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= FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION =
<p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:small">About university-industry collaboration, UTEC has partnerships with several companies, in order to prepare its students to for the industry work through the development of projects which will be useful for the these same companycompanies. Also there There are also some industry programs of practices in for internships during summer.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:small">UTEC Career Services is responsible for connecting students with other companies, as part of this mission, they created “UTEC Networking”, which is a space for the exchange of knowledge between companies and students in order to bridge the gap between academic college and workplace. This event is conformed by career presentations, companies company presentations, business talks, project talks, elevator pitches, company stands, an online employ employment fair and the opportunity to meet and match people for any personal professional purpose, as getting a job, an internship or some kind of network to develop projects.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:small">As well, UTEC has implemented projects with companies (known as "VLI con empresas"), this program involve profesorsinvolves both UTEC professors and students, students and represent representatives of the companies to implement different projects that are developed during the semester.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify">[[File:Electrica.jpg|333x250px|Electrica.jpg]][[File:NET.png|483x250px|NET.png]]</p>
= ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS<br/> =
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