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Pirólisis, gasificación y biomasa
Se trabaja en modelos computacionales y procesos experimentales de gasificación de diferentes tipos de biomasa con el fin de estudiar el potencial de estas como materia prima para la producción de biocombustibles ya sean sólidos, líquidos o gaseosos que pueden ser utilizados como energías alternativas renovables en la industria colombiana.

Diseño de generadores
Con el objetivo de encontrar nuevas fuentes de energía renovable se trabaja constantemente en el desarrollo de equipos eólicos e hidráulicos. El grupo de conversión de energía recientemente ha trabajado en equipos para la generación de electricidad en zonas montañosas y de gran altitud.

Proyecto Uniandino Aeroespacial - PUA
El Proyecto Uniandino Aeroespacial (PUA), se concibe como una plataforma de actividades tanto académicas, como de investigación y desarrollo, orientadas a la promoción de la ingeniería aeroespacial en la Universidad de los Andes y en Colombia. Su principal objetivo consiste en la formación de ingenieros de cualquier área con orientación a las actividades aeroespaciales tanto desde la perspectiva académica/investigativa, como industrial.
En el marco de sus actividades, el grupo PUA propone un objetivo en el mediano plazo, el cual es el desarrollo sistemático de vehículos aeroespaciales con una meta clara, la cual es llevar cargas útiles cada vez más alto dentro de la atmósfera colombiana, hasta cruzar la frontera del espacio exterior.

Hidráulica de potencia y sistemas híbridos
Se estudian la transmisión de potencia mediante elementos hidráulicos. En particular se está trabajando en transmisiones hidrostáticas para equipos eólicos de generación de potencia y en sistemas de regeneración de energía para vehículos híbridos eléctricos - hidráulicos.
Pork COLOMBIA (Revista Inteligencia Artificial)

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Pirólisis, gasificación y biomasa Se trabaja en modelos computacionales y procesos experimentales de gasificación de diferentes tipos de biomasa con el fin de estudiar el potencial de estas como materia prima para la producción de biocombustibles ya sean sólidos, líquidos o gaseosos que pueden ser utilizados como energías alternativas renovables en la industria colombiana.

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Ciclo de proyectos

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Ciclo Profesional

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Fundamentos de Ingeniería

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Ciencias básicas

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Ciclo profesional (Dinámica de Maquinaria)

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Los egresados implementan su conocimiento en la creación de proyectos de maquinas para diferentes tipos de uso.

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Ciclo profesional (Mantenimiento Industrial)

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Ciclo profesional (Energía-Termodinámica)

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Ciclo profesional (Energia-Termodinamica)

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Las Energías renovables serán las formas de producción eléctrica que se darán en las próximas décadas debido a fenómenos como el calentamiento global y de hecho porque están convirtiendose en más rentables a largo plazo que muchas de las alternativas que actualmente se explotan.

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En la industria Colombiana, se está invirtiendo en nueva maquinaria y tecnología para la reducción de costos de Producción. "Los egresados de los últimos 5 años se han tenido que enfrentar a cambios en estas áreas e incluso aplicar el criterio de Ingeniería para la adquisición de equpos que ayuden a estas tareas mencionadas de reducción de costos y tiempos." Alvaro Pinilla, Profesor Titular Uniandes.

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Un porcentaje de egresados trabajan en proyectos de energía solar y eólica. Inclusive, hay bastantes egresados que hicieron o están haciendo maestrías en energías renovables en Europa y Estados Unidos.

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La Universidad de los Andes, en sus últimas decadas ha enseñado las técnias de diseño y entendimiento de las energías renovables, especialmente las áreas de Energía Eólica y la Energía solar fotovoltáica, las cuales están siendo y serán implementadas en las próximas decadas al rededor del globo

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La automatización industrial es un fenómeno que se está dando en todas las industrias productivas al rededor del mundo porque gracias a herramientas tecnológicas como máquinas inteligentes, la implementacióin del internet de las cosas, el uso de sistemas de control y softwares de última tecnología permite ahorrar millones de dolares al año en costos de producción y minimiza dramáticamente los tiempos de producción de los productos. En el caso de Uniandes, se han venido dictando en la última decada dos Cursos llamados: Automatización y Aplicaciones robotizadas, los cuales han venido mejorando la adaptación a la industria

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The Future of Industrial Automation

Since the turn of the century, the global recession has affected most businesses, including industrial automation. After four years of the new millennium, here are my views on the directions in which the automation industry is moving.

The rear-view mirror

Because of the relatively small production volumes and huge varieties of applications, industrial automation typically utilizes new technologies developed in other markets. Automation companies tend to customize products for specific applications and requirements. So the innovation comes from targeted applications, rather than any hot, new technology.

Over the past few decades, some innovations have indeed given industrial automation new surges of growth: The programmable logic controller (PLC) - developed by Dick Morley and others - was designed to replace relay-logic; it generated growth in applications where custom logic was difficult to implement and change. The PLC was a lot more reliable than relay-contacts, and much easier to program and reprogram. Growth was rapid in automobile test-installations, which had to be re-programmed often for new car models. The PLC has had a long and productive life - some three decades - and (understandably) has now become a commodity.

At about the same time that the PLC was developed, another surge of innovation came through the use of computers for control systems. Mini-computers replaced large central mainframes in central control rooms, and gave rise to "distributed" control systems (DCS), pioneered by Honeywell with its TDC 2000. But, these were not really "distributed" because they were still relatively large clumps of computer hardware and cabinets filled with I/O connections.

The arrival of the PC brought low-cost PC-based hardware and software, which provided DCS functionality with significantly reduced cost and complexity. There was no fundamental technology innovation here-rather, these were innovative extensions of technology developed for other mass markets, modified and adapted for industrial automation requirements.

On the sensor side were indeed some significant innovations and developments which generated good growth for specific companies. With better specifications and good marketing, Rosemount's differential pressure flow-sensor quickly displaced lesser products. And there were a host of other smaller technology developments that caused pockets of growth for some companies. But few grew beyond a few hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

Automation software has had its day, and can't go much further. No "inflection point" here. In the future, software will embed within products and systems, with no major independent innovation on the horizon. The plethora of manufacturing software solutions and services will yield significant results, but all as part of other systems.

So, in general, innovation and technology can and will reestablish growth in industrial automation. But, there won't be any technology innovations that will generate the next Cisco or Apple or Microsoft.

We cannot figure out future trends merely by extending past trends; it's like trying to drive by looking only at a rear-view mirror. The automation industry does NOT extrapolate to smaller and cheaper PLCs, DCSs, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems; those functions will simply be embedded in hardware and software. Instead, future growth will come from totally new directions.

New technology directions

Industrial automation can and will generate explosive growth with technology related to new inflection points: nanotechnology and nanoscale assembly systems; MEMS and nanotech sensors (tiny, low-power, low-cost sensors) which can measure everything and anything; and the pervasive Internet, machine to machine (M2M) networking.

Real-time systems will give way to complex adaptive systems and multi-processing. The future belongs to nanotech, wireless everything, and complex adaptive systems.

Major new software applications will be in wireless sensors and distributed peer-to-peer networks - tiny operating systems in wireless sensor nodes, and the software that allows nodes to communicate with each other as a larger complex adaptive system. That is the wave of the future.

The fully-automated factory

Automated factories and processes are too expensive to be rebuilt for every modification and design change - so they have to be highly configurable and flexible. To successfully reconfigure an entire production line or process requires direct access to most of its control elements - switches, valves, motors and drives - down to a fine level of detail.

The vision of fully automated factories has already existed for some time now: customers order online, with electronic transactions that negotiate batch size (in some cases as low as one), price, size and color; intelligent robots and sophisticated machines smoothly and rapidly fabricate a variety of customized products on demand.

The promise of remote-controlled automation is finally making headway in manufacturing settings and maintenance applications. The decades-old machine-based vision of automation - powerful super-robots without people to tend them - underestimated the importance of communications. But today, this is purely a matter of networked intelligence which is now well developed and widely available.

Communications support of a very high order is now available for automated processes: lots of sensors, very fast networks, quality diagnostic software and flexible interfaces - all with high levels of reliability and pervasive access to hierarchical diagnosis and error-correction advisories through centralized operations.

The large, centralized production plant is a thing of the past. The factory of the future will be small, movable (to where the resources are, and where the customers are). For example, there is really no need to transport raw materials long distances to a plant, for processing, and then transport the resulting product long distances to the consumer. In the old days, this was done because of the localized know-how and investments in equipment, technology and personnel. Today, those things are available globally.

Hard truths about globalization

The assumption has always been that the US and other industrialized nations will keep leading in knowledge-intensive industries while developing nations focus on lower skills and lower labor costs. That's now changed. The impact of the wholesale entry of 2.5 billion people (China and India) into the global economy will bring big new challenges and amazing opportunities.

Beyond just labor, many businesses (including major automation companies) are also outsourcing knowledge work such as design and engineering services. This trend has already become significant, causing joblessness not only for manufacturing labor, but also for traditionally high-paying engineering positions.

Innovation is the true source of value, and that is in danger of being dissipated - sacrificed to a short-term search for profit, the capitalistic quarterly profits syndrome. Countries like Japan and Germany will tend to benefit from their longer-term business perspectives. But, significant competition is coming from many rapidly developing countries with expanding technology prowess. So, marketing speed and business agility will be offsetting advantages.

The winning differences

In a global market, there are three keys that constitute the winning edge:

Proprietary products: developed quickly and inexpensively (and perhaps globally), with a continuous stream of upgrade and adaptation to maintain leadership.

High-value-added products: proprietary products and knowledge offered through effective global service providers, tailored to specific customer needs.

Global yet local services: the special needs and custom requirements of remote customers must be handled locally, giving them the feeling of partnership and proximity.

To implementing these directions demands management and leadership abilities that are different from old, financially-driven models. In the global economy, automation companies have little choice - they must find more ways and means to expand globally. To do this they need to minimize domination of central corporate cultures, and maximize responsiveness to local customer needs. Multi-cultural countries, like the U.S., will have significant advantages in these important business aspects.

In the new and different business environment of the 21st century, the companies that can adapt, innovate and utilize global resources will generate significant growth and success.

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Since the turn of the century, the global recession has affected most businesses, including industrial automation. After four years of the new millennium, here are my views on the directions in which the automation industry is moving. Because of the relatively small production volumes and huge varieties of applications, industrial automation typically utilizes new technologies developed in other markets.

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"Existe una gran falencia en el área de mantenimiento industrial ya que no existe ningún curso que trate este tema, cuando es en el que más trabajan los egresados al graduarse de la Universidad. Por otro lado, actualmente todo en la industria está girando en torno al uso de tecnologías de información, inteligencia artificial y uso de la nube para el desarrollo de procesos industriales más eficientes, así como en investigación. "

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La falencia en la enseñanza de la Universidad de los Andes en Ingeniería Mecánica, radica en el hecho de que no  se dicta ningún curso en Mantenimiento Industrial, ya que es un área de la cual la mayoría de los egresados del programa se dedican en Colombia.. A pesar de conocer estos temas la Universidad no ha actuado apropiadamente

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En primer lugar, la enseñanza en Ingeniería dada en la Universidad de los Andes es excelente, esto se confirma con el hecho de que los programas de Ingeniería pertenecen a la certificación ABET, certificación dada a las mejores escuelas de Ingeniería del mundo, la cual permite a sus egresados ejercer en cualquier país del mundo

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We are a nonprofit, non-governmental agency that accredits programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology.

ABET accreditation provides assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards of the profession for which that program prepares graduates.

We accredit programs, not institutions. We provide specialized accreditation for post-secondary programs within degree-granting institutions already recognized by national or regional institutional accreditation agencies or national education authorities worldwide.

Our accreditation is voluntary, and to date, 4,307 programs at 846 colleges and universities in 41 countries have received ABET accreditation. Over 175,000 students graduate from ABET-accredited programs each year, and millions of graduates have received degrees from ABET-accredited programs since 1932.

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We are a nonprofit, non-governmental agency that accredits programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. ABET accreditation provides assurance that a college or university program meets the quality standards of the profession for which that program prepares graduates. We accredit programs, not institutions.

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The Future of Solar Energy considers only the two widely recognized classes of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity - photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), sometimes called solar thermal) - in their current and plausible future forms. Because energy supply facilities typically last several decades, technologies in these classes will dominate solar-powered generation between now and 2050, and we do not attempt to look beyond that date. In contrast to some earlier Future of studies, we also present no forecasts - for two reasons. First, expanding the solar industry dramatically from its relatively tiny current scale may produce changes we do not pretend to be able to foresee today. Second, we recognize that future solar deployment will depend heavily on uncertain future market conditions and public policies - including but not limited to policies aimed at mitigating global climate change.

As in other studies in this series, our primary aim is to inform decision-makers in the developed world, particularly the United States. We concentrate on the use of grid-connected solar-powered generators to replace conventional sources of electricity. For the more than one billion people in the developing world who lack access to a reliable electric grid, the cost of small-scale PV generation is often outweighed by the very high value of access to electricity for lighting and charging mobile telephone and radio batteries. In addition, in some developing nations it may be economic to use solar generation to reduce reliance on imported oil, particularly if that oil must be moved by truck to remote generator sites. A companion working paper discusses both these valuable roles for solar energy in the developing world.

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The Future of Solar Energy considers only the two widely recognized classes of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity - photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), sometimes called solar thermal) - in their current and plausible future forms. Because energy supply facilities typically last several decades, technologies in these classes will dominate solar-powered [...]

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Long-term research challenges in wind energy -European Academy of Wind Energy

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Long-term research challenges in wind energy -European Academy of Wind Energy

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“Actualmente hay grandes cantidades de datos, y el principal objetivo de los científicos de datos es crear métodos para recopilar, analizar y explotar estos datos”

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“El futuro de las profesiones”, “nuestros sistemas y máquinas se están haciendo cada vez más capaces”

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-Leonardo Guauque
-Ivan Martin Luna
-Carlos Eduardo Paez
-Camilo Guevara

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Areas de trabajo más comunes de los egresados del Programa

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Areas de trabajo más comunes de los egresados del Programa

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El mantenimiento Industrial es el área en los que los egresados del programa más trabajan, sin embargo existe una falencia en le educación en esta área porque no hay ningún curso actualmente que los fortalezca en ella.

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Áreas que se han implementado en la última década en Uniandes.

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Áreas que se han implementado en la última década en Uniandes.

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¿CÓMO SE ESTA TRANSFORMANDO NUESTRA FORMACIÓN?

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¿CÓMO SE ESTA TRANSFORMANDO NUESTRA FORMACIÓN?