Higher education institutions have 3 basic functions: teaching, research and community engagement. Regarding research, professors and students in our university's three branch campuses: Cuenca, Quito and Guayaquil have produced a total of 2615 scientific articles. 

Scientific production is the dissemination of knowledge created through science and academic activities in order help solve problems in society.

618 scientific projects have been carried out in the university's three branch campuses and 201 research projects are currently being carried out nationwide. In the last 6 years (2014 -2020), scientific production has increased by 111.42% and continues to do so thanks to the university community that is committed to creating knowledge to benefit society.

In the case of Postgraduate programs, students contribute to science because in order to obtain their degree, they carry out research projects aimed at contributing to society. One these projects was developed in the Master's degree in Digital Strategic Communication, with the scientific article "Social protest in the post-truth era: Analysis of fake news in Facebook during the protests in Ecuador from October 3rd to 13th, 2019.

Professors and students from the Master's degree in Industrial Production and Operations, carried out a research project titled "Design of a Mechanical Vibration Monitoring System in Medium Power Hydroelectric Generators" and another titled "Mathematical optimization models applicable to the Petroleum downstream and midstream sector".

Learn more about the research projects carried out by the university's postgraduate programs