These new acquisitions will allow the program's available infrastructure to be modernized for the practice of different workshops framed in its curricular plan.

In a significant ceremony, which included the participation of the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, higher authorities, directors, academics, officials and students, the delivery of new equipment for the Design degree, assigned to the Faculty of Humanities of the ULS.

On the occasion, the Director of the School of Design, Carla López, thanked the support provided to modernize the available infrastructure, “the valuable thing about all this is that we are convinced that it is a new time, that it will allow us to continue growing, that It helps to think that it is the beginning of changes that will continue with the opening of some workshops and the repair of others. All these improvements, together with this valued equipment, are new resources, which allow us to project and dream.”

For his part, the president of the CEC of Design, Rodrigo Manquez, pointed out that “this impulse comes hand in hand with a series of changes, from this day on with the reception of new technological additions (…). Today as a School of Design we only have to focus our gaze forward, training ourselves as professionals to improve the lives of the people for whom we work. We are grateful".

The equipment delivered to the School of Design consists in this first stage of 1 HP T520 36 plotter, 1 Makerbot 3D Scanner, 2 Makerbot Replicator 3D printers and a MAC computer.

Added to this implementation is the upcoming tender for the repair of two workshops, whose progress was committed by Rector Avilés to improve the degree facilities.

“This first delivery of equipment to the Design program is part of our commitments and the joint work that we have maintained with the School and its students, who have presented their needs to us and with whom we have maintained very good communication, vital for the development of our University,” said the authority.

Rector Avilés also highlighted that “the program to improve equipment and spaces for teaching is an instance implemented by the Rector's Office many years ago, where the management of the directors is important, and this is how the Director of the School has understood it. of Design, who, supported by the students, presented this project to the authorities and it was approved and today it is being financed.”

As part of the ceremony, the course, through student Claudia Tardito, gave the Rector a gift, in gratitude for his support.

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