UTEC Student Priorities

UTEC Student Priorities Videos

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

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

Project Name: Technology transfer and commercialization (Elective course)

Technology transfer and commercialization

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.

Syllabus of the course: Link

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.