Achievements and Awards

Students

Names: Ronny Rosado, Bryam Loor and Katherine Graciani
Career: Graphic Design
Event: Photo23
Organizer: The Collectors Club
Award Winner: Finalist
City or country: Quito-Ecuador
Date: February 16, 2024
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Professors

Professor: PhD. Nayeth Solórzano
Event: Forum: Mujeres Poderosas y Capaces (Powerful and Capable Women)
Recognition: Participation
Place: Manta-Ecuador
Date: March 8, 2024
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Students

Names: Sergio Ortíz, Ariana Solórzano, Johanna Ortíz, Cristel Rivadeneira, Mauricio Mena, Keyla Ayala, Amalin Bustamante, Paula Zambrano
Career: Media Production
Event: Naranjal International Student Film Festival
Recognition: Participation
Place: Mexico
Date: 2023
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Professors

Professor: Ph.D. Marcelo Báez Meza
Event: XI National Literature Contest Miguel Riofrío
Award: Winner
Date: 2023
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Students

Names: Stephanie Zambrano, Rosa Cortaza, Christian Yagual, Samantha Espinoza y Renée Montalvo
Category: Illustrated stories
Career: Graphic Design
Event: Contest of illustrated stories "Seeds of change: stories about climate change for children illustrated by young people".
Organizer: Undersecretariat of Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (MAATE).
Award obtained: Semifinalists
Date: Year 2022
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Professors

Professor: Ph.D. Iria Cabrera
Event: Dissertation of doctoral thesis entitled The Czech School of Stop Motion: Origin, characteristics and influences.
Recognition: Awarded a CUM LAUDE (HONORABLE MENTION)
Place: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Spain
Date: Year 2022
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Students

Name: Gabriela Balda
Category: Pop Art
Career: Graphic Design and Advertising
Event: Digital art exhibition
Exhibition: "Mi ciudad" (My city)
Date: year 2022
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Professors

Professor: Master José Daniel Santibañez
Literary Work: Los Muertos Espejos del Alma: Una loca aventura del Sicario del Cielo y su madre muerta (The Dead Mirrors of the Soul: A Crazy Adventure of the Sicario del Cielo and His Dead Mother)
Recognition: Presentation
Date: Year 2021
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Students

Name: Karen Bravo
Social Communication Career
Event: Training for your Club of members
Organizer: El Universo Newspaper
Topic: How to enhance a brand in networks and take advantage of all digital resources in order to grow a business.
Recognition: Invited as keynote speaker
Place: Guayaquil-Ecuador
Date: January 23, 2020
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Name: Melissa Lozada
Career: Graphic Design
Event: Oratory and writing contest in the Korean language.
Organizer: King Sejong Institute authorized by South Korea to teach the language in Ecuador.
Category: Oratory
Award: First Place
Place: Guayaquil-Ecuador
Date: 2020
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Professors

Professor: Master Daniça Uscocovich with fashion designer Paola Liao
Event: Leonardo progionero de volo Project
Participation: Exhibition of a costume designed and hand-painted.
Artwork: L'origine stellare/La carrozza di fuoco
Location: Palazzo Morando, Fashion Museum in Milan Italy
Venue: Milan-Italy
Date: 2020
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Professor: Master Guillermo Doylet
Event: I/O Chup Music NYC, New York chip music scene
Recognition: Participation and presentation of a musical composition.
Venue: Twich Platform
Date: July 11, 2020
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Students

Name: Erick Vera and Danilo Gómez
Project: Corporate Identity of the National Academic Design Network
Category: Branding
Name: Steffy Saltos and Kevin Plúas
Project: Sensorial sugar packaging design
Name: Erick Vera and Danilo Gómez
Project: Corporate Identity of the National Academic Network of Design
Category: Packaging
Name: Christian Quinto and Jonathan Castro
Project: Chulla Chullito, come sanito Nutritional manual for indigenous children of the Guasanganda parish in the Cotopaxi province.
Category: Illustration
Names: Jackeline Andrade and Jorge Vallejo
Project: Don Gonzalo-Craft Beer
Category: Packaging
Career: Graphic Design
Event: Latin American Design Awards
Recognition: Finalists
Date: year 2019
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Names: Jacqueline Andrade and Andrés Vallejo
Project: Packaging for the craft beer brand Don Gonzalo, for Maurchell's bar.
Category: Packaging
Career: Graphic Design
Event: Latin American Design Awards
Award: Winners in the Latin American Design Awards (Students 2018)
Date: year 2019
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Name: Wendy Simancas Quevedo
Event: "Pébéo Mixed Media Art Prize and Exhibition 2019".
Recognition: Finalist and Exhibition of her work at the Menier Gallery in London.
Place: London
Date: Year 2019
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Names: Georgina Manzano and Alejandro Oviedo
Career: Media Production
Event: REDU Congress 2019
Organizer: Yachay Tech
Recognition: Presentation of a paper
Place: Cantón Urcuquí, province of Imbabura
Date: Year 2019
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Names: María Auxiliadora Rivera Verdesoto, María Fernanda Castro Mosquera e Isabela Victoria Woelke Hernández
Career: Graphic Design
Names: Milena Marola Campuzano Poma and Ana Belén López Zavala
Career: Media Production
Project: Weaving the future: Improving fine motor skills through traditional weaving techniques
Recognition: Invited by the University of Findlay, Ohio, USA to work together for three months through the ESPOL Student Mobility Scholarship.
Organizer: University of Findlay
Place: United States
Date: Year 2019
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Professors

Professor: PhD. Marcelo Baez
Event: La Linares Short Novel Award
Work: Novel El buen Ladrón (The Good Thief)
Recognition: Mention with first prize equivalence
Date: 2019
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Professor: PhD. Nayeth Solórzano
Event: International Conference on Computers in Management and Business "2nd International Conference on Computers in Management and Business".
Recognition: Participation
Place: Cambridge, England
Date: March 24-27, 2019
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Professor: Master Eva Lodeiro
Achievement: First Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) in Premiere Pro CC in Ecuador.
Date: 2019
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Professor: Master Lourdes Pilay
Event: V Meeting of Graphic Design Research
Theme: "Design for the valuation of the graphic heritage-culture of the city", result of a first stage of the doctoral study that she is studying at the University of Lisbon.
Venue: Headquarters of the School of Public Relations of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain.
Date: September 4 to 6, 2019
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Professor: Master Karla Caicedo
Achievement: Elected vice-president of the association of educators in robotics in Ecuador.
Group: Sensor
Date: 2019
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Students

Name: Fernanda Quishpe
Career: Media Production
Organizer: The Center for Contemporary Art "Huasy Cuy" (Huasy=house, Cuy=Andean animal, Quichua language)
Recognition: Presentation of artistic works
Place: Quito-Ecuador
Date: February 29, 2018
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Names: Andrea Constante y Paola Suárez
Career: Graphic Design
Category: Social Design
Project: GLOU, Mi espacio para brillar (GLOU, My space to shine)
Names: Jorge Campozano and Yaeli Mieles
Career: Graphic Design and Advertising
Category: Illustration
Project: The calendar that knows Ecuador
Event: Latin American Design Awards-LAD
Awards: Finalist
Date: Year 2018
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Names: Pamela Moreno and Gabriela Vera
Career: Graphic Design and Advertising
Event: II Latin American Congress of Advertising
Organizer: University of Palermo
Project: The development and work done in their integrative project: Design of an interactive POP-UP Book of the Human Body.
Participation: Lecture
Place: Buenos Aires-Argentina
Date: March 7, 2018
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Names: José Luis Castro and Génnesis Pía García
Career: Audiovisual Design and Production
Project: Documentary "The Flight of the Hummingbird".
Recognition: Recognized and screened by the Mayor's Office of Cuenca.
Place: Cuenca-Ecuador
Date: April 10, 2018
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Names: José Luis Castro and Génnesis Pía García
Career: Audiovisual Design and Production
Event: XIII International Festival "A pantalla abierta".
Organizer: Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
Project: Documentary "El vuelo del colibri".
Award: Best Documentary Short Film
Place: Mexico
Date: April 10, 2018
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Name: Cristian Andrade
Prize obtained: First Place
Name: Kevin Jaén
Project: "Guayaquil es..." (Guayaquil is...)
Prize obtained: Second place
Name: Solange Montoya
Project: "Long live the Pearl of the Pacific".
Award obtained: honorable mention
Event: Sixth edition of the civic poster contest "Guayaquil independiente, Guayaquil libre, ayer, hoy y siempre".
Organizer: The Graphic Chamber of Guayaquil
Place: Guayaquil-Ecuador
Date: Year 2018
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Professors

Professor: PhD. Nayeth Solórzano
Event: The 7th International Conference on Software and Information Engineering
Subject: Using Fuzzy Logic in QCA for the Selection of Relevant IS Adoption Drivers in Emerging Economies
Acknowledgement: Presentation of his latest paper
Place: Cairo, Egypt
Date: May 2-4, 2018
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Professor: Master Hugo Guerrero
Event: Lecture entitled: My passion for art, teaching and local culture.
Recognition: Celebration of the 32 years of career the councilwoman, Luzmila Nicolalde, made the delivery of a recognition on behalf of the Municipality of the City and its Maximum Authority, Jaime Nebot Saadi.
Place: ESPOL
Date: May 30, 2018
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Professor: PhD. ariana del Pino
Event: Dissertation of doctoral thesis entitled Academic e-Branding applied to Higher Education.
Recognition: Awarded a CUM LAUDE (HONORABLE MENTION)
Place: Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia
Date: September 27, 2018
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Professor: PhD. ariana del Pino
Event: Dissertation of doctoral thesis entitled Academic e-Branding applied to Higher Education.
Recognition: Awarded a CUM LAUDE (HONORABLE MENTION)
Place: Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia
Date: September 27, 2018
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Professor: Master Daniça Uscocovich
Recognition: Member of the jury for the painting category.
Date: September 27, 2018
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Professor: PhD. Paola Ulloa
Subject: Proposal for the analysis of the hypermediations produced in the communicative practices of young university students from Guayaquil in Facebook.
Achievement: PhD in Communication Sciences.
Place: University of Havana, Cuba
Date: 2018
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Students

Names: Josué Granda and Daniel Zaldumbide
Career: Design and Visual Communication
Event: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Award Obtained: Bronze in Young Lions Print
Date: June 19, 2017
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Professors

Professor: Master Alejandro Ocaña
Event: Short Stories Contest
Organizer: Universidad Simón Bolívar
Project: Short Story
Award: First Place
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Professor: PhD. Nayeth Solórzano
Event: IX International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia
Theme: Using Fuzzy Logic in QCA for the Selection of Relevant IS Adoption Drivers in Emerging Economies
Acknowledgement: Participation
Place: Kalbis Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia
Date: December 5-7, 2017
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Students

Names: Josué Granda and Daniel Zaldumbide
Career: Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication
Event: First Fair of Scientific Culture Vox Populi
Category: Production of Outreach Activities
Recognition: Third Place
Place: Tena-Ecuador
Date: June 19, 2017
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Professors

Professor: Master Sonia Navarro
Recognition: Designation of New Corresponding Member of the Casa de la Cultura-Núcleo del Guayas (CCNG), Cinema section.
Date: February 23, 2016
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