Conference Session

Projects in Alternative Energy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

José Colucci Ríos P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Miriam del Rosario Fontalvo

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

supported by grants from theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, Department of Homeland Securityand more important the Department of Education. The latter sponsors CIVIS, a Center forResources in General Education established at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM)campus to provide a new perspective in general and STEM education [6]. CIVIS, which means“citizen” in Latin, brings together faculty from Business Administration, Arts and Sciences,Agriculture and Engineering in order to develop interdisciplinary activities that further theuniversity’s mission of shaping productive and committed citizens. CIVIS challenges thetraditional classification of “technical skills” and “soft-skills”, substituting it by an