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We promote the development of high-impact scientific research

Our purpose

Conduct cutting-edge scientific research with academic and social impact. We seek to be a benchmark in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) for Peru and Latin America.

Through our
Multidisciplinary Research Centers

Knowledge is produced and technological solutions are created to address environmental, economic and social challenges, promoting sustainable development and a more promising future.

  • Water Research and Technology Center - CITA

    Centro

    The Water Research and Technology Center - CITA promotes, develops and disseminates research carried out in Peru on our rich natural resources. CITA seeks to become a reference center for the generation of scientific evidence on the multidisciplinary study and proper management of natural resources from social, political, environmental and economic perspectives. With this objective, CITA strengthens its capabilities through constant communication and collaboration with various internal and external academic and research entities.

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  • Bioengineering Research Center - BIO

    Centro

    Founded in October 2019, the Bioengineering Research Center (BIO) integrates the study of engineering, medicine, and biology to solve complex biomedical and industrial problems. BIO seeks to become a reference center for innovation in biomedical and biological systems engineering, using our abundant biological resources and biodiversity as tools to solve problems in human health, agribusiness, and other industries that use biological systems in their production processes.

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  • Heritage Research and Conservation Center

    Centro

    While studies in the sciences and humanities reveal how historical artifacts deteriorate over time, engineering innovation offers responsible technological solutions to preserve a country's heritage. The Heritage Conservation Research Center focuses on placing material heritage in a historical value chain by understanding, evaluating, conserving and socializing objects and sites. Our interdisciplinary work applies participatory management schemes in which society as a whole can be involved in the protection of its heritage.

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  • Amazon Sustainability Research Institute - ASRI

    Centro

    ASRI works to promote the conservation and resilience of the Amazon forest through multidisciplinary research and technological innovation. Its focus includes indigenous communities, sustainable value chains, and a comprehensive analysis of the Amazon ecosystem. The goal is to generate scientific knowledge, develop capacities, and disseminate key information to support informed decisions that drive sustainability.

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  • Computational Sustainability Research Center - COMPSUST

    Centro

    Created in June 2020, the Computational Sustainability Research Center (COMPSUST) identifies, promotes and provides computational solutions to problems related to balancing environmental, economic and social needs for sustainable development. As its core infrastructure, COMPSUST has an HPC cluster dedicated to high-performance computing to enable research that generates positive human and societal outcomes.

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  • Center for Impact and Social Responsibility - CIRSO

    Centro

    Created in 2020 to promote spaces for debate, research and social impact to address current issues, seeking to understand them in all their multidimensionality, overcoming traditional disciplinary barriers. CIRSO focuses specifically on: education and science dissemination, seeking to promote and disseminate the impact of science, technology and engineering on society; the relationship between society, science and technology, seeking to understand the participation of society in the management of STI policies; and university social responsibility, providing the parameters to promote projects and actions carried out that insert the social component.

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Learn about UTEC's Research Projects

Our research projects are focused on solving global challenges and contributing to the development of new knowledge on topics such as energy use, water and environmental care, material characterization, and the development of information technologies and mechanical systems.

Sistema Robótico Cooperativo para Cirugía Asistida con Funcionalidades de Control de Corte y Endoscopio Blando

Financiado por: FONDECYT

Investigador principal: Dra. Ruth Canahuire

Este proyecto logra la implementación del control adaptativo de trayectoria para el robot serial UR5. Además del estudio y caracterización del comportamiento biomecánico del abdomen humano; implementación del algoritmo cooperativo, reconocimiento de patrones con machine learning, optimización de trayectoria y evasión de colisiones de los robots manipuladores.

Water Security and Climate Change Adaptation in Peruvian Glacier-Fed River Basins (RAHU)

Financiado por: FONDECYT

Investigador principal: Dr. Pedro Rau

Este proyecto desarrolla un enfoque integrado de evaluación de la seguridad hídrica-glaciar para transformar el entendimiento del impacto del retroceso glaciar en la seguridad hídrica.

Sistema robótico altamente flexible y de bajo costo para la rehabilitación de infantes de 0 a 6 meses afectados con espina bífida en Perú

Financiado por: FONDECYT

Investigador principal: Dr. Emir Vela

Este proyecto diseña, fabrica y valida un sistema robótico altamente flexible (materiales blandos y flexibles) y de bajo costo para la rehabilitación de las extremidades inferiores de infantes de 0 a 6 meses afectados con espina bífida (mielomeningocele) en Perú. Se apunta que la fabricación sea con procesos de manufactura digital para realizar prototipos de bajo costo y rápidamente, incluso en las regiones del país que posean impresoras 3D.

Catalogación de obras de arte y adecuación de sus depósitos de colecciones

Financiado por: Embajada de Estados Unidos

Investigador principal: Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez

La Embajadora de los Estados Unidos, Lisa Kenna, anunció que los $255 mil dólares del Fondo de la Embajadora para la Preservación de la Cultura está destinado al proyecto de catalogación de obras de arte y adecuación de depósitos de colecciones del el Monasterio de Santa Teresa en Ayacucho.

Caracterización de materiales en el entorno del cuarto de rescate de Atahualpa

Financiado por: UTEC-Harvard Seed Fund

Investigador principal: Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Por primera vez en 500 años, en el 2024 se iniciaron las excavaciones en el entorno del Cuarto de Rescate. El objetivo es desenterrar numerosos artefactos, especialmente muestras de piedra, las cuales son estudiadas para extraer información sobre los usos y la importancia del lugar durante los últimos siglos. Luego, a partir de estos resultados será posible desarrollar estrategias para la conservación de la arquitectura en piedra Inca, por lo que el proyecto contempla también la realización de un taller para comunicar/difundir los resultados del análisis y ofrecer formación en conservación de piedra.

Implementación de un dispositivo microfluídico “point of care” (in situ) para la pre-concentración y separación mediante fuerzas inerciales de Plasmodium spp. en sangre infectada

Financiado por: FONDECYT - World Bank

Investigador principal: Dr. Julio Valdivia

El objetivo de este proyecto es implementar un sistema de diagnóstico point of care (in situ) basado en microfluidos que sea rápido, barato y modular para enfermedades infecciosas como la malaria donde pre-concentre (μSEP) y separe a los parásitos Plasmodium spp. utilizando las fuerzas Inerciales del sistema y un biosensor para su identificación.

Análisis Integrado de Patrones Delictivos Basado en Ciencia de Datos

Financiado por: Prociencia

Investigador principal: Germain García Zanabria

Este proyecto propone metodologías basadas en Ciencia de Datos para extraer conocimiento de grandes volúmenes de datos criminales, mejorando la planificación de políticas de seguridad, aumentando la transparencia y promoviendo la conciencia ciudadana sobre la inseguridad regional. Además, busca superar las restricciones actuales del gobierno en inversión analítica para la prevención del crimen.

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Connect with our 
Research Groups

Groups made up of leading researchers in their field and from various areas and courses at UTEC. Discover how we are advancing in science and technology to face the challenges of tomorrow.

Grupo de investigación

Fundamental Physics

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Artificial intelligence

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Data Analytics and Decision Sciences

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Water Security and Climate Change

Grupo de investigación

Product Design with Computer Simulation

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Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Control

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Algorithms, Combinatorics and Theory of Computation

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Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Systems, Intelligent Monitoring, and Communications

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Energy and Mines

Grupo de investigación

Resilient and Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure

Discover our
Specialized Laboratories

Digital Manufacturing and Prototyping Laboratory (Fab Lab)

Here we will guide you towards the development of project-based learning activities and prototyping of objects and devices. You will find 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC milling machines. These are complemented by hand-held power tools, as well as electronic parts and other components so that students can develop integrated and functional prototypes.

Manufacturing Laboratory

Here you will discover the skills necessary to understand the manufacturing process of mechanical systems. You will be able to experiment and simulate from the design of a prototype to the completion of the optimized design, which will allow you to learn about the origin of a product manufactured and marketed worldwide.

Laboratory of characterization and instrumental analysis

You will be able to quantify the presence of elements and chemical compounds in different samples. In the case of FTIR, we can verify the presence of functional groups in compounds of interest in both solid and liquid samples.

Materials Laboratory

You will develop analytical and calculation skills through research and experiments. We will introduce you to the different types of tests: hardness testing, impact testing, tensile testing, heat treatment, and more, which are performed on materials to understand their properties and characteristics.

Microfluidics and BioMEMS Laboratory

You will find microfluidic devices known as Lab-on-a-chip and BioMEMS. It features equipment for macro and micro-manufacturing such as high-resolution SLA 3D printing, FDM 3D printing, microfluidic pumps, high-precision scales, spincoaters and plasma chambers.

Laboratory of tissue engineering and synthetic biology

Here you will find the only 3D bioprinter in Peru that develops skin, cartilage and bone. It has a cell culture area that has a laminar flow cabinet, an incubator with a centrifugal CO2 inlet with a rotor and a KNF Neuberger vacuum pump. In addition, the laboratory has a specialized microscope to observe cell growth and perform fluorescence microscopy.

Digital and analog circuits laboratory

Here, digital and analog circuits are developed and evaluated. Thanks to digital systems, we can efficiently build and use computers such as those in drones, robots, and autonomous cars. You will learn how to develop intelligent systems, such as machine learning.

Smart grid and renewable energy laboratory

You will be able to observe the different types of renewable energies currently in use, as well as the use of conventional power plants such as hydroelectric plants to generate electricity. Using modern modules, you will experience the entire chain of electricity development: generation, transport and distribution.

Pilot scale process laboratory I

You will learn to conceive, design, validate and improve processes that transform various materials. We evaluate the magnitude of relevant operating parameters such as pressure, temperature, flow, reflux ratio, which determine the technical viability of a process. These studies help scale up solutions and complement process simulators for the corresponding economic evaluation of the process on a medium and large scale.

Mechatronics and robotics laboratory

You will explore knowledge in the area of ​​automation of mechatronic systems thanks to our modern Festo automation equipment and Siemens PLCs, with which we implement pneumatic and hydraulic circuits. Find robotic arms, mobile robots, drones, among other robotic prototypes that will lead you to have real experiences in different areas of robotics.

Collaboratory

Here you will be able to participate in the development of projects that improve the productivity of companies that provide support to students for the efficient management of their projects. You will work based on three lines of action: continuous improvement and operational excellence projects, supply chain projects, and service and/or digitalization projects.

Thermal engineering laboratory

Here you will understand the behavior of heat as energy. You will operate and simulate the different types of energy transfer, as well as systematically understand the principles of thermodynamics through our modern modules.

Automation Laboratory

You will learn to develop applications and projects focused on industrial instrumentation and networks, process control, supervision, computer control and development of industrial control systems.

Cement and concrete laboratory

With state-of-the-art equipment used for the chemical, physical and mechanical characterization of materials applied in the cement and concrete industry. It has X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) equipment for determining the chemical and mineralogical composition of materials. It also has Isothermal Calorimetry and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA/DSC) to evaluate the reaction kinetics of the cement hydration process and to characterize the materials.

Biodiversity and environmental biotechnology laboratory

Here you will be able to carry out experimental work in microbiological water quality analysis, identification of microorganisms with traditional and genomic methods, diversity estimates, and more. In addition, our researchers develop metagenomics and environmental DNA studies in soil, water and sediment samples.

Computational cluster (KHIPU)

It allows simulations to be carried out in a very agile and efficient way, which could not be achieved on conventional computers.

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Take advantage of our experience and resources to take your projects to the next level. Turn your idea into solutions that transform your industry.

Minera Las Bambas

Jorge Zafra / Principal Hydrologist of the Strategic Planning Department

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The UTEC and CITA teams are made up of young experts who are prepared to apply science to the needs of the mining industry. Their strategic vision, academic excellence and expertise allow them to carry out work using the most modern methods and apply them to real cases so that they can serve as tools for decision-making in the case of water management in mining, thus contributing to the development of the country and the care of the environment.

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ACTIVOS MINEROS S.A.C.

Milca Santur / Private Investment Management

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We work on a service called Granulometry and Texture Class Analysis. The UTEC team met the deadlines and the results allowed us to continue with the development of the project we were carrying out.

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