Since I moved to the Northern Hemisphere, in Fall of 2020, I am co-teaching “The Design Teams” 8-course program at The Johns Hopkins University, BME Department. Based on my research and previous work, I am bringing in the anthro-design component to develop more respectful solutions in healthcare. The Design Teams Course suite looks to understand […]
Borrowed from our website www.di-lab.cl (thanks to all my team for such a great work on designing, deploying and evaluating this program. [ENG] Since this post, where we told everyone that we were the finalists for the Airbus GEDC 2018 Diversity Award Sponsored by Unesco, that we hadn’t posted a thing! Well, we were the winners […]
The video corresponds to what my students say about the Major in Engineering Design and Innovation that I direct from the DILAB (an intradepartment in Mechanical Engineering at UC). On 2018 Engineering UC was ranked #1 in Latin America by Ranking QS and PUC was #3 by Times Higher Education. This was no easy task […]
January 2018 – Pic: imparting early innovation processes to rural school teachers in the South of Chile. This program was created with the objective of transferring early innovation tools to a rural school context. In Chile, rural schools and technical schools are usually challenged by the lack of quality in the content delivered (not very […]
January 2017 – During the second semester (August-Dec) 2017 I worked with Geographically distributed teams (Virtual teams) with Professor Malcolm Daniels and his students form the University of Dayton (Ohio). Since I do research on this area, we partnered a team from my Design and Systems Thinking Lab course with a team of their engineering students. Professor […]
August 2016 – During the second week of August, I visited with 4 of my Chilean students, AALTO University in Helsinki, Finland. The idea was to launch the project that we have with Profs. David Leal (Electrical Engineering) in conjunction with the Aaltonaut Team (Thomas, Maurice and Elina) a joint course with geographically distributed teams […]
Happily, I was invited to Universidad de Concepción to give a workshop on how to instruct R&D and research in undergraduate students. The workshop was attended by medical doctors, nurses, obstetricians and other professionals (and professors) of biomedical and basic sciences. I centered the conversation in what we do at the DILAB and our major in […]
In July 2016, I went to the ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) conference in New Orleans. I presented the paper “Team Negotiation Strategies in Entrepreneurship Education: Patterns Found in Engineering Students from Northern California and Santiago de Chile” with Isabel Hilliger at the entrepreneurship and engineering innovation technical session. Since our paper was nominated for […]