General Info

Ovidio MoralesCALTECH

EM-105

URLPráctica

Profesional

AcademicCollaboration

Project

InformationAbout 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

InformationAbout URL

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.

1992 – 1994 Mechcanical Ingeniering (URL)

1995 – 1999 Industrial Design (URL)

2000 – Internship on Modern Art (Guggenheim Foundation)

2006 – 2007 Masters on Industrial Design (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)

How did I started to work in ME-105?

AcademicCollaboration

Project

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.

www.ao.com.gt