COMING SOON: Cannabis Engineering (Undergraduate degree through virtual preparatory cycles)

Regulatory advances in cannabis and the plans for other entheogens (such as Coca, Poppy, Ayahuasca, Yopo, etc.) in Colombia, as well as in countries in the region and other nations, show a promising outlook in terms of possibilities for economic development, and it is important to have qualified and highly trained human resources to efficiently take on the challenges of making cultivation, agroindustry, product manufacturing, fair trade, and other activities operational and efficient.
A great opportunity is seen from the transfer of knowledge and technology, by channeling the experience acquired in academia, as well as in the cannabis industry and activism sector, offering a curricular program with original content, covering the key points identified in relation to the needs, projections, challenges and possibilities in research, development and innovation, with an academic and productive focus.
Students will be able to efficiently support business owners, entrepreneurs and other academics in the cannabis production sector, as well as be able to delve into and deploy their own portfolio of strategic goods and services inherent to the cannabis production sector, which is diversified, well-founded and dynamically adjusted to the requirements of the sector.

The academic content was organized for two scenarios:
 Direct Professional Cycle
 Propaedeutic Cycles

The 49 subjects that make up the curriculum content are part of the following 12 axes, being projected and established from there:
1. Research, development and innovation in the cannabis sector
2. Component in basic sciences applied to cannabis cultivation and industry
3. Cannabis cultivation, harvesting and post-harvest activities
4. Agribusiness activities and manufacturing of cannabis derivatives
5. Traditional cannabis industries
6. Alternative cannabis industries
7. Cannabis for medicinal use in humans and animals
8. Adult recreational industry
9. Industries 4.0 in the cannabis sector
10. National and international regulations and rules for cannabis
11. Distribution, trade and internationalization operations of cannabis derivatives
12. Entrepreneurship and business development with cannabis

Taking the previous 12 axes as a basis, the following Lines of Deepening are derived, being 8 possibilities with which students will complement their professional training:
 Propagation and cultivation
 Agroindustry and green chemistry
 Quality and analytics
 Traditional cannabis industries
 Adult use industry
 Alternative cannabis industries
 Trade and distribution logistics
 Entrepreneurship and business development