Guanajuato, Gto., March 9, 2017.- Through an agreement that implies professional practice and continuous education, the University of Guanajuato (UG), the Secreataría de Obra Pública (SOP) of the state's government and the State College of Civil Engineers of Guanajuato AC, will join efforts to link college students with the business and government sector.

The agreement was signed by the Rector of Campus Guanajuato, Dr. Teresita de Jesús Rendón Huerta Barrera; Dr. Luis Enrique Mendoza Puga, Director of the Division of Engineering; Ing. José Arturo Durán Miranda, SOP's Secretary and Ing. Gabriel Falcón Anaya, President of the State College of Civil Engineers of Guanajuato AC.

In addition of the benefits of the professional practices of students in businesses and government dependencies, they seek to elevate the degree indexes of young graduates of the Division of Engineering.

Dr. Rendón Huerta Barrera celebrated the initiative of the Division of Engineering which establishes a new paradigm of how UG should link with companies and public sector.

The agreement will also help on the students' comprehensive formation, since the new educational model tends for knowledge not to center exclusively in the classrooms in terms of research and teaching, but expand to other sectors with the function that shows future substantial function of UG: knowledge transference.

The agreement will benefit the continuous education, in all extension and a great possibility in academic terms, to fulfill a pending assignment at UG: increase the degree index, sustained the Campus Guanajuato's Rector.

José Arturo Durán Miranda, SOP's Secretary, applauded the initiative, because thanks to this agreement from the dependencies, colleges and institutions, the youth will be able to link with companies to make their professional practices.

On SOP's concern, he informed, the activities are broad: from planning work sites, cost-benefit studies, soil mechanics, topography, laboratory, area of structures, roads, hydrology; and throughout the state there are continuous planning and executing work sites; reason why the opportunities they have for the students are wide and vast, especially those who study civil engineering.

Dr. Luis Enrique Mendoza Puga, DI's Director, thanked everybody for their availability to be part of this strategy printed in the agreement which will benefit everyone: employers and college students.

He remembered that 70 years ago, the major in civil engineering founded, today, it has a great national and international prestige thanks to the quality of the competences of the graduates, that when they graduated, they already had a job, hence, many didn't complete the degree, but now, due to the need to integrate in a globalized world, they seek international certification with degree indexes, and until now, the number are not too flattering.

Strategies were designed from that point, as degree alternatives, tutoring, but now they will be able to complement the professional practices, since the students must get out with competencies, go the real action field and make their practices in companies dedicated to construction and government institutions.

Likewise, Gabriel Falcón Anaya, President of the State College of Civil Engineers of Guanajuato AC, reiterated the willingness to work together so the students link with companies and when they graduate, they'll have a better function.

He informed that the college is composed by 11 municipal schools in 10 cities of the state, with a population of around 550 people who are civil engineers, and from them, 70% are UG graduates.

Also, present at the signing: Dra. Claudia Gutiérrez Padilla, Academic Secretary of Campus Guanajuato; Lic. Luis Antonio Gómez Cortés, Director of Professions of the General Direction of Professions, School Affairs and Incorporations of SEG; M. Antonio González Arroyo, Director of the Program Graduates with UG Identity and department directors.