Informe como auxiliar de investigación de la facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental de la Universidad Santo Tomas, Seccional Tunja.

Abstract

Research is a fundamental part of the development of societies, since it gives a broader vision of what is not known and what we want to find in the future. While an individual does not consider himself to have more needs because he considers that he has what is "necessary", scientific researchers go further, planning for the future possible elements, creations, developments and inventions that will serve to improve human life and facilitate its passage through the world while it exists. This is where the importance of daily research comes from, Colombia has a deficit of researchers, compared to countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, only 7 universities are involved in areas of research (Semana, 2018). In this context, one of the reasons is that Colombia does not yet have the necessary drive to achieve competitive advantages in society, so it is necessary to have a large number of high-level researchers. This report shows how the Universidad Santo Tomas has increased its efforts to nurture this research process in Colombia from the environmental engineering faculty, together with the accompaniment as a research assistant, promoting and supporting the generation of research products, which allow the growth of projects, which facilitate the generation of proposals for the solution of problems that are currently available. As a result of the support as a research assistant, 19 scientific articles from different disciplines and 3 books were obtained, some of which are in the process of revision, edition or publication, respectively.