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<h2h4> <strong><em> I&E Courses </strong></emh4><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">Some of the courses offered are "Innovation and Product Development", in which students explore the design thinking methodology and other techniques to apply in the development of a real product. Three classes focus on business management and entrepreneurship: "Company and Customer", "Business Management", and ‘Products and Services Design’. Finally, there is a course called "Entrepreneurs in Action" where students work on identifying needs and improvement opportunities and implementing solutions in a real business.</span></h2span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="fontbackground-color: transparent; white-sizespace: small"><span style="pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small"> Some courses don’t have a specific component of the courses offered I&E because they are ‘Global Challenges’related to core areas, in which but students explore are required to go through an innovative process to develop a solution. The course ‘Biodesign’ is from the mandatory bioengineering curriculum. It is about the use of design thinking methodology and apply it in order to create a solution to a real specific problem in their local communityfollowing the steps of Design Thinking with biomedicine or biotechnology. Two classes focus on business management and entrepreneurship: ‘Introduction Another course called ‘Information Systems’ gives students of Computer Science the opportunity to discover a specific problem that requires technology to Business Development’be solved. For that, ‘Business Management’ and ‘Products and Services Design’. The last course on this chain deals more it is necessary to empathize with innovative the objective public in order to design and product development to propose realistic and accessible solutions, and it's called ‘Innovation and Product Development”the best software that fits them.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="fontbackground-color: transparent; white-sizespace: small"><span style="pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small"> Some courses don’t have a specific component On 2014, UTEC launched its executive education program, which is an educational proposal of I&E because they professional specialization whose core axes are related to core areasinnovation, data, agility, but students are required to go through an innovative process to develop a solutionand technology. The course ‘Biodesign’ is from Among its 7 schools, the mandatory bioengineering curriculum"Academy of Innovation and Omniquality" stands up. It is about offers the use of the design in order to create a solution to a specific problem following the steps of courses "Specialization on User Experience and Service Design Thinking with biomedicine or biotechnology. Another course called ‘Information Systems’ gives students of Computer Science the opportunity to discover a specific problem that requires technology to be solved. For that, it is necessary to empathize with the objective public " and "Specializatión on StartUp Creation" which put in order to design action the best software that fits with themI&E theory into real business cases.</span></span><br /><h4> <strong> Extracurricular Clubs & Activities</strong> </h4>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">On 2022, the Internationalization Office achieved its first successful group for the Tech Mission to Silicon Valley, an effort to expose a group of students to one of the most innovative environments in the world. During 5 days, they got to network with engineers and innovation experts from companies such as Tesla, Google, Amazon, NASA, etc.</span></span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">The Student Welfare department has implemented a series of training sessions for students involved in its different programs, most of these training sessions include skills within the I&E environment, soft, and leadership skills. Two of the most known are the training sessions for students involved in student organizations, called Leadership Summit, and the training for students in the Peer and Academic mentor programs.</span></span>  <strong>Maker Spaces </strong> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">We have the UTEC Ventures accelerator, which years ago held events in order to promote I&E, like Global Startup Labs, GIST Startup Bootcamp, Peru Design Week, and the 1776 Challenge Cup. Nowadays, the accelerator performs certain activities under selection processes such as PreIncUVa, where students have the opportunity to discover a problem and work around it to develop a Business Model, and IncUVA which is an incubation program that allows students to search for the product-market fit of their solution. All the projects are presented in a Demo Day, open to all the students, to show the progress of all the entrepreneurship incubated.</span></span> <br /> <p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: center">[[File:Disrupton.jpeg|287x158px|Disrupton.jpeg|link=Special:FilePath/Disrupton.jpeg]][[File:Hack2.jpeg|316x158px|Hack2.jpeg]][[File:FirmaSOUTEC.png]][[File:Piso11.png|316x158px|Filelink=Special:Piso11FilePath/Hack2.pngjpeg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p>

<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">Interdisciplinary UTEC is committed to encourage professors and staff to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation. They support their endeavors outside of school and make sure to let the students know about it as well. It is important for the students to feel inspired by their school faculty so they might follow in their footsteps. The two main ways our university has done this is by implementing faculty-led projects seek that students design and propose solutions research centers on different topics relevant to real problemsthem. There </span></span> <h4> <strong> Interdisciplinary Projects </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Faculty are three supported to four required interdisciplinary projects depending on be entrepreneurial or commercialize their research by programs such as the majorInterdisciplinary Project core course. The first one focuses on humanities while the rest projects are focused based on science. Teachers propose teachers proposing an idea that can be an Initiation / , Scientific Research or Development of a Product / Service. Then, students who Students browse through dozens of projects and are interested can sign up on free to choose the project and in which they are interested.  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Students from different majors spend a whole semester working as a team on , putting their ingenuity into action and exploring these real-world problems that the teachers proposed to research, design all , prototype and solve them with innovative solutions, as the name itself of the course, in an interdisciplinary way to prototyping. The program empowers them as students look for students interested in contributing These projects need to their project be developed following design thinking, user-centered design, and students decide the project that interests them the mostresearch methodologies. In addition, at At the end of the semester , there is an exhibition fair a contest for all the students enrolled in which teams present an elevator pitch the course to demonstrate the creative process and the progress as teamwork that is the final result of their prototype in front of investors and judgesproject. The Finally, there is a contest, called Demo Day UTEC, where the most outstanding projects earn funds so they may to be carried onand enter the market. <h4> <strong> Research Centres as a catalyst </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">There is a high quantity of teachers at UTEC that are also researchers from any of the six research centres of the university. These different centers enrich the students’ experience by encouraging them to explore their innovative and entrepreneurial potential. They are the following: <ul><li> ''Cement and Concrete Research Center'' </li><li> ''Heritage Research and Conservation Center'' </li><li> ''Water Technology and Research Center (CITA)'' </li><li> ''Center for Impact and Social Responsibility (CIRSO)'' </li><li> ''Bioengineering Research Center'' </li><li> ''Sustainable Computing Research Center (ComSust)'' </li></ul> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The school also sends e-mails and makes sure to celebrate the achievements of teachers, even outside of the university. Commonly, students know their teachers’ expertise area and the projects they are involved in because students can see in the newsletters how the projects were developed using design thinkingare going forward and have the desire to join them.  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva, usersans-serif"><span style="font-centered designsize: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">On some occasions, opportunities are given from teachers for students to get involved as well in the projects that are developing. It could be having the role of research assistant, investigating more deeply in the literature, helping in the prototyping or even getting the motivation and resources to do a research methodologiespaper.<br> [[File:Demoutec.jpg| thumb|center| Demo Mode UTEC|alt750x750px|link=|750x750pxSpecial:FilePath/Demoutec.jpg]]

<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">At UTEC, the Legal Division Advice is always looking for the security of the student’s or faculty member’s ideas. In additionAlso, there are some programs that promote turning technologies into business opportunities that can benefit society. </span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span></span> <h4><strong> UTEC Ventures </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> UTEC Ventures (a startup accelerator at UTEC) provides consulting in on how to make an idea profitable.&nbsp;Founded in 2014, the accelerator offers investment and mentoring to startups. In this year, they have included It has an incubator program every summer and also a mentorship program called "Aprende con UV" to mentor prospect student startups prepare candidates who are interesting in postulate the incubator program, giving advice to them to get incubated. UV follows explore the pillar of entrepreneurship raised by the universityproblem in which they are passionate. The University of Engineering and Technology  <h4><strong> RLE course </strong> </h4> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(UTEC0, 0, 0) "> In addition, there is the RLE core course which is about developing the engineering of companies of the future. An engineering projects that goes go hand to hand with research and the creation of technological solutions, committed to social needs and sustainabilitywith companies of the future. In another handThere are three modalities: in collaboration with companies, UTEC has recently created research in the "Ventures university with partners in other entities, and RLE of entrepreneurship. This last option provides an accurate guide to help students get their venture ready to scale, which includes standard methodologies for brainstorming, like design thinking, market research, problem validation, competitors analysis, business model identification, financial analysis, investment documents, and Innovation Department" that will now cover this area in the universityelaboration of the final pitch. <h4><strong> University Research Area </spanstrong></spanh4> </spanstyle="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"></spanstyle="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> The Office allows concentrating and maximizing resources towards the scientific and technological activity of the university. Proposals receive external funding and it almost has the contribution of the internal research grants with UTEC partners (Harvard, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, others) and projects with companies. <p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: center"> [[File:UV.jpeg|900x250px|UV.jpeg|link=Special:FilePath/UV.jpeg]] </p><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p>

<p style="text-align: justify">As far as <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">ting and maximizing resources towards the scientific and technological activity of the university. Proposals receive external funding and it almost has the contribution of the internal research grants with UTEC partners (Harvard, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, others) and projects w </p><p style="text-industry align: justify"></p> ====UTEC Networking====<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">In regards to collaboration is concernedbetween the university and businesses, UTEC has partnered formed partnerships with several various companies, in order to better prepare their its students for real-life world industry experience by engaging them in the industry, through the development of projects between with these companies and students. One the one hand <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Furthermore, such experiences are provided by UTEC 's Career Services and [https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/careerservicesutec/posts/?feedView=images] offers such experiences in a specific dedicated space known as '''UTEC Networking'''. This space called “UTEC Networking”, which they created for allowing has been established to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between companies and students in order , aiming to bridge the gap between college the university and the workplace. This event has many components, such as career<br /company presentations, business>[[File:Networking UTEC.png|thumb|Networking UTEC|border|center|493x493px|link=Special:FilePath/project talksNetworking_UTEC.png]]<span style="font-family:tahoma, elevator pitchesgeneva, company standssans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, an online employment fair0, and the opportunity to meet and match people for any personal professional purpose as getting 0)">"'''Company talks'''" are a job, an internship, or some kind part of network to develop projects. On the other handthis initiative, UTEC has implemented projects with where companies (known as  "PI con empresas") as part of the Interdisciplinary Project courses. These programs involves both UTEC professors and from various sectors reach out to students, allowing them to gain insights into job opportunities within these companies and representatives of the companies to implement different projects that are developed during the semesterunderstand their work environments better.</p>  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentsmall"></span></spanstyle="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Similarly, the Career Services department is responsible for preparing students who wish to deliver an "'''Elevator Pitch'''" in front of the companies participating in UTEC Networking. As a result of this, students who match the company's desired qualifications are often recruited as pre-professional interns.  <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentsmall"></span></spanstyle="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Moreover, this event enables interviews between companies and all students who express interest, as UTEC offers on-campus facilities for in-person '''interviews.'''   '''PI con Empresas''' <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentsmall"></span></spanstyle="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">On the flip side, UTEC has introduced projects in collaboration with companies, referred to as "PI con Empresas," which are integrated into the Interdisciplinary Projects courses. These initiatives engage UTEC professors, students, and company representatives in the execution of various projects throughout the semester.

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">The Ministry of Production (known as Produce) is the most important public entity in promoting innovation in our country. One of their initiatives is StartUp Perú, which aims to promote the emergence and consolidation of new Peruvian companies that offer innovative products and services with high technological content. It consists of a set of contests and ways of financing for entrepreneurs, companies at an early age, and incubators. StartUp Perú also provides a platform for meetings and collaboration with people in the startup community in the country.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">The Ministry, through the National Innovation Program for Competitiveness and Productivity (Innóvate Perú), seeks to increase business productivity by strengthening the actors' ecosystem of innovation (companies, entrepreneurs and supporting organizations) and to facilitate the interaction between them. It is also part of the National Productive Diversification Plan. As an university that looks to improve its I&E environment, we need to stay in touch with the government. Staying connected to the social reality and requirements of our country may be ensured by attending the big plans of it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#000000">Another popular entity promoting innovation is Hackspace: a physical place where people with interests in science, new technologies, and digital or electronic art can meet, socialize and collaborate. It can be seen as a laboratory open to community where people from different backgrounds can join. The purpose of a hackspace is to concentrate resources and expertise to promote research and development.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center">[[File:Hackspace2.jpg|702x300px|Hackspace2.jpg]]</p><p style|link="text-alignSpecial: center"><FilePath/p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center">Hackspace2.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p style="text-align: center"></p>

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