Student Jaime Aparicio presented his Final Year Project for the obtention of the Degree in Industrial Electronics, Engineering and Automation based on the development of a data acquisition system for the monitoring of structural and environmental parameters in the historical buildings. The project, developed under the supervision of Dr. Gaudenzi and Dr. Garin, is the result of a long-term collaboration of Jaime with the Mecamat research group and includes the monitoring of structural cracks, temperature and humidity in iconic sites and structures of the Catalan Cultural Heritage such as the Royal Monastery of Santes Creus (municipality of Aiguamúrcia, Tarragona) and the Palau de l’Abat in Vilabertran (municipality of Figueres, Girona). Both the development of the data acquisition system and the monitoring campaigns have been carried under a technology transfer agreement between the Mecamat research group and the Architectural Heritage Agency of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The data acquisition system designs have been published as open hardware design and are hosted on the Mecamat page of the open repository Open Science Foundation. The collaboration between Jaime and the Mecamat is still ongoing, as next June Jaime will present another Final Year Project to obtain the Degree in Mechatronics Engineering. The new challenge consists of designing and developing a robotic arm to be equipped with analytical sensors and an imaging system specifically developed in collaboration with the Beta Tech Center for the analysis and characterization of cultural heritage surfaces.