Two books were presented in the university's branch campus in Guayaquil: Tercer Congreso Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación para la Sociedad (CITIS): Memoria Académica and Sistemas de Información en Ciencias de la Computación.

The academic memoir, coordinated by Raquel Ayala and Joe Llerena, is a book that contains research from different fields which is the result of the university community. "This book was a challenge for everyone, we thank everyone who was part of CITIS 2016. We have to continue working hard to become a scientific benchmark at the university level", said Llerena. 

The book "Sistemas de Información en Ciencias de la Computación", written by Guillermo Pizarro, Renato Urvina, Andrea Plaza, Rodolfo Bojorque and Leopoldo Pauta, is about Ecuador's reality in this field, it provides solutions to problems that have been identified in three fundamental aspects: geographic information systems, information security management systems and information systems in general. 

"Research is fundamental for university development in Ecuador, this book provides options to help improve current problems in this field", said Guillermo Pizarro. 

The event was presided by Andres Bayolo, Jose Juncosa, vice presidents of UPS's branches in Guayaquil and Quito respectively; Luis Alvarez, UPS general editor; Ignacio Aguaded Gomez,director fo the group "Comunicar"; Gulnara Borja, head of research  at Universidad de Guayaquil; Joe Llerena, coordinator of the Intenational Congress on Science, Technology and Innovation for Society 2016 (CITIS); Monica Villavicencio , professor at Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL); Pablo Perez, coordinator of research in Guayaquil; and Gillermo Pizarro, professor- researcher at UPS. 

After the presentation of the books, they awarded the winners of the 2017 Scientific Writing Competition.