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Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM) Valparaiso- Chile


History of the University


Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM) owes its origin to the idea of the visionary businessman Federico Santa Maria, a native of Valparaiso, Chile, to legate to his hometown an institution of higher education that would transform teaching of science and technology in Chile.

Today this mission is not only carried out in Valparaiso, where we find the Main Campus of the institution, but also in branches in Viña del Mar and Talcahuano, in campuses in Santiago, Rancagua and Guayaquil (Ecuador), and in Academia de Ciencias Aeronauticas (Academy of Aeronautic Sciences, ACA), in Santiago, all of which make UTFSM the university with the biggest territorial coverage in Chile.


The institution, dedicated to teaching and research of the highest level in science and technology, offers more than 50 undergraduate programs in natural sciences, engineering, management, aeronautics, construction and architecture. It also offers 16 graduate programs, and different post-degree programs, which stand out for their excellence and the participation of foreign teachers and students. This international trait is characteristic of the university and appears in different aspects of its activities, as in the strong and growing faculty and student exchange programs with foreign institutions. The commitment with the growth of the country and enterprise is also notorious, through projects, technical assistance and centers of research, as the ones created in the fields of aeronautics, small and medium sized enterprises, manufacturing industry, biotechnology and information technologies.

The mission of the university is to contribute through teaching, research and technical assistance to the creation of new knowledge, to its communication and universal spreading, and to the human, scientific and professional formation of its students in a frame of excellence and respect so that they, using the knowledge in different areas and the high standards received, become able to contribute to the development and improvement of humanity.

The institution has a national and international coverage and following the last will of its founder, Federico Santa Maria, searches academic excellence and supports those who lack the financial means but have the intellectual capacity to attain the highest levels of human knowledge.

 


The scientific and technological research is one of the main and permanent interests of the institution. UTFSM makes research projects in many fields, such as mining, energy, environment, food engineering, economy, chemistry of natural products, chemical and sanitary engineering, energy processes and the renewable energies, electronics applied to medicine, theoretical physics, physics of condensed matter and ultraviolet radiation, applied physics, telecommunications and nets engineering, technology of materials, seism resistant structures, management of productive systems, development of software, development and quality of products. Centro de Biotecnologia "Dr. Daniel Alkalay Lowitt" www.biotec.utfsm.cl Centro de Biotecnologia "Dr. Daniel Alkalay Lowitt" (Center of Biotechnology) has the most modern equipment in 500 square meters and have been implemented the techniques of molecular biology able to face the most complex researches. The center is looking forward to becoming, with the Ph.D. in Biotechnology that the institution offers in association with Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, in a pillar of biotechnological development in Chile.

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