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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our multidisciplinary team Simulmedic (which involves Fernando Altermatt MD, Gonzalo Gho, Mechanical Engineer and me as a designer – plus a young team of designers and engineers) has been advancing on the development of our peripheral venous puncture simulator. Testing has been key for the device to shape, reshape and adapt our device putting the […]
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 […]
April 2017 – I applied to the “Young Researchers Award 2016 Contest” (Concurso para Investigadores Jóvenes 2016) from Fundación Copec UC. I got awarded for the project Instrument with objective measures for an autonomous training. With this grant, our team Simulmedic will be able to package part of our technology and ensure the development of our MVP. The […]
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 […]