Jaume
Armengou

Jaume Armengou is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Managerial Decision Sciences Department. He was a member of IESE Business School’s Executive Committee as Secretary General from September 2018 to August 2025. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1991). He did a PDG in IESE, University of Navarra, in 2005.

In 1995, he founded a start-up offering consulting for civil engineering projects. He sold it in 2003 to Prefabricaciones y Contratas, S.A.U. (PRECON, Ciments Molins group), becoming technical director and joining its steering committee. He is a founding member of Ciments Molins R+D+I committee.

In 2007, he joined the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya as Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and Faculty and as a professor at the School of Architecture. In 2016, he became Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and International Relations.

Senior Lecturer Armengou was Visiting Scholar for a year (2012-2013) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, participating in the research project “Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics”.

He has taught and collaborated in research projects mainly at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; the University of Navarra; the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Piura. He is a member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors.

He has invented, patented and registered several models for utility, patents and computer programs, all of them licensed and with hundreds of applications.

His research focuses on project management (decision-making, sustainability, labor risks, ethics) and structural design in civil engineering.

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Patents (owned, invented or designed, only for Spain)

• Perfeccionamientos en la construcción de apoyos para muros de prefabricado (Improvement in the construction of supports for precast walls)
  Patent Number: 9400270
  Date: 1998
• Estructura perfeccionada para la formación de túneles o galerías (Improved structure for the formation of tunnels or galleries)
  Patent Number: 009500549
  Date: 2000
• Perfeccionamientos en la fabricación de muros de contención de tierras mediante tramos horizontales apilados con bandejas escalonadas (Improvement in the fabrication of earth retaining walls by means of horizontal stretches piled up with stepshaped plates)
  Patent Number: 009800533
  Date: 2001
• Perfeccionamientos en el apoyo para muros de prefabricado (Perfectioning in the support for prefabricated walls)
  Patent Number: 200002998
  Date: 2002
• Panel modular orgánico y procedimiento para su obtención (Organic modular panel and the process for obtaining it)
  Patent Number: 200601840
  Date: 2008
• Estructura de soporte para dispositivos aerogeneradores (Support structure for wind-generating devices)
  Patent Number: 200603061
  Date: 2009
• Aparato electromecánico portátil para manufactura aditiva de objetos tridimensionales aplicables en calzado o vestimenta (Portable electromechanical device for additive manufacture of tridimensional objects applicable in footwear or clothing)
  Patent Number: U201930661
  Date: 26/08/2019
• Sistema para la mitigación de la cavitación en hidro-alas de embarcaciones (System for cavitation mitigation in boat hydrofoils)
  Patent Number: P202431072
  Date: 19/12/2024

Utility Models:

• Marcos prefabricados isostáticos con cimentación in situ (Precast isostatic frames with in-situ foundation)
  Number: U9500891
  Date: 1996

Registered Computer Programs:

• Programa de cálculo hidráulico de obras de drenaje (Registered computer program for hydraulic design of drainage structures)
  Number: B-0906-16
• Programa de cálculo de galerías enterradas (Registered computer program for the structural analysis of buried galleries)
  Number: B-0830-16
• Programa de cálculo de estructuras en cajón (Registered computer program for box-type structure design)
  Number: B-0907-16
• Programa de rutinas programadas para FLAC. Terraplenado de galerías (Registered FLAC custom routine set: Tunnel backfilling)
  Number: B-0908-16