Students guide International and Exchange students International Relations Department. Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil

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1 Students guide International and Exchange students International Relations Department Guayaquil Ecuador

2 Index 1. Welcome message from UTEG principal Studies Grade Studies Post-Grade Studies 4. International Relations Our system objectives Benefits for the students Signed agreements with foreign universities International affiliations UTEG Partner Program Important data 5. Additional benefits for exchange students from the UTEG Academic well-being Medical department Virtual library 6. New projects New campus UTEG Coming to the UTEG How to arrive to Guayaquil How to arrive to UTEG 8. Information Service Useful directions

3 Greeting message from the Principal On behalf of everyone who conform and take part of the UTEG, I give you the most heartfelt welcome. Our university has the mission of creating proactive, critic, and competitive professionals, always having present principles and human values. Our academic community is constantly found in progress and growth, it is because of that motive that we are concerned about of taking care of every detail, in order to let our present and future students enjoy the best educational experience of both third and fourth level. In order to fulfil these purposes, our institution is found in a process of continuous improvement, that will lead to us to reach the maximum grade of academic excellency, and in these sense, we are currently building our own academic campus, which will be ready at the end of this present year, In the academic sense, our university has a faculty made up by professionals that fill in the gaps of the required profiles for careers and programs that the institution offers, with a dedication time destined to teaching, management, research and collectiveness linking. The area of Scientific Research, constitutes another scope of great relevancy; we are currently holding projects that are being executed, and as a result of this effort, we are being capable of launching (in March) the third edition of our magazine of Scientific Research Science and Technology, which is both nationally and internationally distributed, and will turn into an indexed international magazine. Academic Wellbeing, counts with more than 20 programs of student services, among them: psychological assistance, medical department, scholarship and discount program, and a graduated monitoring program. UTEG is a young and dynamic institution, which counts with high-quality professionals in both academic and administrative fields. To our future students in foreign lands, I want to express and give you my most heartfelt welcome and greetings, also inviting you to be a part of our community and to live new experiences of cultural interchange. MsC. Galo Cabanilla Guerra Principal

4 In March 6th 1995 the Instituto Tecnológico de Comercio (INTESCO) was found. Its objective was to form leaders and technologists, able to incorporate in the 21 st Century according to the exigencies of the new globalized economy. As a consequence of growth and well-received attention to the INTESCO, in the year 2000, the Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil is born, as a private institution with juridical personnel, autonomous and non-profit, created and approved under Law , published in the Official Registry No. 6, in January 31 st From its very beginning, UTEG has had a clear objective: to act as a fundamental piece for the intellectual, cultural and technological development to the Higher Educational System of the Ecuador. Nowadays, the principal of the university is the economist Galo Ernesto Cabanilla Guerra, whom, with a innovative management and with a high critic sense, directs the steps of the university towards its growth and strengthening characterized by its academic excellency. Mission To form proactive, critic and competitive professionals, using an educative model of theory-practice, able to develop innovative projects for the benefit of the society, based on principles and human values. Vision For 2013, the will be positioned as an acknowledged and specialized institution in the entrepreneurial scope, generating complementary services and developing research projects and continuous improvement. Institutional principles To form professionals with proactive mentality, that confirm the values and ideals of nationality, social justice, democracy, peace, solidarity and human rights defence. To study, analyze and compare regional, country and worldwide realities, identifying the problems in order to find solutions from a human and scientific scope. To promote the interaction between the university and the external sector, through assistance and support to student, entrepreneurial and cultural initiatives.

5 MsC. Galo Cabanilla Guerra Principal MsC. Margarita Ayala Present Mode Dean PhD. Yesmin Alabart Pino Research Director MsC. Mara Cabanilla Guerra Academic Rector MsC. Mercedes Conforme Postgraduate Academic Director Ing. Ana María Alcívar International Relations Coordinator

6 Studies Present mode undergraduate careers Our careers in the present mode answer to the professional exigencies that the labour field demands, classes are given in comfortable classrooms, using cutting-edge technology, in both diurnal and nocturnal schedules, from Monday to Friday, where the teacher interacts directly with the students, applying the educational model conjugating theory and practice. In classes, research and work involving collectiveness entailment are motivated. The purpose of teaching through present mode and its all curricular and extracurricular components, is the formation of students that constitute as leaders of both present and future, that possess attitudes and competencies of venture, to be professionals aware of human value based relations, able to face the challenges of the changing world, and to become an added value for the development of the country. Careers: Accounting and Auditing Economics mention: Business and Managerial Economics Gastronomy Foreign Trade Engineering mention Internationals businesses Telecommunications management Engineering Business Management Engineering mention Finance and Auditing Business Management Engineering mention Marketing Hotel and Tourism Management Engineering Marketing Engineering mention Sales and Advertising Computational Systems Engineering mention Web Applications and Multimedia Computational Systems Engineering mention Products and Services Computational Systems Engineering mention Nets and Communications Port and Customs Engineering mention Port Administration Duration: 4 years and a half (9 semesters) Schedules: Mornings 7h00 10h00 Night 18h20 22h20 Mondays Fridays: (trimester mode) Dean: Ec. Margarita Ayala

7 Semi-Present Mode The semi-present mode was created as an answer to the necessity of the students to receive integral education, based in the mission of the university, which is forming proactive, critic and competitive professionals, combining theory and practice, in flexible schedules, in that way, UTEG established a special schedule, which involves technically classes on Saturdays of each week, strengthened by research and project development. Careers: Economics mention: Business and Managerial Economics Foreign Trade Engineering mention Internationals Negotiator Engineering in Public Accounting and Auditing Business Management Engineering mention Finance and Auditing Business Management Engineering mention Marketing and Sales Computational Systems Engineering mention Web Applications and Multimedia Labour and Business Psychology Duration: 4 years and a half (9 semesters) Schedules: Intensive 7h15 17h30 Just Saturdays intensive Dean: Ec. Mercedes Conforme Post Graduate School

8 Our programs are dictated under the semi-present mode with schedules to choose, academic pénsum are oriented to develop new knowledge, competencies and specialization in relation to the professional segment, through a continuous process that allows them to face the big challenges of competitiveness and to promote research formation; the university counts with a team of teachers with a high scientific level and wide experience in the labour field. Careers: Management Master s Degree Design and Evaluation of educational models Master s Degree Marketing and Trading Direction Master s Degree Foreign trade Master s Degree Duration: 2 years Schedules: Intensive 8h30 18h00 Just Saturdays intensive Dean: Ec. Mercedes Conforme Continuous Education The Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil (UTEG) knowing that globalization and its effects at the local economies level, have established as a new paradigm that differentiation and leadership of the organizations, especially from those that develop their activities in high competence markets, mainly lies in the quality of the human factor. From the excellency of professional teams, highly aligned, qualified and motivated, fundamentally depend of the variables of productivity, quality, competitiveness, and consequent profitability of the companies. With the objective of materializing the support in the benefit of the country, the (UTEG) created the Continuous Education Unit, as an academic entity, that has been constituted as an active agent for social, economical and cultural development of the Ecuador, using as a principal media, training, directed to every kind of audience, in order to improve personal and professional competencies, that may give birth to integral and harmonic growth of the Ecuadorian society.

9 International relations In 2011, the Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil UTEG, proposed as an objective, to promote internationalization through cooperation and entailment with institutions and international organisms with prestige and continental and worldwide acknowledgement, in order to provide to the academic community the possibility to extend their professional horizons in cultural and academic learning, scientific research and technological innovation through the development of programs and projects. Main Objectives: To promote the image of the Universidad Tecnológica Empresarial de Guayaquil in an international scope. To develop programs of mobility between students of the UTEG and the institutions linked by present treaties. To promote management of faculties and the post grade school, highlighting the educative theoretical practical model applied in careers and Master s Degree s programs. To develop research projects, publications, field studies, international seminars with the linked institutions by present agreements. Belonging to nets, associations and international organisms acknowledged in the academic field. Benefits: Exchange of students: undergraduate, postgraduate (masters and doctorates) by periods of studies, internships, research. Exchange of professors: research, teaching and continuing education Elaboration of projects and joint research programs Development of joint projects and academic The International Relations department provides comprehensive assistance to exchange students, helping in everything possible during the stay of foreign students in the City of Guayaquil. Agreements signed with Universities Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Promote scientific research Promote student mobility Organize academic joint programs Information interchange to promote electronic publications

10 Universidad Santo Tomás (Chile) Student, teachers, and researchers interchange for study programs and research Teachers and researchers for the development of continual education programs Double degree programs for defined careers Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina) Interchange of students for study periods, research, scholarships, modules in postgraduate programs Pre-professional practices for students Interchange of undergraduate students and teachers Information interchanges to promote electronic publications Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (Perú) Interchange of students for study periods, research, scholarships, modules in postgraduate programs Pre-professional practices for students Interchange of undergraduate students and teachers Information interchanges to promote electronic publications Universidad de la Empresa UDE (Uruguay) Interchange of students (undergraduate and post grade) for study periods (trimester, semester o modules) Information interchanges to promote electronic publications Universidad del Valle Bolivia Pre-professional practices for students Interchange of undergraduate students and teachers Information interchanges to promote electronic publications Universidad de Medellín (Colombia) Pre-professional practices for students Interchange of undergraduate students and teachers Joint execution of projects and programs of research, conservation and development Technological development activities through: seminaries, conferences and workshops Universidad del Valle de Orizaba (México) Interchange of students for study periods (trimester, semester o modules) Interchange of teachers Publications and information interchanges in research areas Universidad Autónoma de Asunción (Paraguay) Interchange of teachers and students Information interchange about study plans, academic programs for both pre-grade and post-grade, library networks and every kind of activities oriented to academic and scientific development of utility for both institutions. Promote interchange of alumni and researchers

11 These are the universities which actually, thanks to our renewed Internationalization Plan, have important agreements of cooperation, at the same time, subscription and renewal of important agreements has been achieved, all with the affiliation of our university to different international organisms: BI - World School: Benefits: The university offers economic help with a 100% scholarship to whom possesses the International Scholarship Diploma The university engaged to develop activities that may allow promoting knowledge in the present agreement The International Scholarship organization is meant to provide the University an access account to the site The UTEG and the organization shall assume their expenses caused by demanding activities made by each institution under the agreement HACU (HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES) Benefits: UTEG receives special quotes for congresses and events of the association International exchange opportunities It is benefited of the services and programs offered by HACU Academic information exchange AUIP (ASOCIACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA IBEROAMERICANA DE POSTGRADO) Benefits: Interchange of teachers, researchers and students To carry on academic cooperation projects in advanced superior education, science and culture AUIP and the UTEG will create channels of communication that allow a fluent information upon activities The International Relations department will provide assistance to help the student locate accommodation in the country of destination, ticket expenses, lodging, and other personal expenses will be charged to the student. The homologue office in the hostess university will help perform registry paperwork demanded by the migration office. For more information, please refer to the point 8 of this catalogue, where you will find every direction, phone numbers, and people of your interest.

12 Studying in a foreign country is a great change in every sense: arriving to an unknown city, getting to know a whole different culture, understanding the academic, organizational, and managerial organization of a new university. Because of that and of the help that the International Relations Department offers to exchange students, it has been though that it would be better to give them a closer support, creating the program UTEG Companion, which offers the opportunity to the students to participate in exchange students way of living, supporting them in the process of adaptation and adequacy to the new place. The International Relations Department is in charge of putting in contact each foreign student by previous solicitude with a UTEG student, by which certain criteria are taken into account: personal interests of each one, languages, personal experiences, likes and preferences. The selection of the UTEG Companions consists in the search of voluntary people inside of the academic community to receive or to be the guides to foreign students that reside in Guayaquil during the interchange period. The UTEG Companion program has the following objectives: The integration of the exchange students in the university and in the city of Guayaquil Help the foreign students to adapt to the academic and social life of the UTEG The enrichment in the domain of language, culture and customs on both sides Providing accommodation to the exchange student And above all, the development of a friendship between the two students Important Information 1. Requirements for obtaining a student s visa in Ecuador 1. Identify Ecuador consulate in the country of origin 2. Request formulary for student s visa 12-V (this visa is valid for a year) 3. Two carnet size photographs 4. Passport with minimum validity of six months 5. Rate payment 6. Plane ticket back to the country of origin 7. Inscription certificate (issued by the Higher Education Institution in which the student will be attending while residing in Ecuador) 8. Economic solvency certificate (who will pay their stay in Ecuador)

13 Important Notes Visa request cost: $30,00 (US dollars) Visa cost: $100,00 (confirm price in Ecuadorian consulate in the country of origin) Do not proceed to the renovation of the 12-V Visa, when the titular has failed the year Every exchange student must count with overseas medical insurance Arriving in Ecuador for foreign students or exchange, during the first 30 days of stay in the country must register with the Directorate of Immigration and bear the following documentation: 1. Letter of application for registration of visa Non - Immigrant (12-Visa) 2. Original certificate of Visa 3. Copy of passport (colored) including foreign data sheet 4. Sheet consular visa stamp (record last exit and entrance to Ecuador) The International Relations Department assists students in all concerning the legalization procedures. Life in Guayaquil Living in Guayaquil is a rewarding experience for any visitor from abroad; our city is very welcoming, modern and cosmopolitan. Our University is located in the northern city, in a residential area, safe and easily accessible. The city center, the main sites tourist, shopping and other attractions are just minutes from the UTEG. For now we have no accommodation, but in our campus a room area is being constructed to welcome students from abroad. The International Relations Department helps visitors to get more affordable housing and transportation. Regularly, living in Guayaquil costs: Monthly housing: $300 Alimentation costs by month: $250 to $350 Transport by month: $100 to $150 Additional benefits of the UTEG for exchange students The Academic Wellbeing Department is a solid-structured entity at the service of the students, either national or foreign. We count with more than 20 student services, some of them are: Medic dispensary Student council Ascendancy counseling to university GICA Computing and telecommunications laboratory French and English laboratories Card with benefits and discounts at several local establishments Ecotourism and Sport Club Employment portal and labour training Virtual courses platform Virtual library access

14 Virtual libraries New projects Construction of the UTEG Campus

15 On November 2011, the construction of the new UTEG campus was initiated, located in the km 7 ½ via a la Costa, in a 4000 hectares terrain; this is a economical, social and architectural developed zone in the City of Guayaquil. In this place is being constructed a modern structure that will comply to the quality standards that higher education demands. Labs, smart classrooms, extended recreational areas (courts, swimming pools, resting places), accommodation zones, and libraries, among other areas will be a part of our campus. Source:Fuente: &num=1&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0&vps=2&hl=en&ei=y5MxT9nNMYTSNZjXuIMJ&abstate=near:ac tbar-saveto Arriving to UTEG How to arrive to Guayaquil Guayaquil is characterized by its geographic and cultural diversity located right next to the sea. The beaches show their own contrast allowing observing and admiring the sunset right in front of the beach. The traditions of the Valdivia and Huancavilca culture are still present. Our prestigious institution is located in this city, also known as Perla del Pacífico, it is a city filled with kind people, the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport is one the main motors in our city, and it is located in Av. De las Américas, 15 minutes away from the UTEG. The airport of the city counts with private security 24 hours a day and door-to-door transport. The international airport of Guayaquil is the second most important one in the country, and it is considered as one of the bests in Latin America, it operates with flights inside of the country, to America, and to some cities in Europe, such as Amsterdam and Madrid. It is located at 5km away from the center of the city, and it can be reached by many of transports that arrive to Guayaquil. It can be possible to do this trip in taxis, which are located right outside the airport terminal. There are also special transports that connect several points in the country. From Quito, many companies leave the terminal and do the route. Besides, you can reach Santiago de Chile or Lima via bus. The trip may be longer, but cheaper.

16 How to arrive UTEG Partial view of Malecon Simón Bolívar, one of the attractive places in the city We are located in a exclusive commercial zone in the north of the city of Guayaquil, reason why vehicular access is easy and rapid; our exact address is Guayacanes #399 y la Quinta, Urdesa Central, as a reference for the location we have Unidad Educativa Experimental Bilingue Santo Domingo de Guzmán, which is located diagonally to our institution. We count with private security 24 hours a day, taking care of the physical integrity of the academic community. Source: 2357l0l62667l4l4l0l0l0l0l230l230l21l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1366&bih=653&um=1&ie=UTF8&ei=qsgyT4Hd Es2Dtgfm44mzBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg

17 8. Information services Useful directions Admissions Eng. Adriana Nevarez Phone: ext. 108 International directions coordination Eng. Ana Maria Alcívar Phone: ext. 142 Post grade direction and Semi-Present Mode Faculty Dean Ec. Mercedes Conforme Phone: ext. 127 Present Mode Faculty Dean Ec. Margarita Ayala Phone: ext. 135 Student Wellbeing Ing. Rubén Di Marco Phone: ext. 172 Research Direction Dr. Yesmin Alabart Pino Phone: ext. 106 Website: