Opportunities for RIT in Ecuador. By Rubén Proaño Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering
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1 Opportunities for RIT in Ecuador By Rubén Proaño Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering
2 Opportunities for RIT in Ecuador o Latitude 0 0' 0 Picture credits: None of these pictures are mine!!, boomercafe, livetravelmountains, intrepidtravel, Frans Lanting/Corbis
3 Megadiversity: cultural + natural by. Michael Sheridan at redbubble 284,000 Km2 13 million people Three official languages: Spanish, Quechua, Shuar 13 indigenous nationalities 13 different native languages 20 culturally different communities 1,600 bird species 15,900 plant species, 4,000 endemic 350 reptile species 400 amphibian species Yasuni 100,000 insect species (highest biodiversity / area in the world) Ecuadorian Amazon represents 2% amazon basin in area, yet it contains 10% of all plant species on earth 24 tropical life zones
4 What is going on in Ecuador? University reform Improve faculty quality Improve research infrastructure Scholarship program Prometeo Yachay, a technology city New research opportunities
5 SENESCYT Government agency responsible for Science and technology Higher education Research promotion
6 Scholarships program Up to USD 35,000 per academic year Max $250,000 per 4 year Ph.D program For students admitted by international universities
7 Graduate scholarship programs Universities of Excellence 150 top international universities (3rd & 4th level studies) Open Call System 1,000 top international universities (4th level studies) Teaching English Scholarships (ESL) in collaboration with Fulbright These programs benefit Ecuadorian citizens and the daughters and sons of Ecuadorians living abroad
8 Scholarships in numbers: In 2011, 1,068 scholarships granted 300 PhD In 2012 (as of May) 2,875 scholarships granted for MS or PhD (out of 20,000 applications) 1,000 ESL (out of 3,000 applications) Goal to provide more than 5,000 graduate scholarships per year
9 Prometeo Program to attract international faculty interested in doing research in Ecuador 4-month to 12-month long research/academic projects in science and technology Researcher must submit a joint application sponsored by Ecuadorian counterpart (Local universities or research centers) Fluency in Spanish is not required Incentives: $4,000 USD/month salary Housing Health Traveling expenses for researcher and family SENESCYT aims to accommodate 200 researchers/ year
10 Sustained effort 3% of all oil exports destined to support scholarships and research promotion (USD 245 million per year)
11 YACHAY = technology city 10,551 acres, in Urcuqui Knowledge-hub Research park Technology transfer Research university Benchmark cities: Daedok Innopolis, South Korea Tsukuba, Japan Palo Alto, USA Irvine, USA Sophiaantipolis, France Partner: Icheon Free Economic Zone (South Korea)
12 Yachay's main areas of research interest Chemical engineering Petrochemical Mining Health sciences Environmental sciences and sustainability Nanotechnology Computer science, information technology, and new media
13 Other partners for RIT in Ecuador USFQ ESPOL
14 Universidad San Francisco de Quito Research opportunities for research in the social sciences, anthropology, and sustainability Exchange programs Tiputini biodiversity research station Galapagos Institute for the Arts and Sciences
15 Tiputini Research Station In collaboration with Boston University Primary Amazon rain forest Located 200 miles from Quito Remote area within Yasuni Biosphere Reserve ½ hr flight + 2 hr bus ride + 4 hr canoe trip 6,000 ft2 laboratory building with internet access Housing and dinning facilities to support up to 60 visitors at a time 25 miles of marked trails in primary forest Two 1-Km2 research plots, each with 100m grid system and geo-referenced Two 118 ft-tall observation towers 328 ft long suspended canopy walkways at 100 ft above the ground
16 GAIAS Galapagos Institute for the Arts and Sciences Academic facilities for teaching, seminars, and research Galapagos Science Center (GSC) facility 11,000 sq. ft. houses four laboratories, each with a dedicated research focus: terrestrial ecology, marine ecology & oceanography, geospatial technologies (remote sensing & geographic information systems), and microbiology. Semester study abroad programs
17 ESPOL Polytechnic university with interest in engineering disciplines and agricultural sciences Study abroad programs to host faculty and international students
18 Summary Attract fully funded graduate students Opportunities for faculty interested in doing sabbatical years in Latin America Exchange program in Latin America Engineering COLA COB Research areas: Imaging monitoring Engineering petro-chemical, mining, computer science, logistics Production system Health sciences and health care delivery Sustainability ESL Sociology Anthropology Linguistics Access to research and instructional facilities in Amazon primary rainforest Galapagos Islands
19 SENESCYT - Graduate scholarships - Prometeo project Yachay USFQ Tiputini GAIAS ESPOL
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