2011 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

53 Universidad ORT Uruguay ACADEMIC Universidad ORT Uruguay ABROAD 2011 Institutional Julio Fernández, Eng. (Chile) Dean of Academic Development. Activity: External evaluator for the institutional accreditation of the University of Viña del Mar, under the Chilean National Accreditation Commission, October 25–28. School of Engineering Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki (Argentina) Professor of Programming. Activity: judge at the Regional Final of the “ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Programming Contest,” Buenos Aires, November 5. Federico Rocha, B.S. (Argentina) Instructor in the Video Games area. Activity: Jury member on the Scientific Committee of the “2nd Argentine Workshop on Video Games,” Technological Institute of Buenos Aires, October 21. Álvaro Sánchez, Eng. (Bolivia) Associate Professor of Telecommunications. Activity: peer evaluator and coordinator of the ARCU-SUR System peer review committee for the evaluation of the Industrial Engineering program at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, April 18–20; peer evaluator for the ARCU-SUR System in the evaluation of the Industrial Engineering program at the University of the Valley in Cochabamba, May 3–5. Esther Hochsztain, B.A. (Bolivia) Lecturer in the Database Department. Activity: Taught a training course on Data Mining for a research group at the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” in La Paz, July 26–28. Guillermo Langwagen, B.S. (Bolivia) Academic Coordinator of Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering. Activity: external peer evaluator, appointed by the National Commission for the Accreditation of University Programs of the Bolivian Ministry of Education, for the Industrial Engineering program at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba, April 6–8; external peer evaluator for the Industrial and Commercial Engineering program at the Universidad Tecnológica Privada de Santa Cruz, April 13–15. Dr. Lorena Betancor (Chile) Associate Professor and Researcher at the Biotechnology Laboratory. Activity: taught the seminar “Immobilization of Coupled Enzymatic Systems” for faculty and graduate students, and the course “Biotechnology of Biomolecules Immobilized on Nanocarriers” at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, July 18–21.