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In compliance with the sanitary measures imposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the safety distance, the students of the Polytechnic of Cartagena have already returned to the UPCT laboratories to carry out tests for their academic work and doctoral research.
Students with scholarships or internships at the university facilities will also be able to return, complying in any case with the sanitary measures to avoid COVID-19 infections.The Student Service channels the requests endorsed by the researcher or tutor responsible for the student.
The Prevention Service supervises and controls that the attendance of the students to the laboratories does not exceed the maximum capacity and the hours regulated in the rectoral resolution of June 19, which established access to the facilities for students to carry out practices starting this week.
To date, thirty applications have been received and the vast majority have been authorized.
The total number of students who carry out final studies, internships and scholarships is around a thousand, but most of their jobs do not require attendance at university facilities.Among the first students to return to the test tubes is Marta Soto, a fellow in the Microbiology laboratory, who has begun to analyze samples for a project with CEBAS before starting the tests for her Final Work on the Degree in Agri-Food Engineering on food safety.
"It is three months without touching the equipment and I thought that I would have forgotten how to do it, but I have realized that you remember everything," he says after the first day in the laboratory.
"Everything is signposted and very well prepared to avoid infections," she points out.With the Hydraulic Engineering laboratory, the PhD student Patricio Ortega was found again today, who has taken advantage of the quarantine to transfer to a scientific article, which was published this Monday in the international magazine Water, the data collected on the equipment that the UPCT to study waterfalls in dams."During these three months we have worked electronically writing articles and progressing in the planning of the thesis, but it was necessary to come to take new measures," says the PhD student while reviewing the introduction of air into the installation that simulates the free fall of water in an overflowing dam.
Ortega is a professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador and is conducting his doctoral thesis under the direction of UPCT researcher José María Carrillo.
"The security protocols that I found upon arrival are perfect, everything is well signposted and there are many points where we can disinfect our hands," he highlights.Other laboratories where students attend the UPCT's Institute of Plant Biotechnology for the first time in three months.
This is the case of Francisca Flores, who has to finish her GFR on the evolution of bioactive compounds during the conservation of peppers.
"The harvest time is now.
We need you to be here to complete your Final Degree Project ”, explains Noelia Castillejo, the researcher who tutors the student. Many UPCT researchers have continued their trials during the pandemic-decreed state of alarm, especially those who work on trials with living organisms, as is customary at the School of Agronomists of the Cartagena Polytechnic, a university that has demonstrated during these their adaptability and the preparation of their human and material teams to face the most diverse scenarios.
Source: UPCT
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