Entrepreneurial University: The Costa Rica Institute of Technology Experience

Los nuevos programas de matemática para la educación primaria y secundaria de Costa Rica, aprobados en mayo de 2012 por el Consejo Superior de Educación, le dan un papel importante al uso las tecnologías en el aula, ya que uno de sus ejes disciplinares es el uso inteligente y visionario de las tecnologías digitalesLa Escuela de Matemática del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR) tiene un compromiso social y no puede abstraerse del entorno, por lo que en el 2018 desarrolló un proyecto de extensión formalmente inscrito ante la Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión, para colaborar con el Ministerio de Educación Pública (MEP) en la implementación de la reforma educativa en matemáticaEn el proyecto participaron 72 docentes de primaria provenientes de un total de 40 escuelas públicas de las regiones educativas de Cartago y Turrialba, que asistieron a sesiones de capacitación sobre el uso de tecnología para la enseñanza de la matemática. En este artículo se reportan los resultados de la experiencia, así como aspectos positivos y negativos del proceso de implementación de la reforma educativa manifestados por los docentes con respecto al uso de tecnologíaAdemás, el proyecto colaboró con el proceso de formación de estudiantes de la carrera Enseñanza de la Matemática con Entornos Tecnológicos (MATEC), que imparte la Escuela de Matemática del ITCR, pues se propició su participación como instructores durante las sesiones de capacitación, lo cual les genera experiencia y los involucra en la atención de necesidades del contexto. Abstract The new Costa Rican math programs for elementary and high school levels approved in the month of May 2012 by the Council of Higher Education place special emphasis on the use of technology in the classroom. This derives from one of the pillars in math teaching which is based on the use of intelligent and visionary digital technologiesThe Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR) Math School is socially compromised and it cannot abstain itself from contributing to society; therefore, the school developed a community extension project endorsed by the ITCR Deanship of Research and Extension. This project was created to aid the Ministry of Public Education towards the implementation of the math educational reformThe project's participants included 72 elementary school teachers coming from 40 different public schools in the Cartago and Turrialba areas. These instructors attended training sessions dealing with the use of technology in math teaching. This article shows some findings related to the experience as such as well as positive and negative aspects of the educational reform implementation process from the perspective of the participantsIt is worth mentioning that the project was conducive to the development of math student teachers from the major of Math Teaching in Technological Settings (MATEC) offered by the ITCR School of Math. These math student teachers served as aids and were very actively involved in all the training sessions. They took advantage of this process to gain experience and learn more about how to get involved in addressing the needs of different teaching contexts .

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Proyecto de rehabilitación de un edificio subutilizado para generar vivienda en el área central de la ciudad de San José

REVISTARQUIS ◽

10.15517/ra.v5i1.25399 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Felipe Pina Castillo

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Central Area ◽

San Jose ◽

The Subject ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

Graduation Project ◽

The City ◽

Point Of Reference

Resumen Reseña del proyecto arquitectónico titulado “Rehabilitación de un edificio subutilizado para generar vivienda en el área central de San José”. El tema del proyecto tiene la voluntad de ser una referencia para el proceso de ejecución del Plan de Regeneración y Repoblamiento de la ciudad de San José. Esta investigación se llevó a cabo como parte del proyecto final de graduación para optar por el grado de Licenciatura en Arquitectura y Urbanismo del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.AbstractThis is a review of the architectural project entitled “Rehabilitation of vacant buildings to generate housing in the central area of San José”. The subject of the project described here is intended to be a point of reference for the implementation an area of a Regeneration and Repopulation Plan of the city of San Jose. This research was undertaken as part of final graduation project in Architecture and Urbanism at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.

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Universidad e innovación: de la gestión a la acción en el Tecnológico de Costa Rica (University and Innovation: from the management to the action in the Costa Rica Institute of Technology)

TEC Empresarial ◽

10.18845/te.v9i2.2359 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rytha Picado Arroyo ◽

Juan Carlos Carvajal Morales ◽

Marta Sáenz Muñoz ◽

María Del Carmen Valverde Solano

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Technological Development ◽

Innovation Process ◽

University Environment ◽

Triple Helix Model ◽

Triple Hélice ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

The University

El presente artículo plantea una propuesta de modelo para gestionar la innovación desde el ámbito universitario. Se aborda la temática desde lo general hasta lo específico. Primero, se plantea un análisis de benchmarking con el fin de conocer las mejores prácticas en el tema, seguido de la revisión, a nivel interno, de la universidad en cuanto a la gestión de la innovación; por último, se diseña un modelo que es sometido a validación a través de focus groups con el fin de obtener el modelo final propuesto. La creación del modelo se basó en dos perspectivas: la perspectiva macro y la perspectiva micro. En la perspectiva macro se empleó la relación entre Estado-universidad-industria que propone el Modelo de la Triple Hélice de Etzkowitz y Leydesdorff, que plantea que la innovación y el desarrollo tecnológico se benefician de las interrelaciones de los entes mencionados anteriormente. En la perspectiva micro se hace un abordaje más detallado de las interrelaciones que se plantea en el modelo macro, pero de manera específica para el Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Abstract This article presents a proposed model for managing innovation in the university environment. The subject is approached from the general to the specific. First, it presents a benchmarking analysis in order to identify best practices in the field; then, an internal review of the university related to the innovation process. Finally, a model was designed and validated through focus groups to obtain the final model proposed. The model design was based in two perspectives: the macro perspective and micro perspective. The macro perspective is based on the industry-stateuniversity linkages present in the Triple Helix Model of Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, which suggests that innovation and technological development benefits from the interrelationships of these entities. The micro perspective presents a more detailed approach to the interrelationships that arises in the macro model, but specifically for the Tecnológico de Costa Rica.

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The translation task: ITCR students with no expertise in translation

Revista de Lenguas Modernas ◽

10.15517/rlm.v0i31.40859 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yohanna Abarca Amador

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Business Administration ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

English Teacher ◽

Translation Tools ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

Regular Classes

As an English teacher at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, I often see students from the Engineering and Business Administration majors struggling to understand study ma- terials and professional articles in English. Even though the students do not have any training in translation, they have to do this task in their regular classes. They usually use printed dictionaries or computer-assisted translation tools that have been designed for these purposes and that they can access. This observation led, as a result, to the interest in finding out if the students are really able to understand and translate a text from English to Spanish accurately. The translations are analyzed at the word, phrase and sentence levels to examine the comprehension level of the text and the quality of their translations.

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Automated mineral analysis in TASK8

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100134661 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 212-213

Author(s):

William F. Chambers ◽

Arthur A. Chodos ◽

Roland C. Hagan

Keyword(s):

National Laboratory ◽

Control Program ◽

Mineral Analysis ◽

Alamos National Laboratory ◽

Mineral Phase ◽

Los Alamos National Laboratory ◽

California Institute Of Technology ◽

Mineral Phases ◽

Letter Code ◽

Institute Of Technology

TASK8 was designed as an electron microprobe control program with maximum flexibility and versatility, lending itself to a wide variety of applications. While using TASKS in the microprobe laboratory of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, we decided to incorporate the capability of using subroutines which perform specific end-member calculations for nearly any type of mineral phase that might be analyzed in the laboratory. This procedure minimizes the need for post-processing of the data to perform such calculations as element ratios or end-member or formula proportions. It also allows real time assessment of each data point.The use of unique “mineral codes” to specify the list of elements to be measured and the type of calculation to perform on the results was first used in the microprobe laboratory at the California Institute of Technology to optimize the analysis of mineral phases. This approach was used to create a series of subroutines in TASK8 which are called by a three letter code.

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Identification of Maize Rayado Fino Virus by Immunoelectron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100119879 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 636-637

Author(s):

O. E. Bradfute

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Zea Mays ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Rabbit Serum ◽

Normal Rabbit Serum ◽

Virus Particles ◽

Far North ◽

Maize Rayado Fino Virus ◽

Antibody Coating

Maize rayado fino virus (MRFV) causes a severe disease of corn (Zea mays) in many locations throughout the neotropics and as far north as southern U.S. MRFV particles detected by direct electron microscopy of negatively stained sap from infected leaves are not necessarily distinguishable from many other small isometric viruses infecting plants (Fig. 1).Immunosorbent trapping of virus particles on antibody-coated grids and the antibody coating or decoration of trapped virus particles, was used to confirm the identification of MRFV. Antiserum to MRFV was supplied by R. Gamez (Centro de Investigacion en Biologia Celular y Molecular, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica).Virus particles, appearing as a continuous lawn, were trapped on grids coated with MRFV antiserum (Fig. 2-4). In contrast, virus particles were infrequently found on grids not exposed to antiserum or grids coated with normal rabbit serum (similar to Fig. 1). In Fig. 3, the appearance of the virus particles (isometric morphology, 30 nm diameter, stain penetration of some particles, and morphological subunits in other particles) is characteristic of negatively stained MRFV particles. Decoration or coating of these particles with MRFV antiserum confirms their identification as MRFV (Fig. 4).

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