Chronicles from the Diaspora: A Memoir

Chronicles from the Diaspora: A Memoir is a personal reflection on the author\u27s seven years of college education; a journey from a low-achieving high school student to a promising college graduate. It highlights the continual struggle to transcend socioeconomic, political, and cultural borders, while at the same time, longing for a return to his past. This narrative captures a glimpse into the life of a Mexicano student striving to find a place in communities seemingly oblivious to his Mexicano experience. His thoughts are the product of the Diaspora, written in isolation and despair

Forest and Upland Resources Management: A Policy Framework

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses several concerns in forestry and upland resources management focusing on the issues of logging, forest destruction and the continuous conversion of forestlands into land uses that are generally prone to soil erosion.forestry sector, land management

The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion in the Magat and Pantabangan Watersheds

This article report is a condensed version of “The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion,” PIDS Technical Report 87-04 of the Upland Resource Policy Program. It estimates the economic costs arising from indiscriminate exploitation of the uplands. It also offers a practical methodology for assessing the economic impact of soil erosion and illustrates the methodology with results from two major watersheds--Magat and Pantabangan.watershed, uplands, soil erosion, soil conservation

The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion in the Magat and Pantabangan Watersheds

This article report is a condensed version of “The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion,” PIDS Technical Report 87-04 of the Upland Resource Policy Program. It estimates the economic costs arising from indiscriminate exploitation of the uplands. It also offers a practical methodology for assessing the economic impact of soil erosion and illustrates the methodology with results from two major watersheds--Magat and Pantabangan.watershed, uplands, soil erosion, soil conservation

XXI Century Global Challenges: Engineering, Education and Complexity

Esta presentación contiene: -Desafíos para el Siglo XXI en Ciencia, Tecnología y Educación -Proyecto Millenium -Investigación y Sistemas Complejos -Educación, Investigación e Innovación -SCED e Impacto Social -Aplicaciones de Investigación, Innovación y EducaciónIbero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

XXI Century Global Challenges: Engineering, Education and Complexity

Esta presentación contiene: -Desafíos para el Siglo XXI en Ciencia, Tecnología y Educación -Proyecto Millenium -Investigación y Sistemas Complejos -Educación, Investigación e Innovación -SCED e Impacto Social -Aplicaciones de Investigación, Innovación y EducaciónIbero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

Unity in Isolation: Reconciling Histories, Accentuating Difference

The experiences of a Chicano, Mexicana, and Mexicano interconnect in Burlington, Vermont. Who would have thought? Each of the authors’ possesses a unique life experience that is rarely mirrored in everyday life at The University of Vermont. Through their narative, each author expresses the complexity of their graduate experience from the three different perspectives: 1) a Chicano born in the United States; 2) a Mexicana who moved to the United States as a child; 3) a Mexicano who came to the United States as a teenager. Each author identifies strongly with their Mexican heritage yet arrived at it in different ways. Their histories are the same, only their experiences differ. This piece highlights their cultural and academic journey and how it translated into their interactions between one another in a predominately white environment

A Model to Pedagogically Support Teaching & Learning Scenarios For Engineering Innovation from a Complexity Sciences Perspective

Education for innovation requires innovation in education. To innovate in education implies new pedagogical models. It is not enough to just apply teaching/learning methods or strategies in a mechanical or procedural approach. It requires the conception of new pedagogical models based on theories that allow for processing of different interpretations of diverse complexity educational phenomena, i.e. other ways of producing and implementing pedagogical knowledge. Education in the different engineering programs has been carried out through analytical and linear processes; however, the reality of education through a Complex Systems lens is characterized by uncertainty, chaos, breaks, nonlinearity and self-organization. To optimize curriculum processes that foster innovation skills in students requires strategies and teaching-learning scenarios that stimulate nonlinear processes and generate a change in the mindset of the professor and the student. It is important to understand and approach the reality of educating engineers in new ways. Making methodological adjustments without the understanding of the epistemological orientation that take into account complex dynamic processes will only generate pseudo-changes, which limits creativity and innovation processes. Currently, there are several global initiatives for the development of teaching-learning scenarios that facilitate innovation processes in engineering education and education for innovation. This paper is a proposal by the Complex Systems & Education Network (SCED-ISTEC) and the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), of a model developed to pedagogically support innovation scenarios in educating engineers for innovation using the principles of Complex Systems. The suggested scenarios are framed in a dynamic curriculum structure. They are characterized by hard and soft state-of-the-art technologies; interdisciplinary, flexible, pedagogical research processes; methodologies for cognitive restructuring, solving complex problems, and modeling, simulation; interactions with university/industry programs; and the facilitating of applications according to context and societal needs.Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortiu

Análisis y diseño del sistema estructural dual de marcos con muros compuestos del tipo doble placa de acero rellenos de concreto

En esta investigación se estudia el sistema estructural de marcos con muros compuestos del tipo doble placa con relleno de concreto, conocido en la literatura internacional como Composite Plate Shear Wall / Concrete Filled (C-PSW/CF). Se realizan análisis elásticos lineales y no-lineales de prototipos de muros compuestos mediante métodos simplificados y modelos de elementos finitos, así como una serie de análisis paramétricos para evaluar la función de parámetros específicos y obtener recomendaciones de análisis. Finalmente, se valida un modelo no-lineal que reproduce la respuesta histerética de pruebas experimentales.Investigación realizada con el apoyo del Programa Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)