Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the directors of this academic unit celebrated this special day.

The virtual meeting was broadcast live on the official Facebook page of the UTEQ and was attended by the main authorities of the alma mater, faculty directors, career coordinators, teachers and student leaders.

During the solemn session, a tribute was paid to the teacher Gabriel Pico Saltos and the administrative employee Carlos Andrade, professionals who belonged to this faculty and who have now departed from this world..

On the other hand, as in every solemn anniversary session, awards were presented to the most outstanding teachers, students, employees and workers.

Luis Mera (30 years), Jefferson Aragundi (25 years), Jorge Murillo Oviedo (25 years), Duber Medina (25 years) and Tito Arguello (20 years) received recognition for their years of work as teachers. Carlos Marqués de la Plata also received a certificate for academic merit, while scientific merit went to Cristhian Zambrano Vega and Amilkar Puris Cáceres. In terms of projects with the greatest impact on the community, the recognition went to the lecturer Elías Portilla Olvera.

Erick Zaraguro Takuri from the Electrical Engineering course received recognition as the best student in this faculty, and Freddy Mina Ortiz received recognition for his effort and spirit of self-improvement.

The administrative work merit was awarded to Lorena Bonilla and the service work merit went to Ángel Ube.

For his part, the dean of the FCI, Washington Chiriboga, in his accountability report from September 2019 to September 2020, indicated that this academic unit currently hosts 2265 local students and students from different areas of Ecuador.

In the teaching function, he said that the faculty of engineering has 105 professors, 30 tenured and 75 untenured.

He also indicated that during this period the research function stands out with a contribution of 80 articles during 2019, of which 70 of them are of high impact.

"In 2020, despite the pandemic, scientific projects have not stopped; to date, the FCI has already published 30 articles of regional impact," said Chiriboga..

In his speech, the rector of the UTEQ, Eduardo Díaz Ocampo, said that the FCI has grown a lot in recent years, so much so that it is a faculty that deserves to build new facilities for the future process of reorganisation of careers and academic units. "We are already building workshops, a set of classrooms, administrative and teaching areas," explained the rector.

Díaz also mentioned that for the next semester UTEQ will continue to teach its classes virtually in order to safeguard the health and wellbeing of its community.