Laudatio de José María Goicolea en el acto homenaje a Antonio Angulo Álvarez por su nombramiento como Miembro de Honor de la Asociación de Ingenieros de Caminos

Laudatio, acto en homenaje a Antonio Angulo Álvarez por su nombramiento como Miembro de Honor de la Asociación de Ingenieros de Caminos.

Un huerto de rosas. Sobre el MAM de José María Lozano en Catarroja, Valencia

Un huerto de rosas. Sobre el Museo Antonia Mir de José María Lozano en Catarroja, Valencia

Entrevista con José María Martín Pereda: "La microelectrónica en España casi no existe"

Desde el pasado mes de diciembre, un catedrático de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación tiene la responsabilidad de confeccionar, desde la Caicyt, el Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico que prevé la Ley de la Ciencia, recientemente aprobada por el Congreso de los Diputados. Se trata de José Antonio Martín Pereda, que también es, junto a Fernando López, Subdirector General de Industrias Informáticas, representante español en el Programa Esprit. En la siguiente entrevista, Actualidad Electrónica ha hablado con Martín Pereda sobre la viabilidad del Plan, el futuro tecnológico de nuestro país y las oportunidades que se le presentan a España en la segunda fase del Esprit.

La educación física en la legislación del sistema educativo español

Son muchas las dudas que a menudo asaltan al profesor - de educación física sobre diversos aspectos de su profesión. Una de estas dudas es la poca clarificación que existe respecto al Ministerio responsable de la Educación Física. Para unos aspectos, es el de Educación y Ciencia como en la Educación General Básica que lleva toda la responsabilidad del profesorado, tanto de titulaciones como de retribuciones. Pero a partir del Bachiller. la cosa se complica; la Secretaría General del movimiento y el Ministerio de Educación se reparten las funciones.

Condicionantes y motivaciones de la práctica deportiva de los jóvenes

Después de dos años de experiencia como entrenador de un Club de Atletismo Femenino que tiene como vivero dos equipos escolares hemos podido constatar que no existe una continuidad en la práctica deportiva una vez que termina la actividad académica. Tratando de salvar el escalón que impide seguir practicando, vamos a hacer un estudio de los problemas y de las motivaciones que se podrían esgrimir para dar una continuidad a estos practicantes. Para ello sería necesario conocer en primer lugar sus problemas, necesidades y la forma en que se puede incidir en ellos en los distintos sectores de: tiempo, actividad, intereses, lugares, entorno social, medios de comunicación, etc., para de este modo tratar de buscar las soluciones más convenientes a cada uno de los casos. Como quiera que no basta tener ideas claras acerca de la finalidad que perseguimos con este trabajo, ni tampoco consideramos que sea suficiente la teorización sobre un pasado, es necesario afrontar los verdaderos problemas que nos plantea el área de estudio de una forma directa, que nos acerque a la realidad del momento, y solamente conociendo ésta, será posible ejercer una acción sobre la misma. De ahí que este trabajo haya sido concretado en una finalidad inmediata: La recogida de la información lo más amplia posible acerca de como en un sector determinado de la juventud se plantea la panorámica de las motivaciones de la práctica deportiva. Para ello nos valemos de un cuestionario que se presta a la realización de algunos cálculos estadísticos y tiene la ventaja de ser muy amplio en cuanto a temática, y, posibilidades de quedar reflejados los aspectos más diversos.

La educación física en la edad preescolar

La parte principal de esta tesina se basa en observaciones recogidas entre un grupo de alumnos que forman el alumnado de un jardín de infancia cuyas edades oscilan entre los tres y los cinco años. Podía haber orientado el trabajo sobre cualquiera de los beneficios que reporta la educación física a los niños preescolares pero centré la idea sobre la importancia de las bases psicomotoras en el progreso del escolar puesto que me parece un tema de gran actualidad y de carácter práctico. La educación por medio del movimiento constituye todo un mundo de posibilidades no del todo exploradas en la formación integral del individuo. Con este pequeño trabajo sólo quiero añadir mi pequeño granito de arena al tema. Antecede a este capítulo otro sobre la psicología del niño pequeño, puesto que es imposible educar sin conocer las bases psicológicas del hombre, su comportamiento y líneas de conducta. Vaya por delante mi más sincero agradecimiento a don José María Cagigal, mi profesor más querido, por haber sabido inculcarme el interés y el cariño hacia temas de la educación infantil, base de la educación del hombre.

Coastal shapes. Geentic clasification 1973 - 2010

An analysis of a stretch of coastline shows multiple alterations through environmental climate actions. The narrow, fragile line displays singularities due to three basic causes. The first is the discontinuity in feed or localised loss of solid coastal material. Called massics, their simplest examples are deltas and undersea canyons. The second is due to a brusque change in the alignment of the shoreline’s edge, headlands, groins, harbour and defence works. Given the name of geometric singularities, their simplest uses are artificial beaches in the shelter of a straight groin or spits. The third is due to littoral dynamics, emerged or submerged obstacles which diffract and refract wave action, causing a change in the sea level’s super-elevation in breaker areas. Called dynamics, the simplest examples are salients, tombolos and shells. Discussion of the causes giving rise to variations in the coastline and formation of singularities is the raison d’être of investigation, using actual cases to check the suitability of the classification proposed, the tangential or differential action of waves on the coastal landscape in addition to possible simple, compound and complex shapes detected in nature, both in erosion and deposit processes

Practical case with regard to applying the functional and environmental method to low crest level, detached breakwaters

The research work as presented in this article covers the design of detached breakwaters since they constitute a type of coastal defence work with which to combat many of the erosion problems found on beaches in a stable, sustainable fashion. The main aim of this work is to formulate a functional and environmental (but not structural) design method, enabling the fundamental characteristics of a detached breakwater to be defined as a function of the effect it is wished to induce on the coast, and taking into account variables of a different nature (climate, geomorphology and geometry) influencing the changes the shoreline undergoes after its construction. With this article, it is intended to submit the final result of the investigation undertaken, applying the detached breakwater design method as developed to solving a practical case. Thus it may be shown how the method enables a detached breakwater’s geometric pre-sizing to be tackled at a place on the coast with certain climate, geomorphology and littoral dynamic characteristics, first setting the final state of equilibrium it is wanted to obtain therein after its construction.

Methodology for the design of offshore wind farms

Although still in an early stage, offshore wind development is now characterized by a boom process. This leads to the necessity of applying an integral management model for the design of offshore wind facilities, being the purpose of the model to achieve technical, economical and environmental viability, all within a sustainable development framework. The foregoing led to the research project exposed in this paper, consisting of drawing up an offshore wind farms methodological proposal; this methodology has a global and/or general nature or point of view whilst searching for optimization of the overall process of operations leading to the design of this type of installations and establishing collated theoretical bases for the further development of management tools. This methodological proposal follows a classical engineering thought scheme: it begins with the alternatives study, and ends with the detailed design. With this in mind, the paper includes the following sections: introduction, methodology used for the research project, conditioning factors, methodological proposal for the design of offshore wind farms, checking the methodological proposal, and conclusions

Offshore Wind Farms: Foundations and influence on the Littoral Processes

Offshore wind farms are beginning to form part of coastal and marine landscapes located in dynamic surroundings. An integral management model must therefore be applied to achieve not only technical and economic viability of the project but also respect for the environment. Amongst other aspects, the latter calls for an analysis of the possible impact these facilities may have on littoral processes and this requires the differences between littoral processes prior and subsequent to the facility’s construction to be known. The maritime climate, the composition of the coast, lay-out distribution and characteristics of the facility’s components need to be known, particularly foundations as they are the main obstacles waves and currents meet. This article first addresses different aspects related to an offshore wind farm’s influence on the analysis of how it affects littoral dynamics and, because of their importance in this study, pays special attention to foundations. Coastal erosion due to this type of facility is then examined. The main conclusion of this article is that, whilst there are certain opinions claiming the coast is not affected by the presence of this kind of facility since the distance from location to coast and between wind turbine generators themselves is long, the impact must be analysed in each specific case, at least until experience proves otherwise and criteria are adopted in this respect.

Coastal Urban Flood Resislience versus Climate Change

Processes of founding and expanding cities in coastal areas have undergone great changes over time driven by environmental conditions. Coastal settlements looked for places above flood levels and away from swamps and other wetlands whenever possible. As populations grew, cities were extending trying to avoid low and wet lands. No city has been able to limit its growth. The risk of flooding can never be eliminated, but only reduced to the extent possible. Flooding of coastal areas is today dramatically attributed to eustasic sea level rise caused by global climate change. This can be inaccurate. Current climate change is generating an average sea level upward trend, but other regional and local factors result in this trend being accentuated in some places or attenuated, and even reversed, in others. Then, the intensity and frequency of coastal flooding around the planet, although not so much as a unique result of this general eustasic elevation, but rather of the superposition of marine and crustal dynamic elements, the former also climate-related, which give rise to a temporary raising in average sea level in the short term. Since the Little Ice Age the planet has been suffering a global warming change leading to sea level rise. The idea of being too obeying to anthropogenic factors may be attributed to Arrhenius (1896), though it is of much later highlight after the sixties of the last century. Never before, the human factor had been able of such an influence on climate. However, other types of changes in sea levels became apparent, resulting from vertical movements of the crust, modifications of sea basins due to continents fracturing, drifting and coming together, or to different types of climate patterns. Coastal zones are then doubly susceptible to floods. Precipitation immediately triggers pluvial flooding. If it continues upland or when snow and glaciers melt eventually fluvial flooding can occur. The urban development presence represents modifying factors. Additional interference is caused by river and waste water drainage systems. Climate also influences sea levels in coastal areas, where tides as well as the structure and dynamic of the geoid and its crust come into play. From the sea, waters can flood and break or push back berms and other coastline borders. The sea level, controlling the mouth of the main channel of the basin's drainage system, is ultimately what governs flood levels. A temporary rise in sea level acts as a dam at the mouth. Even in absence of that global change, so, floods are likely going to increase in many urban coastal areas. Some kind of innovative methodologies and practices should be needed to get more flood resilience cities

Foundations for offshoe wind farms

Análisis de las cimentaciones de los parques eólicos marinos situados en aguas de transición y en indefinidas, tipo gravedad; rozamiento, tipo pilotes; plataformas y flotantes, estudiando el fenómeno conjunto de interacción suelo - estructura y socavación

Urban Coastal Flooding and Climate Change

Dentro del marco del Proyecto Europeo Smartest se presenta la publicación de las inundaciones en ciudades próximas a la costa y la influencia del cambio climático en la interface fluvio - marina con las condiciones ambientales que afectan al comportamiento evolutivo de la ciudad

Handy or practical student. Objective: to pass or to learn

With the introduction of the European Higher Education Area and the development of the "Bologna" method in learning certain technological subjects, a pilot assessment procedure was launched in the "old" plan to observe, monitor and analyze the acquiring knowledge of senior students in various academic courses. This paper is a reflection on culture and knowledge. Will students accommodate to get a lower score on tests because they know they have a lot of tooltips to achieve their objectives?. Are their skills lower for these reason?.

Meteocean Influence on Inland and Coastal Floods in the East of Spain

The Santa Irene flood, at the end of October 1982, is one of the most dramatically and widely reported flood events in Spain. Its renown is mainly attributable to the collapse of the Tous dam, but its main message is to be the paradigm of the incidence of the maritime/littoral weather and its temporal sea-level rise on the coastal plains inland floods. The Santa Irene flood was attributable to a meteorological phenomenon known as gota fría (cold drop), a relatively frequent and intense rainy phenomenon on the Iberian Peninsula, particularly on the Spanish E to SE inlands and coasts. There are some circumstances that can easily come together to unleash the cold drop there: cold and dry polar air masses coming onto the whole Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa, high sea-water temperatures, and low atmospheric pressure (cyclone) areas in the western Mediterranean basin; these circumstances are quite common during the autumn and, as it happens, in other places around the world (E/SE Africa). Their occurrence, however, shows a great space-temporal variability (in a similar way to hurricanes on Caribbean and western North Atlantic areas or also in a similar way to typhoons). In fact, all of these are equivalent, although different, phenomena, able to have a different magnitude each time. This paper describes the results of a detailed analysis and reflection about this cold drop phenomenon as a whole, on the generation of its rains, and on the different natures and consequences of its flood. This paper also explains the ways in which the nearby maritime weather and the consequential sea level govern floods on different zones of any hydrographical basin. The Santa Irene case can be considered as a paradigm to explain the influence of nearby maritime climatic conditions on flooding phenomena not only in coastal but also in upward inland areas.