The Applied Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, part of the National Polytechnic Institute as an educational institution of the Mexican state created by Agreement of September 2, 1996 with a single purpose Legaria Unit:
Making CICATA-IPN Legaria Unit, an established and committed, innovative and transparent organization, higher quality and relevance, which meets the demands of the present, increasing their capacities to face a future of greater challenges. In other words make this a leading research center in the production and application of scientific research and advanced technology. The image that represents this research center, is composed of an eye to the center consists of two semicircles, representing man and the observation that this makes the different phenomena to transform and / or control to their advantage, in addition to observation is one of the characteristics of the scientific community; around him a gear, which represents technology as one of the most characteristic elements of this,