INTEC brings new professionals from 20 careers
Santo Domingo. Five new graduates of the Mechatronics Engineering degree received their degrees during the forty-fourth graduation ceremony of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), held on Saturday April 28, at the Sansouci Terminal.
INTEC, which this year celebrates the 40 anniversary of its foundation, invested 468 with new professionals. Of these, 34 belong to the specialty level, 113 to masters and 321 to the level of degree, standing out the second promotion of Mechatronic Engineering, a career in which INTEC was a pioneer, from which 11 professionals have graduated (the first six in October 2011). Mechatronics is born from the need to integrate the new concepts of manufactures, through electronics and digital communications with the more traditional fields of Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic Control and Computer Engineering.
In addition to the areas of engineering, health sciences, business and humanities, in terms of postgraduate studies, the university adapts its academic offer to the needs of both the labor market and the country. In this act graduated magister in Environmental Sciences, in Mathematics and Management of Quality and Productivity, labor fields that require more and more professionals. In terms of specialties, among the 34 graduates stand out those of Specialty in Physics for Secondary Education and the first graduates of the Specialty in Renewable Energy Technology and the Sub-specialty in Bariatric, Metabolic and Advanced Laparoscopy Surgery.
Rector Rolando Guzmán addressed the graduates, expressing that they have the primary mission of contributing to the construction of a better country and, as INTEC graduates, they will now be forgers of a society that does not yet exist, but that will eventually exist. "I can give testimony that the knowledge, values and attitudes are indispensable to develop those tasks in conditions of excellence".
The rector congratulated in a special way the 30 new professionals who studied their scholarships for the INTEC Program with Outstanding Students (PIES).
The central speech of the event was given by Fabiola Medina Garnes, founding partner of the firm Medina & Rizek, Abogados and former President of the Board of Regents of INTEC (2007-2009).
Medina Garnes exhorted young people to avoid indolence. He emphasized the causes for which, in his opinion, in the Dominican Republic there are no consequences and "any lack, follows the unavoidable course of forgetting or excuse." The speaker enumerated six types of behaviors that contribute to the absence of consequences on a day-to-day basis: inaction, opportunism or deliberate guilt. These are manifested in the "depends" of those who live in gray areas; the fear of being upset, of looking psychotic or hysterical; the desire to please, to fall well; the unspoken complicities, I forget today so that you forget tomorrow; opportunism; and indifference.
Within Fabiola Medina Garnes' career, her role as Assistant to the Legal Consultant of the Executive Power of the President of the Dominican Republic and as Vice President of Legal & Regulatory of Verizon Dominicana, SA stands out.
In addition to the rector, the ceremony was headed by Ana María Ramos, president of the Board of Regents of INTEC, the institution's highest governing body. Together with them and the speaker, the board also included Leandra Tapia, Academic Vice-Rector, Alfonso Casasnovas, Vice-Chancellor of Administration and Finance.
Ching Yi Chou Huang, graduate of Accounting, pronounced the oath of honor of the graduates, followed by Verónica Herrera Padilla, of Psychology who was in charge of the speech of thanks on behalf of all graduates and graduates.
INTEC plans its future, taking as a frame of reference national and international accreditation standards. Currently has an enrollment of 4,857 students and has graduated to 23,661 professionals since its founding, corresponding to the levels: Technical, 1,908; Degree, 13,838 and Postgraduate, 7,915.
Statistics
Of the total of graduates, 201 belong to the Engineering Area, 149 to the Business Area, 59 to the Health Sciences Area, 51 to the Area of Social Sciences and Humanities and 8 to the Area of Basic and Environmental Sciences.
Of the new 468 graduates, 252 are men and 216 women.
Some 88 students earned academic honors. Of these, 35 reached the title with honor Cum Laude; 31 Magna Cum Laude and 22 the highest honors of Summa Cum Laude.
With the integration into the society of these new 468 professionals, INTEC has increased its number of graduates to 23,661 professionals since its foundation at 1972. In this way, the institution continues the fulfillment of its work as a professional academic training entity within society, in accordance with strategic priorities.