Yearly Archives: 2019

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ As part of the activities of the interdisciplinary project Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), the students participating in the program met at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras (UPRRP), where they participated in a series of lectures throughout the day that […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ The research assistants of the RISE-UP program Kenny Hall and Norman Burgos of the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying of the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez and Jorge Soldevila Irizarry of the Department of Social Sciences of the same campus were selected to receive a scholarship that will allow them […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ RISE-UP undergraduate research assistants Gustavo Reyes, Melvin Malavé, Elnois Norat and Víctor Pérez developed a case study database web application as part of their Computer Engineering Design Course supervised by Dr. Nayda Santiago and Dr. Isidoro Couvertier. IReN Web Application Presentation. From left to right: Victor Pérez, Gustavo Reyes, Melvin Malavé and […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ Aimed at understanding natural processes and establishing a discussion forum for these issues, the Hemispheric Center for Cooperation in Research and Education in Engineering and Applied Science (CoHemis) of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) sponsored its Seventeenth National Meeting of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems of Puerto Rico […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ As part of the activities of the interdisciplinary project Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the students of the program attended the Rapid Visual Screening conference presented by Dr. Ricardo López, professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ As a memorable event for the University of Puerto Rico, a group of 30 students from the Mayagüez (UPRM), Río Piedras (UPRRP) and Ponce (UPRP) campuses met last Saturday, August 17, 2019 to begin what represents the first course of the Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP) curricular sequence. […]

Taken from https://riseup.upr.edu/ The Civil Engineering and RISE-UP students Laura García Canto and Elmer Irizarry received the “Best Overall Student Poster” recognition at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) – Southeastern Section annual conference held March 8-9 in Auburn, Alabama. The poster is titled “Enhancing Student Preparedness through Experiential Learning: Lessons Learned from Assessing […]