Mexican students visit ASU to exchange ideas on water solutions

This past March, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Sonora Norte, part of a university in Mexico, held a workshop on water solutions in the Sonora-Arizona desert region in collaboration with ASU’s Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Dr. Enrique R. Vivoni, as part of the Graduate College’s Knowledge Mobilization efforts. During the two-day workshop, three student teams were chosen as top innovators in the categories of agricultural, urban and industrial water solutions. 

Seven Mexican students from the winning teams, in the company of Dr. Adrián Rendón Nava, were selected to visit Arizona State University on May 24 and share their projects on water solutions to a group of students and faculty from the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and its graduate program in Hydrosystems Engineering. 

The visiting students also attended the presentation, “Modeling Urban Water Decisions and Policy Tradeoffs,” with Dr. Dave D. White at the Decision Theater, followed by a talk with Carlos Samano, Digital Manager of EdPlus, about the online opportunities for graduate degrees. The students had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Francisco Lara Valencia about strategies for promoting collaborations between Arizona and Sonora institutions. Finally, Dr. Carlo Altamirano, alumni of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Francisco Hernández Bolaños, an ASU doctoral student, shared with the students their experiences as international students from Mexico and presented the benefits of expanding their academic and professional horizons.

Dr. Vivoni and Francisco Hernández Bolañosa Mexican student in orchestral conducting, and research assistant at the Graduate College, whose work strengthens and expands the links between ASU and Mexican universities as part of the Graduate College’s international initiatives, hosted the students during their stay.

Our growing collaboration with Tecnológico de Monterrey is a prime example of the Graduate College’s initiatives to create opportunities for transnational knowledge mobilization, bringing our two countries closer while improving our people’s quality of life.