UPRM Alumni and PanaWest Creator, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, educates NVDE Students on Crowdfunding Juan Carlos Rodriguez, UPRM Alumni and Founder of PanaWest, spoke to NVDE students about his crowdfunding experience on March 1st, 2017. Juan Carlos is a crowdfunding veteran. He has done two crowdfunding campaigns, first in KickStarter, then in AntRocket. He explained the…
How important is the Design event in Formula SAE? In this post I’m going to discuss the importance of the design event in Formula SAE competitions. It will start with a brief explanation of the design event, and tips on how to do well on the event. Using the results from the past competitions answer the…
NVDE at Expo Ideas 2016 As part of the many different innovation initiatives the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus, this past April 28th the students in the NVDE program were part of this semester’s Expo Ideas event. Expo Ideas is an event held every semester within the campus grounds, in which students who aim…
Product Development Economics Product development economics is the topic of the course this week. As a means of breaking the ice Prof. José E. Lugo quickly challenges the students by asking them to think about market availability and product cost. In doing so, the students were tasked to work quickly and answer the question and…
Summit on Global Sustainability in Engineering Education So what is sustainability? The simple definition that I like is: sustainability is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely. Sustainability has three main pillars: social, economic, and environmental. This last one is the more commonly addressed by society in general. However, our own actions have…
Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office seminar at NVDE As class number 7 rolls in, the students are presented with a new workshop to further increase their Innovative skills. Said workshop is specifically about protecting innovative ideas. Lead by Josiah Hernandez, Director of the Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (OPIYTT) here at UPRM,…
TNVDE: week 3 Week 3 As a means to test the business term knowledge of each student, a pop quiz awaited the students as the third class began. A bit of shock and surprise shone on each face as they realized that the clock was ticking and the questions kept changing. Since the professors were…
TNVDE: second semester groups Day two: Now that everyone is formally enrolled in the course, it is time to move forward. As a means of creating and establishing the groups in the course 3 and a half minute Rocket Pitches have been called. The first participant is Azuri cosmetics, a company created by two Professors…
TNVDE second semester Kick-off As the semester begins and everyone is ready to take on the upcoming challenges, TNVDE also joins the race. This semester three different courses have come together to continue the projects that were developed in INME5015: Design Thinking and MERC4217: Consumer behavior, lead by Dr. José E. Lugo and Dr. Mari…
H3 Conference 2015 This weekend I spent it between Hackers, Hustlers, and Hipsters in the H3 Conference. This is a conference started in Puerto Rico and expanding to other parts of the world, which aims to join the three H’s for the sake of innovation and entrepreneurship. The idea behind the conference is that successful…