The environmental engineering major in the university's branch in Cuenca, organized the 1st symposium on the environment on the following topic: "Ionizing radiation in the context of the creation of the radioecology research line"

During this one week symposium, there were 27 projects, 11 papers and 10 posters; 3 workshops with 40 academic hours and 6 conferences in the university theater.

The conferences were:

•    "Interacción y detección de las radiaciones ionizantes" y "Uso en la industria y su impacto ambiental" presented by Laszlo Sajo-Bohus de Venezuela.
 
•    "Uso de los detectores sólidos de trazas nucleares en ciencias de la tierra, protección radiológica y medio ambiente" presented by: Daniel Palacios Venezuela and Akos Horvath
 
•    "Análisis de activación de neutrones, una herramienta poderosa contra la contaminación", by: Héctor Vega Carrillo.
 
•    "Impacto Ambiental del uso de agroquímicos en matrices de suelo y sedimentos de la cuenca del lago Tota: estudio y caracterización mediante técnicas nucleares", presented by Mercedes Díaz Lagos.
 
•    "Bioactivad, acumulación de radón de isótopos en Karst termales Buda", by Ákos Horváth. "Importancia de la ejecución de programas de investigación para el desarrollo de capacidades científicas", by Matilde Flores Urbáez.

 During this event they presented unpublished works in this line of research: radon exhalation of some building materials from the city of Cuenca; The concentration of radium in the most used fertilizers in agricultural activity in Cuenca; The concentration of radon in some schools in the urban and rural area of Cuenca.

Some of the conclusions of the Congress are: the agreement to conduct a research project that involves the different laboratories represented by the guests of the ISE-2017. In particular, this research is oriented to the radiological characteristics of drinking water in Zacatecas (Mexico), Tunja (Colombia), Lima (Peru), Caracas (Venezuela), Cuenca (Ecuador) and Budapest (Hungary).

The organizers said that this symposium was also useful to have meetings with the representative of the Subsecretariat of Nuclear Control and Applications (SCAN for its acronym in Spanish), which is associated to the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, and with representatives of the Municipal Public Enterprise of Telecommunications, Drinking Water, Sewage and Sanitation of Cuenca (ETAPA for its acronym in Spanish).