Percepción y apreciación de los estudiantes y los profesores acerca de la internacionalización de los planes de estudio de dos carreras de ingeniería del ITCR

ProyectoLas vertiginosas transformaciones, grandes aperturas e innumerables interdependencias convierten el mundo actual en una aldea global (Wikimedia Foundation, 2007). La evolución de las sociedades y la necesidad de alcanzar un mayor bienestar para la humanidad implica e implora que los ciudadanos estén preparados para actuar responsablemente en un orbe caracterizado por una interconectividad, interdependencia y una paulatina, heterogénea, pero siempre creciente transparencia de todo tipo de barreras y fronteras. El prefijo “inter-” se está convirtiendo en uno de los más usados en todas las lenguas. La carta magna de las universidades suscrita en Bologna (EEES, 1988), declara que, para asumir su misión formadora, la universidad debe traspasar toda frontera geográfica o política y afirma la necesidad imperiosa del conocimiento recíproco y de la interacción de las culturas. En este contexto, tanto en los estudiantes que cursan diferentes carreras y sus potenciales empleadores, como en la sociedad en general, se acrecienta la demanda para que la universidad coadyuve con el desarrollo de las competencias que necesiten los futuros profesionales para un exitoso desempeño en un mundo globalizado. La situación requiere que, dentro de sus procesos de mejoramiento, las carreras universitarias generen una evolución de los planes de estudio hacia su internacionalización. Para cumplir con este cometido, la investigación educativa debe colaborar con la construcción de un marco teórico – práctico que guíe los procesos de diseño curricular hacia la internacionalización. Esta definición es aun más urgente para las carreras que preparan los futuros profesionales de las disciplinas de alta responsabilidad social, llamados a desempeñarse en los contextos de alta sensibilidad socio-económica hacia la inminente apertura, como lo es, por ejemplo, los sectores representados por los casos que se atienden en el presente trabajo.CONARE. Proyecto Interuniversitario Encuentros Académicos Gestión Curricular en la Educación Superio

David L. Damm

Spectral Radiative Heat Transfer Analysis of the Planar SOF

Electrochemical Lensing for High Resolution Nanostructure Synthesis

The advancement of liquid phase electron beam induced deposition has enabled an effective direct-write approach for functional nanostructure synthesis with the possibility of three-dimensional control of morphology. For formation of a metallic solid phase, the process employs ambient temperature, beam-guided, electrochemical reduction of precursor cations resulting in rapid formation of structures, but with challenges for retention of resolution achievable via slower electron beam approaches. The possibility of spatial control of redox pathways via the use of water-ammonia solvents has opened new avenues for improved nanostructure resolution without sacrificing the growth rate. We find that ammonia concentration locally modulates reaction kinetics, altering the balance between reducing and oxidizing species, leading to distinct deposition outcomes. The key effect is an 'electrochemical lensing', achieved at an optimum ammonia concentration, in which a tightly confined and highly reducing environment is created locally to enable high resolution, rapid beam-directed nanostructure growth. We demonstrate this unique approach to high resolution synthesis through a combination of analysis and experiment

Droplet Impingement Chemical Reactors and Methods of Processing Fuel

Fuel processors, methods of using fuel processors, and the like, are disclosed

On the potential and opportunities for cooperation between the Baltics in the field of innovations

This article compares the research and innovation potential of Russia in general, the Northwestern federal district and the Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and explores the opportunities for cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Baltics in the field of innovations. The authors identify possible areas of cooperation and describe its mechanisms

The influence of the sea on the economic development and settlement structure in the Baltic Sea region

Earliest studies into the influence of the sea on the economy and settlement structure date back to the mid-19th century. They became common in the 20th century. Researchers have come to a general understanding that a coastal position has a beneficial effect on the development of regions. Such areas have a denser population and develop more rapidly than inland regions. At the same time, the effect of environmental, socioeconomic, demographic, and political factors is often stronger than the influence of the sea. Thus, an inland position can be more beneficial than a coastal one. Both trends are observed in the Baltic Sea macroregion. However, the ‘gravitational force’ of the sea varies from place to place. This article focuses on the most significant differences between territories and countries. These differences reflect the uneven influence of the proximity of the Baltic Sea on the development of population and national economies. Qualitative differences between mesoregions are measured using a combination of theoretical and empirical typologies. An economic, statistical, and cartographic analysis helps to identify a special type of mesoregions — coastal development corridors, which make an important contribution to the economic development and consolidation of the Baltic macroregion. In transnational macroregions, such typological differences must be taken into account in strategic and spatial planning at the intergovernmental level

ELECTRIC ENERGY GENERATION IN AUTONOMOUS ENERGY SUPPLY MODULE HAVING ROTARY EXPANSION ENGINE

The development of autonomous energy supply systems is among the priority ways of scientific and technological growth in the Russian Federation. The autonomous energy supply module providing the consumer with heat, electric power, hot and cold water can contain the different variants of the electric power subsystem. This paper considers three different variants of building the electric power subsystem for the rotary expansion engine used as a driving machine whereas the permanent magnet synchronous machine is used as a generator. Also the designed structure of 30 kW electric power supply subsystem is regarded