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General Info Ovidio Morales

CALTECH EM-105 URL Práctica Profesional Academic Collaboration Project. General Info Ovidio Morales. Information. About URL. Information. About URL. Located in Guatemala City Private Institution 21,033 Students 10,484 Students on Central Campus

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General Info Ovidio Morales

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  1. CALTECH EM-105 URL Práctica Profesional Academic Collaboration Project General Info Ovidio Morales

  2. Information About URL

  3. Information About URL • Located in Guatemala City • Private Institution • 21,033 Students • 10,484 Students on Central Campus • 274 on Industrial Design Diseño Industrial • 85 Graduated from the masters program • Facilities, general info… (sorry, only spanish) • www.url.edu.gt

  4. Who am I? • Industrial Designer • AO Diseño / Pro Events • Proud Father (15 years!) • Raced Motocross… now Yamaha team manager • Scuba Diving PADI Assistant Instructor • Professor • Masters on ID + Post Graduate degree Teaching • Publications (NCSU + URL) • Interested on Industrial Design as a way of life.

  5. 1992 – 1994 Mechcanical Ingeniering (URL) 1995 – 1999 IndustrialDesign (URL) 2000 –Internship on Modern Art (Guggenheim Foundation) 2006 – 2007 Masters on IndustrialDesign (ISTHMUS) 2004 – 2007 Postgrado en Docencia Universitaria (URL) 2006 –Post Graduate degree Teaching(PUCP) 2000 – 2008 Professor (URL, ISTHMUS, UCA ES) 2001 – 2008 Academic coordinator (URL) 17 years linked with university / education = 49% 25 % as professor 25% as academic coordinator TEACHING IS PART OF MY LIFE PROJECT (As professor and academic coordinator)

  6. How did I started to work in ME-105? Academic Collaboration Project

  7. How did I started to work in ME-105? • Publication about “Handcrafts project”, along with Professor Percy Hooper NCSU. • Mario Blanco / read it and made the link with Ken and CALTECH. • As the director of the ID program, thought that could be a good academic / collaboration project. • Not only a “technical experience”, but a “life experience”, work with needed communities. • Industrial Design involved in real life projects, “Social Design”. • And the rest is history… 2006, 2007 and 2008.

  8. www.ao.com.gt

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