2012 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

57 Universidad ORT Uruguay : Eduardo Mangarelli, Universidad ORT Uruguay (Colombia), Professor of Project Management and Application Design. He delivered the lecture “The Impact of Facebook on Businesses” at the “6th Latin American Fashion Congress” in Cartagena de Indias, September 24–26. Dr. Nora Szasz (Spain) Academic Coordinator of Systems Engineering. She served on the doctoral thesis committee for “MATE: Methodology for Automated Model-Driven Testing applied to Software Development and Software Product Lines” by Beatriz Pérez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, May 9. Mariana Ferrari (Spain) Coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory. She conducted a research stay at the laboratory of Prof. José Manuel Guisán at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, September 1 to October 5. Erienne Jackson, B.S. (Spain) Faculty Member in the Biotechnology Department. She conducted a research stay at the laboratory of Prof. José Manuel Guisán at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, from October 16, 2012, to January 15, 2013. Dr. Fernando Paganini (United States) Professor of Telecommunications Theory. He delivered the seminar “Content dynamics over the cloud: from queues to PDEs” for faculty and doctoral students at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), March 20. He delivered the lecture “Content dissemination dynamics in P2P networks through PDEs” at the symposium “Emerging Topics in Interconnected Systems: From Biological to Manmade Networks” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), June 24 and 25. Dr. Inés Kereki (United States) Professor of Programming. Guillermo Langwagen, Engineer (United States) Academic Coordinator of Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering. Gastón Mousqués, B.S. (United States) Professor of Software Engineering. Dr. Álvaro Tasistro (United States) Professor of Computer Science. Thirty fellows selected by Harvard University’s Laspau Program participated in the “Seminar on Innovation in Effective Teaching” held at Harvard University. The event constituted the second phase of the “Program for the Improvement of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education,” an initiative of Uruguay’s engineering faculties has by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), Indunor, and the National Academy of Engineering, held June 18–22. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2012