Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz

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• Professor (Full)
• Head of Regional Department at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Gender equality in engineering is crucial for several reasons: The equal participation of men and women in engineering ensures a greater diversity of perspectives, ideas, and approaches. This enriches the design, development, and problem-solving process by considering a variety of experiences and knowledge. Gender diversity in engineering encourage...

In this paper we present a challenge based teaching model for Applied Mechanics courses, particularly a Solid Mechanics Course, within the framework of our education model, namely (blinded for review). The model also includes the use of some Artificial Intelligence tools during the course in some activities. The selected course for this paper is co...

This evidence-based study presents evidence of the implementation of a teaching model that promotes interaction among students and teachers in Massive Online Courses (MOCs). The results showed a positive impact on engagement and motivation for learning in an Engineering Continuing Education group of students. The proposed teaching model was impleme...

Recruiting more women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM) programs has been a subject of study in recent decades. Many factors are involved in having lower numbers of admission of women into STEM programs, among them are the culture of the regions, the design of the programs, and the gender barriers. In recent years, it has be...

In this paper we present a teaching model for Engineering couses, particularly courses of Applied Mechanics for the new generation of Engineering Programs. After the online terms due to the global pandemic, students and their professors returned to campuses and some lessons learned during that period were positive ones and students keep on demandin...

This research explores a quantitative study investigating the role of an application designed for a curriculum intervention to promote Sustainability competencies in graduating design students. It occurred at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in the two Product Design classes ("groups") that graduating students took in the February-June 2023 semest...

This paper presents some lessons the Online Terms during the Pandemic left to universities and professors in terms of Digital Transformation Competencies developed by students and professors and the perceptions of students after the return to the campus. We propose a model for online education in the post-pandemic years for Engineering Schools in p...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate, through on-line polls, questionnaires, and face-to-face interviews, how the civil engineering and architectural students feel the improvement of their comprehension of structural analysis topics by the construction site visits experience. There ia a large number of structural systems that can be seen in con...

Engineering students approaching Lean Six Sigma methodology often fail to develop analytical and statistical competencies, which negatively impacts the adequate development of DMAIC cycle, which stands for the 5 phases of the methodology: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. This problem creates the necessity of improving the efficiency...

In this paper we present a challenge-based teaching model for a full semester of specialization in the Civil Engineering program in our University. In this minor or specialization diploma, students develop competencies associated to Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), Instrumentation and non-destructive testing of Structures. During a ten week peri...

During the years 2020 - 2021, students and lecturers have faced academical challenges like no other generation before them. One of the most important changes was the inability of attending construction sites due to the pandemic conditions. Using different communication technologies, we developed a virtual lab on construction site visits to keep the...

In this paper we present some ideas of what we consider a model for online Engineering courses in the post pandemic era should include. As universities worldwide returned to the campuses after two long years of online teaching in some countries, some lessons or good practices could be taken for designing new models for online teaching in the coming...

The evaluation of the maximum weight that a person can support during the performance of an activity related to the production or provision of services is a task of vital importance to ensure that our workers are not at risk of injuries or illnesses that impede them from doing their day-to-day job in the medium and long term Several studies affirm...

In this paper we present a teaching model for the course of Electric Circuits for Engineering students of several programs, including Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Electronics and Mechatronics. In this teaching model two main Engineering competencies are developed: a) Fundamentals of Systems and Enginee...

This paper presents a quantitative study on developing an app to promote Sustainable Development (SD) learning and reflection among higher education students. The research was conducted at Tecnologico de Monterrey (TEC), Mexico, in seven industrial design courses during the spring 2022 semester. At the end of the semester, a focus group was underta...

The design of the optimal workplace is still a task of the highest relevance for an ergonomist, the fact that the workplace adapts to the operator and not the operator to the workplace is a task that can take a long time. and this means that many companies do not want to invest that time in such a task and end up with a version of the workplace tha...

This paper provides empirical evidence of a positive impact in the engagement of engineering students enrolled in a mathematical course when exposed to a learning methodology of real time interactive presentations and anonymous collaboration using the online platform Mentimeter. The study involved 51 first-year engineering students enrolled in a Ma...

The didactic methods in the teaching of Engineering, Architecture, and Construction (EAC) are changing. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR), and if we add to this a video game such as Call of Duty: Warzone (CoD: WZ) for educational purposes, the benefits of th...

In this paper we present a challenge based teaching model for Structural Analysis courses within the framework of our education model, namely (blinded for review) in which some courses are taught with the participation of an industry partner. The content of this course is usually complex and some principles and concepts are difficult for students t...

This study presents the results of a real-time remote teaching scheme that has been applied in Architecture courses at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Puebla, Mexico, from January 2018 to the present. The study is situated in the context of the competency-based education focus that the new educational Model at the University has implemented recently as...

In this work we present a hybrid model that can be applied in theoretical Engineering courses, combining flipped learning, collaborative activities and online tutorials. A total of 200 students that participated in online courses with the authors responded a survey. The results include what in the students’ perception was the best implementations o...

In this paper, a model for teaching Engineering courses during the Covid19 Pandemic is presented. The model is a modified hybrid model that the authors have applied in the past few years in several courses and it was applied to some Structural Mechanics Courses during the contingency and lockdown conditions due to the Covid19 Pandemic. Results show...

Innovation in learning and teaching in higher education permits greater impact on students in the context of the current form of communication. Compared to the traditional model of teaching. employing innovative teaching resources offers opportunities to explore different global perspectives and can help students recognize the complexities behind t...

During the years 2020-2021, students and lecturers have faced motivational and academical challenges like no other generation before them. Lecturers have found themselves looking for innovative activities that make the interaction student-teacher more dynamic and less screen-based, while maintaining all the fundamental elements of the academic prog...

This paper provides evidence of positive impact in Engineering Students when applying the Scrum methodology within a virtual collaborative environment. An analysis of 17 students, using a modified version of T-TPQ, and a competence's behavior checklist from Tecnologico de Monterrey, showed that the methodology enhanced project monitoring, leadershi...

During 2020, COVID-19 dramatically changed the way in which students receive and analyze information from their teachers, classes have moved from face-to-face sessions into synchronous virtual meetings and asynchronous homework, increasing stress levels in students. This Evidence-based Practice paper explores Guided Learning Sequences as a content...

The design of a workstation includes the Design of the environment and the design of the workspace and the compliance of international and local norms established for those topics. Evaluating a posture is part of this design because it is the study of working conditions. For this specific task, there are various methods for assessing postures in a...

Having the ability to do something efficiently and successfully is essential to any worker of any discipline, but who’s to say that a worker has or has not developed competence, Only the instructor? The worker? Both? If for example we select a driving school, who’s to say that a student is competent to drive? If he is going to drive it, we better b...

Real-time remote courses offer the students the valuable resource of cultural diversity and the access to professors who are leaders in their field of knowledge. It also encourages the practice of several skills with technology as a learning tool. We have studied how courses taught by internationally experienced leaders, relying on communication te...

In this paper we present the implementation of a model involving real-time online education sessions for the continuation of a semester in emergency situations when the university has to stop activities. This model has been used during the strong Earthquakes in Central Mexico in September 2017 and during the most recent global situation due to the...

The presence of International professors in any faculty enriches the overall experience of the students and provides students different point of views in the subjects they learn. Sometimes it is not possible for a university to have more international faculty members because of many factors, including financial resources. In this work we present a...

During the final exams some students feel some emotional pressure to solve it. The purpose of this study was to make a preliminary comparison in two groups of an engineering exam at the end of the semester that contains numerical procedures and uses Canvas as a Source of Learning Management System. For this study, 59 students participated, 29 const...

A 3D virtual interactive environment can follow the steps of those old second world war flying simulators and be used as a tool to train people in learning a practical process. This will result in an increase of productivity because people will be able of performing that practical process in less time thanks to the use of Virtual Reality as a techn...

During the final exams some students feel some emotional pressure to solve it. The purpose of this study was to make a preliminary comparison in two groups of an engineering exam at the end of the semester that contains numerical procedures and uses Canvas as a Source of Learning Management System. For this study, 59 students participated, 29 const...

The development of a competence not only implies that activities are carried out to fulfill a learning objective but that these activities obey the formation of the competence in a direct and organized way. In addition, the development of the competence should not only be sought from the perspective of the professors who designed the activity, but...

In this paper we show results on how a proposed enhanced model for the teaching of Applied Mechanics Courses, particularly Mechanics of Structures courses, facilitates the motivation of students and lecturers resulting in an overall improvement of student satisfaction and their grades. The use and design of new spaces for teaching of such engineeri...

This paper deals with dynamic tests of the building with diesel generator and the process of determining the cause of the cracks in its walls. After initial measurements and FEM analysis, it was assumed that vibrations propagate to the structure through the base of the generator. Therefore, it was recommended to apply an elastic antivibration layer...

Digital Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube are part of the lives of most students nowadays. Generally, lecturers and teachers do not allow the use of mobile devices during class time. In this work, some results are shown of the positive effects that the allowance of such devices, as well as the interaction between prof...

This article deals with a method of how to acquire approximate displacement vibration functions. Input values are discrete, experimentally obtained mode shapes. A new improved approximation method based on the modal vibrations of the deck is derived using the least-squares method. An alternative approach to be employed in this paper is to approxima...

In this paper a variational formulation of smooth particle hydrodynamics for dynamic problems is presented. The resulting equations treat the continuum as a Hamiltonian system of particles where the constitutive equation of the material is represented via an internal energy term. In the case of fluids the internal energy term is a function of densi...

A shallow-waters formulation based on a variable smoothing length SPH method is presented. This new formulation of the SPH equations treats the continuum as a Hamiltonian system of particles where the constitutive relationships for the materials are introduced via an internal energy term. Some of the advantages of the new SPH formulation are eviden...

The paper describes the variational formulation of smooth particle hydrodynamics for both fluids and solids applications. The resulting equations treat the continuum as a Hamiltonian system of particles where the constitutive equation of the continuum is represented via an internal energy term. For solids this internal energy is derived from the de...

This article presents the development and application of a corrected smooth particle hydrodynamics (CSPH) code to the simulation of debris flow and avalanches. The advantages of a mesh-free method over other traditional numerical methods such as the finite element method are discussed. A new frictional approach for the boundary conditions and modif...

This paper presents a mesh-free methodology based in the shallow waters equations for the simulation of geophysical flows. The resulting equations treat the continuum as a Hamiltonian system of particles where the constitutive equation of the continuum is represented via an internal energy term. In the case of fluids, the internal energy term is a...

This paper presents several advances in the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) [1,2] method with its applications in numerical simulations of fluid and solid mechanics problems. The authors have developed Corrected Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (CSPH) techniques which are based on the introduction of a number of correction terms to the standard SP...

The paper will present recent advances in the area of corrected Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics [1-4] and its application to simulate debris flows. Debris flows following for instance landslides are complex phenomena that are currently difficult to model using standard techniques. The unpredictability of the path followed by the flow and the large di...

Tesis (Maestro en Ciencias, Especialidad en Ingeniería Civil)--Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.