For polytechnic students, pre-professional internships represent the first major step into the business world. Saida Senaida Tirado Caicedo, a student in the final semesters of Logistics and Transportation Engineering at ESPOL, experienced this firsthand while working as an intern in the Logistics Planning area at DIFARE S.A.
Lisbeth Fajardo León, a graduate of the Logistics and Transportation Engineerin
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Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), through its Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FCNM), hosted the event
The BIN team, made up of Laura Apupalo, Geovanny Gutiérrez, Fabricio Quinto, and Britney Rodríguez, alumni of the Statistics Engineering program at ESPOL’s Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FCNM), earned first place in the WiDS Datathon 2026, a data science competition held last June at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL).
The initiative is part of Women in Data Science (WiDS), a global movement led by Stanford University that promotes the participation and leadership of women in data science and artificial intelligence.
ESPOL’s Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FCNM) held a welcome session for students from the new graduate cohorts beginning their studies in the Master’s Program in Transportation Engineering and Susta
Behind every business decision lies information that must be analyzed and transformed into meaningful insights.
What began as knowledge acquired in the classroom soon became operational decisions, data analysis, and process improvement initiatives within a high-demand operation. For Paúl Alberto Segarra Varas, an eighth-semester Logistics and Transportation Engineering student at ESPOL’s Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, his internship in the Logistics Projects area of Tonicorp’s Raw Materials Warehouse in Guayaquil provided the opportunity to transform theory into solutions for real-world industry challenges.
The agroindustry sector is increasingly confronted with a question that is as much about science as it is about responsibility: how can the best qualities of a food be preserved without altering its natural characteristics? A recent study provides evidence-based answers: ultra-freezing with liquid nitrogen preserves the nutritional quality of passion fruit without the need for chemical additives.
On Saturday, December 13, the 8th Chemistry Olympiad and the 8th Inter-School Chemistry Competition officially began. A total of 148 students from different parts of Ecuador participated in the first-round examination, taking the first step toward advancing to the next stage of the competition.
