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<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">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 and research centers on different topics relevant to them. </span></span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Faculty are supported to be entrepreneurial or commercialize their research by programs such as the Interdisciplinary Project core course. The projects are based on teachers proposing an idea that can be an Initiation, Scientific Research or Development of a Product / Service. Students browse through dozens of projects and are free to choose the project in which they are interested.
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<li> centre 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>
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<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 are going forward and have the desire to join them.
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 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 paper.
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