Collaborative Research

Development of a data and voice network for the Bahía Blanca Grain Stock Market. This institution is one of the three most important Grain Stock Market of our country. As a part of a teem I started a project denominated R.A.D.A.R. (in English Agro-Economic Network for Regional Management) that uses human resources (professional of different disciplines), technological support (satellite images), infrastructure (facilities and mobilities), computer science (data bases), communicational (mechanisms of visual and written transference), etc. in order to implement a GIS (Geographic Information System). My task was centered in the advising respect to the communication technologies and the training of personnel of the team for the development of an Intranet and a Web Site that would give support to part of the system. I also have an important role in the design and implementation of the Intranet and Web facilities. This work can be seen at http://bcereal.bblanca.com.ar.

Institutional relationship with The Federal Investment Fund that participates in active form in the evaluation of projects that were presented to the DIE3k contest. DIE3K is for undergraduates and postgraduate student from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computers. The primary aim of DIE3K is to stimulate and award the entrepreneur initiative and team work. Selected projects are financed by this company.

I am manager and chief investigator of R&D projects with EG3 SA. EG3 SA is a Oil refinery. This plant was part of Repsol-YPF and actually owned by Petrobras Brasil.

Dow Chemical, an international chemical industry, organized a series of specialization courses. I participated in the design and teaching courses addressing Industrial Instrumentation for automatic control. The course had to be designed for operators with different level of expertise creating an additional challenges to implement teaching notes and laboratories.

As part of an agreement between the University and ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), I have an active participation in the design and program implementation of the full automation of two oil industry property of Oleaginosa Moreno, one in General Villegas, Buenos Aires, and the other in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires. I also had an active participation automation of ship loading operation in Puerto Galvan, Bahía Blanca.