RTVE presents an award for academic excellence at the ETSIT of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has celebrated the delivery of the ETSIT-Empresa Awards to the best undergraduate and master students of the academic year 2023-2024. The Center for Innovation and Knowledge Observation of RTVE, represented by its Deputy Director, Esteban Mayoral, has come to the event to present the award to David Barbero García, best record in the Audiovisual Systems track of the Degree in Engineering of Telecommunication Technologies and Services. The ceremony also recognized the other students with the best grades, the recently retired staff, the best end-of-degree projects and the ETSIT-UPM Award and the awards given by the Official College of Telecommunication Technical Engineers and the Official College of Telecommunication Engineers.

During the ceremony, the Rector Guillermo Cisneros thanked the presence of the sponsoring entities “involved in the fabric of the School, of the University”. Both institutions, RTVE and UPM, consolidate since 2014 their commitment to knowledge transfer through the RTVE-UPM Chair on new audiovisual signal formats and new technologies for signal transport and broadcasting. For his part, the Deputy Director of the Innovation Center, Esteban Mayoral, referred to its role as a pioneer Chair of the RTVE network and thanked its director, Professor José Manuel Menéndez and the rest of the research staff, for their work in laying the foundations for the ten subsequent ones.