El Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico y su Capítulo de Mayagüez les invitan a: “Plan de Conversión del Sistema Generatriz de la AEE a Gas Natural” Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2010 Hora de Registro: 6:00 p.m. Conferencia: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Lugar: Casa Capitular de Mayagüez Calle Los Ingenieros esquina Calle Obispado Barrio Miradero,…
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Caltech is excited to announce two summer research opportunities available to continuing undergraduate students. Questions about these programs can be directed to Carol Casey at casey@caltech.edu or (626) 395-2887. MURF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS The MURF program aims to increase the participation of underrepresented students (such as African American, Hispanic, and Native American, females who are…
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INQU Undergraduates Diego J. Rosso, Nilka M. Rodriguez, and Javier E. Rosado (left to right) Undergraduate students Javier E. Rosado and Nilka M. Rodriguez won third place and undergraduate student Diego J. Rosso won first place in the materials division of the annual Student Poster Competition celebrated in the 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt…
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Doctoral degree candidate Darlene I. Santiago Quiñonez won first place in the Poster Competition held in this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, held October 24-28, 2010, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Darlene presented a poster entitled “Rheological Characterization of a Ferrofluid Consisting of Permanently Magnetized Nanoparticles,” which describes par of her dissertation…
DetailsDe casualidad un poco antes del derrame de petróleo, la compañía Thermo Fisher Scientific se encontraba desarrollando un laboratorio de emergencia para el análisis de sustancias toxicas en alimentos o agua. El mismo podría ser utilizado en el desastre del derrame de petróleo para el análisis de la vida marina que es pescada por los…
Details“Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventiveness is born, as…
DetailsSiempre que tenemos una presentación que dar, pensamos en que es lo mejor para que esta quede bien realizada. Puesto que muchos, por no decir todos, hemos pasado por malas presentaciones de las cuales no queremos ser copia a la hora de presentar la nuestra, se han establecido ciertos criterios básicos que se deben tomar…
DetailsOne of the first things that graduate students learn is that there is never enough time in the day. How can you keep yourself sane when you’re overloaded with courses, research, teaching, and a life? Get organized sometimes is not easy or maybe we believe we are not “so” disordered and disorganized. Sometimes is just…
DetailsUna parte importante de la actividad científica consiste en comunicar los proyectos y resultados tanto en forma escrita como oral. A diferencia de las comunicaciones escritas, los que escuchan una charla solo tienen una oportunidad para entender y no pueden releer si se pierden. Es muy importante preparar las charlas cuidadosamente haciendo hincapié en la…
DetailsThermoforesis is a phenomenon that can expand new horizons of what the not too distant future there is the possibility of building machines and nano-scale structures. That is why the importance for engineers and scientist to know how these models behave. In other words it you understand their behavior and properties of these nano machines…
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