Yachay Tech created the first three University Based Research Centers (UBRCs). These centers will be the interdisciplinary organizations which provide ways for faculty and students from various fields and academic units to come together and coordinate in solving a specific set of problems concerned with society’s needs, threats or challenges.

Yachay Tech proudly announces its first UBRCs:

Center for Energy and Mineral Resources Research and Innovation (CEMRRI)

This center is meant to be a space to research a more friendly approach to the development of mineral resources and energy. It’ll be led by Roberto Barragán, PhD., a faculty member of the School of Geological Sciences and Engineering.

Center for Natural Hazards Research and Innovation (CENAHRI)

This center seeks to complement the effort of public institutes of research (IPIs) from Ecuador. However, it will have a more vulnerability based perspective. It’ll be directed by Luke Bowman, PhD. a faculty member of the School of Geological Sciences and Engineering.

Earth Observation Center (COT)

Managed by Paúl Arellano, PhD., this center will address research and innovative product development in the field of Teledetection and Geographic Information Systems sciences. It’ll also work in collaboration with ecuadorian IPIs. Paul is also a faculty member of the School of Geological Sciences and Engineering.

All three centers will be co-addressed by Paul Baker, Dean of the same School.

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Yachay Tech is a university with an academic program that keeps research and innovation as its main pillars, thus achieving the development of a knowledge-based economy in Ecuador and in the rest of Latin America.

Our activities are oriented towards interdisciplinarity, excellence and the combination of basic and applied sciences, promoting industrial, entrepreneurial and technological innovation.

The Yachay Tech system is based on the recruitment of outstanding researchers and outstanding facultu with multidisciplinary and strategic research agendas for the nation, as well as the creation of internal institutional structures such as the University Based Research Centers  and the Tech. Transfer Center,  which support and enable both basic and applied research.