University authorities, headed by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, directors, academics and students of the institution, participated in the inauguration of the works to improve infrastructure, rooms and access for Teaching at the service of first-year students. year of Industrial Civil Engineering, located in the North Wing of the Ignacio Domeyko Campus

These works have made it possible to complete a cycle of rehabilitation and furnishing of spaces that in this building alone already includes five fully equipped rooms, available for first-year students. 

''The works that we present today, and their implementation with quality equipment and furniture, respond to our policy of improving physical and technological resources, and the commitment to quality that we have assumed as the only State University in the Coquimbo Region. The above aims to improve and optimize learning spaces for the incorporation of methodological innovations and quality assurance of the undergraduate training programs of our University, in accordance with the principles of the Educational Model and Strategic Plan for Institutional Development. said Rector Avilés, highlighting that the completion of these projects is the result of the work carried out jointly by authorities, directors and teachers.

Meanwhile, the director of Institutional and Planning Studies, Mg. César Espíndola, maintained that considering that the teaching-learning process is based on interactions between people, ''the need arises to make these spaces a comfortable and friendly place, this being an important task entrusted by our Rector, especially when This change begins by giving priority to our first-year students, a task that is no less challenging as it provides a starting point in the definition of a new standard of infrastructure for our University and which must be preserved throughout their training process. . 

Furthermore, the manager indicated that this task becomes easier when ''we see the commitment of academic units to maintain this standard over time, as a strategy that offers important benefits, such as the generation of early identity with the career, the possibility of interaction of new students with their academics and classmates from higher courses, among many others.'' Opinion shared by Sebastián Bustos, from the Industrial Civil Engineering Student Center, who valued the improvement of rooms and offices, as well as the delivery of new equipment for the Production Laboratory, highlighting that having these spaces favors interaction between incoming students, their teachers and higher level students. 

For his part, the director of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Mg. Óscar Contreras, along with highlighting that these spaces favor the integration of first-year students and allow better care to be provided to young people, thanked the highest university authority and higher authorities for the support provided to the unit in the completion of this remodeling. and also in the acquisition of a Flexible Manufacturing System in the Production Laboratory, technology that is part of the first investment in major equipment made in the Faculty of Engineering after 1970.

It is worth remembering that in April 2013 the new facilities of the North Wing of the Ignacio Domeyko Campus were inaugurated, works that included the provision of 4 classrooms for the students and teachers of the Department of Industrial Civil Engineering, whose works were framed in the Alma Mater ULS project. They included the recovery of the wooden floor (vitrified), painting of interior and exterior walls, renovation of blackboards, Internet connection, high-efficiency lighting, implementation of data and renovation of furniture to provide comfort to the students. Additionally, accesses and signage were renewed and basic services were provided. Added to this is the implementation of new administrative offices for the Department. of Industrial Engineering, a project that had resources from the Rector's Office and the aforementioned department.

The inauguration ceremony of the improvement of infrastructure and rooms was part of the celebration of the XXXIII anniversary of the University of La Serena.