The activity contributes to the participation of academics and the training of FIULS students, who in these instances obtain tools and knowledge that allow them to have an international and global view of mining.

The Coordinator of the Civil Mining Engineering Course at the University of La Serena, Mg. José Muñoz participated in the 2021 Academic Week of the Mining Engineering career of the Higher Technological Institute of Santiago Papasquiaro in Mexico, with the theme "Considerations for approaching an Underground Mining project." The activity was attended by more than 100 students, academics and professionals in the mining area internationally.

The Coordinator of the Civil Mining Engineering Career, in relation to the course taught, stated that “the idea of ​​this course was to make known the basic concepts of mining, emphasizing that many times there are paradigms that we must take into account when starting. "A project, for example, we must have the background defined, such as access to underground ramps or also if it is a spike on a slope, we must ground these characteristics in reality by identifying and overturning paradigms."

Ninoska Piñones, Head of the Mining Laboratory of the ULS Mining Engineering Department, who witnessed the course, noted that “it was very interesting, since the academic has vast professional experience in mining projects with underground and open pit exploitation; and in the instance the positioning of mining as a business stands out, assuming that we are the engineers who must manage it and carry out the procedures for the business to work.”

The Mg. José Muñoz indicated that “the strategic alliance we have with the Higher Technological Institute of Santiago Papasquiaro in Mexico is thanks to the fact that a student came on exchange and was very happy with the classes we teach at our University and for this reason a few years ago I "They invited Mexico to hold a talk on mining issues for both professionals and professors at the Institute."

The participation of academics and students from the University of La Serena in these international instances contributes to obtaining knowledge about how mining is developed in other countries, the technologies and the use of exploitation methods.

Written by María José Barraza, FIULS 2030 Project.

If you are a researcher or student and are interested in using this server for the simulation of numerical methods, you must fill out the form in the following link http://synergygrid.fiuls.cl/.

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of La Serena (FIULS) through the Applied R&D and Linkage with the Industry axis of the FIULS 2030 Project, seeks to position the work of the Faculty for the development of knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship. In this sense, teaching-learning initiatives are being carried out to develop the skills of students and academics; for this purpose, the High Performance Calculation Server “SynergyGrid” is available to the University Community.

Currently this equipment is installed in the facilities of the Information and Computing Center of the University of La Serena (CICULS), with the objective that researchers and students can access this equipment remotely from their work centers.

Marcelo Riveros is a graduate of the Civil Mining Engineering Program, who wrote his report using “SynergyGrid” on the use of this numerical method. He stated that “Personally, this experience was positive because the simulation of numerical methods allowed me to create simultaneous simulations without The computer became slow and also executed other tasks at the same time. On the other hand, I think this is a first approach with this equipment, it could continue to be improved, for example, in the graphic part since this limits the use of the server."

Riveros recommends students to use “SynergyGrid”, pointing out that “I would recommend it if someone needs to use a high-capacity computer to do modeling, it is useful and allows you not to use the PC because if you used your computer you would have to leave it on for a week, in "But with this system you can do two things in parallel."

Likewise, Nicolás Monsalves, has a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy and this year he entered the Doctorate in astronomy at the ULS. Regarding the Calculation Server, he indicated that “I am studying thanks to funding from ANID and using the model to make calculations. What happens is that in astronomy there are two types of stars, which are binaries that orbit together, it happens that there is a lot of data on the stars and the old methods are not viable. "Then the need arises to generate tools that help us classify these types of stars. The methods they are using are based on making mathematical adjustments and for this I am using SynergyGrid, it is much more efficient and faster to work with."

This server is based on Linux and the software to be used must be original and open source or paid for by the academic. To request the use of “SynergyGrid” you must enter http://synergygrid.fiuls.cl/ and fill out the use request form. Once the request is accepted, a “recognition commitment” agreement will be sent to the email indicated in the form to be signed by the responsible researcher.

CIMNE Agreement

Thanks to the agreement made with the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, CIMNE, two software are available for the development of simulations in numerical methods, GID and Kratos, which are available to the university community.

Written by María José Barraza, FIULS 2030 Project.

There were 7 instances in which the ULS university community and the general public met to address in depth relevant aspects of the evolution of Human Rights in our country.

The series of talks was proposed as a way to bring the community closer to the legal aspects and the evolution of Human Rights regulations at the national and international level.

On this occasion, before nearly 50 spectators, the academic of the Department. of Cs. Legal Department of the FACSEJ, Mg. Germán Soliz Godoy, addressed human rights and citizenship in the company, giving attendees a quick overview of the details that affect citizens when maintaining an employment contract, and how this link should contemplate the protection of the constitutional guarantees of workers and the dignity of people.

At the end of the talk, the academic answered live questions posed by the audience through chat.

Various themes

The diversity of topics addressed weekly during April and May covered interesting aspects of Human Rights, such as Freedom of Expression, Zamudio Law and Gabriela Law, Gender Approach, during the month of April. Already in May, there were talks on specific topics such as "Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: War conflicts and terrorism", given by Dr. Daniel Álvarez, and "Human Rights and the Environment", by Mg. Francisco Gallo, both academics from the Department of Legal Sciences of the FACSEJ.

As a representative of the organizing committee of the Talk Series, Mg. Christian Merino, coordinator of the ULS Law program, thanked the attendees and all those who collaborated in carrying out this cycle, pointing out that “this was an especially comforting experience due to the quality of the speakers, the reception of the community and also for the teamwork that made this cycle possible.” Furthermore, he maintained that "these cycles were conceived as a permanent update course on Human Rights and we hope to be able to quickly provide a new version, especially considering that at this time our country is going to require these meetings to be able to nourish the work of drafting a new Constitution.”

The series of talks was broadcast live through the Zoom platform, the YouTube channel for Linking with the ULS Media and on the Channel of State Universities of Chile -UESTV. The initiative was promoted by the General Area of ​​Coordination of Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training - AGDDFI - and the Department of Cs. Legal Department of the FACSEJ, in collaboration with the Directorate of Liaison with the Environment and Extension and the ULS Graduate Monitoring Office.

The talks can be viewed, on demand, through the official YouTube channel of Linkage with the ULS Media.

Relive the last talk of the cycle:

 Written by Paz Montecinos Kam - Chings, DirCom

The Higher Education Accompaniment (AES) team made the shipments, safeguarding the health measures corresponding to the contingency, through courier companies and Chilean Post Office, to the different locations to which the young people assigned to the Support Program belong. Access to Higher Education (PACE) ULS.

The program belonging to the Office of Student Support and Monitoring (OAME) of the ULS Academic Vice-Rector's Office, began sending sets of learning support materials to its PACE 2020 generation, with the aim of contributing to their university academic process.

The objective of this action lies in providing support inputs to students who have a symbolic value of welcome and commitment to PACE accompaniment in their first two years of their degree, as well as socializing and reinforcing information about the types of accompaniment. that are provided and how to access them.

More than 120 sets of materials were distributed starting in the second semester of 2020 and this first semester of 2021 by different communes, both in the Atacama Region (Diego de Almagro and Vallenar), and in the Coquimbo Region (La Serena, Coquimbo, Vicuña , Andacollo, Combarbalá, Illapel, Ovalle and Punitaqui), for PACE-Enabled students cohort 2019 and 2020.

In this context, Ashley Castro, a PACE ULS student studying Audit, expressed: “I received the kit, the notebook and the case with the supplies. Very grateful, first of all, to God, because she has touched his noble hearts for you to send us this beautiful gift. I am very happy, since they will be very useful to me.”

For her part, Millaray Araya, also part of the program and a student of Pedagogy in Mathematics and Physics, pointed out that “the gift is super nice and the notes they made in the notebook will be very useful to me. Everything is excellent, thank you for the gesture.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE OAME ULS.

The Distance Education Office (OED) of the University of La Serena officially makes the new MiClase platform available as a support tool for university teaching in the creation of audiovisual material.

Based on multidisciplinary work at the OED and a process of adjustments, the final version of this platform was achieved, highlighting as its main characteristic how intuitive its use is, and obtaining a finished audiovisual resource after following 4 simple steps.

In coherence with what is declared in the Educational Model and from a collaborative work perspective, the OED's main objective is the implementation of a tool with these characteristics in the context of a pandemic, to contribute to the strengthening of the teaching and learning process in the ULS. This fact goes hand in hand with the particularity that MiClase has of not being downloadable software, but rather a web platform that allows access and use from an internet browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

In practical terms, the platform has 3 audio and video recording functions, which include the possibility of recording both what the computer camera and its screen record, whether it is a specific window or the screen in in its entirety, or choose one of these two video options as the only one that will be part of the recording.

On the other hand, MiClase works with a material backup function, since in addition to uploading the file to the platform - an option that carries out automatic video processing - there is the option to download the original file to the computer.

Humberto Farías Aroca, coordinator of the OED, highlighted the importance of this resource for the university. “With the MiClase platform, what the Distance Education Office sought was to provide a new tool for the institution's academics, which allows them to generate audiovisual material without the technical complexities of installing and configuring software. This allows the content that academics want to make available to their students to be recorded through a browser. The previous process culminates with the receipt of a link where it is possible to view this recorded audiovisual content, after logging in with the unique institutional password. With this, we want to contribute to the quality of teaching in these complex times and once again place the University of La Serena at the technological forefront when it comes to distance education,” he explained.

It is expected that this new alternative for the creation of material will facilitate the work of the University's academics, and will be a contribution to this new context of remote education, thus encouraging the use of technology as support in education. .

Written by Emilio Castro, OED

With a total of 25 students, classes for the 3 diploma courses taught by the Distance Education Office (OED) of the University of La Serena began, corresponding to the first period of 2021.

The activities began with a remote ceremony in which the OED team and the new diploma students participated, who already have access to induction material to the platforms they will use during the academic period.

Starting on Monday, May 17, the 16 weeks of classes that cover the diplomas in Digital Marketing, Social Sciences Didactics and Teaching for Vocational Technical Training began, which, thanks to the distance format and the possibilities allowed by the Campus platform Digital from the OED to store and share the teaching material, they may be taken at the times that each student deems appropriate, within the corresponding 4 months.

Regarding the success in enrollment, the OED coordinator, Humberto Farías Aroca, highlighted the preference of new students, despite the increase in the offer of this type of remote programs. “Maintaining a constant enrollment during the three years that the diploma courses have been carried out confirms the quality of the programs given that our main disseminator to maintain this enrollment has been our graduates and, so far, we have not had a negative view, on the contrary , many words of gratitude and invitation to join other students. He also talks about the need for the university to increase its offer of distance programs starting with the 6 that are awaiting approval by the academic council, where as the Distance Education Office we hope to reach 20 graduates in this modality by end of the year,” he said.

On the OED's social networks you can review the testimonies of former students of the 3 diploma courses taught in this format and also learn more about the work of the Distance Education Office. You can visit Facebook and Instagram as OEDULS.

Written by Emilio Castro, OED