History

The Faculty of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa (FOOT) began its journey on October 7, 1977, under the umbrella of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, later the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Initially, the Diploma in Optics was taught according to the 1972 curriculum, which replaced the non-university qualification of Opticianry created in 1956.

At the time of its inauguration, the Terrassa School became the second optics school in Spain, after the one in Madrid. Spain thus became the third European country, after Great Britain and Ireland, to have an official university degree in optics.

For fifteen years, the School shared a building with the Industrial School of Terrassa at 1 Colom Street, a Catalan modernist work by the architect Lluís Muncunill i Parellada.

In 1990, the cornerstone of the new building was laid, and it was officially inaugurated on April 27, 1993. In 2008, the University Vision Center (CUV), annexed to the faculty, was inaugurated.

In 2022, Aurora Torrents Gómez was elected dean of the Faculty of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa.