2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

1. Ing. Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz PamLab Design and Engineering [biography]

   Pamela Silva Díaz is a mechanical engineer with experience in appropriate technology, participatory design and humanitarian innovation. She completed her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and obtained her Master of Science in the same field at the University of Michigan in 2014. Through her business, PamLab Design and Engineering, she blends strategic design facilitation with mechanical engineering services to co-create innovative solutions for community challenges.

2. Ms. Maggie Favretti Design Ed 4 Resilience [biography]

   Maggie Favretti is a lifelong learner, and authentic engagement educator. Throughout her career teaching high schoolers and teachers, college students and professors, and community adult leaders, Maggie converges disciplines and aligns sectors toward shared efficacy and problem solving. Maggie's current work recenters the role of designer (design thinking) in youth, educators and community, and focuses on disaster recovery, youth empowerment, and climate justice.

3. Nathalia Ospina Uribe http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-6187-3257 [biography]

   Nathalia Ospina Uribe earned her B.S. degree in Architecture from the Univ. La Gran Colombia (UGC) (2013). Finish her M.E. degree in Civil Engineering and Construction Project Management at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) in (2019). Prior to starting her M.E., Ospina worked in different construction sites and projects serving as a Technical and Contractor Architect. Ospina has diverse interests in the research area of Community Resilience; Appropriated Technology; Climate Change; and Participatory Engineering. She co-developed a workshop curriculum to measured and prepared vulnerable communities to improve their level of resilience for catastrophic events.

4. Dr. Christopher Papadopoulos http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0259-7264 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez [biography]

   Christopher Papadopoulos is Professor in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Materials at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM). He earned B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1993) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University (1999). Prior to UPRM, Papadopoulos served on the faculty in the Department of Civil engineering and Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

   Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics and bioconstruction (with emphasis in bamboo); appropriate technology; engineering ethics; and mechanics education. He has served as PI of several NSF-sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. He is active in the Mechanics Division.

5. Marcel Castro-Sitiriche http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-4112 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez [biography]

   Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in the Mayagüez Campus (Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez). His research efforts contain academic, educational and service activities. Some of the research areas of interest include appropriate technology, rural power, power electronics, decentralized energy, and renewable energy systems. He is the co-coordinator of the Social, Ethical, and Global Issues in Engineering program at the College of Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. He is chair of the IEEE Engineering Education Western Puerto Rico chapter, and member of the International Network on Appropriate Technology.

6. Prof. Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado
7. Marian Irizarry University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
8. Javier Moscoso University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
9. Miss Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino
10. Mr. Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan
11. Ms. Laura Sofia Garcia Canto
12. Grace Amato Connecticut College
13. Fernando Antonio Cuevas University of Puerto Rico [biography]

    My name is Fernando A. Cuevas Quintana, I am 24 years old. I have a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus with a lower concentration in human rights. I am certified in autism. I am currently pursuing my master's degree in clinical social work at the Inter-American University, Metro Campus, while working with the University of Puerto Rico on the UPR Estudia Contigo.

    I am a member of the Corcovada community in Añasco. I am passionate about visions directed towards human rights and being active in matters of social importance. I consider myself a militant in spaces that ensure collective well-being and cooperative work.

14. Ms. Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda Mujeres de Islas, Inc.
15. Mr. Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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