Students from the Technological Equinoctial University of Ecuador (UTE) visited Barry University this summer for a week-long, non-credit, training program with the school of Professional and Career Education (PACE).
More than two dozen students received a customized training in architecture and interior design as well as fashion marketing and sales. UTE was founded in 1971, and is ranked number 11 out of the top 50 universities in Latin America for 2015; www.4icu.org.
UTE is a private, innovative, humanist Ecuadorian institution of service to society and committed to quality education, scientific research, and technological development.
Through the direction of assistant dean, Dr. Terri Hernandez, the program ran under PACE’s institute for training and development. Two guest professors led the 40-hour intensive course from Florida International University’s Architecture Department, Cristiana Quiñonez; and from Miami International University of Art and Design, Joseph DePiro.
As a token of their appreciation, UTE representatives gifted Barry two rosaries blessed by Pope Francis while in Ecuador.