Pasantía Apoyo Universitario

Abstract

During my internship, I have been able to learn how the coordination of laboratories works organizationally within the framework of the university, where not only logistical support is provided to students and teachers with the reservation of spaces so that they can carry out their practices, but also which also manages a structural support of the administrative area of ​​the university and the part of academic knowledge for all areas. During the process, I have supported a large number of practices making constant use of laboratory equipment, where I have managed to understand the correct operation of most of the equipment arranged in the laboratories belonging to the practices of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. , which is of great importance to highlight that, when using them, they must also be taken care of, since most of the damage to the equipment is due to misuse by teachers and students.

My contribution was oriented towards the improvement of the internship programming forms for teachers and the registration of student attendance in the different laboratories. Also take the answers of the forms registered in the database, to the presentation of a statistical report where it informs each of the faculties the number of practices carried out and the number of students who attended them, by the teachers, academic spaces and laboratory spaces. Creation of programs in Excel, one that unifies the general format of the inventories and practices that can be carried out in the laboratories and another that stores the safety data sheets for the reagents with QR codes and finally I was committed to the creation and updating of guides of laboratory for the spaces of PTAP, WWTP and Hydraulics.

I had the opportunity to support thesis students, assist thesis students in the water quality laboratory, pavements, concrete, structures, and soils where I was able to understand that interns from the civil engineering faculty are of great help to those students who are doing that degree option and that require using these spaces, since the laboratory coordination assistants, having no theoretical knowledge about the areas, do not fully understand the requirements of the thesis student, unlike the intern, who understands the engineering language better when being in that context, when they are related to graphs or parameters established in the standards, such as, for example, procedures of the practices found in the sections of the INVIAS, NSR-10, NTC or RAS standards.