Every year I receive requests to write recommendation letters. I’ve come to realize that we never talk about how to make a recommendation effective for your aim to pursue, graduate school, medical programs, and or work in the industry. It is essential that we write “strong” recommendation letters. Therefore, here are some tips: Strong letters […]
Category: Teaching
Video from my DILAB Students! Sweet and Sour transition to Johns Hopkins University
Finally, the day is coming when goodbyes are taking place in Chile, at the DILAB. Going from the #1 Engineering Program in Latin America to becoming faculty at Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Program in the United States. It’s quite exciting for a multidisciplinary academic like me to migrate (again) to a place where they are […]
Teaching Early Innovation for teachers in Rural Schools
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 […]
Final presentation of the Design and Systems thinking Lab
Go to the DILAB website to checkout the full post Last Wednesday, July 6th, the final presentations for the Design and Systems thinking Lab course were carried out in front of the 4 industrial counterparts that participated this semester. The students finalized in proof of concept working prototypes for the areas of: recycling, mining’s water […]