Projects and Quality

Our work is directed at proposing new approaches to project management for engineering and other branches of science, based on the application and development of theories and techniques that have Project Management as their main foundation, to generate innovative solutions to the main challenges society must face.

We carry out research projects of a highly diverse nature, framed within public tenders ¿national and international¿ and private funding. We have a huge desire to transfer to industry, which is made clear not just in projects with businesses, but also in the patents that some members of the group have developed, and in the university-business chairs we have put in place to strengthen the relations between the university and important companies in the sectors related to out lines of research, for example, the Lafarge cementos safety Chair.

In general, the research group makes several proposals for research to European tenders annually, and usually carries out one project with European funding each year. The European programmes were the framework programme, H2020, and RFCS and specific projects for DG, such as DG/Home.

The group has taken part in projects with a social impact, such as Asasec, which sought to improve the tools available to identify paedophiles, and others focussing on improving product quality, such as Linecop, which involved improvements to hot galvanising lines.

In order to develop some projects, the use of HPC facilities, such as Cesvima, or hybrid, partially local and partially server-based, cloud systems on the AWS cloud is required.

Also of interest, is our participation in the GAIA European Space Agency mission, which enabled research collaborations of interest to be set up for outreach in various contexts.