Paz, Justicia e Instituciones Sólidas

Students in the Petroleum Engineering program at FICT-ESPOL participated in an academic debate on the integration of artificial intelligence into drilling operations. The activity helped strengthen skills such as critical thinking, reasoning, and decision-making through the analysis of technical, environmental, economic, and governance issues.

The ESPOL Sustainable Development Club held a social event at FICT to welcome new members and strengthen camaraderie, communication, and teamwork. The event brought together students from various majors and provided an opportunity to introduce the Club’s new executive board and its advisor, Johanna Zambrano Anchundia, M.Sc. The activity highlighted the group’s multidisciplinary nature and the importance of creating spaces for social interaction, leadership, and student participation to promote initiatives related to sustainability.

FICT welcomed the non-tenured adjunct faculty members joining the faculty during the 2026 IPAO period at an orientation session designed to facilitate their academic and administrative integration. During the session, institutional processes, support tools, and work guidelines were presented, strengthening the bond between the new faculty members and the faculty’s academic community.

ESPOL’s FICT held the academic talk ‘Exploring the Amazon from Space: GIS and Remote Sensing in University Education,’ aimed at strengthening academic training through the use of geospatial tools. During the event, a scientific article analyzing the expansion of illegal mining in Zamora Chinchipe was presented, highlighting the use of GIS and remote sensing—developed by the faculty of ingenieria en...—to understand territorial dynamics, support decision-making, and prevent environmental and social impacts in the Ecuadorian Amazon.