COIT and AEIT elevate the talent of the future at the Premios

The headquarters of the Film Academy has hosted the presentation ceremony of the 42nd edition of the Telecommunications Engineers Awards (Premios_IT) COIT–AEIT, which recognize the best master's thesis, doctoral theses and academic careers of 2021.

After the evaluation of the 96 jobs coming from 28 educational centers, have been granted 17 awards a 14 winners that thus close a training stage with the prestige of this recognition organized by the COIT and the AEIT. The event was presented and led by Juan Carlos Lopez, vice dean of the COIT and vice president of the AEIT.

Before, Martha Balenciaga, dean-president of the COIT y president of the AEIT, opened the event by stating that "without generational change it will be difficult for our profession to occupy the space that corresponds to it in these moments of profound social and economic transformation that, to a large extent, is being supported by digitalization and the improvement of information and communications technologies. Each generation of Engineers who join the profession encounters new scenarios and in many cases with technological advances unprecedented until that moment that require their development and deployment."

Francisco Javier Gabiola, secretary general of the COIT and secretary of the AEIT, pointed out some details of this 42nd call of the Awards: “The jury was made up of those responsible for the qualifying master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the 25 centers in which it is taught,” he said. Thus, there have been a total of 231 evaluators that they have done 1,208 reviews. Francisco Javier Gabiola also shared a “significant piece of information.” "Of the thesis works presented, 12% were by women. In the case of the TFM, 27%; and in the best academic careers, only 9%", thus underlining that there is still a way to go for the presence of women in telecommunications engineering.

Los Awards_IT of COIT-AEIT In this edition they have had the support of Ericsson, Fermax, Hisdesat, Hispasat, Huawei, IBM, IN-Nova, Isdefe, Real Academia de Ingeniería y Reintel.