The University is founded from the will and testament of the philanthropist, visionary and entrepreneur Federico Santa María Carrera, who bequeathed his fortune to endow the country with an institution that delivers a professional human, scientific and focused on principles and universal values, leading in the engineering education, science and technology. Create and disseminate new knowledge and train professionals fully qualified in science - technology, to lead the development of the country and humanity. We carry out this mission being a university community of excellence, which vitalizes the diversity and independence of the process of discovery and learning and, according to the testamentary will of Federico Santa Maria Race, places special emphasis on the integration of those who , meeting the conditions of academic work, they do not have sufficient material means.