Team members

Eduardo A. Montero ( ORCID 0000-0001-9948-3767 ) received the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Valladolid, Spain, in 1996. He has been employed in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Burgos, Spain, since 1984, being Assistant Professor since 1988 and Full Professor since 2017. Retired 2021. 

His academic expertise includes engineering thermodynamics, heat transfer and energy technology. His research interests are experimental determination of thermodynamic properties of fluid mixtures (biofuels, refrigerants), energy efficiency systems in buildings and thermal energy storage. For more than 37 years, he has developed international and national competitive research projects, and research services for industry. He is co-author of more than 60 articles published in high impact factor journals in the field of energy fluids.

He has been also member of the Innovation & Teaching Group on Active Learning and e-Learning in Engineering at the University of Burgos. Within this group, he has managed some projects and contributions on innovation and research in engineering education. Since 2016 he is also editor of the Engineering Board of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org), supported by California State University.

Natalia Muñoz Rujas ( ORCID 0000-0003-2185-1392 ) received the degree in Nursery from the University of Burgos (Spain) in 2006, the degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2011, the M.S. degree in Engineering Thermodynamics of fluids from the University of Burgos (Spain) in 2012 and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Burgos (Spain) in 2018. She is employed in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Burgos, Spain, since 2018.

Her academic expertise includes engineering thermodynamics, heat transfer and energy technology. His current research interests are experimental determination of thermodynamic properties of fluid mixtures (biofuels, refrigerants, solvents), energy efficiency systems in buildings and thermal energy storage. She has developed international and national competitive research projects, and research services for industry. She is author of more than 25 articles published in high impact factor journals in the field of energy fluids.

She is also the Director of the Innovation & Teaching Group on Active Learning and e-Learning in Engineering at the University of Burgos. Within this group, she has managed some projects and published several international articles and conference contributions on innovation and research in engineering education. Since 2021 she is Associate Editor of the Engineering Board of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org), supported by California State University. 

Ana M. B. Pavani received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in 1969, her ME degree in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York (United States of America) in 1976 and her DSc degre in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1983. She has been a faculty at Pontifícia Universidade Católica  do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) since 1976. Member of the IEEE.

Her main areas of interest are ICT supported Engineering Education and the Dissemination of Scholarly Communication. During the years of 2000-2003, she has taught 16 minicourses on digital libraries of ETD – Electronic Theses and Dissertations, sponsored by UNESCO, official institutions of Brazil and non-governamental organizations, and taught in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. She was a member of the working group establishing BDTD – Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (bdtd.ibict.br) in 2000-2003. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (www.ndltd.org) since 2003.

Her activities in ICT supported Engineering Education date back to the mid-1990s when the Maxwell System (www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br) was created to host digital courseware in Electrical Engineering. The current status of the system is that it is an integrated platform of an LMS – Learning Mangement System, and IR – Institutional Repository and a service broker for Relote Labs; Scilab® has been integrated to the system to perform online simulations. Currently, the system offers over 4,100 Educational Resources of which over 1,400 are in Open Access (OA). She was the manager at PUC-Rio of the VISIR+ Project (www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/VISIR/index.html) co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. This project had partners in six countries Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Portugal (coordinator), Spain and Sweden, and focused on the installation, training and use of VISIR – a Remote Lab for Electric Circuits. 

In the two areas of interest, she has published dozens of works in conference proceedings, journals and internal reports.
Since 2021 she is Associate Editor of the Engineering Board of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org ), supported by California State University.

Jennifer Baptiste is Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Electrical Engineering (1984) and Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011) by the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. After completing a graduate training program (1984-1987) within the external telecommunications company Textel, she began as a Technical Vocational Teacher Four (TVT IV), at the Electrical Engineering Department of the John Donaldson Technical Institute. In the year 1990, she was promoted to Engineer I and continued her work until she was transferred to the Telecommunication Department in 1993. She has been Head of Department of the Telecommunications Department from 2000 until 2007. Since 2007, Jennifer has been an Instructor II at University of Trinidad and Tobago. She was promoted to Senior Instructor in 2018.

Her academic expertise includes Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Her current research interests are in the field of Adaptive Control Algorithms: Investigation of Robustness of Adaptive Algorithms Applied to Several Classes of Systems. 

She has developed a long task as moderator and examiner at the National Examinations Council of Trinidad and Tobago, since 1993 till 2007, for subjects such as analogue and digital electronics, computers, radio communications, transmission – telecommunications engineering. She became Assistant Examiner for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) for the Electricity and Electronics subject in 1997 and was promoted to Table Leader in 2006. In 2011 to 2016 she assumed the duties of School Based Assessment (SBA) Moderator for CSEC Electricity and Electronics. In 2015 she assumed the role of Assistant Chief Examiner and is a validated Assistant Chief for CSEC Electricity and Electronics. Since 2021 she is Associate Editor of the Engineering Board of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org), supported by California State University.

Fatima E. M’Hamdi Alaoui ( ORCID 0000-0001-7443-6796 ) received the B. Sc. in Sciences from the Université Abdelmalek Esaadi of Tangier, Morocco, in 2003, the M.Sc. in Engineering Thermodynamics from the University of Burgos, Spain, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Thermodynamics from the University of Burgos, Spain, in 2011. She has been employed at the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’El Jadida, Université Chouaib Doukkali, Morocco being lecturer since 2013 till 2021. At present, she is in the Faculty of Sciences of the Université Abdelmalek Esaadi in Tetouan, Morocco.

Her academic expertise includes engineering thermodynamics, and the energy technology and sustainability. Her current research interests are experimental determination of thermodynamic properties of fluid mixtures (biofuels, refrigerants, solvents), thermal energy storage and energy and sustainability topics. She has developed several international and national competitive research projects, involving research periods at universities in Spain, France and China. She is author of more than 60 articles published in high impact factor journals in the field of energy fluids and sustainability. 

She has also developed international projects on teaching innovation with the universities of Spain and Korea. She has several contributions on innovation and research in engineering education in international conferences. Member of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org)