Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP)

The Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP), or Technological University of Panama, is a public technological university based in Panama City, created by Law 18 of 13 August 1981 and seated on the Campus Metropolitano Dr. Víctor Levi Sasso.巴拿马技术大学（Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá，简称 UTP）是巴拿马城的一所公立技术大学，依 1981 年 8 月 13 日第 18 号法律设立，主校区为维克托·莱维·萨索博士大都会校区。

It is the second-largest university in Panama, with 27,210 students in 2021, 1,750 professors and 150 academic programmes in 2022 spread across six faculties and seven regional centres.该校是巴拿马规模第二大的大学，2021 年在校生 27210 人、教师 1750 人，2022 年开设 150 个学术项目，分布于六个学院与七个地区中心。

UTP appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, is not listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and is absent from the 2026-27 U.S. News global ranking and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• Its origins lie in the University of Panama (Universidad de Panamá), created in 1935, where surveying and topography courses in the Faculty of Sciences formed the nucleus of what became civil engineering.该校的源头可追溯至 1935 年创办的巴拿马大学，其理学院开设的测量与地形学课程构成了后来土木工程的核心。
• In 1941 the university constituted a Faculty of Engineering, and in 1943 architecture was added, producing the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.1941 年，巴拿马大学成立工程学院，1943 年增设建筑学，遂改称工程与建筑学院。
• The first civil engineers graduated in 1944, three years after the faculty was created, and they staffed the public works that followed the Second World War.首批土木工程师于 1944 年毕业，此时距学院成立仅三年，他们进入二战后巴拿马的公共工程部门。
• In 1962 the first electromechanical engineering students enrolled, studying their first three years in Panama and completing the programme at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico.1962 年，首批机电工程学生入学，前三年在巴拿马学习，最后阶段在墨西哥蒙特雷理工学院完成。
• A cohort that began in 1963 was the first to complete the whole electromechanical degree in Panama, ending the dependence on Mexican classrooms.1963 年入学的一届学生首次在巴拿马完成全部机电工程学位课程，结束了对墨西哥课堂的依赖。
• The industrial engineering degree was created in 1964, initially as the only programme of its kind in the country and attached to the older engineering faculty.工业工程学位于 1964 年设立，最初是该国唯一的同类专业，隶属于历史更久的工程学院。
• In 1966 the fourth year of electromechanical engineering was taught in Panama for the first time, marking the start of mechanical specialisation in national higher education.1966 年，机电工程的第四学年首次在巴拿马开课，标志着机械专业方向在本国高等教育中起步。
• A Mechanical-Industrial Engineering programme opened in 1967, and in 1972 a technical degree in industrial mechanics was added for factory technicians.1967 年开设机械与工业工程专业，1972 年又为工厂技术人员增设工业机械技术学位。
• On 21 April 1975 the Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico) began teaching with 135 students in computer systems engineering and in programming and systems analysis.1975 年 4 月 21 日，理工学院开课，首批 135 名学生攻读计算机系统工程以及程序设计与系统分析。
• The Polytechnic Institute absorbed the engineering departments of the University of Panama in 1975, creating a single national institution for technical higher education.1975 年，理工学院整合了巴拿马大学的各工程系，形成一所全国性的技术高等教育机构。
• Law 18 of 13 August 1981 transformed the institute into the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, giving it full university status and its present name.1981 年 8 月 13 日第 18 号法律将理工学院升格为巴拿马技术大学，赋予其完整大学地位与现名。
• UTP graduated its first class in 1981, the same year of its creation, and enrolment then stood at 5,735 students.该校在成立的同一年，即 1981 年，送走首届毕业生，当时在校生为 5735 人。
• In July 1982, one year after the university was created, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was formally constituted as a separate faculty.1982 年 7 月，即建校一年后，机械工程学院正式独立设置。
• Law 17 of 9 October 1984 gave UTP its definitive organisation, defining its faculties, governing councils and regional structure.1984 年 10 月 9 日第 17 号法律确定了该校的最终组织架构，划定学院、治理委员会与地区布局。
• After campaigning by students, professors and administrators, the Panamanian government assigned 60 hectares near the Vía Ricardo J. Alfaro in 1986 for a permanent campus.经学生、教师与行政人员多方争取，巴拿马政府于 1986 年在里卡多·J·阿尔法罗公路附近划拨 60 公顷土地，用于建设永久校区。
• Law 57 of 26 July 1996 modified the 1984 statute and, in its article 16, created the Faculty of Science and Technology.1996 年 7 月 26 日第 57 号法律修订了 1984 年章程，并在第 16 条中创设科学与技术学院。
• On 3 April 1997 the General University Council approved the new faculty's administrative structure and the incorporation of the regional centres, with elections held on 15 July 1997.1997 年 4 月 3 日，大学总委员会批准新学院的行政架构及地区中心的并入，并于 1997 年 7 月 15 日举行选举。
• By 2011 enrolment had reached about 18,000 students, more than three times the 5,735 recorded at the university's creation.到 2011 年，在校生已达约 1.8 万人，是建校时 5735 人的三倍多。
• In 2021 the university counted 27,210 students and had awarded more than 80,000 degrees since its first graduating class in 1981.2021 年，该校在校生达 27210 人，自 1981 年首届毕业以来已授予超过 8 万个学位。
• By 2022 the academic offer had grown to 150 programmes, including seven doctorates, 56 master's degrees and 28 engineering bachelor's degrees.到 2022 年，学术项目增至 150 个，其中包括 7 个博士项目、56 个硕士项目与 28 个工程类本科专业。
• The rector in the 2020s, Ángela Brasilia Laguna Caicedo, has presided over this expanded portfolio and over the university's continued role as the state's engineering reference.2020 年代的校长安赫拉·巴西利娅·拉古纳·凯塞多主持了这一扩展后的学科体系，并延续该校作为国家工程参照机构的角色。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into six schools, the Civil Engineering School, the Electrical Engineering School, the Industrial Engineering School, the Mechanical Engineering School, the Computer Systems Engineering School and the Science and Technology School.教学分为六个学院，即土木工程学院、电气工程学院、工业工程学院、机械工程学院、计算机系统工程学院以及科学与技术学院。
• The 2022 portfolio of 150 programmes comprised seven doctorates, 56 master's degrees, 18 postgraduate courses, one professorate, four specialisations, 28 engineering degrees, 27 bachelor's degrees and nine technical careers.2022 年的 150 个项目包括 7 个博士、56 个硕士、18 个研究生课程、1 个教师培训项目、4 个专业方向、28 个工程学位、27 个学士学位与 9 个技术职业。
• The Faculty of Civil Engineering teaches project administration, agricultural, environmental, civil, geomatic, geological and maritime-port engineering, alongside shorter degrees in surveying, construction and sanitation.土木工程学院开设项目管理、农业、环境、土木、大地测量、地质与海港工程等专业，并设有测量、建筑与卫生等较短学制学位。
• The Faculty of Electrical Engineering covers electrical and electronic engineering, electronics and telecommunications, electromechanics, control and automation, and digital electronics.电气工程学院涵盖电气与电子工程、电子与电信、机电一体化、控制与自动化以及数字电子学。
• Industrial engineering degrees include industrial engineering, industrial mechanics, occupational safety and hygiene, logistics and supply chains, and production management.工业工程学位包括工业工程、工业机械、职业安全与卫生、物流与供应链以及生产管理。
• The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering offers energy and environment, maintenance, mechanical, naval and aeronautical engineering, plus aviation administration and aircraft maintenance technology.机械工程学院开设能源与环境、维护、机械、航海与航空工程，以及航空管理与飞机维修技术。
• Computer systems engineering includes information systems, systems and computing, software engineering, cybersecurity, computer science and networks.计算机系统工程包括信息系统、系统与计算、软件工程、网络安全、计算机科学与网络等方向。
• The Faculty of Science and Technology, created in 1996, teaches food engineering, forestry engineering and bilingual executive communication, and coordinates basic sciences for the other faculties.1996 年创设的科学与技术学院开设食品工程、森林工程与双语行政传播，并为其他学院统筹基础科学课程。
• Postgraduate study is concentrated in the faculties of industrial, mechanical and civil engineering, which together offer most of the university's doctorates.研究生教育集中于工业、机械与土木工程学院，该校多数博士项目由这三院开设。
• In 2021 UTP enrolled 27,210 students, of whom 26,157 were undergraduates and 1,053 postgraduates, a ratio that reflects its teaching-heavy profile.2021 年该校有 27210 名学生，其中本科生 26157 人、研究生 1053 人，这一比例反映出其以教学为主的办学结构。
• It employed 1,750 professors in 2021, 31.4 per cent of them full-time, together with 125 researchers and 1,886 administrative staff.2021 年该校聘有 1750 名教师，其中 31.4% 为全职，另有 125 名研究人员与 1886 名行政人员。
• Governance is shared by the General University Council, the Academic Council, the Administrative Council and the Research, Postgraduate Affairs and Extension Council, which sit alongside the rector, the academic vice-rector, the administrative vice-rector and the vice-rector for research, postgraduate affairs and extension.学校治理由大学总委员会、学术委员会、行政委员会以及研究、研究生与推广委员会共同承担，并与校长、学术副校长、行政副校长及主管研究、研究生与推广的副校长分权运行。
• A Project Center attached to the research vice-rectorate handles contract work for public agencies and private firms, while the Engineering Career Certification service evaluates the professional degrees awarded by the six schools against national practice. Extension work includes continuing education for practising engineers, and the regional centres deliver shorter technical courses for local industry.隶属于科研副校长室的项目中心承接公共机构与企业的合同研究，工程职业认证服务则依据国家实践评估六个学院授予的专业学位。推广工作包括执业工程师继续教育，各地区中心还为地方产业开设短期技术课程。
• The Centro Experimental de Ingeniería, CEI, tests materials, structures and hydraulic works for public and private clients and is the university's oldest research unit.工程实验中心（CEI）为公共与私人客户检测材料、结构与水工建筑物，是该校历史最久的研究单位。
• The Centro de Producción e Investigaciones Agroindustriales, CEPIA, works on food processing and agricultural production in the interior of the country.农业生产与研究中心（CEPIA）在该国内陆从事食品加工与农业生产研究。
• The Centro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas, CIHH, studies water resources, hydraulics and hydrotechnical infrastructure.水利与水工研究中心（CIHH）研究水资源、水力学与水工基础设施。
• The Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, CIDITIC, leads the university's work in software, networks and digital services.信息与通信技术研发创新中心（CIDITIC）主导该校在软件、网络与数字服务领域的工作。
• The Centro de Investigación e Innovación Eléctrica, Mecánica y de la Industria, CINEMI, coordinates applied research for the electricity and manufacturing sectors.电气、机械与工业创新研究中心（CINEMI）统筹面向电力与制造业的应用研究。
• UTP belongs to the Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe and the Central American University Council (CSUCA), which frame its exchange and accreditation links.该校隶属于拉丁美洲及加勒比大学联盟与中美洲大学高级委员会，这两个组织构成其交流与认证网络。
• Its graduates, more than 80,000 by 2021, work mainly in public infrastructure, electricity, telecommunications, logistics and the Canal-related service economy.截至 2021 年，该校毕业生超过 8 万人，主要进入公共基础设施、电力、电信、物流以及与运河相关的服务经济。

Campus

• The Campus Metropolitano Dr. Víctor Levi Sasso occupies a 60-hectare site on Avenida Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in Panama City, at 9.023 north and 79.531 west.维克托·莱维·萨索博士大都会校区位于巴拿马城巴拿马技术大学大道，占地 60 公顷，坐标为北纬 9.023 度、西经 79.531 度。
• The land was assigned by the government in 1986 after a campaign by the university community, and the campus is named after UTP's first rector.这片土地是政府在该校师生争取后于 1986 年划拨的，校区以该校首任校长维克托·莱维·萨索命名。
• Its position beside the Vía Ricardo J. Alfaro and the Tocumen corridor connects the campus to the capital's airport road and to the commercial districts of the isthmus.校区紧邻里卡多·J·阿尔法罗公路与托库门走廊，连接首都机场道路与地峡商业区。
• A postgraduate building concentrates master's and doctoral teaching, while the faculty buildings are grouped by engineering discipline around shared laboratories.研究生楼集中开展硕士与博士教学，各学院楼则按工程门类围绕共享实验室布局。
• The university library and the bookstore and distribution centre serve students from all six schools, each regional centre maintains its own collection for local programmes, and an engineering career certification service reviews professional degrees.大学图书馆与书店发行中心服务六个学院的师生，各地区中心为本地项目保有独立馆藏，另有工程职业认证服务审查专业学位。
• The metropolitan campus is reached by the Vía Ricardo J. Alfaro and the city's bus corridors, and its grounds contain the six school buildings, the five research centres, the central library and the bookstore and distribution centre. The site also holds the rectorate and the administrative offices that coordinate the regional network.大都会校区经里卡多·J·阿尔法罗公路与城市公交走廊抵达，校内设有六座学院楼、五个研究中心、中央图书馆以及书店发行中心。校区还容纳校长办公室与协调地区网络的行政机构。
• Seven regional centres extend UTP beyond the capital, in Azuero, Bocas del Toro, Coclé, Colón, Chiriquí, Panamá Oeste and Veraguas.该校在首都之外设有七个地区中心，分别位于阿苏埃罗、博卡斯德尔托罗、科克莱、科隆、奇里基、西巴拿马与贝拉瓜斯。
• The Azuero centre sits in Villa de Los Santos, the Bocas del Toro centre in Changuinola, the Coclé centre in Penonomé, the Chiriquí centre in David and the Veraguas centre in Santiago.阿苏埃罗中心设在洛斯桑托斯镇，博卡斯德尔托罗中心在昌吉诺拉，科克莱中心在佩诺诺梅，奇里基中心在戴维，贝拉瓜斯中心在圣地亚哥。
• Two smaller units, the Howard and Tocumen extensions, serve the former canal-zone communities and the airport district respectively.霍华德与托库门两个较小教学点分别服务前运河区社区与机场周边地区。
• The research centres CEI, CEPIA, CIHH, CIDITIC and CINEMI are attached to the metropolitan campus and to the regional network, giving students access to applied projects.工程实验中心、农业生产与研究中心、水利与水工研究中心、信息通信研发创新中心与电气机械工业创新中心分属大都会校区与地区网络，为学生提供应用项目机会。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 UTP is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of the table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校被列入 1401+ 区间，即榜单末端不设上限的并列组。
• It is not listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and the university does not claim a position in that table.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，校方也未宣称在该榜单中占位。
• UTP is absent from the 2026-27 U.S. News global ranking and from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so its international profile rests mainly on QS.该校未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，其国际能见度主要依靠 QS。
• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings the university was placed in the 1201-1400 band, before falling into the 1401+ group in the 2027 edition.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 1201 至 1400 区间，随后在 2027 年版跌入 1401+ 组。
• Within Panama it is the second-largest university after the University of Panama (Universidad de Panamá) and the country's principal public institution for engineering and applied technology, alongside the Autonomous University of Chiriquí and the International Maritime University of Panama.在巴拿马国内，该校是仅次于巴拿马大学的第二大规模高校，也是该国工程与应用技术领域的主要公立机构，与奇里基自治大学和巴拿马国际海事大学同属公立体系。
• The university describes itself as the national leader in engineering research and as a reference centre for technical expertise and expert testimony.该校自称为本国工程研究的领导者，并充当技术专长与专家鉴定的参照中心。
• Its 80,000 graduates by 2021 give it a dense alumni presence in the ministries, the Canal authority, the electricity utility and private construction firms.截至 2021 年的 8 万名毕业生，使该校校友密集分布于各部委、运河管理局、电力公司与私人建筑企业。
• Membership of UDUAL and CSUCA provides regional recognition and student mobility that is unusual for a technological university of its size.加入拉丁美洲及加勒比大学联盟与中美洲大学高级委员会，为其带来地区认可与学生流动机会，这在同类规模的技术大学中并不常见。
• Employer demand for its engineers, rather than international ranking position, is the main currency of its reputation in Panama.在巴拿马，雇主对其工程师的需求而非国际排名位次，才是该校声誉的主要通货。

Student life

• UTP's motto is Camino a la excelencia a través del mejoramiento continuo, the road to excellence through continuous improvement, and it appears on university publications and ceremonial material.该校校训为西班牙语“Camino a la excelencia a través del mejoramiento continuo”，意为通过持续改进走向卓越，见于学校出版物与典礼材料。
• The university organises the Rogelio Sinán Central American Prize, the José María Sánchez National Short Story Prize and the Pablo Neruda National Poetry Prize, three of the region's better-known literary awards.该校主办罗赫利奥·西嫩中美洲文学奖、何塞·玛丽亚·桑切斯全国短篇小说奖与巴勃罗·聂鲁达全国诗歌奖，这三项是该地区较知名的文学奖项。
• It also runs the MAGA short-story prize and publishes the cultural magazine MAGA, which has carried Panamanian fiction and criticism since the late twentieth century.该校还主办 MAGA 短篇小说奖并出版文化杂志 MAGA，该刊自 20 世纪后期起刊载巴拿马小说与评论。
• Book and magazine launches and the annual Literature Week bring writers to the metropolitan campus, and the university offers a diploma in creative writing.新书与杂志发布活动以及一年一度的文学周把作家带到主校区，学校还开设创意写作文凭课程。
• Student media include the Radar newsletter, the newspaper El Tecnológico, the magazines PRISMA Tecnológico, I+D Tecnológico and Tecnología Hoy, the international relations bulletin and the UTP in Motion newsletter.学生媒体包括《雷达》简报、《技术报》、《PRISMA 技术》《技术研发》与《今日技术》等杂志，以及国际关系简报和《UTP 在行动》通讯。
• The international relations office circulates its own bulletin, the UTP in Motion newsletter reports on student and staff activities, and the academic magazines carry research news from the six schools. These publications, together with the literary prizes, give the university a public cultural voice beyond its engineering teaching.国际关系办公室刊行自己的简报，《UTP 在行动》通讯报道师生动态，学术杂志则刊载六个学院的研究消息。这些出版物与文学奖项一起，使该校在工程教学之外拥有公共文化声音。
• The anniversary of the university is marked on 13 August, the date of the 1981 law that created it, with ceremonies on the metropolitan campus and in the regional centres.该校以 1981 年建校法颁布日 8 月 13 日为校庆，在主校区与各地区中心举行纪念活动。
• Because most students commute, campus sociability centres on faculty common rooms, laboratories and the library rather than on residential colleges.由于多数学生通勤上学，校园社交以学院休息室、实验室与图书馆为中心，而非住宿学院。
• In the regional centres, student life is tied to provincial capitals such as David, Santiago and Penonomé, where cohorts are smaller and teaching is closely connected to local industry.在地区中心，学生生活与戴维、圣地亚哥、佩诺诺梅等省会城市相连，那里班级规模较小，教学与地方产业联系紧密。

Notable people

• Víctor Levi Sasso, an engineer and the university's first rector, is commemorated in the name of the metropolitan campus.工程师维克托·莱维·萨索是该校首任校长，大都会校区即以他的名字命名。
• Ángela Brasilia Laguna Caicedo led UTP in the 2020s, when the university counted 27,210 students and 150 academic programmes.安赫拉·巴西利娅·拉古纳·凯塞多在 2020 年代领导该校，其时学校拥有 27210 名学生与 150 个学术项目。
• Octavio Méndez Pereira, the educator who founded the Universidad de Panamá in 1935, is the institutional ancestor of UTP's engineering faculty rather than a UTP graduate.1935 年创办巴拿马大学的教育家奥克塔维奥·门德斯·佩雷拉，是该校工程学院的前身人物，而非巴拿马技术大学的毕业生。
• Harmodio Arias Madrid, president of Panama when the Universidad de Panamá was created, signed the decree that brought the engineering courses into existence.巴拿马大学创立时的巴拿马总统阿莫迪奥·阿里亚斯·马德里签署了使工程课程得以设立的法令。
• Ricardo J. Alfaro, the jurist and former president whose name the campus avenue carries, shaped the legal framework of Panamanian public administration.校区大道所纪念的法学家、前总统里卡多·J·阿尔法罗塑造了巴拿马公共行政的法律框架。
• Rogelio Sinán, one of Panama's leading twentieth-century writers, is honoured by the Central American literary prize that UTP administers, but he was not a member of the university.罗赫利奥·西嫩是巴拿马 20 世纪重要作家，该校主办的中美洲文学奖以他命名，但他并非该校成员。
• José María Sánchez and Pablo Neruda, whose names attach to the short-story and poetry prizes, belong to the literary rather than the institutional history of UTP.何塞·玛丽亚·桑切斯与巴勃罗·聂鲁达的名字分别附于短篇小说奖与诗歌奖，他们属于该校的文学因缘而非校史人物。
• The university does not publish a consolidated alumni register, and its notable graduates are usually identified through public works, faculty appointments and professional associations rather than through biographies.该校未公布统一的校友名录，其知名毕业生通常通过公共工程、教职任命与专业协会而非个人传记被识别。
• Its engineering graduates have staffed the Panama Canal expansion, the metro system and the country's road and water programmes, although individuals are rarely singled out by the university.该校工程毕业生参与了巴拿马运河扩建、地铁系统以及全国道路与供水项目，尽管校方很少单独表彰个人。