Oportunidades Públicas

Evaluation of Geothermal energy of low Enthalpy

Evaluation of the Reservoir Springhill in the area of the reservoir of Oil and Gas of Cerro Sombrero, to obtain resources geothermal non-conventional from wells Enap abandoned, Island, Tierra del Fuego, Magallanes, Chile

Mobile Virtual Reality Framework

Research aiming to identify advantages and disadvantages of various VR (Virtual Reality) Frameworks that allow to develop applications VR for mobile environments (e.g. Android based). The student will perform a research work of the different proposals of VR Frameworks and develop an application VR applied to a particular scenario. For the development of the project, the student has devices, Wireless, and Mobile VR Headset and access to the software for VR development.

New Anthropometric Measurement Devices

Chile lacks standardized anthropometric measurement data which form the basis for the design of work spaces, furniture, equipment, clothing, etc, Existing measurement tools are either tedious to use or too expensive. This research seeks to develop new anthropometric measurement devices which are easy to use and affordable. The course will be taught in English. Students will be required to submit one conference poster at the end of the semester as a result of this research. Final evaluation will be based on the quality of the research conducted, contribution to scientific advancement in the topic and, conference poster development.

Research on the Alternatives for Mineral Concentration of Copper Sulfides-Oxides Mixtures

The plants concentration by flotation are optimized for concentrating minerals containing Copper. In the medium mining it is common to encounter mineralized zones with a high content of Copper oxides such as Malachite and Crisocola that reduce the recovery of Copper total significantly. Given the limitations of the facilities are not yet technical solutions that facilitate optimize the recovery from this scenario. The research seeks to develop a study of the state of the art, a characterization of the problem in an actual operation, and propose practical solutions to the problem.

Implicit Modeling in Mining

Implicit modeling of bodies using tools such as Vulcan, Leapfrog and Voxler, to compare the advantages each tool provides. The students will work during the semester with real data. The idea is to publish the findings in one ISI paper by the end of the semester.

Effects of Multiple-Device Use on Mental Workload

Modern life involves the daily use of multiple devices like cell phones, laptops, desktops, personal data assistants, tablets, etc, for sending, receiving, storing and processing information. And although using multiple devices and processing many types of information is very common, especially among the young, most of us complain about how difficult, stressful or tedious this can be or how inefficient and unorganized we sometimes feel despite all these technological advances and amenities.

Mental workload can be defined as "the portion of operator information processing capacity or resources that is actually required to meet system demands" (Eggemeier, et al., 1991). Simply put it means the amount of mental resources required to perform the task(s) on hand. The goal of this study would be to understand through a literature review and possible experimentation, how the use of multiple devices affects mental workload. Methods to measure mental workload will also be investigated.

investigation by in school effectiveness

Related jobs econ the Agency of Quality of education

Finance IPRE Oportunity (20 cr.)

Various Topics. No formal pre-requisites. For more details please contact the Professor directly at: threyes@ing.puc.cl

studies of the user experience

Research in analysis of the Usability in real systems

Robotic systems submarines

Several vacancies to work in a team on projects related to modeling, mechanical design, electronics, control and programming robotic systems submarines.

Optimization reactive to routes of a cargo aircraft of short-term

In the airline industry of charging occurs frequently that the original itinerary is altered due to that little bit before undertaking a flight, the load reserved not presented, or it does so partially, it arrives after the deadline or at the last minute.
This paper addresses this problem for which it formulates a Pickup and Delivery with time windows.
The work has two objectives: i) to test the proposed model under different scenarios of operation and (ii) to propose and develop different heuristic solution.

Trials to court and flexo-compression of walls to structural wood

Tests and cyclic monotínos of walls of wood subjected to shear and axial load simultaneously with a bending moment.

Development of Footprint models

Python for data mining in Eucacion

Student who knows Python to work in Data Mining for databases of the Agency of the Quality of the Edicacion

Modelacion multilevel educational systems

Is analuza the compirtamiento of the schools most deficient in the country

Development of mechanical systems of the solar vehicle

Design, calculation and manufacturing of mechanical components of a solar vehicle.
Key words: V-Solar
Course: ICM2985

Aerodynamic optimisation of vehicle and solar (Project V-Solar) v2

Simulations CFD of different designs of auto solar to optimize their aerodynamics.

Sustainability

Sustainability

SPICEBox 5 credits

Development of prototype of SPICEBox, 75 hours in total

SPICEBox 10 credits

Development of prototype of SPICEBox, 150 hours in total

Parallel algorithms for the boundary element method

The boundary element method (BEM) is a powerful computational technique for the simulation of wave scattering problems. Many applications can be found in acoustics and electromagnetics, for example in the design of medical instruments that use acoustic fields to treat tumours. When increasing the frequency of the wave field, the mesh has to be refined, resulting in large linear systems to be solved. Solving these large problems require efficient algorithms from the field of high-performance computing. This includes the use of parallel algorithms to distribute the computational load over a cluster of computer nodes.
In this project, efficient parallel algorithms will be developed to improve the efficiency of the BEM for high-frequency scattering problems. This involves both the design, analysis and implementation of the computational algorithms. The implementation of these new techniques will be carried out in the open-source package BEM++ (www.bempp.org), which provides a powerful and user-friendly Python library for the simulation of 3D scattering phenomena with the BEM.

Optimization of calibration methods for close-range photogrammetry

The project focuses in searching for novel numerical algorithms to measure the 3D positions of points of interest from pictures. The student will join an interdisciplinar team from the Mathematica Engineering group and the Astro-engineering Center, working on close-range photogrammetry applied to astronomical instrumentation issues. The project consists in taking benefits from a mathematical modeling of the physics behind the photographic process to improve the precisión and accuracy of the position measurements. The student will simulate data and also process real images. He/She will implement and/or use numerical estimation and optimization methods in order to produce quantitative comparisons.

Design of a telescope of 35 cm diameter. Part 1: Mirror Cell

We have a parabolic mirror 35 cm in diameter (14 inches). This mirror should be mounted on a cell with N points of support. It is necessary to design the cell, using a software for mechanical design 3D, and Autodesk Inventor (preferred) or SolidWorks. For the proper design of the cell, you can use the program Plop, available here: http://www.davidlewistoronto.com/plop/

The cell must be built using our CNC machine and/or support of the Mechanical Workshop. The cell with the mirror mounted on it must be tested on an optical table.

It is expected that 1 or 2 students to work on this project.

Design of a telescope of 35 cm diameter. Part 4: Control of the instruments

The telescope that we're building will have the capacity to operate more than one instrument at the same time, each of them located in one of the stations in the focal of the telescope. The coordinated operation of the instruments during the night should be controlled by a controller, to orient the mirror which delivers light to the various instruments. This control is part of the telescope and must operate synchronously with other sub-systems of the telescope.

Establishing the representative low-rise residential buildings ina Santiago for net zero energy studies

On the basis of permissions of building from 2012 you must identify new buildings of medium height social and private, such that it allows to determine the housing representative for studies of net zero energy. This research is to statistically identify potential homes representative in various communes of Santiago, based on the information of building permits and folders of drawings, technical specifications and calculation reports are available in the Directorates of Municipal Works. This research is part of the project INTERDISCIPLINARY II5035 "Potential and optimization of residential buildings zero net energy (ERCEN) in Chile".

Optimization, Control and Markets in Energy

Opportunity to join the group of Optimization, Control and Markets in Energy (CMO) of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the PUC as a researcher of undergraduate. Interested parties may join any of the various projects in operation and planning of electric systems with high penetration of renewables, smart grids and electric markets that the group develops.

Family business and Entrepreneurship

The relationship between family business and entrepreneurship is a hot topic internationally. We offer 1 or 2 very good students the opportunity to study this area, and the students can expect to get a master degree on this topic.

Nutritional profile of sourdough quinoa bread

The opportunity aims to determine the nutritional profile of bread made with quinoa using a technology that is sourdough, using lactic acid bacteria capable of producing exopolysaccharide. The parameters to be evaluated are: total protein, digestion protein in vitro rate of starch hydrolysis and determination of the glycemic index.

Mecanismos moleculares de utilización de oligosacáridos de leche materna

Mecanismo molecular de utilización de oligosacáridos de leche materna por Bifidobacterium longum SC664. Clonación de genes candidatos y expresión de proteínas. Purificación y ensayos enzimáticos. Curvas de crecimiento y cuantificación del consumo de azúcares por TLC.

Sensor fucose for the delivery of molecules anti-inflammatory

Cloning of promoters and reporters activated in the presence of signs of intestinal.

Open source fluorescence microscopy illumination system

Fluorescence microscopy requires sources of light of defined frequencies to illuminate the sample. For a typical microscope these can cost more than US$10K, using incandescent lamps or more recently LEDs. However, the low cost and easy availability of high-power LEDs of the correct wavelengths (e.g. 470nm and 505nm, cost ~US$5), open source microcontrollers (e.g. Arduino, cost ~US$25), and 3D-printing and other fabrication technologies opens the possibility of “home made” solutions.
This project will develop a multi-channel fluorescence illumination system for the Nikon Ti series microscope, using Arduino (and Java programming), LEDs, metal work, and 3D-printing. This will be prototyped and tested in the BioFabLab, FabLab and UCX (Centro Innovacion UC). Designs will then be published in an open source hardware journal.
Requirements: good practical skills in electronics (e.g. soldering), basic optics, programming, knowledge or Arduino and control theory (e.g. PID) would be useful, experience with microscopes also useful.

Statistical physics analysis of bacterial colonies

The cells in colonies of bacteria can be considered as particles moving and interacting with each other and their environment. Compare for example to the physics of atoms or molecules in a gas or liquid. Each particle is described by its position and momentum. Statistical physics and thermodynamics considers such systems in the limit of very large numbers of particles, and computes statistical (macroscopic) variables that describe the system. Control parameters are typically temperature, which creates thermal noise. We have developed CellModeller (www.cellmodeller.org) - python software that solves the equations of motion for >100000 bacillus cells. This project will work together with that described above (PIV) to derive and compute statistical measures that describe the physics of bacterial colony growth and gene expression using both simulation and experimental data.

Fragility curves of houses in Chile

The research is to determine the fragility seismic houses in Chile using data from past earthquakes. We have data of damages of houses from the earthquake of 2010, 2014 and 2015.

Updating a Matlab-based toolbox for mathematical modeling

SensSB is a toolbox programmed in Matlab 7.5 that covers all the steps involved during the modeling process. SensSB's main features are: (i) local and global sensitivity analysis, (ii) identifiability analysis, (iii) model-based optimal experimental design (OED), and (iv) confidence intervals of the estimated parameters. With the new versions of Matlab this software has become obsolete and some functionalities are not going well. The objective of this research opportunity is to review this toolbox to create an updated, fully operational and improved version including, for example, the option of incorporating models with explicit delays. Prior knowledge of Matlab and some of the previously described mathematical modeling techniques are required.

Design and implementation of the Smart Cities in Chile

In the framework of http://thesmartcitizenproject.cl/, offers study and track the “controversies” that arise from the introduction of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence. The aim of these investigations will deepen in aspects of contentious and ethically sensitive that arise with the development of intelligent systems of management of social life. There are 3 lines of research attempts to: 1) Examine the controversies that arise from the introduction of sensors in cars by insurers to control the behavior of their insured. 2) Big Data and private life. 3) Study on quantified self and the rationalization of private life. We welcome all disciplines interesdas by the technologies. The methodologies used are mainly interviews and analysis of literature (scientific and media).

Response of neural networks is central to injury-generalized (ischemic) and spot (electrolysis).

The high frequency of lesions of any type in the central nervous system directly affects the functionality of the neural networks as central. Little is known about the changes in the discharge patterns in these networks and the mechanisms that mediate the immediate responses to the injury. This project aims to characterize these changes in neural networks as complex as is the case of the networks ganglion before lesions generalized (ischemia) or neural injuries timely within the network. To do this we will use the model electrophysiological ganglion terminal abdominal (A6) of the cockroach, a simple model and fast (total time of the experiment, approx. 60 minutes). It has everything required in instrumentation, reagents, hardware and software of recording and analysis of electrical discharges in neural.
Responsible: Drs. María Rodríguez Fernández and Antonio Eblen-Zajjur

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Literature review of the phenomenon of acquisition of ventures

The aim is to perform a literature review about the effect of the acquisitions on the companies that they acquire and the businesses that they are acquired. To do this, you must:

1. Review the indexes of the major journals in strategy and entrepreneurship and identify the articles that make reference to the subject matter.

2. Classify them according to different dimensions (predefined), and then try to discover patterns about what is known (and what there is to know) in a subject.

Sometimes, when you read the articles you will find other items relevant but that are not in the magazines listed above.

The final delivery is a table with the dimensions, and a presentation of the patterns that have been discovered (what has been studied, and those things that are missing to understand).

Urban mobility and road safety: Development of bicycle lighting

This research links the industrial design with the electrical and mechanical engineering. His intention is to complete the development stage of the product getting a prototype capable of validating this innovation. It provides for the parameterization of the design of the bike, analysis, FEA, development, electronics, prototyping of lights and frame of the bike, design and implementation of circuits and the study and definition of sources of energy. We will construct a PROTOTYPE ALPHA, using methods of CNC and hand-crafted techniques as a tool for the validation of the concept. The research concludes with the design of a bicycle with lighting systems built to communicate location, brake and signaling to the rest of the actors in the transit able to improve the road safety. This includes the frozen design and the obtaining of the final documentation of the same. It requires a design student and an engineering student. Desirable fondness for the bicycle.

Technology simple for the involucramineto prental

Working with SMS to involve parents in the activities of student their children

Technology for involucramineto parental

Working with SMS to develop the involvement parental

School Effectiveness

Con Modelos econométricos se estudia la Efectividad Escolar

Flipped Classroom

Explores the implemnetacion of the class invested both at university and school

Study dispatch and routing problems triggered by online sales

To study the problems of routing and dispatching of vehicles. Investigate applications of rute in dispatch-to-home for sales on the internet. It is expected that the student perform a detailed literature review, model a problem and build a prototype solution.

Study logistics of attendees purchase on the internet

This research intends to study the logistics of online services that work as assistants to purchase (personal shoppers). A personal shopper receives orders (list of products to buy and deliver) from multiple clients. Think of services like Instacart, Telemercados Europe, or companies that buy school supplies to several customers. The question is how to make the logistics of purchase and distribution that consolidates the lists of orders of several clients. The idea is to review literature, to model the problem and assemble a small prototype of the solution.

Effect of the experience of embarking on individual performance

Literature review of the effect of the experience of embarking on individual performance

Study of use of law R & D to enable market transaction ventures

Review of the literature about the phenomena of acquisition of endeavors technology.

Application of simulation and mathematical modeling techniques in determining mine operational parameters

The research will include the modeling of mining systems using ORMS tools to determine the optimal mine planing parameters for maximum profit. This will include field vist to collect data, modeling, and acquisition of new skills. The idea is to make a novel investigation that can be published, with the possibility of co-authorship. Contact the professor to obtain more details about the available research areas. Students can also select from the following research areas:

Production planning and mine design;
Production scheduling;
Evaluation and Modeling of Water and Energy Sustainability;
Reliability studies and dispatch of mining equipment;
Construction / operational safety, etc.

Microscope, open source, transmitted illumination, oblique

Making a microscope from open-source hardware that contains oblique illumination.

Study photophysical complexes luminescent Ir(III) and Cu(I) with applications in devices LEC

To study the electronic properties, and photophysical complexes ciclometalados of Ir(III) and Cu(I). To link these properties with potential applications in devices LEC (Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells)

Copper Solvent Extraction Evaluation

Development of the first software in the world based on artificial intelligence for the writing of academic documents

One of the major problems that affect the academics in the universities is that the process of writing, revising, and editing of academic texts demand a lot of time and effort.
With the aim of solving this problem and make this process more efficient, constructive, and of better quality; we are developing a new computational model for the review and editing-automatic multi-level language of academic texts. For this, we are looking for students in the area of engineering (preferably computer science) with critical thinking; be proactive, analytical and able to solve complex problems. Students will engage in basic and applied research of technical language-computer based on corpus and machine learning.
We invite you to be part of a significant project and with global impact by doing your internship with a strong multidisciplinary team that is redefining how to write academic texts.

Research on academic motivation

Design and implementation of experiments for the measurement of impact of programs for the development of academic motivation

Marine Robotics Systems -- 5CR

Several opportunities to work in a interdisciplinary team on projects related to modeling, mechanical design, electronics, control and programming of marine robotic systems. This 5 credit version is for a limited work supporting larger projects.

Road Safety and Public Health

Understand the impacts of road crashes on public health

Evaporation measurements using a portable chamber

You need to calibrate, and perform field tests of the method of the dome to measure evaporation

Study of processes of removal in mass triggered by extreme events of rain

Research work on the occurrence of events of removal in mass triggered by rain events. The work considers review and analysis of the determining factors of these phenomena and the collection of records in a case study with real.

Fabrication and characterization of nanocilindros magnetic for cellular studies

In the framework of the project, seed grant with U. Tokyo, we developed nanocilindros (NC) magnetic incorporated into cells. The objective of this research is synthesis and characterization of these to improve biocompatibility and to evaluate the effect cell to the different rotations

Criptanálisis: guess a parallelepiped in R^n (adaptive version)

The goal is to implement an attack that is already written in pseudo-code, that starts in the center of a paralelotopo in R^n and on a number O(n(log n)^2) steps is a vertex.

A paralelotopo in R^n is the set bounded by n translations, successive addresses are independent to a point in R^n, or equivalently, the volume between 2n pairs of parallel planes two to two. We will focus on the paralelotopos of networks topological euclideanas ideals, which are generated by taking a vector of R^n, and by performing rotation with respect to the axes of the canonical. That is to say, knowing a vertex it is possible to reconstruct the paralelotopo.

In some cryptographic schemes, the secret key is the representation of a paralelotopo, so discover the paralelotopo is equivalent to stealing a secret key.

This implementation will be included in a research article in cryptography, as it attacks one of the cryptographic schemes most celebrated recently.

Exploration of algorithms in Optimization, Convex

In recent times, many of the problems that have resulted in “Data Science” and similar subjects, have motivated a great development in algorithms for Optimization Convex. Some of these methods are, for example, the first order that have been used in problems of Big Data, recommender systems, image reconstruction, and others. This research opportunity seeks to explore variants recent of these methods, such as, for example, “Optimization Lenses” or applications of methods of first-order Linear Programming. Knowledge of optimization at the level of the course Methods of Optimization and good computer skills are important to develop this theme.

Development of sustainable systems for grey water reuse

theoretical and practical research work to develop innovative treatment systems of grey water.

Cutting Stock, Lot-Sizing and Pricing Problem

Many productive industries must solve problems on how to produce subproducts from a common input, and then determine how to perform the inventory management of these. An advance in the state of the art is to incorporate these two decisions together with the decision of what price should be established for each of these products.

The challenge of this research is to construct and solve mathematical models that allow us to understand how these decisions are related and serve as support to take them.

Development of methodologies to determine oil affinity with fried products

Está demostrado que la variabilidad en el contenido de aceite de diferentes productos fritos está determinada principalmente por los siguientes factores:
1. Microestructura interna
2. Rugosidad superficial
3. Textura (resistencia a esfuerzos mecánicos)
4. Afinidad del alimento con el aceite.
Este trabajo de investigación apunta a caracterizar la afinidad de productos fritos formulados en base a hojuelas de papa y harina de trigo con el aceite al final del proceso de fritura. Específicamente se espera:
• Validar una metodología desarrollada en trabajos anteriores para determinar ángulo de contacto (una medida de afinidad entre el alimento y el aceite) en productos re-estructurados.
• Revisar literatura para determinar otras formas de caracterizar la diferencia de afinidad entre ambas categorías de productos.

Transformation of operational information of Transantiago for planning systems

General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common file format for the schedules of public transport and its geographical information. Each file describes the schedule last established or a service frequency. In the case of Santiago, we use the latter, where it is unknown a priori, the schedule of last of the vehicles. This results in applications such as Google Maps, which uses the feed GTFS of the plan of operation of Santiago for trip planning, users obtain as a suggestion waiting times and journey, without considering, for example, the congestion time.
The objective of this research is to develop a tool which allows to transform automatically the operational information of Transantiago (GPS and BIP) to GTFS. Is considered as real information the hours pass by each stop at various times of the day various services of the system over a time horizon set.

Game theory and Applications to Inspection

The problem to study is inspection multistage, where an inspector needs to visit multiple locations to verify that they comply with certain standards of quality. An innovative feature of this model is that it considers possible collusion of the agents inspected. That is to say, the aim is to avoid that the agents inspected have some form colluding and achieve evade or circumvent the inspection system. This situation will model with theory of games and will result in a problem that it is possible to resolve in situations in which there are equilibria of Stackelberg.

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Analysis of the Froude number role on the development of free surface fluctuations in open channel flows.

The work consist of the analysis of existing experimental data obtained with two-dimensional particle image velocimetry. The aim of the work is to explain the onset of free-surface fluctuations in open channels as a function of changes of the Froude number. Besides the calculation of the velocity fields, the work involves the analysis of parameters characterising the flow turbulence and the identification of structures explaining the perturbation of the free surface. It is expected, based on the quality of the experimental dataset available for this project, that a high quality publication could be an option at the end of the work.

Increased evaporation due to advection of dry air

Investigating the "oasis effect" which can increase the evaporation rates in bodies of water that are located in areas hyper-arid.

Software tools of image analysis of 4D flow

During the last years we have developed tools for quantifying flow data obtained by magnetic resonance imaging using finite elements. For the massification of these results, we are creating a software tool in Matlab, and we need students who want to work on some aspects of this software.

The objective of this project is to generate an application that will allow the reformatting of the 3D data to 2D at the angle the user to select, using the software Matlab, and include both information of the 3D image as the hemodynamic parameters that are quantified using finite element analysis.

Software tools of image analysis of 4D flow: Render 3D data.

During the last years we have developed tools for quantifying flow data obtained by magnetic resonance imaging using finite elements. For the massification of these results, we are creating a software tool in Matlab, and we need students who want to work on some aspects of this software.

The goal is to generate an application using the Matlab software that allows the 3D rendering of hemodynamic parameters of the aorta, from meshes of finite elements tetrahedral, with the purpose of extracting useful information from this display.

Software tools of image analysis of 4D flow: Automatic reformatting

During the last years we have developed tools for quantifying flow data obtained by magnetic resonance imaging using finite elements. For the massification of these results, we are creating a software tool in Matlab, and we need students who want to work on some aspects of this software.

The objective of this project is to generate an interface in the Matlab software that enables you to select manually the nodes of input, output, and vessels supra-aortic of a mesh tetrahedron 3D of the aorta, in order to subsequently apply the equation of Laplace on these data, and thus to obtain the centerline and the planes that are perpendicular to the aorta in an automatic way.

Segmentation of the Aorta using images of 4D-flow

In this project we seek a student to develop a software that allows the segmentation of the aorta using images of 4D-flow. The goal is to develop computational tools using Deep Learning for automatic segmentation of the Aorta.

Development of an instrument for the measurement of entrepreneurship in engineering

Boundary element methods for biomedical engineering

Boundary element methods are numerical methods that can simulate wave propagation very efficiently. There are several applications of this technique in the area of biomedical engineering, such as, high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment of cancer, diffusive optical tomography and electroencephalography scans of a head. In the research project, the physical phenomena will be modelled with partial differential equations and solved with the boundary element method. The implementation will be in Python with the open-source library Bempp. The challenges are to include a more realistic model of the phenomena and the development of fast algorithms to improve the efficiency of the numerical method.

Structural elements of wood for buildings

Testing of structural elements for timber buildings

Capacity payments in electricity markets with variable generation

Chile is benefiting from the massive arrival of wind and solar PV plants at low prices, however, the incorporation of these variable renewable energy sources involves reviewing some important aspects in the electricity market price system, such as, the capacity incomes allocation among generators.
The current methodology accounts for the guarantee with which a generator can deliver its energy to the system, however, it does not adequately incorporate the high intermittency and volatility of variable renewable sources.
The research consists of reviewing the current regulations in Chile and proposing a capacity payment allocation mechanism that appropriately takes into account the particularities of renewable sources.
Students will need to work on a model that is already developed by the teacher.

Study of interactions in a biofilm of microorganisms biolixiviantes by microscopy of epifluoresencia

It seeks to optimize methods for the study of interactions of bacteria biolixiviantes on the surface of metal sulfide such as pyrite and chalcopyrite. Will be used techniques of cultivation of microorganisms biolixiviantes, predial a cell, epifluorescence microscopy and image analysis.

Problems for Cutting-Stock and pricing to perishables

Many productive industries must solve problems about how to produce by-products from a feedstock common, and subsequently determine how to perform the inventory management. An advance in the state of the art is in adding together, these two decisions with the decision of what price must be established for each one of these products.

The challenge of this research is to construct and solve mathematical models that allow you to understand how to relate these decisions and serve as a support for them.

Numerical methods for problems elastodinámicos

Numerical methods for problems elastodinámicos

Finite element methods for problems of hyperbolic

Finite element methods for problems of hyperbolic

High-order partial differential equation solvers for wave propagation

A highly motivated undergraduate student is sought to contribute to the development of novel high-order numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations with applications in electromagnetics, optics, acoustics, and fluid mechanics, among others. The ideal candidate should be at least familiar with the following topics:
1. Electricity and magnetism (FIS1533/FIZ0221) and/or Electromagnetic theory (FIZ0321)
2. Partial differential equations (MAT250I/MAT2505)
3. Scientific computing (MAT2605/MAT280I)
4. Methods of mathematical physics (FIZ0223/MAT2705 y FIZ0313)
5. Programming languages: Fortran (90 or newer), Matlab, or Julia.

More information about potential research topics can be found here:
http://cperezar.sitios.ing.uc.cl/research.html

Evidence-based Policy and Innovation Research Lab

Contact professor

Evidence-based Policy and Innovation Research Lab

Contact professor

Modelling the Metropolitan emergency healthcare network for analysis of earthquake risk and resilience

In case of a disaster of natural origin, people may be affected by damages to their homes or injuries of different severity level, but also by the loss of functionality of critical services such as health care, transportation, water network and electricity. Therefore, the resilience of an urban environment is largely determined by the ability of some critical networks to maintain their functionality and recover in the aftermath of an extreme event.
In this project, we will build a discrete event model to represent the operation of the Metropolitan region emergency healthcare network, considering normal demand and potential over-demand after large earthquake, the attention statistics in different facilities, the distribution of critical resources and interdependencies, and administrative relations between different hospitals. This model will be used to assess the network's seismic risk and seismic resilience.

Survey on factors of decision and success in a course

You will create and analyze a survey, and analyze historical data on a course of the School of Engineering.

The green tax on vehicles. Does it work?

Every new car that is sold in Chile must pay a tax to the “green” that depends on their emissions of NOx and CO2 (the exact amount for each vehicle can be calculated in https://www4.sii.cl/calcImpVehiculoNuevoInternet/internet.html ) . Although the origin of this tax is the levy (it was part of the Tax Reform of 2014 to fund free university), can have a positive environmental impact. This research aims to estimate the effect of this tax on the emissions of the new car fleet. What has changed the average emission of the fleet? That is to say do You sell cars more clean today than yesterday? The brands are ahead of the compliance with future standards for their models to pay less tax?
All of these questions are very important to assess the impact of the tax, and to assess its performance as an instrument of environmental regulation.

Several opportunities in the areas of Management and Environmental Economy (5cr)

Miscellaneous topics: quantification of externalities, development of KPIs for environmental performance (emissions/person, emissions/product, etc), etc If you are interested, send an e-mail

Research opportunities in Management and Environmental Economy (10cr)

Miscellaneous topics: quantification of externalities, development of KPIs for environmental performance (emissions/person, emissions/product, etc), etc If you are interested, send an e-mail

Firewood in Coyhaique: effects on the population's health

Coyhaique is one of the most polluted cities of Latin America by wood for heating. MP2,5 has effects on the health of the population, from itchy eyes to increase the risk of death. Although this is known, the authorities do not believe that the problem is so serious, because they can't see and because there is no local studio that shows the effects
This project seeks to find the relationship between the concentration of PM2,5 and various effects on health: hospital admissions, visits to the emergency room, and premature mortality. For this, the collaboration of a doctor of the hospital of Coyhaique is assured, which can provide the raw data. It requires you to do a statistical analysis of relatively sophisticated to find the association. It is recommended to have experience in the use of the statistical software R.
This analysis is very important for the population of Coyhaique, and it can be replicated to many cities in the south of Chile.

Sensitivity of tomographic adaptive optics reconstructors to turbulence profile knowledge

Existing tomographic adaptive optics (TAOs) at big observatories today involve wavefront reconstructors over a fixed number of layers associated to the conjugated deformable mirrors. The control is based on a classical integrator. Previous studies suggested that the performance can be increased using minimum-variance reconstructor with a pseudo-open-loop control instead. The benefits have been quantified using simulations with a perfect knowledge of the considered atmospheric turbulence profile. The present project investigates the consequences of a partial or approximated knowledge of this atmospheric profile. We will compare the two approaches in existing or under-development TAO configurations (e.g. GeMS, GALACSI-NFM, MAORY), in order to draw conclusions on the robustness of the two methods depending on the considered configuration. The project simulations will involve Octopus, ESO’s end-to-end simulator, as well as FRiM3D (a yorick-based simulator) for minimum-variance reconstruction and control.

In-situ leaching: recovery of metals from rocks without mining conventional

The objective of this project is to review a mining technique little explored so-called in-situ leaching (LIS), also known as In-Situ Recovery. LIS uses solutions that are pumped through the body, mineralized in situ (underground) to recover the metals by leaching. This technique can be defined as the "removal of the valuable components of a mineral deposit without physical extraction of the rock". As a result, there is little disturbance of the surface and does not produce tailings or waste rock in the mines LIS.
What is expected of you throughout the semester?
- Investigate the literature, LIS is available in English and the literature not published on master thesis and phd in Spanish.
- Participate in group discussions bi-weekly on these publications-de-LIS.
- Develop a final report (up to 10 pages of text), in combination with the other student, how it works LIS and how we explored this technology in Chile.

Collaboration in public health system: treatment against cancer

Currently the health services to the chilean made the treatment of their patients only and exclusively in the establishment to which it belongs. With the understanding that the services of chilean health are multihospitalarios, the collaboration between establishments in the scheduling of patients to treatment sessions to fight the cancer, is the way in which they can make efficient use of their resources by delivering a better and more timely response to patients.

In this research we develop optimization models to determine policies that enable the design of public policies for this problem.

Development of computational tools for market intelligence in the electricity sector

Development of tools for the visual analysis of the conditions of operation of the electricity markets in chile. Requirement management programming in Python, Databases and packages display.

Assembly and measurement of synthetic gene circuits

Construct DNAs using techniques from molecular biology and then measure their output in growing cell cultures.

Evaluation Online Strategy of Development Motivation School Susana Claro

The motivation of the school is one of the dimensions of quality defined for the school system in Chile, but little is known how to develop it and how to measure it in students.
It will implement an intervention online of development of mentality of growth in schools and measure their impact on motivation in school and academic performance.
The work is carried out in 19 educational establishments during 2019. This requires management of relationships with principals and teachers.
The tasks vary according to the needs of the research. For example, collection and processing of surveys, visits to schools and monitoring of processes, management of data bases. In particular it is preferred students to specialize in one of these areas: Qualtrics, STATA, excel, email, mass, motivation, education.
Please send an email describing their motivation to participate, experience and time available.

State of the art exploration in Android and iOS mobile platforms

The projects consists of learning Android and iOS mobile platforms fundamentals and researching the latest features introduced by the respective platforms in their latest updates, along with the main Android and iOS initiatives currently being worked on to be released in the future.

Towards a new programming paradigm for unifying the Mobile-Edge landscape

The project consists of the exploration of new methods to enable the development of applications capable of simultaneously being deployed in both mobile and Edge environments, while at the same time, automatically capturing the communication dynamics between the different agents of a Mobile-Edge solution. It is expected to accomplish these goals by applying advances software engineering techniques over the Android and Android Things platforms.

A Framework for the Development of Efficient Mobile-Edge-Cloud Computing Solutions

The project consists on researching methods to improve the efficiency of grid computing in Mobile-Edge-Cloud environments, and then, to apply this knowledge in the development of a new open-source framework intended to facilitate the development of this kind of solution. Students are expected to explore grid computing algorithms, to test their idea on simulated environments and to familiarize themselves with measuring tools for embedded system to empirically validate their results.

Development of immersive environments in Unity for virtual reality

The project consists in familiarizing the student with the fundamentals of 3D application development in the Unity 3D software, and then to explore how we can use this tool to develop innovative virtual reality applications compatible with the Gear VR or Oculus Rift platforms.

Classification of comments on apps

It has a base of comments on bank applications, a subset of which are classified manually. You want to test classifiers for automatic categorizing the set of data. Related reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756316/

Herramientas avanzadas para toma de decisiones en sistemas complejos

En esta investigación de pregrado se desarrollan herramientas sofisticadas de apoyo a la toma decisiones en sistemas complejos, utilizando conceptos de diversas disciplinas científicas: ciencia de datos, optimización, modelación estocástica, simulación, machine learning, y/o estadística. Las aplicaciones con que se trabaje pueden ser asociadas a distintas industrias, según los intereses particulares de los alumnos.

Fabrication of electrospun polymer scaffolds for biocompatibility studies

Fabrication of polymer scaffolds using the electrospinning equipment, using different polymer compositions, optimizing its fabrication, measuring physical and chemical properties, evaluating biocompatibility and studying the effect of electrostimulation

Non Saccharomyces fermenation profile

The project goal is to characterize the fermentative profile (sugars utilization and ethanol production) resulted in defined medium fermentations

Mine and construction system automation and simulation

This research involves applying the newest tool in the mining industry, including machine learning, process mining, simulation, mathematical modeling, exact algorithms, data mining etc in mine planning and production scheduling. Specifically, the student will learn and apply tool that will be beneficial to their career and present a potential to publish. Student from all departments can apply. The only requirement is that you are eager to learn and work hard. Knowledge of such tools is an advantage but not required.

Machine learning to analyse urban contamination

To investigate the impact of the urban pollution of Santiago on the ecosystems of the nearby mountain, we have collected measurements of air pollution in samples from trees and ice cores in the past 3 years. These activities result in a data set that contains time series of concentrations of several elements for 8 sites, from the city of Santiago, passing by intermediate levels of the mountain (Yerba Loca, Farellones, etc), up a glacier to the summit of the mountains.
The sources of pollution and their chemical profiles are known (traffic, urban, industry, mining, natural powder, sprays, marine, etc). What is sought is the contribution of various sources to the pollution of the several sampling sites, and the evolution of this contribution over time.
Using algorithms of Machine Learning the task is to classify the sources of contamination and to determine the temporal evolution of the contribution of these sources.

Industrial wastewater treatment using high rate anaerobic reactors

Dynamic approach-stochastic scheduling of a sports tournament

The central idea of this research is to construct a solution approach based on tools of dynamic programming stochastic to make a tournament sport -particularly football - gain some metrics on the attractiveness and profitability of that tournament.
Thus, this research will include modeling, computer programming and bibliographic analysis of the problem.

Computing the resonance of fish school

Sonar systems use acoustic waves for underwater surveillance, for example, to detect submarines or estimate the abundance of fish. While fish typically do not reflect much acoustic energy, there are specific frequencies at which the reflected wave increases drastically because of resonances. In order to analyse the effect of fish schools on the resonance frequency, we need efficient numerical methods. This project aims to design, analyse, and program a high-performance computing software based on the boundary element method to calculate the acoustic properties of fish schools.

Geochemistry of the Pirque aquifer

Geochemical and streamflow analysis: design of monitoring, analysis of the data

New sustainable artificial aggregate for construction industry based on copper mine tailings

Power Conversion for PV Systems II

Control and implementation of a new power converter for PV systems. Knowledge in Power Electronics and Control is required, in addition to experience in simulation Matlab/Simulink or Plecs.

Automatized system for ionic fluxes recordings in biological membranes

The ionic transport in biological membranes is vital to understand normal and pathological function in many organs, i.e., intestine, kidney, heart and brain. Many drugs modify these flows which are relevant for treatment or as a toxic. Sodium is one of the most actively transported ions through biological membranes and the method to quantify its flow is by the Ussing chamber, in which the membrane is placed separating two compartments filled with physiological solutions, and measuring the transepithelial potential (TEP) in millivolts, using electrodes placed in each compartment. An additional, more accurate way, is to measure the short-circuit current (SCC) in microamps, necessary to cancel the TEP. In our laboratory, we currently record TEP and SC manually, however we required a Raspberry Pi computer-based system able to measure, calculate and record the TEP and SCC automatically.

Basic research, applied research, innovation: Literature review

The goal of this undergraduate research is to make a literature review of the characteristics and main patterns of the flow of knowledge generated from basic research, to applied, and then towards the innovation. This work of IPRE will be complementary to another already in progress that studies empiricamente this process using the data from the UC that has more than 2,000 R & D projects and approx. 1.000 patents accumulated and a number of relevant licensing of these technologies. It is important that the student is familiar with what is a review of the literature and you can make it in English as the papers are in English.

Topics in Electricity Markets

New Elsevier book: Power Electronics for Solar and Wind Energy Conversion: Support for PLECS simulations and illustrations

Help in illustrations, writing and simulations plecs of the chapter of photovoltaic systems of new book Elsevier

Programmable and Bidirectional AC power source using a B2B converter

Design, control and implementation of a B2B converter to develop a programmable AC power source for experimental laboratory use

Research on School Grants: JUNAEB

This research aims to build models and tools and policies that enable the JUNAEB delivered efficiently and focused the benefits described in each of the scholarships to the students.

Socio-environmental issues and dynamics of metals: pollution of urban soils and street dusts:

The contamination of soils and dusts of the street is a source of risk to the health and well-being of the people, and many times source of inequity, where the poor are exposed to greater risks. Unfortunately, in Chile there does not exist quality standards for soils and urban dusts of road, implying that the health risks are not considered in the planning of the city. In this IPRE students will undertake bibliographic research, analysis of data collected by CEDEUS, and crossings of information to feed the decision making, formulation of public policies, and/or generation of case studies.

Magnetic susceptibility Tensor Imaging (STI)

In magnetic resonance imaging, the materials have a magnetic susceptibility different from zero distort the local magnetic field, which in turn changes the signal. These changes can be used to measure oxygenation changes in the blood, to identify brain injuries, among others. It is known that these changes are directional, that is to say depend on the angle of the tissue with respect to the magnetic field and is described by a tensor susceptibility (STI). In general, the tensor is not used because it is very difficult to measure. It would have to rotate the head 180 degrees (impossible, even for the owls!). Our idea is to use information from the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which itself can be measured, to estimate the STI. The idea is to use the tools of Artificial Intelligence, probably Deep Learning, to do so.

Is needed foundations of Artificial Intelligence (type IEE3724/IIC3724) and signal processing (type IEE2103). It would help to know the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory.