For the university, this type of competition represents an excellent opportunity for university students to test their great ideas and generate effective, professional and functional solutions for a company.
In order to get involved and test their knowledge of Family Business Administration and Management, the team from the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara, managed to position themselves in the final round of the Family Enterprise Case Competition organized by the University of Vermont, which took place in virtual format on November 13.
Objective of the Family Enterprise Case Competition
The main objective of the competition was to present a problem of a family business to students from different universities, so that they would be able to put into practice what they had learned in the classroom by making feasible proposals to respond to critical situations, and finally to have the participants gain recognition for their excellence.
On this occasion, the Panamericana team was represented by César Vázquez and Carlos Álvarez, both from the seventh semester, and Ameyalli Carrillo and Javier Torres from the ninth semester, all from the ADEF program; they were also advised by coaches Claudio Vázquez and Ana Cristina González, who have great knowledge of the central theme of the competition.
Due to the high level of demand that a competition of this category represents, the team required months of extracurricular preparation in case method, corporate governance, family businesses, case resolution and presentation techniques. All this with a great sense of responsibility and dedication.
Likewise, the University collaborated in the achievement of the students by providing them with tools and assigning expert advisors in the preparation process that helped them face this great challenge and position themselves in the finals for the second time in the 9 years that they have participated in this competition.
The Universidad Panamericana congratulates the students who were finalists in a world-class competition, and is proud of them for putting the name of the institution on a high level due to their great performance, dedication and passion that they put into practice in this type of challenges.
Likewise, he invites the student community to get involved in this type of challenges, and therefore acquire quality international experience.
Innovation and Design Engineering completes its showcase with the three most prestigious international awards.
Javier Alejandro Tiscareño Pedroza, Director of Engineering in Innovation and Design, said: "It represents a great pride for the School of Engineering and for Universidad Panamericana that our students are positioned within the most important design awards worldwide, demonstrating that their technical knowledge is on par with any other design professional in any other part of the world".
The Engineering in Innovation and Design (IID) career demonstrated academic excellence and professional preparation to its students, this due to obtaining three international awards: "A Design Award", "Red Dot Award" and "James Dyson Award", which are competitions with worldwide prestige regarding Design and which are added to the achievements of the Faculty of Engineering, on behalf of the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara.
The three awards are among the most important international design awards. The first award won was the A' Design Award, which was held in Milan, Italy; then the Red Dot Award, the most important design award in Asia; and finally and most recently, the James Dyson Award, which was organized in England.
Javier Alejandro Tiscareño Pedroza, Director of Engineering in Innovation and Design, said: "It represents a great pride for the School of Engineering and for Universidad Panamericana that our students are positioned within the most important design awards worldwide, demonstrating that their technical knowledge is on par with any other design professional in any other part of the world".
More Prizes and Contests
The Silver A' Design Award was won by Alfredo Carreño, who participated in this competition in 2017 with his project "Etabu", within the Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design category.
This competition is a prestigious award given to only 5% of the designs that present an exemplary level of design. His creation Etabu is a set consisting of 3 benches that create the sensation of having no balance when stacked. It is worth noting that, by winning this award, Carreño was named the 19th designer in Mexico that year.
The second prize was the Red Dot Award, an internationally renowned seal for products that stand out from comparable deliveries for their excellent design or innovative character, which was won by Edgar Herrera Vega, IID Alumni, with his creation "Bladeless Drone", which is distinguished by the use of a technology that creates a safer flight.
Without rotors with exposed propellers, it uses adversity (such as headwind) to its advantage to regulate its lift, which stabilizes its engines for smoother flight by converting the wind into downdraft. The jury met in Singapore and chose only 6% of the more than four thousand designs entered.
The third and most recent award was the James Dyson Award, which was presented to student Pilar Padilla Villaseñor. This competition was promoted by the James Dyson Foundation, created in the United Kingdom, which invites young engineers and designers from all over the world to carry out innovative projects or projects with a different point of view to existing inventions, as long as they solve a real problem.
HandleBot, a project to help people with motor disabilities
Mexico is one of the 31 countries invited to participate in this call and the student's HandleBot project was one of the three winners of the national phase.
HandleBot is an arm that attaches to wheelchairs and allows users to move the wheels with their arms and at the same time stops objects weighing less than five kilograms, such as umbrellas, flashlights, canes, thermoses with water or even diaper bags or bottles for mothers who require this displacement tool.
Panamericana is proud of the academic excellence that students and Alumni performed in their respective international competitions, and also congratulates the School of Engineering for encouraging students to test their knowledge in competitions that enrich their experience in the field of engineering.
