UTEC Student Priorities

The purpose of this Wiki is to show the key strategies that fellows at UTEC are taking into consideration to get their job done successfully.

Cohort 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjVaTeMot4

Strategy #1: Creating new ways to encourage students to be active participants in their school

Project Name: Student Life at UTEC

Project Leader: Mia Townsend

Key Tactics

Create an Instagram account which consistently posts updates about every school event aimed at students.
Record and evaluate the number of students that interact with the posts (likes, comments, shares, saves)
Organize different students and organizations to share the account and help us keep up with information.
Have a team of students to administrate the account and make changes as we gain new insights.
Make the account more interactive by using the instagram features to let students actively participate.

Strategy #2: Give students the opportunity to be part of UTEC's Research Centres in order to make real their invents

Project Name: Ad Astra Program

Project Leader: Macarena Oyague, Grecia Delgado

Key Tactics

Develop bases for the program
Search for experimented students to become mentors of the program
Get an alliance with the area of UTEC in charge of pursuing key partnerships with companies in order to help students to get sponsorship for their projects
Get an alliance with the legal area in order to give advice in the program about patents
Have conversations with UTEC Research Area to give the UIF team the opportunity to lunch a pilot with a Research Centre
Get an alliance with UTEC Ventures in order to help in tech transfer when the project is finished

Strategy #3: A space that allows bioengineering and chemistry engineering students to develop an entrepreneurship with a scientific research project

Project Name: R2B: Research to business

Project Leader: Nadia Chamana

Key Tactics

Show a prototype of how the use process including times and people involved
Make a prototype of more fidelity to show measurements, list of equipment and security measures
Especify the name of the mentors and the other people in charge
Introduce an option for hybridize it: virtual and in person
Contact with different stakeholders involved
Contact with more people with similar initiatives

Cohort 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qZMyohnRlU

Strategy #1: Making mobile, inspiring and comfortable spaces to innovate

Project Name: Design Lab: Mobile and Physical

Design Lab physical space

Project Leaders: Marcela Yeckle and Valeria Aguayo

Key Tactics

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.
Make a DesignLab Mobile version, to make every space a place to ideate ideas.

Design of the physical space: Video

Strategy #2: Give students the key tools to learn how to make an entrepreneurship from scratch by learning

Project Name: Saphi (this mean "Origin" or "Root" in Quechua)

Saphi's website, our third prototype

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.

Prototype Website Application Portal: Website

June 2021 Update: Our first workshop was on March 27th, and it was aimed to teach fellow students to identify real needs within the COVID pandemic, understanding users and learning to hear them, so that later on they could propose solutions. The complete program will be launched in August 2021.

First Workshop: Flyer

August 2021 Update: Our winter break program was successfull. We had an average of 35 students attending the 4 sessions program, and recieved great feedback for our next program to be launched on our summerbreak at the beginning of 2022.

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)

Tech transfer pilot program cover.

Project Leader: Thalía Leyton

Key Tactics

Prepare the course program
Train potential UTEC professors or hire a new professor.
Present the course to SUNEDU (National Superintendency of Higher University Education in Peru).
Determine course capacity based on pre-enrollment and available resources.
Launch the course for students to enroll.

June 2021 Update: During 2021 we have collaborated with the Academic Projects area and we are about to start an intensive one-month workshop that will serve as our pilot program. This workshop will be given in June to UTEC students qualified to take their "Real Life Experience" (RLE) course. We hope that with this workshop, they can take better advantage of the projects they do during their RLE.

Cohort 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-F1uWgEuI

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

Project Name: D. Ventures

Project Leader: Luana Andrade

Key Tactics

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 #2: Giving students a prototyping space

Project Name: UTEC Lean Lab

Project Leader: Elmer Escandón

Key Tactics

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 #3: Facilitating project groups

Project Name: UTEC Mix n’ Match

Project Leader: Francisco Mejía

Key Tactics

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 #4: Entrepreneurship consulting

Project Name: Innovation Consulting

Project Leaders: Kiko Mayorga and Joana Munarriz

Key Tactics

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.