Ciencia Puerto Rico

Yareni holds a Manufacturing Engineer degree from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico. She has worked in the Applied Optimization Group at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) as part of her research internship during 2009 in the Department of Industrial Engineering. Afterward, she earned a master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering of the UANL in 2010, and her second master’s degree in Materials and Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (INME) in the UPRM (2013). Yareni has worked as an Instructor of engineering courses as Graphics Engineering and Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, in the Department of General Engineering of the UPRM . Her professional career includes the position as a Quality Engineer in the manufacturing processes of biodevices at Zimmer Biomet Inc. in Puerto Rico. During 2016, she worked as an instructor of the Biosensors and Biological Geometric Design courses, and as a research assistant in the Biocompatible Materials Research Group at UANL. Currently, she is a doctoral student at INME and her research focuses on bioengineering. Yareni has participated in several events in Puerto Rico and Mexico, as Mentor or Women in STEM to encourage young girls and women to pursue STEM Careers.