Executive Group

Universidad del Sagrado Corazón

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sandra pedraza

Sandra Pedraza

Dean of General Education | Assistant Professor

Dean of General Education | Assistant Professor

sandra.pedraza@sagrado.edu
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Engineer Sandra Pedraza has a Master of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering and another in Mechanical Engineering. During his 15-year career promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico, he directed the Startup.pr program of the Ana G. Méndez University Technology Accelerator. In addition, he directed the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office of said institution with the purpose of creating strategies to promote entrepreneurship in all the University’s academic programs. Among the projects he has been in charge of are: the Hispanic Entrepreneurial Program for Innovation (HEPI) and the High School Enterprise in Puerto Rico, in association with Michigan Tech University, subsidized by the National Science Foundation (NSF). English). Engineer Pedraza has worked on commercialization initiatives in Puerto Rico such as the Xcelerator Network led by the University of Kentucky and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. She was part of Venturewell’s Pathways for Innovation program, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship in STEM disciplines, where she has served as a project evaluator.

At Sagrado she was the Academic Leader of the Entrepreneurship competition and is the director of two projects subsidized by the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) under the Capital Readiness Program (the only one granted in Puerto Rico) and the Minority Colleges and Universities Program.

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