Estamos de aniversario con el 15º Foro de Investigación de la Universidad de Celaya, con la presentación de 66 proyectos de las diferentes carreras.
Por: Blanca Yuriria López Mondragón
En noviembre de 2023 se realizó el 15º Foro de Investigación de la Universidad de Celaya. Como cada año que se realiza el evento, se contó con la colaboración de docentes, comité evaluador y claro todo el alumnado, coordinados por el área de Investigación, para alcanzar los objetivos del Foro:
Difundir los trabajos de investigación realizados por estudiantes de licenciatura de la Universidad de Celaya.
Identificar los trabajos de investigación de estudiantes de licenciatura de la Universidad de Celaya con potencial para ser difundidos en medios académicos.
En esta edición el evento se llevó a cabo en el Teatro José Nieto Piña de la Universidad de Celaya. Se comenzó con la Inauguración oficial por parte de la Rectora de la Universidad de Celaya: Dra. Martha Aguilar Trejo, quien reiteró la importancia de que cada estudiante desarrolle su habilidades de toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia. Posteriormente se contó con un mensaje del Director de Investigación Dr. Roberto Hernández Sampieri.
En este evento se vivió una gran emoción con los equipos participantes demostrando su trabajo. Los participantes fueron estudiantes de 3er semestre de Ingenierías y Licenciaturas que durante el ciclo escolar hicieron un trabajo de investigación con cada uno de sus asesores. Los 12 mejores trabajos de investigación fueron presentados en ponencia a todos los asistentes. Además, se presentaron 66 proyectos en formato de póster que fueron retroalimentados por el Comité Evaluador quienes revisaron la claridad, rigor científico y profesionalismo de los trabajos.
Algunos de los temas que se presentaron en las ponencias de este 15 Foro fueron Estrategias de empoderamiento a la mujer en su vida financiera, Ciudades sostenibles, La encrucijada de los derechos fundamentales: un estudio sobre la libertad de expresión en la música contemporánea, Trayectoria laboral dentro de la industria del diseño y entretenimiento, Emprendimiento femenino en la ciudad de Celaya, Las emociones y su papel en la comida, Las “Fake News” en el ámbito estudiantil, AdviceUs: un programa de tutoría entre pares, Semáforo inteligente prototipo, Reconocimiento de venas para la detección de Trombosis Venosa Profunda, Psicosomatización en estudiantes de medicina con ansiedad en una universidad privada de Celaya, Estudio descriptivo: hábitos, estilo de vida y alimentación en Uniamercian International School, entre otros.
En hora buena con la celebración y la exposición de estos proyectos.
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation Mexico, Polilat, INE, USEM and CEPOS present the results of the Mexico Democratic Development Index 2021 (IDD-Mex 2021).
Guanajuato is one of the entities that lost the most value with respect to 2020, going from 5,031 points to 2,814; that is, a decrease of more than 2,000 points.
It is ranked 25th in the national ranking.
It obtained the worst score in its series in the IDD-Mex, as a result of declines in all dimensions.
Only in the Economic Democracy Dimension does it exceed the national average.
Celaya, Gto. (Thursday, March 10, 2022) - The Democratic Development Index of Mexico (IDD-Mex) is an index created to analyze strengths and weaknesses in the development of Mexican democracy, which allows political, social and economic leaders to have useful diagnostic elements to design specific policies that help achieve greater development in the country's states.
To disseminate the 11th edition of the IDD-Mex, the "Democracy Tour: Challenges and Evaluations of Democracy in Mexico" was held at the University of Celaya to present the results that the state of Guanajuato obtained in 2021 in the four dimensions of the IDD-Mex: Democracy of citizens, Democracy of institutions, Social Democracy and Economic Democracy.
The presentation of the IDD-Mex publication had a hybrid format so that the remote audience had the opportunity to follow the live broadcast from the Facebook page of both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (https://fb.watch/bHcvvUboF2/), as well as the University of Celaya (https://fb.watch/bHcpof_jgm/).
The IDD-Mex report, prepared with official data from the states and with the perception that citizens have of the climate of rights and freedoms that characterize democracy in their communities, cannot but reflect the impact that this "partial halt to life" has on the system of social, political and economic relations in democracy; as well as on the climate of rights and freedoms of individuals and families; on the functioning of institutions that provide basic services for social and labor dynamics; on the investment climate; on the productive system, among others.
In the case of Guanajuato, as a consequence of the setback, it changes its development rating from medium to minimum, dropping more than 2,000 points in its overall rating.
After four years of decline, it reaches its worst record in terms of Citizens' Democracy and although it has never deserved extreme negative evaluations, the trend of the curve and the latest results set off an alarm signal, which should provoke a reaction on the part of the state leadership to elaborate and implement better strategies for building citizenship and respect for rights and freedoms.Democracy of Institutions suffers a strong setback, qualifying with minimum development, while social democracy remains at low development levels and economic democracy shows a rebound, qualifying with medium development this year.
This report is a wake-up call for the country's political, social and economic elites, since many of the opportunities for improvement identified here in each state can constitute a roadmap, not only for recovery, but also for initiating a sustained path of development for each community.
The IDD-Mex 2021 highlights Mexico's contrasts from an academic perspective, but it is also an appropriate instrument for political analysis, showing strengths and weaknesses, constituting an adequate tool for political, social and economic leaders to use as an objective diagnosis, as well as to outline and implement policies that allow for progress in human development and social and economic equity.
To download and learn more about this edition, visit www.idd-mex.org.
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is a German political foundation with a Christian Democratic orientation. With our work we seek to guarantee and promote democracy, peace, freedom and welfare in Europe and the world. In Mexico, the KAS office has been working for more than 40 years. Contributing to the consolidation and deepening of democracy as a political system and form of coexistence so that people can live in freedom and dignity.
SMEs are highly represented in the Colombian market; in the Cundinamarca region alone, 42% of businesses are small and medium-sized enterprises. But how do these companies survive in the market?
Research by Angelica María Borrego Espitia, researcher of strategies used by small and medium enterprises in Cundinamarca Colombia.
Sustainable value in SMEs
A problem that has been noticed in the region of Cundinamarca, Colombia, is that only 30% of the micro, small, medium and large companies survive the first five years after being created, which caused a lot of curiosity in locals and that is why it was decided to conduct an in-depth investigation. This research conducted by Angélica Borrego as her master's thesis at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada under the direction of Professor Yefri Manuel Pascagaza Corredor shows us the different strategies used by the same SMEs, strategies that help us understand how they have maintained a stable place in the market of Cundinamarca.
The objective of Angélica Borrego's research was to analyze the strategies used by small and medium-sized companies in Cundinamarca to create sustainable value.
According to the data obtained in the research, the creation of sustainable value is based on the following points:
Innovation
Sustainability
Business Model
Co-creation
Value
Sustainable manufacturing
Human capital
Emerging synthesis
Circular economy
These comprise: sustainability, creation value and sustainable creation value.
By checking this information we can see that this research has a descriptive quantitative approach and its design is non-experimental-transactional, which means that it is a non-probabilistic method by convenience. Angélica Borrego says that for the collection of data a questionnaire of closed questions was carried out together with a judgment of experts and to assess the validity all this was applied in some participating SMEs in Cundinamarca Colombia.
Study results Survey results
Finally, the researcher commented on her conclusions and recommendations, which were:
Medium-sized companies are the best performers when it comes to implementing strategies for sustainable value creation
Efforts must continue to be made to achieve representative improvements in terms of sustainability.
Small companies need to work with greater dedication and adapt to current trends.
Trends are the key to creating strategies if you want your SME to remain competitive and sustainable over time.
The companies that are the subject of this study must redefine their strategies
You should always think about introducing new factors to create value, this will help your company a lot.
Last Thursday, May 13, 2021, we received at the University of Celaya during our activity "Science Dialogues" Dr. Rocio Boza Calvo from the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Hispanoamericana de Costa Rica, who shared with us the development and results of her analysis of the effectiveness of the implementation of the simulation strategy in education according to the perception of the facilitators involved in the process, from the second quarter of 2016 to date.
Would you like to know the most important details of this research? We present them to you!
The objective of this research is to demonstrate the effectiveness of simulation as a methodological strategy used in different courses of the curriculum of the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Hispanoamericana. This simulation strategy consists in that each professor in his course chooses thematic contents that have been addressed in the classroom and plans with the accompaniment of professional actors a scenario or also called profile that is as close as possible to the educational reality in classroom or educational center contexts, with the objective that the student faces these situations and puts into practice the theoretical knowledge acquired in the courses.
Fields of application of simulation
Simulation is a didactic strategy that allows an approach to professional reality.
Traditionally it has been used for:
- Training and education
- Communication and sales
- System design or improvements.
- Systems management
In disciplines such as:
- Engineering
- Medicine, biology, ecology.
- Social and economic sciences
Research process
In 2016, a qualitative study was conducted in the second half of the semester of the same year, at the Universidad Hispanoamericana. University that has formalized simulation in education and that has been applied in six courses of the curriculum of the different careers of the Faculty of Education, among which are:
- Learning disabilities
- Language disorders 1
- Group techniques
- Evaluation techniques in English and Spanish
- General Didactics 1
- Teaching English 3
Each of the courses where simulation is carried out as a teaching methodology contemplates in its program that the student's participation and performance in such activity has a value of 20% of the final passing grade of the subject.
Throughout the term, starting in week 7 according to their schedule, two simulations must be carried out. They have 18 trained teachers who have become facilitators to implement it.
In order to know the effectiveness of the methodology we were working with, a qualitative research was carried out by sending a questionnaire to each of the professors who implemented this methodology throughout the course they taught. It should be noted that one of them left the institution, another is no longer part of the faculty of education, another is the simulation coordinator and preferred to avoid bias and the remaining 4 did not send the survey in the time in which they were requested.
Eleven questionnaires were collected and served as a sample for the qualitative analysis.
Main results
The teachers who responded to the questionnaire report that by using simulation, students develop critical thinking, in situations that actually allow them to test what they know, what they can do and how they think it should be done. Many simulations develop decision-making skills, a very important aspect of thinking and problem solving.
All the interviewees mentioned as positive aspects the ambience of the space, the professionalism of the actors, and the technology used (Learning Space). These positive aspects are the product of a joint effort and work.
The most outstanding issue in terms of aspects to be improved is the sound and the transfer of venues to carry out the simulation. It should be noted that the respondents seemed to answer focusing on recent events and did not answer evidencing everything that occurred throughout the strategy implementation process.
Conclusions and recommendations
It is important to make it clear that although simulation allows the future teacher to get closer to reality. It will not always be able to represent or reproduce in its entirety situations that are generated within the educational centers, hence the component of using professional actors is perhaps the option that most reduces this disadvantage that several researchers have pointed out.
Professional actors are hired for the simulations considering that they have dramaturgical training and a trained capacity for reproduction that facilitates performance in an educational activity, focused on learning objectives and at the service of students in professional training.
An important factor provided by the adequate preparation of actors is the increase in the level of realism of the simulation scenarios.
Another very important factor is that the teachers attending the education courses must be active teachers with work experience so that the scenarios or profiles are as real as possible and in line with the current context.
To develop science outreach skills, 4th semester students of the Communication and Audiovisual Media degree at the University of Celaya participated in the Science Dialogues activity. In this activity, students chatted with researchers from different areas of knowledge and various universities in Mexico and Latin America to learn about their research projects and then publish a note to disseminate these projects to an international audience.
Invited guests include the following researchers:
Dr. Avid Roman-Gonzalez, CEO of BE Tech, UNTELS Lima Sur, Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, Peru.
Dr. Gustavo Illescas, Professor-Researcher, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rocío Lorena Boza Calvo, professor and researcher at Universidad Hispanoamericana, Costa Rica.
Dr. Yohanna Milena Rueda Mahecha, Universidad Uniminuto, Colombia
The team of students and Dr. Josman Espinosa Gómez from CETYS University, Mexicali Campus
Angélica Borrego Espitia and Oscar Robayo Quevedo, thesis students advised by Dr. Yefri Pascagaza of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Colombia.
María Fernanda Acosta Romo and Marco Antonio Chamorro Lucero, researchers of the Universidad Mariana in Colombia.
Some of the notes that resulted from this activity will be published in this blog and others were published by the authors directly in their social networks and professional portfolios. We invite you to discover them.
In November 2019, the 10th Research Forum of the University of Celaya was held, in which 81 research papers were presented by students from all undergraduate and engineering programs.
The objective of the event is to disseminate the research protocols and reports carried out by undergraduate students of the University of Celaya in their search to generate solutions to problems in an ethical and successful manner.
Each student team presents both a poster and a short presentation of the results of their research work. At the end of their presentation, the teams receive feedback from the Evaluators Committee made up of research experts in different disciplines of knowledge. This experience strengthens learning and encourages students to put into practice the skills of socialization and dissemination of the scientific knowledge they have generated, in addition to having developed the necessary skills to design, implement and evaluate a scientific research project.
In this way, the cycle of research subjects closes each year with all our students. This contributes to the formation of people who research and interpret their environment and thus generate ethical and successful solutions to local, regional, national and global problems.
This year, the Biomedical Engineering students, in addition to their poster and oral presentation, presented the prototypes of the innovative technology they developed and evaluated with their research, some examples are: technology for color detection, scanning and digitalization of organs, Measure Tracking System (MTS) and distance from one point to another with LabVIEW.
The works carried out are also the beginning or continuation of projects developed in other subjects, thus contributing to transversal learning.
In addition, the papers evaluated as the most significant are selected to receive support and to be presented at specialized congresses in their disciplines.
Congratulations to all student researchers, see you at the next Forum.
