“We are in the Innovation team in the area of Energy Generation. We support the development of a joint project called Thermal Districts. “What the company is looking for is to enter a new business model, based on innovation.” Salazar Cubas stated that the reception was welcoming and the experience unforgettable.

“My experience doing my internship in Colombia has been quite enriching. By working in the area I want to focus on when I graduate from university, I can put into practice all the theory learned in classes and develop my creativity based on it. Likewise, by being accompanied by professionals such as the Communication Director of the Chamber of Commerce of Quindío and Armenia, I have constant feedback on my work and I can also learn from my own mistakes. In addition, I have learned to organize myself since working and studying at the same time can be tedious; However, now I can handle both responsibilities satisfactorily, also appreciating the flexibility of the entire Invest in Armenia team in being aware that I am a student and have classes daily.

Personally, I loved having had an online experience doing my pre-professional internships. Virtuality breaks down boundaries and has allowed me to learn with professionals to grow personally and professionally. However, I have had to overcome some challenges such as learning to adapt to their culture, immersing myself 100% in the topics that are developed in the company to be able to carry out satisfactory marketing strategies and learning to organize my time to obtain satisfactory results both at the university , like at work.”

I am grateful for the opportunity I had by being chosen by the company ESSA, in addition to the support of the University of Piura.

The company in which I did my pre-professional internship is “Electrificadora de Santander”, an electrification company in charge of the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electrical energy. He recently completed 128 years of experience in the Colombian electricity sector.

I worked in the energy generation sector, in the area of innovation, we have been commissioned, together with my colleague Alonso, to design a “Thermal District”, which consists of providing the user with thermal energy instead of electrical energy. To satisfy your cooling needs, this is a very interesting initiative and the carbon footprint would also be considerably reduced. There are two stages of the project, first it will be sized for the main building of the same company in Bucaramanga and then for an industrial sector located in Palenque (Bucaramanga).

“At the beginning of my last year of university (2021) I had the opportunity to have pre-professional internships virtually through Alianza del Pacífico and the University of Piura who, thanks to them, I was able to contact companies that were looking for students to support them, I sent my CV and it turned out that they chose me. I really liked sharing my first work experience with people from another country. Yolanda Martínez Escobar was my immediate boss and we helped each other a lot, both her by teaching me a sense of responsibility and a job well done and me by teaching her about the operation of digital tools and marketing processes. I am happy to have met her and count on her from now on as a friend in Mexico. The main challenge was adapting to the time difference, but taking it on par with virtual University classes was an advantage with respect to time coordination, since it was very easy for me to finish a class and return to work immediately afterwards. ”

“I worked with Laura Tello, from the international area. She was a very noble and hard-working leader of the area.

My functions were design and management of databases, consolidation of activities in Office Planner. Preparation of dynamic graphs with progress of Activities by Axis, Activity, Area and Type of Progress Process (No Initial, In Process, layout, Completed). In addition, I attended meetings with each area to answer some doubts of the teachers regarding the deliverables that they had to present to Internationalization.

Among the benefits, being online, I was very pleased to receive PowerBi training for free, and to have access to take Amazon courses, thanks to the UCompensar account. I also had the opportunity to attend educational events, such as talks, conferences, organized by the University.”

“Everyone here knows Scotiabank Colombia as Colpatria. The Colpatria Group is a Colombian group, with businesses in banking, insurance, construction, mining and among others. Since 2012, the Canadian bank Scotiabank acquired 51% of the group's shares. I am practicing in the technology area, specifically my main functions are the gathering of information for the mapping of processes under the BPMN standard (Business Process Model and Notation) so that these are then automated with an RPA (Robotic Process Automation). ”