= ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP =
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">UTEC encourages investigation and innovation among its teachers and students. Among the most valuable things you can find at UTEC is to meet professors who, in addition to sharing knowledge, are a source of inspiration that encourages innovation, entrepreneurship and high-impact research. Some of the many profesors that we could mention are Katia Canepa, professor of computer science in 2017, creator of the Beauthy Technology concept that combines beauty products with electronics to, in addition to improving aesthetics, acquire a "super-power" through the technology. And Julio Valdivia, current director of Bioengineering, a Peruvian scientist affiliated with NASA, who leads the project "Potates on Mars, with the financity of eradicating the famine and in the future, feeding the colonies of humans on Mars. Both professors organized the "Disruption" 2017 at UTEC, with the theme "Wearables in Space"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:Julio Valdivia.jpeg|frame|600px|Julio Valdivia.jpeg400px]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:Katia Canepa.jpeg|thumb|500px|Katia Canepa.jpeg400px]]</p>
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