What is the
Digital Transformation Center?


It is a space which develops and optimizes digital transformation in the context of university processes to improve their integral efficiency and effectiveness. To this end, it designs and implements strategies to:

Digitalize and organize
information and data.

Automatize, ease and
add value to processes.

Transform processes and
create new tasks and means.

MISSION

To implement strategies and instruments to favor and ensure digital transformation in the context of university processes, improving their efficiency and effectiveness.

To provide the UTEC community and society as a whole with skills that allow them to inhabit a digitalized world with efficiency, safety, confidence and a high sense of ethics.

Pillars of
the Center of
Digital
transformation

01

To provide the UTEC community and society as a whole with skills that allow them to inhabit a digitalized world with efficiency, safety, confidence and a high sense of ethics.

02

To bring people and digital technology together and help the latter’s adoption and use, so people can lead their own transformation.

03

To create digital solutions in close connection and collaboratively with stakeholders inside and outside UTEC.

Work Culture

First, the people

Striving to improve the users’ experience based on their needs, characteristics and behavior in the digital world.

In touch with the world

Establishing and strengthening bonds with the public, private and academic sectors, both locally and internationally, in the creation of knowledge, research and digital solutions to help improve life quality at a global level.

Agile and adaptable

Adapting to the demands and trends of the digital world based on agile methodologies to design, develop and implement solutions.

Catering to Society

Supports development, using digital and emergent technologies to solve problems in real-life scenarios. Fostering experimentation and research on digital technologies and apps to improve life quality.

Organizational structure

The DTC is formed by the Digital Humanities, Technology Applied to Learning, Digital Transformation in University Management, and the Data Management Office. The head of each department reports to the Center’s Director.

Digital Transformation Center

Main objectives: 

  • To create training programs to develop skills and digital mindsets in the community inside and outside UTEC.
  • To create and promote spaces of interaction between the programs and the community (OSC, the government, MiPymes, etc.) to position the University as an agent of transformation in the territory.
  • To develop research lines connected to the different disciplines in humanities and digital technologies.

  • To optimize the digital learning experience within the programs.
  • To integrate the physical and virtual campuses, simplifying communication and the use of resources by teachers, students and collaborators.
  • To assess and optimize the educational management system at the University.
  • To analyze legal frameworks, ordinances and statutes in connection with teaching and learning processes, and to suggest changes needed to address digital transformation.
  • To coordinate and lead initiatives, projects and activities on technology and digital transformation throughout the educational process.
  • To establish guidelines and criteria to digitalize and automate management and research processes at the University.
  • To coordinate and lead the UTEC projects related to digital transformation (digitalization, automation, transformation).
  • To optimize the management and research systems at the University under institutional guidelines and criteria.
  • To foster the development of projects and works that promote digital transformation in the different regions where UTEC is based and for its different target audiences.
  • To analyze legal frameworks, ordinances and statutes in connection with teaching and learning processes and to suggest changes needed to address digital transformation.
  • To assure data quality at UTEC in all stages of their life cycle.
  • To promote a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • To establish a link between UTEC data policies and protocols and digital solutions and data use. To implement solutions to monitor and visualize data.
  • To elaborate and propose a data management and handling policy at UTEC.
  • To coordinate and lead initiatives, projects and programs to promote data management and use in the different regions where UTEC is based and for its different target audiences.
  • To optimize the technical performance and user’s experience in the education, management and research virtual spaces at UTEC.
  • To generate criteria and guidelines to standardize design and development processes.
  • To consider UTEC data policies and protocols in the design and development processes.
  • To consider international quality standards and trends in the design and development of digital solutions.
  • To promote collaborative work, involving internal and external clients into the different stages of the design and development processes.
  • To coordinate software development, improvement and maintenance.