2018 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

89 Mario Fernández, Eng. (Brazil), Dean of the School of Engineering. Attended the International Forum of Engineering Education Institution Administrators and the meeting of the Executive Committee of ASIBEI (Ibero-American Association of Engineering Education Institutions), Rio de Janeiro, June 20–22. Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki (Brazil) Professor of Programming. She presented the article “Tools for Teaching” at the 10th Ibero-American Congress on University Teaching – X CIDU, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, October 30–November 1. Dr. Lorena Betancor (Canada) Professor of Protein Technology. She delivered the seminar “Biotechnology of biomimetic silica nanoparticles: contributions from the South” at the Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, April 26–May 13. Dr. Martín Solari (Chile), Associate Professor of Software Engineering. He presented the paper “An exploratory study of the role of product owner in industrial practice” at the XIII Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, organized by the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Atacama, Copiapó, June 13–15. Dr. Rodrigo Achigar (Chile) Coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory. María Pía Campot, Eng. (Chile) Deputy Coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory. Valentina Duvós (Chile) Project Assistant. Federico Machado (Chile) Assistant at the Biotechnology Laboratory. They attended the ALAM 2018 conference organized by the Latin American Association of Microbiology, which brings together microbiologists from the Americas, Spain, and Portugal, in connection with the project “Optimization of storage conditions and production of starter cultures for the dairy industry,” a partnership project between ORT and Jucar funded by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), Santiago, Chile, November 13–17. 7 Conducted alongside Dr. Gerardo Matturro, associate academic coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems and research professor in Software Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay, and Felipe Cordovés, Java developer at Globant Uruguay. Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki Dr. Lorena Betancor ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2018