Experience Summary
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Environmental and Civil Engineering Department.
Auxiliary Professor
Graduate and Undergraduate courses: Groundwater Hydrology CE6230. Hydrology CE 5412. Remediation CE6430. Environmental Chemistry Lab. For Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENVE 5511 and CE 5405). Water Resources & Hydraulic Engineering CE 3402. Water Supply Engineering CE 4402. ENVE 5910 – Environmental Engineering Capstone Design I. ENVE 5920 – Environmental Engineering Capstone Design II. Capstone in Civil Engineering CE3402. Introduction to Environmental Regulations EPM 6910. Introduction to Research in Civil Engineering CE 6310.
Additional Duties:
Coordinator of Environmental Engineering Laboratory.
Coordinator of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.
President of the committee of special subjects of the Academic Council in the Institution. Oct 2005 to January 2009.
Polytechnic University of Orlando, Florida Campus.
Auxiliary Professor
On-line Professor in the course of Introduction to Environmental Regulations EPM 6910.
Caribbean University. Bayamon Campus.
Lecturer Professor. Civil Engineering Department.
Undergraduate courses: CIEN-495 Civil Engineering practice. MEEN-302 Thermodynamic for Engineering. CIEN-432 Fundamentals of geology and soil mechanics 1.
Metropolitan University (UMET) Puerto Rico. Auxiliary professor. School of Environmental Affairs. Graduates courses: ENMG 506 Applied Statistical Methods for Environmental Research. ENMP 597 Principles of hydrogeology. Undergraduate courses: ENSC 201, Introduction to geology, with laboratory.
Environmental auditor in the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), Arecibo Observatory. Puerto Rico. Professor and investigator.
Auxiliary professor. School of Environmental Affairs. Duties: NMG 510 principles of environmental technology. ENMG 506 methods statistical applied to environmental research. Collaborate in the curricular revision and updating of syllabus. Director of master's thesis and reader and adviser in others research projects. Offer seminars of relevant topics, according to the needs of the student. Collaborate in the development of special projects with external funds. For Homeland Security, under "Natural Disasters and Related Geophysical Studies", coordinator work in the proposal: "Masters in Sciences in management environmental with specialty in hazards natural and studies geophysical".
On-line Lecturer Professor.
Program of Master in Environmental Management. Course: ENMP 596 Environmental Auditing
University of Puerto Rico. Humacao Campus. "Workshop of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Sciences. As special topic I offered Aquaponic, as source of organic sustention. For professor and and students from high schools”. Department of Industrial Chemistry. Director of the proposed UPR Humacao, Dr. Rolando Tremont.
Undergraduate course General chemistry 2, QUIM 3002
R&M ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LLC. Vice President. Haines City, Florida. Provides solutions to environmental, natural, cultural and sustainable resource needs and specializes
EDUCATION:
• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, concentration Environmental Engineering, Civil Department, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (www.uprm.edu). July/14/2006. GPA. General 3.81, Specific 3.54.
• Master in Environmental Engineering, Department Civil of Engineering. University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (www.uprm.edu). June/05/2005. GPA 3.66.
• Master of Science in Soils with an emphasis in Environment, Department of Agronomy and Soils. University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (www.uprm.edu). June 05 of 1995. GPA 3.32.
• Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Engineering, August 07 of 1989, with honors in the two last semesters, GPA 3.52, University Surcolombiana (www.usco.edu.co), Neiva, Huila, Colombia.
PUBLICATIONS :
1. Ion movement in columns of soil treated with lime and gypsum. N. Cavallaro and M. Castañea-Muñoz, Univ. of Puerto Rico. Master thesis. Poster presentation American Society of Agronomy, Nov., 1994. Seattle, Washington U.S.A.
2. Evaluation of possible problem of scent on the limestone rock walls of the McCook lagoon. January 2000 to December 2001. Master Thesis. Work for US Army Corps of Engineers.
3. Industrial ecology approach to management of fly ash from fluidized bed combustion: Production of a slow-release fertilizer and soil conditioner. Doctoral thesis: http://grad.uprm.edu/tesis/tesisinci.htm.
4. Author of 3 publications in journals for approval in www.springer.com, in Soils and Environmental Engineering:
4.1. Evaluation of environmental Impact of the slow liberation of a fertilizer of potassium in pellets of fly ash, for thermal treatment of reaction and sinterization, with KOH and KCl.
4.2. Evaluation of the crystallography and Resistance to compression of pellets of fly ash tried to reaction temperature and sinterization, with KOH and KCl.
4.3. Evaluation of possible problems of scent on the walls of calcareous rock of the lagoon of in Chicago, Illinois. USA. Study of movement of ions in columns of soils tried with lime and gypsum.
RESEARCH INVESTIGATION
1. Capstone 1 and 2, in Civil Engineering.: “Optimization of the advantage of use of the well with tax exemption for water use with sanitary aims, located in the facilities of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico”. November 2007.
2. Capstone 1 and 2, in Civil Engineering: “Control of floods and use of the runoff waters that affect The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, with sub-use ends and decontamination of urban waters”.
3. Capstone 1and 2, in Environmental Engineering: “Implementation of Echo-Complex in Old waste landfill of San Juan. Puerto Rico Island”.
4. Capstone 1 and 2, in Environmental Engineering: “Rehabilitation and Systems management Non-Prasa to obtain Fulfillment”.
5. Capstone 1 and 2, in Environmental Engineering:”Design of Plant of Composting for the Sludge Produced in wastewater plant of the Municipality of Fajardo, Puerto Rico”.
6. In process. Director for Master Degree Thesis. Masters in Planning, with emphasis in environmental planning. Metropolitan university of Puerto Rico. “Plan for the use of the gas methane of the landfill of Carolina, Puerto Rico”.
7. In process. Director for Master Degree Thesis. Masters in Planning, with emphasis in environmental planning. Metropolitan university of Puerto Rico. “Plan of run-off handling, by means of the biofiltration, for the Municipality of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico”.
Teaching Style
Online (Skype. Username mariocamu), individual and group.
My Hobbies
Beach, cinema, jogging, biking, reading, church, family activity and television.
Other Comments
Fundamental: Learn to learn, learn to do and learn to be.
Your mind has no limits.
Only you, put the limits in your mind and ability.
He who perseveres reaches.