UTBM trains engineers to be rapidly operational, and particularly adaptable to changes in technology and society. Its training programs are supported by research and development activities.
Created in 1999, UTBM is a public scientific, cultural and professional institution. A member of the network of universities of technology, it was born of the merger of two higher education establishments: the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Belfort (1962) and the Institut Polytechnique de Sevenans (a branch of the UTC established in Sevenans in 1985). UTBM is directed by Ghislain Montavon, and its Board of Directors is chaired by Jean-Charles Lefebvre.