Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM); Principal Investigator/Program Manager of the Educational and Research Internship Program (ERIP) under the UPRM-ERDC (US Army Corp of Engineers) Partnership Agreement (1994-date) awarded the "Examples of Excelencia in Education" award in Graduate Category-2018 by Excelencia in Education organization; Principal Investigator of the Education for Improving Resilience of Coastal Infrastructure project under the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (2016-2020); Cofounder and Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Education (LACCEI). He earned a BS in Civil Engineering, MS in Civil Engineering (Environmental) at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and conducted PhD (ABD) studies in Hydrosystems at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign (1978-82). His education, research and service interests are in hydrosystems, hydrology, hydraulics, urban drainage, education, and resilience of built and natural infrastructure.
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