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 Santiago Campaña (ECU)– Student Regional Chair
 Ricardo Berverisco (PER)– Student Regional Advisor
 Salomon Perez (COL)– Student Regional Vice- Chair
 Maria Flores (ECU)– General Coordinator
 Victor Cabrera (SAL)– Project Manager
 Cesar Cereghino (PER)– Recruitment Coordinator
 Nicolas Lenis (COL)– Colombia Representative
 Ricardo Loayza (ECU)– Ecuador Representative
 Marco Merizalde (ECU)– Ecuador Representative
 Andree Gil (PER)– Peru Representative
 Sergio Forero (COL)– Planner
 Grecia Zavala (PER)– Planner
 Cristian Morales (COL)– Community Manager
 Miguel Paima (PER) – Recruiter
 Marco Carrion (ECU)– Consultant
 Cesar Marron (PER)– Consultant
 Alexander Sea (PER)– Consultant
 Marko Mendoza (PER)- Consultant
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E-Fest South America 2018 – Leader Experience

Fernando Amaral Sarcinelli Garcia (BRA)

The ASME E-Fest South America 2018 was held in UFRJ (Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro) from 27-29 July. The event commission was formed by 20
engineering students led by two professors, Fernando Castro Pinto, and Daniel
Castello, all from UFRJ. Also, an event organizer was hired to help us with the
logistics. To reach as many people as possible, huge publicity was necessary.

Its focus was to attract engineering students from universities as well as technology
enthusiasts from schools and technical courses throughout the continent. Due to lower
cost and high reach, the main source was social networks. Because of the immense
travel distances in South America, it was known that most of the attendees would be
from Rio de Janeiro. So, a lot of visits to the main universities of the city were done
(presentation in classes, leaflet giveaway, banner positioning) to have more direct
contact with this public.

The event itself consisted of a wide range of activities. The competitions consisted of the HPVC, the Old Guard Oral and
Poster Competition, the IAM3D Cad Battle and the Mecaton, an engineering challenge executed by Petrobras professionals.
Besides that, there were plenty of lectures and minicourses about different technological themes, some of the invited companies
and some of ASME staff and sponsors.

There were tours to many of UFRJ’s labs and to the CENPES, Petrobras’ huge oil and gas laboratory complex. Lastly, for the
attendants that wanted to rest or socialize, there was a lounge full of interactive games, technology, social and students’
expositions. The ticket included daily round trip buses from the city center to the university, lunch on all 3 days, the kit (t-shirt,
pen, squeeze bottle, and bag) and entrance to all activities. Some of them had a limited number of spots (such as lab visits and
minicourses) so it was required an on-site registration to attend them.

In conclusion, the event had around 600 attendants, most of them going on all three days. Unfortunately, the number of
participants of the competitions was much less than we would like, but it was expected because there weren’t such competitions in
Brazil, and it requires time and money to develop these projects. Mainly because of the student’s inexperience in organizing such
events, the organization was much more time consuming than it should and was made possible because an event organizer was
hired. Analyzing the pros and cons, the event was a success, with huge satisfaction on the organizers, participants and sponsors.
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA - BOGOTA

The owl Flies Contest: It was a contest oriented to the

students so that they design a glider, which they must
throw in a certain space, and the distance traveled,
design, among other things exposed in a rubric.

Induction Week : The call for students of Mechanical

Engineering and Mechatronics was made, so that the
student section could be made known in search of new
members.
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA - MEDELLÍN

A small talk was organized with the Introduction to

Mechanical Engineering course showing them what
ASME is and the benefits of being a member.

A talk was organized with the Chair of the ASME

Student Regional Team from Caribbean & Latin
America, he told us a lot about Student Sections
and shared what student sections do in countries
like Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador and the United
States.

Participation in a student fair, organized by the

university welfare in the central square, which
had the purpose of making the section known
and thus expand more in the university.
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UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES

Forum of graduates of the “Universidad de los Andes” in Mechanical Engineering on job

training.

Fastest sawing contest for Mechanical Makeathon: focused on solutions to

Engineering: participation of students, agricultural problems with a focus on
laboratory technicians and teachers. Industry 4.0.
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ESCUELA COLOMBIANA DE INGENIERIA JULIO GARAVITO
Participation in the national competition of Business tour in Valle del Cauca: A business
VTH for the editions of Monteria 2017 and tour was planned and carried out in Cali,
Medellin 2018. Yumbo and Palmira in which technical visits
were made to companies of great national
recognition such as: Manuelita sugar and
energy, Rio Paila Castilla, Ladrillera del Valle
and FANALCA. In addition, visits were made
to the National Center for Technical
Assistance to the ASTIN Industry of SENA
and Univalle.

Mechanical Engineer's Day: Integration event

in which competitions are held in the area of
mechanics, football tournament, integration
lunch, among others.
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UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SANTA MARIA

VII Student Day: The flagship activity of the

section, a day in which topics about soft skills
that will help our lives as engineers are
discussed.

Recruitment and reports on the E-Fest:

Information was shared with the stakeholders
and members of the section to encourage them
to participate in the E-Fest to be held in the city
of Lima this year.

Formation of the Board of Directors of the next

Conference: As a board this year it is also our
job to set up the commission for the next day,
which will also be the Board of the Section for
the year 2019. This event had the presence of
the students with the highest average and
leadership skills.
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CALLAO

ASME UNAC Week: in this event, 3 days of conferences from different areas, a soft skills
workshop and 3 competitions were organized.

FIME UNAC Academic Week: 3 days of technical conferences will be organized in areas of
energy efficiency, refrigeration and air conditioning systems and natural gas systems.
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL ALTIPLANO

Meeting with the swan project team. "ASME Experience Talk" by Marko
Mendoza.

Co-organization of I COINTECS 2018. II ASME Structures Competition.

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UNIVERSIDAD DE PIURA
Basic Course of SolidWorks:
Optimize the use of the tools offered by the
SOLIDWORKS work environment. Raise
funds for the participation of members of the
student section in E-Fest 2019.
Participation EXPO CAR 2018 - Classical and
collectible cars:
To make known the prototypes manufactured
by the students of Mechanical Dynamics to the
community of Piura.
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Technical visit to the CBC bottling plant:
Develop a guided technical visit to the facilities of the
CBC bottling plant.
Know the different stages of the bottling process.
Promote the student section among the students of
the university.
SolidWorks Workshop and CSWA Certification:
Enhance the skills of the assistants in the use of the
SOLIDWORKS program.
To obtain that students of the University of Piura
obtain the CSWA international certification of
SOLIDWORKS.
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CALLAO ( WOMEN IN ENGINEERING)
Drawing and Old Guard Competitions.

Conferences
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UNIVERSIDAD DON BOSCO
Biomass Combustion as a Renewable Energy
Source: A review is made of the contents about
biomass burning methods, as well as the
technologies associated with their advantages
and disadvantages.
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Solar Thermal Technology: Activity developed
in conjunction with the Energy Research
Institute of the Don Bosco University. A review
of the content "The only one as an energy
source" is made, which leads to the revision of
solar collectors and their manufacturing plans.

CAD Modeling and 3D Prototyping

Competence: Student-oriented activity of the
SOLIDWORKS Preparation Course for
engineering drawing and design chairs.
CSWA Certification: Course for associate
members of ASME SEER ES and ASEA UDB.
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UNIVALLE

Foundation of the Student Section from this university.

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Technical Visit to Biela Ecuador: A visit was
made to the facilities of the company where it
was possible to determine the different
processes that are carried out for the generation
of beer.
Meeting for Christmas visors and Change of
Directive: A meeting was held between the
members and collaborative students of ASME-
Espol in which a very pleasant moment was
shared and in which the presentation of the new
directive of the chapter was made.
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Xima –Espol: It is an event held every year in
which several educational centers are invited
and given a tour of the facilities of ESPOL.
Technical visits were made to:
-Termopichincha (Guangopolo); where the
process of electricity generation was observed.
-Fundiciones JCR ; an industrial plant that
shows the production of metals, foundries and
metallurgy operation.
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Socialization of the benefits of belonging to the ASME student sections in the second International
Engineering Seminar of ESPOCH.

Christmas event to the indigenous communities surrounding the ESPOCH.

Workshop-Training: Industrial Risk Management in confined spaces

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Socialization of the benefits of belonging to the ASME student sections in the second International
Engineering Seminar of ESPOCH.

Christmas event to the indigenous communities surrounding the ESPOCH.

Workshop-Training: Industrial Risk Management in confined spaces

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UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO
Informative talk to ASME USFQ members Mentoring SolidWorks and Matlab to ASME
(E-Fest, benefits, projects). USFQ members.

Personal Protection Equipment Extras and various tools for ASME members.
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UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA DE MANABI
Foundation of the Student Section from this university.
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Contest of bridges built with ice cream sticks

Contest “GAME OF CROSSBOWS”

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Organization of courses of different software Organization of engineering contests and
commonly used in engineering. In addition to Christmas Social Event.
complementary training seminars, around standards
and codes commonly used in mechanical
engineering.

E-Fest and IMECE 2018 participation: The

Talks to share information about ASME, the
benefits of student membership and invitation to
be part of the ASME EPN.
students from our university won the first and
second place at the Old Guard Competition in Rio
de Janeiro. In addition, our representatives were
selected to represent South America in Student
Design Competition at the IMECE.
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GROUP WORK BETWEEN STUDENT SECTIONS FROM ECUADOR
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Stands on Expo Mining and Expo Energy: These two events brought together the main players in the
mining and energy industries.

Ecuador will have an EFx and a Mechanical Engineer Congress developed by the six Student Sections of the
country, it will be held at Universidad San Francisco de Quito on September 30th. And October 1ST. These
events will be focused on the Ecuadorian Industry.
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 PLAN OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION

The ASME Student Regional Team from Caribbean & Latin America is working on this issue, with the aim
of providing a business approach to all the processes that are carried out by the committee. There is a 50%
advance in this project.

 #WEBINARSERIES

We have had contact with organizations related to some industries, such as NACE, SSPC, AMAZONIA
INDUSTRIES, SERTECPET, ENGINZONE, ASME PERU, etc; it has been possible to make
agreements with these entities in order to provide virtual training to our student community in the region on
topics concerning engineering and even soft skills. 4 webinars have been developed to date, and about 10
more are still to be developed. There has been an average presence of 30 people within these webinars and
has allowed us to generate an even wider contact network within our region.
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 #WEBINARSERIES

Nº ORGANIZATION TOPIC DURATION STATUS

Foundamentals of
1 NACE ECUADOR 2 HOURS Done
Corrotion
E-Fest y HPVC
2 ASME Committees 2 HOURS Done
Competition
3 NACE ECUADOR Protective Coatings 2 HOURS Done
4 NACE ECUADOR Cathodic protection 2 HOURS Done
5 NACE ECUADOR Mechanical Integrity 2 HOURS Pendent
6 SERTECPET Improving Soft Skills 2 HOURS Pendent
7 SERTECPET Improving Soft Skills 2 HOURS Pendent
Ingeniería del Ecuador Handle of the ASME
8 2 HOURS Pendent
S.A. BPVC IX standard
AMAZONIA
9 INDUSTRIES & Inspection of coatings 2 HOURS Pendent
SSPC ECUADOR
Faults and defects of
10 SSPC ECUADOR 2 HOURS Pendent
coatings
SETMIX & SSPC Concrete coatings and
11 2 HOURS Pendent
ECUADOR pre-application tasks
TO BE
12 - - -
CONFIRMED
TO BE
13 CONFIRMED - - -

Thanks to the support of EnginZone and the professional section of ASME Peru, it has been possible to
develop this activity with the GoToMeeting platform, which allows up to 150 people to have conversations.
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 #WEBINARSERIES

You can find part of the E-Fest webinar on the next link:
https://bit.ly/2W2BPqL
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 STANDS REQUEST FOR EXPO ENERGY AND EXPO MINING FOR THE STUDENT
SECTIONS FROM ECUADOR

This application was approved and the student sections from Ecuador could be present at these events as
expositors with no cost.
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 SUPPORT TO THE E-FEST COMMITTEE

The ASME Student Regional Team Caribbean & Latin America has created the official videos of the E-Fest
from South America. These 3 videos are about experiences from Rio de Janeiro, Competitions and the
Promotional; you can find them on the official sites of the ASME E-Fests.

 STUDENT REGIONAL CHAIR TALKS IN CHICLAYO AND MEDELLIN.

The Chair of the ASME Student Regional Team Caribbean & Latin America has given some talks about the
Student Sections Management and the Handle of the ASME BPVC Code. The universities where the talks
were given are Universidad Cesar Vallejo (Chiclayo, Peru) and Universidad Nacional de Colombia
(Medellin, Colombia).
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 RECOGNITION TO ASME’S FOUNDATION

This letter was delivered to the President of ASME thanks to Valentina Alayon (Coordinator, Student &
Early Career Engagement & Experience) and Karen Russo ( ASME Project Manager).
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 MEETING WITH OPSI-EPN

Mr. Herb Terry, representative of the Office of International Programs and Services of the Escuela
Politecnica Nacional from Ecuador, called a meeting to the Student Regional Chair to generate contacts
between universities of the region and to work in exchange programs for the benefit of the student
community .

 AGREEMENT TO BENEFIT THE STUDENT SECTIONS OF ECUADOR WITH BUREAU

VERITAS ECUADOR

Two complementary training programs have been carried out with certification in Quality Management
Systems together with Bureau Veritas Ecuador, providing benefits to the ASME student community in the
country.

 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING QUIZ

The ASME Student Regional Team Caribbean & Latin America has developed two contests of
fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering. There have been two winners of these contests, the prizes were
Netflix Gift Cards.
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You can follow all the activities of the ASME Student Regional Team Caribbean & Latin America on our
official Facebook page.

https://bit.ly/2M9fFP2
Sincerely:

Mr. Santiago Campaña R.

Student Regional Chair
ASME Student Regional Team
Caribbean & Latin America