UTEC Student Priorities

STRATEGY #1: Opportunities for developing startups (tech transfer)

Project Name: D. Ventures

Project Leader: Luana Andrade

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.

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.

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.