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La Misión de las carreras
Universitarias para aportar a la
innovación de las Empresas
Ramón Vásquez, PhD
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Founded in 1903, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the
oldest and largest university system in Puerto Rico;
The system is run much like a state university system (though
Puerto Rico is not a U.S. state);
Its programs are accredited by U.S. accreditation agencies;
UPR consists of 11 campuses. Three of them are graduate
campuses:
 Rio Piedras, Medical Sciences, and Mayaguez
UPR has an enrollment of approximately 75,000 students
UPR at Rio
Piedras
UPR at
Mayaguez
UPR
Medical
Sciences
Current student enrollment, Second
Academic Semester
UPRM enrollment: 13,828 students
College of Engineering Undergraduate enrollment: 4,732 students
(34%)
3,226 male (23%) and 1,506 female (11%)
College of Engineering Graduate enrollment: 421 students
300 male and 121 female
First Year (Freshmen) Engineering enrollment
742 students
Current Programs COE
Specialty
Degrees
Electrical Engineering
Bachelor, Master
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor, Master, PhD (within
CISE)
Bachelor, Master
Chemical Engineering
Bachelor, Master, PhD
Civil Engineering
Bachelor, Master, PhD
Surveying
Bachelor
Industrial Engineering
Bachelor, Master
Aerospacial Engineering
Minor
Material Sciences and Engineering Minor
Upcoming programs
Program
Status
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Vicepresidency for Academic Affairs
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Vicepresidency for Academic Affairs
MS in Material Sciences and
Engineering
Vicepresidency for Academic Affairs
BS in Computer Science and
Engineering
Vicepresidency for Academic Affairs
BS in Software Engineering
Vicepresidency for Academic Affairs
PhD in Bioengineering
UPRM Deanship of Academic Affairs
ASEE Rankings (May 2009)
Item
Number of Bachelors
Number of Female Bachelors
Number of Bachelors to Hispanics
Number of Bachelors in Chemical Engineering
Number of Bachelors in Civil Engineering
Number of Bachelors in Industrial Engineering
Number of Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Number of Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
Number of Bachelors in Computer Engineering
Undergraduate Enrollment
Rank
28
6
1
2
14
14
34
18
10
14
The Research Revolution @ UPRM
UPRM Research Areas
College of Engineering Proposed Strategic
Research Areas
Information Technology ($$$)
Materials (promoted from opportunistic, nanotechnology)
Environmental ($$$)
Bioengineering/Pharma (opportunistic)
Energy/Power ($$$, sustainable)
Infrastructure ($$$, natural/anthro disasters)
Atmospheric Science & Engineering ($$$)
NSF Sponsored Engineering Research
Centers
Centro
CenSSIS (NSF-ERC)
Center for Subsurface Imaging Sensing
PI
Miguel Vélez Reyes
Depto.
ECE
CASA (NSF-ERC)
Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
Sandra Cruz Pol
José Colom
ECE
PREM (NSF)
Partnership for Research and Education on Materials
CREST (NSF - 2008)
Marcelo Suárez
INGE
WIMS (NSF-ERC Outreach)
Wireless Integrated Microsystems
Nayda Santiago
ECE
MAEC (NSF-ERC Outreach)
Mid America Earthquake Center
Ricardo López
INCI
Center for Structured Organic Composites
(NSF-ERC - 2006)
NASA URC (2008)
Carlos Velázquez
Arturo Hernández
InQu
DHS Centers – 2008 (2)
Maritime Domain Awareness & ALERT
José Colucci
Miguel Vélez
COE/
ECE
Other Engineering Research Centers
CENTER
PI
Depto./
Decanato
CTTT (DOT)
Center for Transfer and Transportation Technology
Benjamín Colucci
Felipe Luyanda
INCI
CIIC
Center for Investigation of Civil Infrastructure
Luis Godoy
INCI
WRRI (USGS-DOI))
Water Resources Research Institute
Jorge Rivera Santos
INCI
ICIS
Institute for Computing and Informatic Studies
Domingo Rodríguez
ECE
Center for Energy Alternatives
David Serrano
INME
LARSIP
Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image
Processing
Miguel Vélez Reyes
ECE
INDUSOFT
Center for Industrial Software Development
Bienvenido Vélez
IND.
Instituto de Verano en Transportación
Didier Valdés
INCI
PaSCoR
Partnership for Spatial and Computing Research
Ramon Vazquez
ECE
NDMC
Natural Disaster Mitigation Center
Ricardo López
INCI
SEGI: Social, Ethical & Global Issues
Engineering is practiced in a social context. This brings
about ethical, social, and global issues, which need to be
embedded in the disciplinary curriculum.
The main focus of the program is on the delivery and
assessment of course modules:
Freshman Module, Capstone Course Module
Social and global awareness modules
Materials that help with ABET accreditation guidelines
New Academic Initiatives
Aim: Add value to current engineering baccalaureates by providing
training paths that are aligned with emerging industrial and societal
demands. The following Curricular Sequences are in the making or in the
approval pipeline:

Nuclear Engineering

Bioinformatics

Systems Engineering

Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (being designed
by: Elvia Camayd, Walter Alomar, Jaime Seguel)
Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Office
(IP-TTO)
IP-TTO was create to facilitate the development,
protection and commercialization of intellectual property
such as research and inventions of the faculty, students
and personnel of the UPRM.
VISION : To advance the development of the UPRM faculty’s
groundbreaking inventions, discoveries and ideas into new products,
processes and services for the betterment of society, while
improving Puerto Rico's economic competitiveness.
MISSION: Partnering with UPRM faculty to develop and
implement innovative strategies to protect and commercialize their
new inventions and discoveries so as to generate revenues for the
University, the community and the general public, in close
collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico Office of
Intellectual Property and Commercialization.
IP-TTO’s current activities
IP-TTO’s webpage (www.iptto.uprm.edu)
General information about IPTTO’s services
Resources for the inventor
Glossary of relevant IP terms
Documents & Forms
Useful links
Relevant news & articles
IP-TTO’s current activities
Development of educational material and useful tools for
UPRM’s faculty and students on IP and other relevant topics
UPRM Inventor’s handbook on IP & Technology Transfer
What is an Invention
Keeping lab notebooks, etc.
Minor in IP (3 courses, 9 credits total)
Intellectual Property for Scientists and Engineers
Already codified (INTD 5007) as temporary
Fundamentals of Patents and Patenting
IP Management & Technology Licensing
Entrepreneurship
 Main focus – “preventive” through faculty development and curriculum
change incorporating lessons learned in Entrepreneurship Education
from around the world
 First to establish a faculty development program in Small Business
and Entrepreneurship
 First to design and implement a series of new courses in
Entrepreneurship that is the foundation for a Certificate in
Entrepreneurship offered to all UPRM students
Entrepreneurship
First to promote and sponsor research in Entrepreneurship
among faculty and graduate students
First to establish an “Entrepreneur in Residence”
Leaders in establishing entrepreneurial initiatives
such as:
PR and Caribbean affiliate of the ICSB (1996-1997)
Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization in PR (1997)
“Premio Éxito Empresarial Universitario” (2000)
Entrepreneurship
Partners assisting in the establishment of other entrepreneurial
initiatives such as:
Innovation Competition by the Partners for Innovation program
(NSF)
Grupo Guayacán’s Enterprize Competition
Students in Free Enterprise
others
Entrepreneurship
The combination of faculty development, curriculum
design and implementation, research and other initiatives
contributed to a cultural change
from preparing to be an employee to aspiring to be
an entrepreneur
New Infrastructure and Support to facilitate current and
future enterprising initiatives
Technology Innovation Center
Business Center
Business Support Center
A campus-wide;island-wide endeavor
Initiatives
Student Initiatives
 Reto 2.0 (http://www.apex.pr/reto/)
Initiatives for profesor and student
 EnterPRize (http://enterprizepr.com/)
Enterprises Innovations
(http://www.prteconline.com/innovacionempresarial/)
In the most recent Enterprize competition the winners where
Eduardo Juan; Sonar Sensing Technologies
(http://younoodle.com/startups/sonar_sensing_technologies)
 RUM NanoEssentials (http://younoodle.com/startups/nanoessentials)
To really have an impact on changing the mindset, we need
to change:
who “teaches” (beyond faculty members)
where learning takes place (beyond the classroom)
how learning occurs (beyond lectures/books)
THANKS