2022 Cohort
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<h4> <strong> I&E Courses </strong> </h4>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Some of the courses offered are ‘Global Challenges’‘Innovation and Product Development’, in which students explore the design thinking methodology and other techniques to apply it to in the development of a real problem in their local communityproduct. Two Three classes focus on business management and entrepreneurship: ‘Introduction to Business Development’‘Company and Customer’, ‘Business Management’ and ‘Products and Services Design’. The last course on this chain deals more with innovative design and product development to propose realistic and accessible solutions, and it's called ‘Innovation and Product Development”.
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Some courses don’t have a specific component of I&E because they are related to core areas, but students 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 the design in order to create a solution to a specific problem following the steps of 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 in order to design the best software that fits with them.
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"h4><span style="font-size: small"strong> Extracurricular Clubs & Activities</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"/h4> Another essential element we have at the university is the presence of change-maker students who empower other students to develop an innovative scientific mindset and spirit of curiosity needed to have a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem. For that reason, SpinOut UTEC (before Comunidad I&E UTEC) was born in 2016, whose main mission is to improve the I&E ecosystem in the region, starting with UTEC students. This idea was born from the initiative of the first 4 peruvian University Innovation Fellows. They have been creating different workshops as micro classes, meetups with co-founders of Peruvian startups, speed-dating for startup ideas and a program to train new trainers in design thinking. There is also a student organization called ProUnity, which is focused on spreading information about business resources such as scrum, design thinking, project masterclasses, soft skills workshops and PMO consulting. In addition, this year students from different careers created IISE, a chapter of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering that seeks to promote research considering innovation.
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Some means to diffuse these initiatives and organizations are Another essential element we have at the following: ‘Revista Piso 11, where news university is shared with the presence of change-maker students who empower other students through visual to develop an innovative scientific mindset and audiovisual mediaspirit of curiosity needed to have a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem. For that reason, SpinOut UTEC podcast(before Comunidad I&E UTEC) was born in 2016, where students are interviewed whose main mission is to know more about their experience in areas like improve the I&E; ecosystem in the region, starting with UTEC students. This idea was born from the social media managed by initiative of the university; first 4 peruvian University Innovation Fellows. They have been creating different workshops as micro classes, meetups with co-founders of Peruvian startups, speed-dating for startup ideas and Bienestar Estudiantila program to train new trainers in design thinking. There is also a student organization called ProUnity, which manages an e-mail massive list to share is focused on spreading information about business resources such as scrum, design thinking, project masterclasses, soft skills workshops and PMO consulting. In addition, on 2021 students from different careers created IISE, a chapter of the activities from students Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering that seeks to studentspromote research considering innovation.
<h4span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Some means to diffuse these initiatives and organizations are the following: ‘Revista Piso 11, where news is shared with students through visual and audiovisual media, UTEC podcast, where students are interviewed to know more about their experience in areas like I&E; the social media managed by the university; and the weekly Newsletter Enterate UTEC where studetns find out about opportunities and success stories in I&E and other areas. On 2022, the Internationalization Office achieved its first successful group for the Tech Mission to Sillicon Valley, an effort to expose a group of students to one of the most innovatives environments in the world. During 5 days, they got to network with engineers and innovation experts from companys such as Tesla, Google, Amazon, NASA, etc. <strong> Maker Spaces </strong> </h4>
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 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.
<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, putting their ingenuity into action and exploring these real-world problems that the teachers proposed to research, design, prototype and solve them with innovative solutions, as the name itself of the course, in an interdisciplinary way. These projects need to be developed following design thinking, user-centered design, and research methodologies. At the end of the semester, there is a contest for all the students enrolled in the course to demonstrate the creative process and the progress as teamwork that is the final result of their project. Finally, there is a contest and , called Demo Day UTEC, where the most outstanding projects earn funds to be carried on and enter the market.
<h4> <strong> Research Centres as a catalyst </strong> </h4>