
Fernando José Mérida Figueróa
@fmerida_uf
Lecturer, Univ. of Florida /PhD /Alumnus USAC & UPRM /Guatemalan 🇬🇹/Adopted Boricua 🇵🇷/Unit Operations, Bioprocess, Biomedical, Nanotech, Eng Education
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17-04-2019 23:01:49
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One more American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) AIChE Annual Meeting full of great experiences, connections, and opportunities! Glad to be here disseminating our current efforts at UF Chemical Engineering to improve education and research for the new generations of chemical engineers!


Thanks to UF Office of Global Learning for this highlight, and for all the support given during the recent VE Training. We'll work hard to materialize it!

What a great kick off for LatinX in ChE at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Meeting! Felicitaciones a @SindiaSrj y Gabriel Josue por esta excelente iniciativa. También a V.Monje, el resto de la directiva y los panelistas. La presencia latina cada vez más fuerte en AIChE! 🙌


Sharing good moments at #AIChE_Annual with faculty and graduate students from my dear UPRM Chem. Eng. 🇵🇷 It was great to reconnect with them! @YomairaPT Jorge Almodóvar Antes, ahora, y siempre.. Colegio! RUM/UPRM


Keeping alive the tradition: picture with Ashlee N. Ford Versypt while in a conference! It was great to see you again and meeting your students too!


El combo latino en las actividades de integración luego de la exitosa primera reunión de LatinX in ChE en #AIChEAnnual American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)



Unit Ops 1 Lab final presentations done! Congratulations to these brilliant students for their hard work this semester! Excellent presentations and suggestions to improve experiments in the future. I'm very proud of you all! 🙌 #happyprofessor UF Chemical Engineering UF Engineering





Advertising the UF Chemical Engineering PhD program during #COLAEIQ. I had a great time talking about our PhD program and responding to questions from students. I was recruited for Grad School during COLAEIQ (ages ago!) so I'm trying to give it back! More LatinX ChE grad Gators coming soon!




Pumped! @SindiaSrj and I received the DELOS Best Paper Award at ASEE 2024. Great collaboration between UF Chemical Engineering and UF Engineering Education, supported by UF Engineering. We're committed to elevating the quality of eng education at @uf and beyond!


Discussing the UF Chemical Engineering MS and PhD programs with atendees of COLAEIQ. Many brilliant students and lots of talent out there in Latin America! We need to strengthen efforts to better inform what a PhD entails for the future of LatinX students! Happy to help! 🙌 UF Engineering FLORIDA


"Ingeniería de Nanocompuestos Para Aplicaciones Biomédicas". Eight-hour hands-on workshop offered at the XXIX COLAEIQ - El Salvador 2024. I had an amazing cohort from 🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇨🇷 Brilliant minds working on case studies and experimental practices🥼🧪 UF Chemical Engineering UF Engineering FLORIDA


And so, last Friday marked the end of my participation at the XXIX COLAEIQ. Without a doubt, my favorite conference! It makes me feel so happy, motivated, and alive! 🙌 Proud to be a chemical engineer, a UF Chemical Engineering member, and a #latino. Nos vemos el próximo año en #Honduras 🇭🇳


Attending for the 1st -and counting- time the Conference on Global Learning. Happy to share a panel with my UF Engineering and UF Office of Global Learning colleagues on Virtual Exchange programs for Engineering majors, showcasing our efforts for the internationalization of our Eng curricula 💪


One of the highlights of the AAC&U Global Learning Confere ce was meeting @DrLunaCruz, a Puerto Rican NASA Scientist 🚀and advocator for global change initiatives in international #education 🌐👩🏫. Ambos somos ex alumnos de RUM/UPRM🐾 y LatinXs en STEM 🇵🇷 🇬🇹 UPRM Chem. Eng. UF Chemical Engineering
