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In 1887 the Ecuador government signed an agreement with Don Bosco for the Salesians to take under their responsibility the 'Catholic Protectorate of Arts and Trades' in Quito. Ecuador was one of the first non-European countries to receive the children of the educator saint of Turin; the first was Argentina in 1877.
In 1973, the Ecuadorian marines moved from their base in Guayaquil, and in their place, new installations for the Facultad de Ingenieria Maritima y Ciencias del Mar were constructed. Cecilia Paredes Verduga became the vice-rector of ESPOL in 2012, when Sergio Flores Macías was the rector. [ 2 ]
The university has campuses in Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Santiago (Vitacura and San Joaquín), Concepcion, as well as in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Federico Santa María Technical University is the alma mater of several prominent businessmen, engineers and Chilean scientists. Its students and alumni are known as "Sansanos". [5] [6] [7]
The Art school program at Central University of Ecuador has numerous classes in ceramics, printmaking, visual arts and fine arts especially drawing, illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The Art school was founded in 1967 and offers secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate programs in ...
In Brazil the B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering are offered by universities like: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC at Joinville campus, Universidade Federal do ABC – UFABC at Sao Bernardo do Campo campus, Universidade de São Paulo – USP at São Carlos campus, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica – ITA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG and ...
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey (Spanish: Tecnológico de Monterrey) or just Tec, is a private research university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cities in the country and 22 liaison ...
Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador (literally Electric Company of Ecuador) or Emelec was the name of an Ecuadorian electric company based in the city of Guayaquil. Until 2004, it was owned by Fernando Aspiazu who used to be president of Banco del Progreso , Ecuador's second largest bank that was closed in March 1999.
The electricity crisis arose from Ecuador's worst drought in 40 years, which began in September 2009. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Government experts attributed the drought to the El Niño phenomenon. [ 2 ] Because of the drought, water levels at the Paute River dam —which normally supplies 40% of Ecuador's power—were extremely low. [ 1 ]