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Summer School
Engineers without borders- Colombia http://isfcolombia.uniandes.edu.co/ invites you to
participate in engineering courses with community work and social impact in a Colombian
rural community. Engineers Without Borders Colombia seeks to combine efforts of joint
work between various faculties of engineering to propose real projects that have a
significant social impact on Colombian communities. The Engineering courses will be in
Universidad de los Andes at Bogotá Colombia,
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Summer school 2015
Investment
The Summer School 2015 offers three
courses in parallel and a transversal
project to be conducted with a community
in Guasca Cundinamarca (50 km from
Bogotá).
International students from partner universities
to the University of the Andes will not have to
incur costs for the course and transportation
to the community. One must assume the costs
of lodging and tickets.
The dates
Approximate average room and board cost is
US $ 30 per day
From June 22 to July 3, 2015. The courses
will be in the morning.
Registration Deadline is on May 29th. For
registration please provide your information via
email to: [email protected]
Invitation
You could choose one of these 3 engineering courses:
Industrial
Engineering Course:
Social Innovation and Management
This international course aims to bring
together faculty and students from home
and abroad for the dissemination of
knowledge universities, cultural exchange
and discussion on the role of engineering
in promoting community development,
particularly from the most vulnerable.
Through the concepts studied in the
course and a visit to a vulnerable
community, students must observe the
social context and stage of development
of
the
community,
identifying
management issues that can be
addressed from engineering and social
intervention. From this analysis, students
must conceive and design engineering
solutions that seek to improve or solve
these problems at technical level and
social development.
We will focus on issues related to water
management as a potential development
for vulnerable communities around the
world. Participatory work methodologies
that enable the development of efficient
management models with high social
impact .The course through the alliance of
years of work between Ingegneria senza
Frontiere-Milano is done will be presented
(http://isf.polimi.it/isf./) Italy and Engineers
without
Borders
Colombia
(http://isfcolombia.uniandes.edu.co/).
The teachers are:
Irene Bengo
Post Doc researcher, Department of Management,
Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico
di Milano. President of Engineers Without Borders
Milan
http://isf.polimi.it/isf/. Managerial Professor, Master in
Environmental Engineering
with a PhD in
Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering.
Currently manager of social entrepreneurship projects
for the generation of employment opportunities at
national and international context (Africa, Colombia,
Pakistan)
María Catalina Ramirez Cajiao
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial
Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes
Bogotá Colombia. Co-Founder and UniAndes
Coordinator of Engineers Without Borders
Colombia
http://isfcolombia.uniandes.edu.co/.
Industrial Engineer, Master in Industrial Engineering
with a PhD in Management, Economics and
Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. It
has promoted the group EWB Colombia. Currently
involved in entrepreneurial projects and community
management associated with Green Business and
Water Management.
Mechanical
Engineering Course:
Renewable technologies
Energy: the global scenario and its role
for a sustainable development
This course aims to present a general overview
and specific in-depth analysis of the various
aspects of the global energy situation, analyzing
in particular the relation between energy,
environment and development.
The specific objective is to provide students
knowledge of the problems regarding the
availability, potential and economics of the
primary energy sources. They are divided into
fossil fuels and renewable energies with
emphasis on the technology specific to each one
and the link between energy and sustainable
Riccardo Mereu
Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at
Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano. His
main interests are fluid dynamics and heat transfer
phenomena in single and multiphase flows in the
energy field, with main focus on numerical modeling.
He his actually lecturer of Fundamentals of Energy
Sciences for energy, environmental and nuclear
bachelor students at Politecnico di Milano .
Vice-president of Ingegneria senza Frontiere - Milano
http://isf.polimi.it/isf/ (Engineering Without Borders Milan), member of the Energy Group and
social-economic development.
In the first part of the course the actual global
energy scenario and related forecast in term of
overall and specific indicators for High, Middle
and Low Income Countries are discussed. The
environmental and economic aspects related to
energy production with focus on renewable
energies are also presented. Finally, an overview
of the local Colombian and European energy
situation and its specificity is provided.
The second part of the course offers an insight
into the main renewable technologies for
distributed
generation
(solar,
wind,
mini-hydroelectric and biomass) with a
theoretical overview and application to the design
of the major plant characteristics with related
application in projects for local sustainable
development in different contexts.
responsible
of
different international projects
focused on the use and development of appropriate
technologies in the energy field. He was involved as
consultant on ICS -UNIDO training activities
(e‐learning courses and local intensive training
courses) about energy technologies.
Andrés González Mancera
Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Ingeniería
Mecánica de la Universidad de los Andes en
Bogotá-Colombia. Ingeniero Mecánico y Doctor
of Philosophy, University of Maryland, Estados
Unidos.
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Electronic
and Electrical
Engineering Course:
Humanitarian Feedback Control
Engineering
An overview of poverty and sustainable
development in the world will be provided,
followed by an analysis of a feedback
control strategy that serves as a financial
advisor for the poor, and an analysis of the
dynamics of the tragedy of the commons as
it connects to sustainable development.
Some principles of social justice will be
covered, along with a computational
analysis of a distributed feedback control
Kevin Passino
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio
University USA. Director of the Humanitarian Engineering
Center
in
The
Ohio
State
University
USA
https://osuhe.engineering.osu.edu/. His current research
areas are Interdisciplinary engineering-social sciences
research
on
systems
and
feedback
control
theory/engineering, stability analysis, optimization, and game
theory for human social, economic, and political systems;
group dynamics and decision making (e.g., for communities);
design and etvaluation of complex, large scale, and
distributed "sociotechnological" dynamical systems that
involve groups of humans using technologies. Applications of
all these to humanitarian engineering. Interdisciplinary
engineering-biology research on distributed decision-making
systems, with a special focus on honeybee social foraging,
social choice, and swarm flight.
strategy for wealth redistribution, its supervision
with a simulated democracy that acts as a
real-time optimization method, and finally, a
strategy to equalize the utilization levels of
persons exploiting the commons (e.g., a
common ecological resource). Equilibria and
stability for poverty traps will be studied,
including the case where technology diffusion is
considered, and then methods for breaking
poverty traps will be considered. Also, a
feedback control strategy is introduced to
manage the environmental commons. Finally,
strategies for studying the impact of technologies
on a community will be considered, along with an
analysis of feedback control for cooperative
management of community technology.
Nicanor Quijano
Nicanor Quijano (IEEE Senior Member) received his B.S.
degree in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana (PUJ), Bogotá, Colombia, in 1999. He received the
M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from The Ohio State University, in 2002 and 2006,
respectively. In 2007 he joined the Electrical and Electronics
Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes (UAndes),
Bogotá, Colombia as an Assistant Professor. In 2008 he
obtained the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the School of
Engineering, UAndes. He is currently an Associate Professor,
the director of the research group in control and automation
systems (GIAP, UAndes), and a member of the Board of
Governors of the IEEE CSS for the 2014 period. He was the
chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Colombia
for the 2011-2013 period. His research interests include
hierarchical and distributed optimization methods, using
bio-inspired and game-theoretical techniques for dynamic
resource allocation, applied to problems in energy, water, and
transportation. For more information and a complete list of
publications see: http://wwwprof.uniandes.edu.co/~nquijano
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http://isfcolombia.uniandes.edu.co
School of Engineering
[email protected]
Teléfonos: [571] 332 4327, 332 4328, 332 4329
Universidad de Los Andes - Facultad de Ingeniería
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