Electronics and Automation

The Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil is an institution of higher education that was created on May 17, 1962, at the request of the Board for the Catholic University, chaired by Mons. César Antonio Mosquera Corral, Archbishop of Guayaquil; the jurist Dr. Leonidas Ortega Moreira and Father Joaquín Flor Vásconez SJ, who were its founding authorities, as Grand Chancellor, First Rector and Counselor, respectively. The Constitutional President of the Republic, Dr. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, through the respective Executive Agreement No. 936, approved the statute, and the Ministry of Public Education authorized its operation by Resolution No. 1158. In 1967 the Institute of Education was created Technique for Development and as a Faculty from September 26, 1977, which included the Schools of Electricity and Telecommunications at the technology level. With the aim of responding to social demands and the occupational market, and based on the needs and problems of the electrical and productive sector of the country, in 2006 the Electronic and Automation Engineering programme began to function at the Faculty of Technical Education for Development.

The academic offer of the Electronics and Automation Engineering Career is oriented towards the training of professionals trained to interact in the different functional stages of industrial automated control and motion electronic systems in the field of digital electronic design, network structures of new generation, operation and maintenance of automated systems with added value in home automation and inmotics, within a technical and ethical framework, which promotes social development in a context of Christian inspiration and solid scientific knowledge, through the promotion and development in the academic field and technological, aimed at solving socio-economic and technical problems, using principles, standards and rules of professional practice.