2021 Cohort, 2025-cohort-mentor
60
edits
Changes
===<h3><big><span style="color:cornflowerblue">Promoting student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></big></h3>===
<p style="text-align: justify"></p><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color: transparent"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: small">The constructive proposal of the University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC) integrates the specialized knowledge in scientific and technological areas with the competencies of management, humanities and innovation, which result in holistic training that further improves the professional value of our graduates. Innovation and entrepreneurship are encouraged on the campus through courses, extracurricular organizations and spaces where students become empowered to enhance their ideas.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"h4><span style="font-size: small"strong>Interdisciplinary Projects <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"/strong> </h4> Some of the courses offered are ‘Global Challenges’, in which students explore the design thinking methodology and apply it to a real problem in their local community. Two classes focus on business management and entrepreneurship: ‘Introduction to Business Development’, ‘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 Faculty are related supported to be entrepreneurial or commercialize their research by programs such as the Interdisciplinary Project core areas, but students course. The projects are required to go through based on teachers proposing an idea that can be an innovative process to develop a solution. The course ‘Biodesign’ is from the mandatory bioengineering curriculum. It is about the use Initiation, Scientific Research or Development of the design in order to create a solution to a specific problem following the steps of Design Thinking with biomedicine or biotechnologyProduct / Service. Another course called ‘Information Systems’ gives students Students browse through dozens of Computer Science the opportunity projects and are free to discover a specific problem that requires technology to be solved. For that, it is necessary to empathize with choose the objective public project in order to design the best software that fits with themwhich they are interested.
<h4span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"> <strongspan style="font-size: small"> Extracurricular Clubs </strong> </h4span 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 the most outstanding projects earn funds to be carried on and enter the market.
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"h4><span style="font-size: small"strong>Research Centres as a catalyst <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"/strong> </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 the following: ‘Revista Piso 11, where news There is shared with students through visual and audiovisual media, a high quantity of teachers at UTEC podcast, where students that are interviewed to know more about their experience in areas like I&E; also researchers from any of the social media managed by six research centres of the university; and Bienestar Estudiantil, which manages an e-mail massive list to share . These different centers enrich the activities from students students’ experience by encouraging them to studentsexplore their innovative and entrepreneurial potential.They are the following:
<h4ul> <strongli> Maker Spaces Cement and Concrete Research Center </strongli> <li> Water Technology and Research Center (CITA) </li><li> Heritage Research and Conservation Center </li><li> Center for Impact and Social Responsibility (CIRSO) </li><li> Bioengineering Research Center </li><li> Sustainable Computing Research Center (ComSust) </li></h4ul>
<p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: center">[[File:Disrupton.jpeg|287x158px|Disrupton.jpeg]][[File:Hack2.jpeg|316x158px|Hack2.jpeg]][[File:FirmaSOUTEC.png]][[File:Piso11.png|316x158px|File:Piso11.png]]</p><p style="text-align: justify"></p><p style="text-align: justify"></p>