会成立，后来发展为 AEXA，圣地亚哥分会则于 1941 年设立。
• Three faculties of chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering were created in 1944 and remained the organisational core until the faculty system was abolished under rector Adolfo Arata.化学、机械与电气三个工程学院于 1944 年设立，此后一直是学校的组织核心，直至阿道夫·阿拉塔任校长期间废除学院建制。
• The university chamber choir gave its first performance in December 1951 in the Aula Magna, having been founded on 4 August 1951 by the engineering student Demóstenes Penna.大学室内合唱团由工科学生德莫斯泰内斯·佩纳于 1951 年 8 月 4 日创立，同年 12 月在大礼堂首次演出。
• A graduate school opened on 1 August 1960 under Herbert Appel, with technical assistance from the University of Pittsburgh, and offered doctoral lines in chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.研究生院于 1960 年 8 月 1 日在赫伯特·阿佩尔主持下开办，并获匹兹堡大学技术协助，开设化学、电气与机械工程的博士研究方向。
• In 1962 the university awarded Latin America's first doctorate in engineering, in chemical engineering, to Walter Gaete Castro, who had completed his research within that Pittsburgh partnership.1962 年，该校授予瓦尔特·盖特·卡斯特罗化学工程博士学位，这是拉丁美洲首个工程学博士学位，其研究在匹兹堡大学合作框架内完成。
• Patricia Guzmán became the first woman to obtain a technical degree in 1964, and Graciela Muñoz became the first woman to graduate as an engineer in 1965.帕特里夏·古斯曼于 1964 年成为首位获得技术学位的女性，格拉谢拉·穆尼奥斯则于 1965 年成为首位女工程师毕业生。
• An expansion plan of the 1960s, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and supported by the Ford Foundation, produced the José Miguel Carrera branch in Viña del Mar, housed from 1971 in a building on land supplied by the INDAP agrarian agency.1960 年代的扩张计划由美洲开发银行出资、福特基金会支持，促成了比尼亚德尔马何塞·米格尔·卡雷拉分校，其校舍 1971 年落成，用地由农业发展研究所 INDAP 提供。
• A visit by King Baudouin I and Queen Fabiola of Belgium in October 1965 led to the Concepción branch, built from 1969 with Belgian funds, donations from local industry and land from the Archbishop of Concepción.1965 年 10 月比利时国王博杜安一世与王后法比奥拉的来访促成了康塞普西翁分校，该校自 1969 年起兴建，资金来自比利时、当地企业捐输以及康塞普西翁大主教提供的土地。
• Classes at Concepción began on 26 April 1971 in electronics, electrical engineering, structural mechanics, maintenance mechanics and chemistry, and President Salvador Allende inaugurated the campus on 14 February 1972.康塞普西翁分校于 1971 年 4 月 26 日开课，设电子、电气、结构力学、维修力学与化学等专业，1972 年 2 月 14 日由总统萨尔瓦多·阿连德主持落成典礼。
• After the coup of 11 September 1973 the university restarted teaching on 15 October 1973, earlier than any of the eight Chilean universities then in operation.1973 年 9 月 11 日政变后，该校于 1973 年 10 月 15 日复课，是当时智利八所大学中最早恢复教学的一所。
• Between 1973 and 1989 rectors were appointed by the military government instead of being elected, among them Commander Juan Naylor, Vice-Admiral Ismael Huerta and Commander Arturo Niño de Zepeda.1973 至 1989 年间，校长由军政府任命而非选举产生，先后包括海军中校胡安·奈勒、海军中将伊斯梅尔·韦尔塔与中校阿图罗·尼尼奥·德塞佩达。
• Gustavo Chiang Acosta, a 1949 mechanical engineering graduate, became in 1989 the first rector chosen by a vote of the university community after the return to democracy.1949 届机械工程师古斯塔沃·蒋·阿科斯塔于 1989 年成为民主恢复后首位由大学共同体投票选出的校长。
• The Santiago presence grew with the Vitacura campus in 1995 and the San Joaquín campus in 2009, while a campus opened in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1996 was closed in 2018.该校在圣地亚哥的存在感随 1995 年维塔库拉校区与 2009 年圣华金校区的设立而扩大，1996 年在厄瓜多尔瓜亚基尔开设的校区则于 2018 年关闭。
• In 2008 the Valparaíso Casa Central was listed among the most remarkable Chilean architectural works of the twentieth century, and in 2022 Juan Yuz Eissmann was confirmed as rector for the 2022-2026 term.2008 年，瓦尔帕莱索主楼被列入二十世纪智利最杰出建筑作品，2022 年胡安·尤斯·艾斯曼获确认为 2022 至 2026 年任期的校长。

Academics

• UTFSM is organised in 17 academic departments rather than faculties, a structure adopted after the faculty system was abolished under rector Adolfo Arata.该校以 17 个学系而非学院为组织单位，这一结构在阿道夫·阿拉塔校长任内废除学院制之后确立。
• The departments cover chemical and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, informatics, metallurgy and materials, mining, industrial engineering, telematic engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, architecture, construction, design and humanistic studies.学系涵盖化学与环境工程、机械工程、电气工程、电子、信息、冶金与材料、矿业、工业工程、远程信息工程、数学、物理、化学、建筑、施工、设计与人文学科。
• Degrees are differentiated by length, with civil engineering running twelve semesters, engineering, pure sciences and architecture ten, applied engineering eight and technical careers six.学位按修业年限区分，土木工程为十二个学期，工程、纯科学与建筑为十个学期，应用工程为八个学期，技术类为六个学期。
• Graduate study offers master's degrees requiring two years and doctorates requiring three to five years, all open only to holders of a bachelor's degree.研究生教育提供修业两年的硕士与三至五年的博士，均只招收已获学士学位者。
• Doctoral programmes in biotechnology, physics and mathematics are run jointly with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, and mathematics also with the University of Valparaíso.生物技术、物理与数学博士项目与瓦尔帕莱索天主教大学联合开办，数学博士还联合瓦尔帕莱索大学。
• The Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering has twelve associate professors, eleven of them holding doctorates, and works on process design, environmental engineering, food science, minerals processing and process control.化学与环境工程系有十二名副教授，其中十一人拥有博士学位，研究涵盖工艺设计、环境工程、食品科学、矿物加工与过程控制。
• The Department of Mechanical Engineering counted twenty full-time professors in 2016, seventeen of them with doctorates, working on thermodynamics, energy and process engineering.机械工程系 2016 年有二十名全职教授，其中十七人拥有博士学位，研究热力学、能源与过程工程。
• Sport is a compulsory course for the first three semesters of every programme in Valparaíso and Santiago, the only Chilean engineering school to impose such a requirement.在瓦尔帕莱索与圣地亚哥校区，所有专业前三学期均须修读体育课，该校是智利唯一作此要求的工科院校。
• The Academia de Ciencias Aeronáuticas, run with the airline LAN Chile, trains commercial pilots and aeronautical engineers and is one of very few such schools in the country.航空科学学院与智利航空 LAN 合办，培养商用飞行员与航空工程师，是国内极少数同类院系之一。
• Since 2010 the university has won almost 8 million U.S. dollars for 76 research projects, many of them with CERN, the Max Planck Society, Politecnico di Milano, MIT and SLAC.2010 年以来，该校为 76 个科研项目争取到近 800 万美元经费，其中不少与欧洲核子研究中心、马克斯·普朗克学会、米兰理工、麻省理工与 SLAC 合作。
• Its physics department joined CERN experiments through the particle physicist Georges Mikenberg, who received the honorary doctorate in 2019 for that work.该校物理系经粒子物理学家乔治·米肯贝格参与欧洲核子研究中心实验，他因这项工作于 2019 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• First-year retention stood at 82 per cent and second-year retention at 66 per cent over 2011-2016, while international students made up less than 1 per cent of enrolment.2011 至 2016 年间，一年级留存率为 82%，二年级为 66%，国际学生占在校生不足 1%。
• The rector reported in 2025 that 90 per cent of graduates find employment or start a business within a year of qualifying.校长在 2025 年表示，90% 的毕业生在取得学位后一年内就业或自主创业。
• Admission runs through the national PAES examination and the centralised Chilean placement system, and the university is regularly described as one of the most selective in the country.招生通过全国 PAES 考试与智利统一录取系统进行，该校常被视为国内选拔最严格的大学之一。
• Accreditation is granted by the Comisión Nacional de Acreditación, which awarded the maximum six years in the university's last full review.认证由智利国家认证委员会授予，该校在上一次全面评审中获得最长的六年认证。
• AEXA alumni chapters in Valparaíso (1939), Santiago (1941) and the United States (1995) fund scholarships and mentor students on behalf of the university.AEXA 校友会在瓦尔帕莱索（1939 年）、圣地亚哥（1941 年）与美国（1995 年）设有分会，代表学校发放奖学金并为学生提供导师。
• The Casa Central library and the departmental collections serve 16,730 students, 487 of whom come from abroad, in a student body where women remain a minority in most engineering programmes.主楼图书馆与各系资料室服务 16730 名学生，其中 487 人来自国外；在多数工程专业中女性仍占少数。

Campus

• The Casa Central occupies most of the front of Los Placeres hill in Valparaíso, on the site of the former Pudeto fort at Avenida España 1680, facing the Pacific Ocean.主楼校区占据瓦尔帕莱索洛斯普拉塞雷斯山的前沿地带，位于西班牙大道 1680 号旧普德托要塞的旧址，面朝太平洋。
• It was designed by Josué Smith Solar and his son José Smith Miller in an American Neo-Gothic style and is regarded as one of the foremost works of Chilean architecture of its period.校舍由何塞·史密斯·索拉尔及其子何塞·史密斯·米勒以美洲新哥特式设计，被视为那一时期智利建筑的代表作之一。
• More than three hectares of gardens with native and exotic species make the compound the largest urban park in Valparaíso, although it is not open to the public.校园内有逾三公顷种植本土与外来物种的园林，使其成为瓦尔帕莱索最大的城市公园，尽管并不向公众开放。
• The floodlighting of the main facade was renewed in 2001 through a competition organised by the Chilean branch of Philips.主立面的泛光照明于 2001 年通过飞利浦智利分公司主办的竞赛方案更新。
• Campuses at Vitacura since 1995 and San Joaquín since 2009 carry undergraduate and graduate teaching in Santiago, while the sedes at Viña del Mar and Concepción concentrate on technical degrees.1995 年起设立的维塔库拉校区与 2009 年起设立的圣华金校区在圣地亚哥承担本科与研究生教学，比尼亚德尔马与康塞普西翁两处分校则以技术学位为主。
• The Viña del Mar sede stands on the boundary between Viña del Mar and Quilpué, in a building finished in 1971 with advice from the Dunwoody Industrial Institute of the United States.比尼亚德尔马分校位于该市与基尔普埃的交界处，校舍 1971 年建成，营建时获美国邓伍迪工业学院提供咨询。
• The Concepción sede, named Rey Balduino de Bélgica, opened in Talcahuano in 1972 and was financed by the Belgian state and by firms such as Cementos Bío Bío, CAP, Fanaloza, Inchalam and Pizarreño.康塞普西翁分校名为比利时国王博杜安，1972 年在塔尔卡瓦诺启用，由比利时政府以及比奥比奥水泥、CAP 钢铁、法纳洛萨、因查拉姆、皮萨雷尼奥等企业出资兴建。
• Valparaíso's historic quarter, where the Casa Central stands, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, and the city hosts seven universities.主楼所在的瓦尔帕莱索历史城区于 2003 年被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产，该市共有七所大学。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval within the global table.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，属于全球榜单中的并列区间。
• It stood in the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, having been placed between 251st and 275th in the same table in 2015.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1601-1800 区间，而在 2015 年同一榜单中曾处于第 251 至 275 位。
• It was ranked 1308th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027.该校在 US News 2026-2027 全球最佳大学榜单中位列第 1308 位。
• It did not appear in the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校未出现在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜之中。
• In the Times Higher Education Latin America ranking its position slid from 13th in 2016 to 49th in 2022, a decline the university has acknowledged in public statements.在泰晤士高等教育拉丁美洲排名中，该校名次从 2016 年的第 13 位下滑至 2022 年的第 49 位，校方在公开表述中亦承认这一退步。
• In 2019 it was ranked second in Latin America in the Times Higher Education subject table for engineering and technology.2019 年，该校在泰晤士高等教育工程与技术学科排名中位列拉丁美洲第二。
• For ten consecutive years it has been ranked among the three best universities in Chile in a quality survey of more than 1,000 senior business executives.在一项由千余名企业高管参与的质量调查中，该校连续十年位居智利大学前三。
• A 2012 study by Microsoft Academic ranked it fifth among 9,500 engineering schools worldwide on five-year impact factor and first in South America on normalised impact.微软学术 2012 年的一项研究按五年影响因子将该校列为全球 9500 所工学院中的第五位，其标准化影响力在南美洲居首。
• OpenAlex indexes 15,979 works and 1,201,773 citations for the university, a volume concentrated in engineering, physics and materials science.OpenAlex 收录该校 15979 篇研究成果与 1201773 次引用，数量集中在工程、物理与材料科学领域。

Student life

• The motto is Ex Umbra in Solem, Latin for "from the shadow into the sun", and it also supplied the title of the book published for the university's eightieth anniversary.校训为拉丁语 Ex Umbra in Solem，意为「从阴影走向阳光」，建校八十周年纪念文集亦以此为题。
• The graduation ceremony is held on 20 December every year because that is the anniversary of the founder's death in 1925.毕业典礼固定在每年 12 月 20 日举行，因为这一天是创办人 1925 年逝世的纪念日。
• Students and alumni are known as Sansanos, a nickname used across Chile for graduates of the Valparaíso campus.学生与校友被称为 Sansanos，这一绰号在智利全国都指瓦尔帕莱索主楼的毕业生。
• Radio UTFSM has broadcast cultural and informational programming since 1937 and runs a television channel and online stream alongside its AM and FM frequencies.该校广播电台自 1937 年起播出文化与资讯节目，除调幅与调频外还经营电视频道与网络直播。
• The chamber choir has performed continuously since 1951 under directors including Silvio Olate Valenzuela for 28 years to 1983 and Eduardo Silva Cerda from 1987 to 2010.室内合唱团自 1951 年起持续演出，历任指挥包括执棒二十八年至 1983 年的西尔维奥·奥拉特·巴伦苏埃拉，以及 1987 至 2010 年的爱德华多·席尔瓦·塞尔达。
• The folklore ensemble Alimapu carries the university's musical tradition into Chilean popular repertoire, performing cueca and other national forms.民俗乐团 Alimapu 把该校的音乐传统带入智利民间曲目，演出奎卡等本国音乐形式。
• The student federation FEUTFSM has long been a training ground for public figures, and its former president Jorge Brito Hasbún has sat in the Chamber of Deputies since 2018.学生联合会 FEUTFSM 长期是公共人物的养成之所，其前主席豪尔赫·布里托·阿斯本自 2018 年起担任众议员。
• Most students come from regions outside Santiago and many are the first in their family to enter university, a profile the rector highlighted in his 2025 message on STEM education.多数学生来自圣地亚哥以外的地区，不少人是他家中第一代大学生，校长在 2025 年关于 STEM 教育的讲话中特别提到这一构成。

Notable people

• Federico Santa María Carrera, the Paris sugar broker who died in 1925, is the founder and namesake, and his bequest of 1920 remains the legal basis of the university's endowment.1925 年去世的巴黎糖业经纪人费德里科·圣玛丽亚·卡雷拉是创办人与校名来源，其 1920 年的遗赠至今仍是该校基金的法律基础。
• Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure, one of the four executors, was a Chilean foreign minister, interior minister and president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations.四位执行人之一的阿古斯丁·爱德华兹·麦克卢尔曾任智利外交部长、内政部长以及国际联盟大会主席。
• Karl Laudien, recruited in Germany in 1931, was the first rector and set the German engineering syllabus that marked the school for decades.1931 年从德国聘来的卡尔·劳迪恩是首任校长，他奠定的德国式工程教学大纲影响该校数十年。
• Francisco Cereceda Cisternas served as rector from 1936 to 1958 and was simultaneously a minister in the governments of Jorge Alessandri and Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.弗朗西斯科·塞雷塞达·西斯特纳斯自 1936 至 1958 年任校长，同时曾在豪尔赫·亚历山德里与卡洛斯·伊巴涅斯·德尔坎波两届政府中担任部长。
• Herbert Appel, a Leipzig-trained chemist and first director of the graduate school, won the Chilean National Science Prize in 1971, and Juan Garbarino won the same prize in 1998.莱比锡出身的化学家、首任研究生院院长赫伯特·阿佩尔于 1971 年获智利国家科学奖，胡安·加巴里诺则于 1998 年获同一奖项。
• Mario Luxoro Mariani, a 1948 chemical engineering graduate and the first Chilean to earn a doctorate abroad, took his PhD at MIT in 1957 and won the National Science Prize in 2000.1948 届化学工程师马里奥·卢克索罗·马里亚尼是首位在海外取得博士学位的智利人，1957 年在麻省理工获博士，并于 2000 年获得国家科学奖。
• Miguel Kiwi, a 1963 mechanical engineering graduate who took a physics doctorate at the University of Virginia in 1967, received the National Science Prize in 2007.1963 届机械工程师米格尔·基维 1967 年在弗吉尼亚大学取得物理学博士，2007 年获国家科学奖。
• José Rodríguez Pérez, an electrical engineer of the class of 1977 who was rector from 2006 to 2014, received the National Applied Sciences and Technology Prize in 2014.1977 届电气工程师何塞·罗德里格斯·佩雷斯于 2006 至 2014 年任校长，2014 年获国家应用科学与技术奖。
• Raúl Zurita, who studied civil engineering and graduated in 1967, became one of Chile's best-known poets and won the National Literature Prize in 2000.劳尔·苏里塔学习土木工程并于 1967 年毕业，后来成为智利最知名的诗人之一，2000 年获国家文学奖。
• Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile in 2006-2010 and again in 2014-2018, received the university's honorary doctorate in 2007.米歇尔·巴切莱特于 2006 至 2010 年及 2014 至 2018 年两度担任智利总统，2007 年获该校荣誉博士学位。
• Robert Frucht, a Berlin-trained mathematician who taught at the university from 1948 to 1968, gave his name to Frucht's theorem on graph symmetry, while Arnold Keller worked on the V-1 rocket programme before joining the physics department.柏林出身的数学家罗伯特·弗鲁赫特 1948 至 1968 年在该校任教，图论中的弗鲁赫特定理以他命名；阿诺德·凯勒则先在 V-1 火箭计划中工作，后转入物理系。
• Boris Rotman, a 1948 chemical engineering graduate, carried out the first single-molecule experiment in biology and became the first UTFSM alumnus to hold a professorship in the Ivy League, at Brown University, while Charles Menevau, a 1985 mechanical engineer with a Yale doctorate, teaches at Johns Hopkins University.1948 届化学工程师鲍里斯·罗特曼完成了生物学中首个单分子实验，并成为首位在常春藤盟校布朗大学任教授的该校校友；1985 届机械工程师夏尔·梅内沃在耶鲁取得博士学位，现于约翰斯·霍普金斯大学任教。