DEGREE
Biotechnology
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Academic Identity
Learn about the program’s foundations
- Mission
To train Biotechnology Engineers as professionals of excellence, researchers, critical thinkers, leaders, humanists, and citizens with a strong sense of social responsibility, capable of innovating and undertaking initiatives, as well as generating and applying acquired knowledge to solve biotechnology-related problems and transfer solutions to all fields of action for the benefit of society and the Armed Forces at the national level.
- Vision
To be a leading program in the comprehensive education of Biotechnology professionals, meeting national and international standards through the practice of values and the provision of professional services to society.
- Program Objectives
- General objective
To train software engineers with technical, scientific and ethical competencies that enable them to design, develop and implement innovative technological solutions to solve complex problems of society and industry.
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Experience what it is like to study Biotechnology
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Learn about the program’s foundations
Profiles and outcomes
The professionals we educate and the competencies you will develop
- Professional Profile
The Biotechnology Engineer is a professional who designs and applies biotechnology systems aimed at solving problems in health, the environment, biodiversity, and industry, both in research and production contexts, with social awareness and respect for human and environmental rights.
Their professional competencies include:
- Interprets and solves problems in Basic Sciences based on universal principles, and applies laboratory techniques as a practical foundation for biotechnology.
- Interprets and solves problems related to the management and preservation of biodiversity, and applies laboratory techniques, basic statistics, and information technology as practical foundations for biotechnology, with social responsibility focused on the needs and realities of the country.
- Applies and standardizes existing biotechnology protocols, and innovates biotechnology tools for productive and health-related purposes, using information technology and statistical tools, with scientific foundations, practical vision, and business-oriented application in accordance with national and international standards.
- It plans, designs and executes biotechnological processes with engineering bases applied to the conservation of biodiversity and productivity, with scientific bases, practical vision and business application appropriate to the current needs of our country.
- Graduate Profile
- Apply, with critical thinking and professional ethics, scientific principles and knowledge, qualitative and quantitative methods and technological tools to solve biotechnological problems.
- Communicate orally and in writing, in a clear and organized manner, results, principles, standards, reports, and laboratory techniques.
- Design and apply, through the scientific method, biotechnological processes for the development of products and services, using up-to-date procedures and technologies.
- Ethically execute national and international policies, standards, and regulations on the design and management of laboratories, manufacturing activities, and the environment.
- To develop, with efficiency, action plans in the field of biotechnology for the continuous search for learning, training, research and entrepreneurship.
- Learning Outcomes
- In the basic unit
- In the professional unit
- In the degree unit
Curriculum Structure
Academic structure of the program
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Spaces, moments, and experiences that bring the program to life
Admissions and costs
Information about admission requirements and program costs.
Program cost:
Article 356 of the Constitution of the Republic establishes, among other principles, that third-level public higher education shall be tuition-free, and that this tuition-free policy is linked to students’ academic responsibility.
Academic Identity
Learn about the program’s foundations
- Mission
To train engineers in biotechnology, as professionals of excellence, researchers, critics, leaders, humanists and with a high citizen awareness, capable of innovating and undertaking, generating and applying the knowledge acquired for the resolution of biotechnological problems and its transfer to all fields of action for the benefit of society and the Armed Forces at the national level.
- Vision
To be a leading program in the comprehensive education of Biotechnology professionals, meeting national and international standards through the practice of values and the provision of professional services to society.
- Program Objectives
- General objective
To train software engineers with technical, scientific and ethical competencies that enable them to design, develop and implement innovative technological solutions to solve complex problems of society and industry.
Program video
Experience what it is like to study Biotechnology
Discover daily life in our classrooms, laboratories, and academic spaces. Students, faculty, and researchers share their stories.
Learn about the program’s foundations
Profiles and outcomes
The professionals we educate and the competencies you will develop
- Professional Profile
The Biotechnology Engineer is a professional who designs and applies biotechnology systems aimed at solving problems in health, the environment, biodiversity, and industry, both in research and production contexts, with social awareness and respect for human and environmental rights.
Their professional competencies include:
- Interprets and solves problems in Basic Sciences based on universal principles, and applies laboratory techniques as a practical foundation for biotechnology.
- Interprets and solves problems related to the management and preservation of biodiversity, and applies laboratory techniques, basic statistics, and information technology as practical foundations for biotechnology, with social responsibility focused on the needs and realities of the country.
- Applies and standardizes existing biotechnology protocols, and innovates biotechnology tools for productive and health-related purposes, using information technology and statistical tools, with scientific foundations, practical vision, and business-oriented application in accordance with national and international standards.
- It plans, designs and executes biotechnological processes with engineering bases applied to the conservation of biodiversity and productivity, with scientific bases, practical vision and business application appropriate to the current needs of our country.
- Graduate Profile
- Apply, with critical thinking and professional ethics, scientific principles and knowledge, qualitative and quantitative methods and technological tools to solve biotechnological problems.
- Communicate orally and in writing, in a clear and organized manner, results, principles, standards, reports, and laboratory techniques.
- Design and apply, through the scientific method, biotechnological processes for the development of products and services, using up-to-date procedures and technologies.
- Ethically execute national and international policies, standards, and regulations on the design and management of laboratories, manufacturing activities, and the environment.
- To develop, with efficiency, action plans in the field of biotechnology for the continuous search for learning, training, research and entrepreneurship.
- Learning Outcomes
- In the basic unit
- In the professional unit
- In the degree unit
Curriculum Structure
Academic structure of the program
Gallery Gallery
Spaces, moments, and experiences that bring the program to life
Admissions and costs
Information about admission requirements and program costs.
Program cost:
Article 356 of the Constitution of the Republic establishes, among other principles, that third-level public higher education shall be tuition-free, and that this tuition-free policy is linked to students’ academic responsibility.
