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MetaMate: high school students put their mathematical knowledge to the test in Rivera

The MetaMate mathematics competition, organized by faculty from UTEC and Udelar in Rivera, challenged high school students to solve problems. The event concluded on Friday, Octobe...

Academic projects by two students led them to land their first jobs in the field of data and artificial intelligence.

Martín Barreto and Enzo Escobar study at UTEC Rivera and are currently involved in developing technological tools for the agricultural sector at a Uruguayan startup. Both are in t...

Urubots took first place in Canada at the FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2026 global robotics competition.

The UTEC Rivera robotics team developed a system enabling two autonomous vehicles to communicate with each other and navigate a track simulating a city. They earned recognition in...

Logistics Engineering graduates from UTEC Rivera analyze the rehabilitation of the railway between Rivera and Paso de los Toros

The final project by Santiago Cabrera and Pablo Sánchez proposes a concrete opportunity to strengthen logistics and regional productive development through the railways.

UTEC Norte graduate develops a smart pets dispenser

From physics teacher to engineer. Horacio De Crezencio, a graduate in Control and Automation Engineering, has a project that allows each animal to be fed in a personalized way usi...

Between the road, the classroom, and data: the life of the young woman who won't stop until she becomes an engineer

The story of Romina, an Agroenvironmental Engineering student at UTEC Durazno, and her train journeys from Tacuarembó in search of a professional university future.

Urubots returns to the global stage at RoboCup and the FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2026

The UTEC robotics team has once again qualified for two of the world's most demanding robotics competitions. They are preparing to travel to South Korea and Canada starting in Jun...

Más allá del plagio: el avance del "fraude inteligente" que amenaza la credibilidad científica y la reflexión docente

Las Jornadas de Perfeccionamiento Docente organizadas por la Dirección de Educación de UTEC dejaron conceptos importantes para entender la relación entre la inteligencia artificia...

Students from UTEC Norte visited logistics hubs in Belgium and the Netherlands

Máximo and Katerin, Logistics Engineering students in Rivera, traveled to Europe at the beginning of the year through an International Mobility Scholarship from UTEC. This is an e...