Primera Startup

Hoy, 8 de julio de 2013 es el lanzamiento oficial de la empresa creada por mi socio Francisco Rodríguez y yo, Pablo Ouro. Nuestra pequeña startup se llamará CESTE Ingenieria, S.C., lo que viene a significar: Consultoría En Sostenibilidad TermoEnergética.

Esta startup estará centrada en la aplicación de energías renovables en edificación. Trataremos de estudiar cómo puede hacerse más eficiente una vivienda, para reducir el consumo de energía y por ello ahorrar dinero, además de hacer estudios al cliente para que pueda aplicar una series de mejoras que incrementen dicho grado de eficiencia.

La idea de negocio es muy alentadora y las características más demandadas hoy en día: ahorro e innovación. El modelo de desarrollo será siguiente las pautas de métodos punteros como el descrito en el Método Lean Startup, creado por Eric Ries.

Durante nuestro primer periodo de actividad nos centraremos en la expedición de Certificados de Eficiencia Energética de viviendas o edificios, lo cual es obligatorio desde el 1 de junio en toda vivienda en alquiler o venta con contrato posterior dicha fecha. Nuestra zona de trabajo contempla la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia y el Principado de Asturias.

Las perspectivas de crecimiento son enfocadas en dos ámbitos: económicamente y socialmente. A parte de la generación de una cierta cantidad de beneficios, CESTE Ingeniería pretende ampliar su plantilla con gente que esté en paro, con minusvalía, universitarios recién licenciados sin trabajo, etc. No es por ello una empresa puramente capitalista.

Nuestra página web  es: http://cesteingenieria.wix.com/ceste, donde encontrarás más información acerca de nosotros, solicitar presupuesto, etc.

Muchas gracias por vuestra atención y un saludo cordial del equipo de CESTE Ingeniería.

Thank you GME for the Smoke Seller of the year prize!

Yesterday, 21st June was the farewell from my lovely Structural Mechanics Group. Sad but true. These last 4 months were just incredible. Nowadays, it's very lucky to have a job right after finishing your degree. In addition, it's even more and more lucky to get a job where all your mates are awesome, your boss it's world-known and your job it's what you always wanted. That's why I consider myself absolutly lucky and glad to meet you all.

The Friday's dinner was really fine, we laugh a lot and we had really fun. Later on, we moved to the hard drinks and then we became even more friends hahaha. After some drinks, we were a bit drunka and at 6:30 we finished dancing and coming home in Depepeu's car. But in the end this dinner was another incredible point to add to my experience.

Lovely mates: Simón, Rubén, Miguel Costas, Depepeu, Monty, Fran, Monfor and Xián, as I said in my speech yesterday, you guys have great abilities, capabilities that almost nobody has, and for sure in the future you're going to be successful engineers wherever you want to be. The key it's simple, learn to Sell Smoke as I taught you and all is done!!! 

Teas, coffees, pachangaishons, hot evenings, beers, paelladaishons, everything we shared was unforgetable. Thus, thank you once again and remember that our friendship have just begun and Cardiff is your home as well. 

Eye!!! Be carefull!!: A visit to me is compulsory!!! :D

Glad to be the member 36 in the hall of fame of the GME. 

Why to create a personal webpage?

You can find thousand reasons why you should do your own home page. From a personal portfolio, show your personal photos, you have free time and you desire to promote yourself... whatever. But in the end the fact that you create your webpage is for one aim: promote yourself. Have you ever realized about the power of this?

Since I've read the book Me 2.0 written by Dan Schawbel and I am more used to spend my time at LinkedIn, I am more sure that your personal webpage is your strongest weapong you can use to be watched by other people. Lots and lots of personal recruiters receive thousand anonymous emails with CV's and probably most of them are similar. Then, how to become different from everyone? Create your own blog, your webpage or whatever that makes you e-visible and easy to find.

In fact, if you are looking for a job, you will be better considered from your webpage than your own CV. Isn't it enough reason to encourage you to start building your webpage from now?

Concerning unemployed people, I've been thinking around that they just want to finish the degree and start to work. But nowadays this is hard to achieve. Thus, I've been thinking that before people is hunting a job, they must grow like a tree. The strongest your tree (your qualities) is, the more showy.

The fundation of your tree is your basic education. The best it is, the easier for you to acquire more knowledge. Your branches are:

• Languages: the more you have, the stronger you get. Even you've got a little knowledge on a language it's enough to show your skills, your high wish to learn. 
• IT skills: you'll need a wide range of computer skills. This is not determinant to find a job as everyone can learn how to use a software as it is to learn languages.
• Personal broadcast: webpage, blog, Facebook, LinkedIn...

In conclusion, think about doing your webpage as a mirror of yourself and struggle more on your growing up your tree to build a proper profile than thinking about working anywhere.

Why CFD?

CFD or Computational Fluid Dynamics is a new field in engineering. It is the simulation of fluids motion and it allows to model a wide brand of phenomena. From F1 to NASA, CFD is becoming more and more important.

I met this engineering field 3 years ago. I was about to start an investigation project with a teacher at the Structural Department about CFD applied to bridge sections and he recommend me to read some bibliography. Then, I started to understand how a CFD software  works and I became to like it. Better said, I started to like CFD when I realize the applications that it has but not from code developing of course!

I will post some interesting applications of CFD:

1. Formula 1. For some years ago, all the F1 teams felt the necessity of develop a CFD code that allows them to carry out simulations of they cars quicker than into the wind tunnel. This gave them the ability to improve the aerodynamic shape of the car. However, this great idea is not that easy as some teams are having troubles to adjust CFD results with experimental ones.




2. NASA. Starting from rockets up to perform aircrafts designs, NASA contributed amazingly to apply CFD to their designs and thereafter to social progresses.






3. Turbines. With the help of CFD the turbines blades have been improved. CFD codes can be launched with an optimization code and this makes that the blades geometry are modified attended to different criteria.

If you feel interested in CFD, I really encourage yourself to get into this great world that the more you know about it, the more you like it.

 

Nästa: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

After mailing lots of research departments at different universities along Europe, searching any chance to get a high quality PhD position...This week I am officially admitted at Cardiff University :D

From 1st July 2013 until June 2016 I have a PhD position to study in deep the flow in tidal turbines, with Thorsten Stoesser as supervisor. I am very happy because I will be able to carry out a Phd. I really desired this from two years ago. The PhD is about a very interest and with an amazing future project: Tidal turbines. In what concerns to me, I will be in charge to develop a CFD code that simulates properly the action of this turbines. It will help us to perform their design as well as estimate the energy they produce.

The tidal turbines are a renewable energy that nowadays it's not study in deep. These turbines work like windmills with two key differences: the sea is moving every time, it's not random like the wind. Thus, the energy is produced in every second. On the other hand, the water density is much higher than the air one. It acts with larger forces on the turbines and producing more energy than if the wind is the fluid considered.

This energy is productive since the sea level changes from 1 meter. From Cardiff to USA, this energy is of interest of researchers and that's why it has a promising future. As I am from the nortwest of Spain, I am very sad that the goverment doesn't invest an euro in investigate about it even though we have more than properly conditions. Another negative point of spanish research system. A pity.

In conclusion, this renewable energy has a lot remarkable advantages that makes me feel that in a short future we will have a constant source of energy relevant environmental impact and very very clean.

 On 3rd July this new chapter in my life begins....

3D printers

In the XV century, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printer. This little step, a simple invention, constituted a huge change in human race. It gave the ability to copy documents very quick and easy. This made that people could reach more books and then the civilization becomes more wise and very fast.

Nowadays, in the XXI century something very related to this can change the world again. I am talking about the 3D printers. This "simple" invention builds tridimensional objects just loading the sketches on your computer. A simple idea, an easy object, the most stupid thing, can be now build at your home. No more China, no more expensive products. You are the one that can make your needs come true. 

Last weeks, it has been discussed the utility of this printer: People designed weapons, NASA is investing in developing a 3D printer to apply to food, a kind of transparent layer to hide objects, etc. These are some of the possibilities that this machine gives to the user. But now, do we leave people to build anything the want? Is that dangerous? Is copright going to be applied to things printed with this? Last questions are of a huge interest for me. I do think that people is free to print anything they want. However, every person should know what can be or should not be printed.

 My conclusion is: "Wars came out with relevant inventions. I hope this invention doesn't come with a war"