As part of their academic itinerary through Sinaloa state, over thirty students belonging to the Higher Technological Institute of Misantla (Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Misantla, ITSM), coming from Veracruz (Mexico), had a guided tour through the facilities of the Technological Innovation Park (Parque de Innovación Tecnológica, PIT) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, UAS), where they experimented an approach to science and technology, fundamental elements for their professional development.

Within an environment of comradeship and enthusiasm by knowing the diverse scientific-technological projects in development at PIT-UAS, administrative personnel of the Park guided the ITSM’s students of Industrial Engineering through a tour that covered each one of the laboratories, workshops and areas that form the aforementioned university technological park.

Throughout the visit, among doubts and comments of the students, they were talked about projects that can be carried out at areas related to engineering, such as a plastic material recycler to reuse the material for 3D printing, as well as a meteorological station, among others.

There were also broached complementary themes to the youths’ career objective, which consists of «forming professionals in industrial engineering with creative and managerial skills», since at PIT-UAS are executed transdisciplinary projects of applied and basic researches which development requires proactive profiles and with abilities to practise leadership.

During the final part of the tour, visitants could share and comment their experiences along the visit, besides, they participated in the raffle of the book The Large Hadron Collider, stories of the biggest laboratory of the world, written by Gerardo Herrera Corral and published by UAS Publishing Directorate and Proceso Publishing House.

In this way, PIT-UAS stimulates among students the interest to research and reinforces University’s linkage with other higher education institutions, in order to facilitate that in the future there can be interinstitutional collaboration for the development of projects, research stays, and other scientific and academic activities.

Written by Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), Translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).