The activity was carried out for the young people belonging to the Academic Vice-Rectorship program of the House of Higher Studies.

The I Want to Be a Professional in Education (QSPE) program team, belonging to the OAME ULS Support Office, through its Inclusive Access axis, carried out the initial day of the vocational interest module with the aim of guiding students who are studying the program.

It should be remembered that the objective of QSPE is to provide preparation opportunities to fourth-year students who demonstrate interest in choosing careers in pedagogy, safeguarding access to higher education and their permanence in the university, through the various training programs. support, academic accompaniment and strengthening of the teaching vocation, in coherence with the Educational Model of the University of La Serena.

Regarding the activity, Elizabeth Fuentes, Head of the OAME ULS Inclusive Access Axis, expressed: “the meeting was characterized by the close connection with the students, highlighting the importance of social relationships, links, support networks and containment in such important stages. such as the transition from secondary to tertiary education, the above framed in the choice of a career in pedagogy as a life project in the academic field, knowing and exploring the tools that will provide us with the development of skills and competencies to be able to make such an important decision. ”.

On this occasion, the program team met with the students belonging to QSPE 2021, to learn about the learning route of one of the accompaniment, which has the work objectives: to implement induction activities for 4th grade students. medium in relation to the operation of the QSPE program. Promote and strengthen self-knowledge in students, which allows them to develop intrapersonal skills to accompany the process of identity formation and vocational exploration. As well as that they know and understand the importance of creating a life plan, strengthening autonomy in personal educational processes and of course generating spaces for reflection and conversation.

Written by Daniel Aguayo. PACE OAME ULS Communications

The event organized by the Alberto Hurtado University, which sought to create a space to share and make visible experiences and good accompaniment practices in a virtual context, led by PACE peer tutors.

The team of professionals and Tutors of the Support Component in Higher Education (AES) of the Support and Effective Access to Higher Education (PACE) ULS Program, was part of the Meeting of Good Practices for Comprehensive Support Tutors (TAI) 2021, organized by the Alberto Hurtado University, whose objective was to provide a space for the exchange of good tutorial practices between the TAI team and former peer tutors, who are currently in the world of work, and the teams of AES PACE professionals from the different IES, executors of the government measure.

This meeting sought to generate an opportunity to present good tutorial practices derived from the process of supporting PACE students in Higher Education. And within this same line, articulate effective tutorial support strategies, aimed at the insertion, permanence and comprehensive development of PACE students in Higher Education; and, finally, promote spaces for dialogue between tutors for collaborative work.

The event was held within the framework of the TAI Winter Training School, in three days in which we sought to share and make visible experiences and good accompaniment practices in a virtual context, led by current and former PACE tutors. Regarding the participation of the PACE ULS tutors, our representative, Iván Jaramillo, PACE ULS Peer Tutor of the Journalism degree, expressed: “I am super happy to have these opportunities in which I can not only learn from other people, but also being able to share my own experience with other tutors and professionals. I think it is very enriching that other universities value and know the work of the PACE ULS program.”

For her part, Francisca Rojas, PACE ULS Tutor for the Architecture degree, who also represented us, exposing her work, stated: “Being part of this exhibition is an incredible experience of being able to publicize various practices that can help both tutors as tutees, I appreciate the opportunity to be able to represent the university and PACE ULS.”

It should be noted that each of these days ended with the presentation of a tutoring experience from an institution linked to the support of students in Higher Education and those who represented the program team, belonging to OAME ULS, were Javiera Contreras, Professional Tutor and support for the follow-up and monitoring of AES PACE ULS tutors and Loreto Garrido, Academic Manager of PACE ULS tutors, with the presentation: Successful tutorial practices: the PACE ULS experience.

When asked about her participation, Garrido argued: “it is an honor to represent PACE ULS alongside my colleague, and to be able to publicize the progress and achievements of our tutors with the aim of opening doors to collaborative work between HEIs. These virtual spaces are always enriching for the teams.”

And finally, Contreras said: “I am happy to be able to represent our program in this meeting organized by the Alberto Hurtado University and to be able to see not only our work in retrospect, but also that of the other tutors, how they have been able to implement their work. So far, very grateful for the invitation.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE OAME ULS Communications

The agreement facilitated the participation of two memory students in the Myriam Project of the Guayacán Solutions company, which consists of an industrial maintenance system based on artificial intelligence.

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of La Serena (FIULS) seeks to link with companies both regionally and nationally, for the transfer of knowledge and at the same time as an opportunity for both academics, as well as for their students. In this sense, a collaboration agreement was signed with the company Guayacán Solutions.

Sergio García, founder of Guayacán Solutions and Head of Operations of the company, regarding the collaboration agreement, indicated that “we identified the possibility of making an alliance and participating with the FIULS 2030 project. Therefore, we applied for a subsidy in conjunction with the Integrated Center for Piloting of Mining Technologies - CIPTEMINk - to pilot some of our products and we were selected. We developed Myriam, it is an artificial intelligence project.”

For his part, the Executive Director of the FIULS 2030 Project, Ricardo Orrego, highlighted that “this agreement is a great development opportunity for both the University and Guayacan Solutions. On the one hand, through this collaborative work, the Faculty of Engineering will participate in the transfer of innovative and cutting-edge technology to the national industry; and, on the other hand, the company will benefit from a previous collaboration that ULS has with CIPTEMIN to pilot and test the prototype.”

The students and memorists of the Mechanical Engineering degree at the ULS, José Adones and José Herrera, are currently developing their Degree Report at the company Guayacán Solutions on the Myriam project, an industrial maintenance system based on artificial intelligence.

José Herrera stressed that “thanks to this project we were offered to write our report, the maintenance area is very interesting, although it is something we see at the University, but in practice it is different; and this mixture of learning motivates us a lot. We are taking this path with great enthusiasm and grateful for the university since we are applying our knowledge in this company; “It has been a rewarding experience and we hope to continue like this in the future.”

Likewise, José Adones said that “thanks to the opportunity of Guayacán Solutions, we have learned different things such as digital reportability that is part of maintenance. Also interacting with people from different tasks, this helped us manage multiple scenarios. Thus, by piloting Myriam we were able to do great things and we can attract local talent that is available when one graduates from university.”

Carlos Barahona, CTO of Guayacán Solutions, referred to the changes that have been generated in the company with the pandemic, pointing out that “the health crisis forced us to look for technological solutions such as digitalization processes. Our idea was to limit the number of people at work and allow them to work from home. We offer our products as an alternative solution.”

Written by María José Barraza, FIULS 2030 Project.

Twelve leading specialists from the public sector and academia in areas such as mathematics, health, engineering and public policies will work on a proposal for data governance in the State. A look from the academy.

The Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Andrés Couve, presented this Wednesday the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Data of Public Interest, which will support the ministry to design and propose data governance that allows these assets to be used for the management of the State and for research and evidence-based decision making.

The new MinCiencia advisory committee brings together twelve outstanding experts in fields of knowledge related to mathematics, natural sciences and the use of data for public administration, whose main task will be to provide a vision from the academy regarding how the State must govern public interest data to create value.

The Seremi of Science of the Central Macrozone, María José Escobar, who is part of this committee of experts, stated: “It is important that this group of specialists has professionals coming from different perspectives and sectors. For my part, I hope to contribute with the perspective of engineering, the work of the public sector, the gender perspective, and above all the regional approach, because we cannot approach the use and management of data without a territorial perspective."

Regarding this work, Minister Couve pointed out that “the State manages data that it collects on our population, territory, economy, fiscal finances, climate, among other matters of great interest to citizens, civil organizations, academia, the public sector and the private. The COVID19 emergency showed us that data, placed in the appropriate formats and platforms, and updated in a timely manner, are vital for the generation of knowledge and for applications that contribute to the economic and social development of Chile."

As explained by the authority, this committee will also accompany the ministry in a series of initiatives that make up the Ministry's Public Interest Data Agenda, such as the COVID-19 Database; Data Observatory; Climate Change Observatory; National Artificial Intelligence Policy; The Chile We Want; Integrated Water Information System; ANID Open Data Policy and the Observa platform.

The members of the Advisory Committee are the following:

• Alejandro Jara, Director of the Center for the Discovery of Structures in Complex Data.
• Loreto Bravo, Director of the Data Science Institute, UDD Faculty of Engineering.
• Leonardo Basso, Director of the Complex Engineering Systems Institute
• Alejandro Maass, Director of the Mathematical Modeling Center.
• Pablo Marquet, Director of the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity.
• Rafael Araos, Advisor to the Undersecretary of Public Health.
• Steffen Härtel, Director Institute of Biomedical Neuroscience.
• Tomás Pérez-Acle, Director of Information Technologies, Science and Life Foundation.
• María Paz Hermosilla, Director of GobLab UAI.
• Aisén Etcheverry, Director of ANID.
• María José Escobar, Seremi Macrozona MinCiencia Center.
• María José Bravo, Head of the MinCiencia Studies and Statistics Office.

This group of specialists was born within the framework of the recommendations of the document called “A look at data culture in Chile”, which was generated by the COVID-19 Data Subtable of the COVID-19 Social Table, organized by the Ministry of Science, and assumes the responsibility of contributing to materializing the learning acquired on that occasion, and addressing the challenges to promote a knowledge society in Chile.

Source: SEREMI Communications of the Central Macrozone 

The study is based on DEM simulation, which marks a milestone since it allows the generation of more reliable processes in the interaction of particles in the devices that were generated in the research. The above is applicable to mining, the pharmaceutical industry and agribusiness.

Dr. Yerko Aguilera, Academic of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of La Serena, together with the graduate of the ULS Mechanical Civil Engineering Career, Yonathan Tapia, and the Academic of the University of Santiago, Sebastián Pérez, carried out a research called “DEM Simulation to Determine the Influence on the Experimental Results of Tests of Iron Pellets When the Dimensions of the Test Device Are Varied”. The paper was published in an international journal, International Journal of Mordern Nonlinear Theory and Application.

Regarding the research, the Academic noted that “the interesting thing about the publication is that it lays the foundations for a prompt normalization and standard of the calibration processes carried out in these simulations, focused on the processes. Today it is used to simulate in the metallurgical mining industry, but it is applicable to all industrial processes, for example, in pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, and the food industry. “The simulations are generated when there is interaction of particles, and they are focused on the behavior of the particles, mainly in the mining industry.”

“This type of simulation is marking an important milestone regarding numerical simulations that allow us to combine a lot of physics, and we can determine the variables of a process. This is the future and this publication has allowed us to clarify the bases for generating more reliable simulation processes, unlike other methods, which are only focused on adding some characteristics of how a process behaves based on measurements. "On the other hand, we analyze how the particles interact in these devices that we did in the research," stressed Dr. Yerko Aguilera.

This research highlights the multidisciplinary work of the Academic from the University of La Serena, supported by the academic from the University of Santiago, and the participation of an undergraduate student, who currently has a degree from the ULS.

Written by María José Barraza Candia, FIULS 2030 Project.

The activity seeks to reactivate the work network of the HEIs in the area assigned to the government measure.

The team of the Access to Higher Education program of the University of La Serena was part of the meeting of the PACE Macro Zona Norte network, which brought together the six Higher Education Institutions (IES), attached to the government measure of this area, with the aim of reactivating collaborative network work, which began to take shape last year.

The instance brought together the university campuses of the north: University of Antofagasta (UA), Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Universidad Arturo Prat (UNAP), Universidad de Tarapacá (UTA), Universidad de Atacama (UDA) and La Universidad de La Serena (ULS), to resume networking between the different Houses of Higher Studies, during the day two topic proposals were presented for this new event. The first was: encourage the implementation of significant socio-emotional support practices, in the context of PACE activities. And the second: design actions and strategies that contribute to the objectives of the PACE 2022-2023 program in the context of teaching in face-to-face or hybrid mode.

Regarding the participation of the PACE ULS team, in the meeting Jovanna González, PEM PACE ULS Coordinator, expressed: “for us as a team, the reactivation of the North network is important, since in this way we can advance together with the others. IES in our work for our student communities, both secondary and higher education.”

For her part, Claudia Toledo, AES PACE ULS Coordinator, who also represented the program of our House of Higher Studies, added: “another important topic that was addressed at the conference was the socio-emotional management of the PACE teams internally, and Thanks to this concern, it was decided to hold monthly meetings with the objective of discussing relevant topics related to its operational management.”

On the other hand, regarding the agreements on the new meeting, the holding date was set for September 02 and the defined theme will be: Socio-emotional Management by the University of Antofagasta (UA).

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE OAME ULS Communications.