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UTEC Student Priorities

Strategy #1: Making innovation, inspiring and artistic expression spaces

Project Name: Explore Room

 
ExploreRoom

Project Leader: Marcela Yeckle


Key Tactics

  • Contact people who have entrepreneurship, members of the theater, music, dance club, and people who like to help others by elaborating projects.
  • Create a 3D Desing where people can see in a better way the dimensions and the objects in the room.
  • Map the number of students that would be interested in entering the room.
  • Considering this room as a place to booked in UTEC webiste.



Strategy #2: Give students the key tools to create startup from scratch by learning

Project Name: StartUp2.0

 
StartUp2.0

Project Leader: Mirella Rivas


Key Tactics

  • Contact well known innovation teachers, UV mentors as well as past Fellows to volunteer and help guide the program.
  • Design the criteria to select candidates and amount of candidates for the first program.
  • Create the syllabus of what will be taught in the sessions.
  • Map students who would like to learn by making media campaign to motivate students to try.
  • Book a classroom in summer break for the program to be held for 7 weeks.



Strategy #3:Teach students how to transform their laboratory inventions into successful innovations available in the market.

Project Name: Technology transfer and commercialization (Elective course)

 
Technology transfer and commercialization

Project Leader: Thalia Leyton


Key Tactics

  • Prepare the program course.
  • Train possible UTEC teachers.
  • Propose the course to SUNEDU.
  • Launch the course for student's enrollment.

Strategy #4: Use this space to learn and apply innovation to project and courses

Project Name: Design Room

 
DesingSpace

Project Leader: Valeria Aguayo


Key Tactics

  • Make workshops to engage students with design thinking methodology and apply it in their projects
  • Engage students to believe that they can think in good ideas and creative solutions to solve problems in a creative room
  • Design a methodology to help students use all objects in the best way to maximize their creative process way possible
  • Have as allies professors who use the methodology of design thinking in workshops as part of their courses

Strategy #5: Opportunities for developing startups (tech transfer)  

Project Name: D. Ventures

Project Leader: Luana Andrade


  • Enhancing students to be aware of entrepreneurship and innovation (I&E).
  • Look for motivated students focused on developing new products or startups.
  • Teaching design methodologies in other courses .
  • UTEC Ventures or FABLAB UTEC as  innovation spaces for students .

Strategy #6: Giving students a prototyping space

Project Name: UTEC Lean Lab

Project Leader: Elmer Escandón



  • Provide challenges to students in order to use the area .
  • Restrict the use only for innovation purposes .
  • Free area for students and professors.
  • Foster students’ abilities to design solutions and creative confidence by providing mentors only for this area.

Strategy #7: Facilitating project groups

Project Name: UTEC Mix n’ Match

Project Leader: Francisco Mejía


  • Online platform inside the UTEC intranet that generates interest groups based on students’ academic preferences.
  • Groups generated by this platform should be capable of presenting their own projects.
  • Interests used by this platform are not strictly academic, the requisite is that an interest must be project-worthy.


Strategy #8: Entrepreneurship consulting

Project Name: Innovation Consulting

Project Leaders:  Kiko Mayorga and Joana Munarriz


  • Map the outstanding students in the research field (Ricardo Gonzáles, Danae Chipoco) and innovation methodologies (Diego Muñoz, Hans Figueroa, Sandra Abad).
  • Volunteer alumni and senior professors able to mentor and advise students in their projects
  • Register projects from innovation courses, I&E groups, VLI (Interdisciplinary Projects) and research laboratories in UTEC.

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