School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
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Overview
The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.
Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering. Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean.
Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:
UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:
Courses
- New Venture Design Experience
- Design Thinking
- Consumer Behavior
- Product Design
- Technology Based Entrepreneurship
- Engineering Capstone
- Introduction to Business Development
- Creativity and Innovation
- New Business Development
- Creative Design
- Tools and Toys
- Game Theory
- Engineering Design Projects
- Capstone
- Research
- Special Projects
Activities
- TEDxUPRM
- Elicit Innovation
- VR Hackathon
- Arduino Day
- HackPR
- Hacker Socials
- Expo Ideas
- Capstone Exhibition
- H3
- Justas Empresariales
- Icorps PR
- Weekend Design Challenge
- Job Fair
- Startup Fair
Spaces
- Business Center
- Starting Point Makerspace
- Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
- Model Factory
- Research and Development Center
- Vitech
- Parallel 18
Associations
- Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
- Association for Computing Machinery
- HackPR
- Enactus UPRM
- Idea Platform
- Catalyst
Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:
There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement.
Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:
The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network.
Facilitating university-industry collaboration:
ViTech